Penguin vs. Batman Debate: Is John McCain The Penguin?

Sometimes life imitates art. This is one of those cases. Look at how prescient the creators of the television series Batman wound up being this many years later. Tell me this isn't exactly John McCain's tactics, right down to the "my friends" reference at 1:09 in the video:

You can watch McCain's original Penguin laugh in this video.

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Comments

[Youth4Obama]

12:29 AM on 10/24/2008

THIS IS GREAT CENK!!! This should have 1000+ comments and 1,000,000+ views!!

[demtotheend]

05:59 PM on 10/14/2008

hilarious - please send this vid to the Obama campaign...everyone needs a laugh and this is the absolute BEST....good find Bateman vs The Penquin....what a true analogy. Thanks for this video...still rolling on the floor laughing

[littlepuffycloud]

03:54 PM on 10/14/2008

McCain is THE PENGUIN!

[ohioan73]

11:56 AM on 10/14/2008

This is great. Im gonna favorite it on youtube so it spreads.

[ihavenobias]

11:34 AM on 10/14/2008

Wow. That is AWESOME. I'm sending this video out to everyone.

[wallygator]

11:28 AM on 10/14/2008

Truth really is stranger than fiction. Thanks for that clip.

[nubret2008]

11:26 AM on 10/14/2008

Is this dubbed? It's hilarious, almost prophetic ;-)

[rssrai]

11:10 AM on 10/14/2008

I have been saying that McBush is the penguin forever. I am so happy that others see it too.

[robbo24]

11:05 AM on 10/14/2008

I love this comparison to the Penguin, especially since so many right-wing morons (redunancy alert!) latched on the Batman movie as some kind of analogy to the Bush Doctrine.
Here's the McPenguin after the debates:
http://www.youtube.com/watch?v=rtx97MR08Cg
I think those guys in the control booth during the Batman/Penguin debate went on to work for Fox "News."

[Verified]

10:56 AM on 10/14/2008

Should have included the clip of John McCain asking the crowd what they thought of Sarah Palin's debate performance. HEH? HEH? HEH? Classic Burgess Meredith.

[c64audio]

10:50 AM on 10/14/2008

OMG! It's true! McCain _is_ the Penguin!!

[JohnGrrr]

10:40 AM on 10/14/2008

This one has legs....make it go viral!!!!

[ceti]

10:33 AM on 10/14/2008

Wow, nice find. Penguin is exactly John McCain -- he even says friends.

[gsuescum]

08:53 AM on 10/14/2008

A few weeks ago when McCain was all proud of himself over selecting Palin and he was cackling I immediately thought of the old Penguin. You got him spot on!

[obamanation31]

08:13 AM on 10/14/2008

LOL!!! this is awesome!