Comments on: 7 Thinly-Veiled Stand-Ins for Dick Cheney http://blog.spout.com/2009/04/29/7-characters-who-are-stand-ins-for-dick-cheney/ Daily coverage of what is truly interesting in the film world Sat, 28 Nov 2009 23:29:43 +0000 http://wordpress.org/?v=2.6.3 By: 5/1-PCW Newsline: Cheney Looks to Waterboard Specter, American Patriots “Leaderless, Rudderless, and Clueless?” Domination Inc. Pumps Up Their 7 Foot Weapon of Mass Destruction « Political Championship Wrestling http://blog.spout.com/2009/04/29/7-characters-who-are-stand-ins-for-dick-cheney/#comment-126720 5/1-PCW Newsline: Cheney Looks to Waterboard Specter, American Patriots “Leaderless, Rudderless, and Clueless?” Domination Inc. Pumps Up Their 7 Foot Weapon of Mass Destruction « Political Championship Wrestling Sat, 02 May 2009 03:24:42 +0000 http://blog.spout.com/?p=13801#comment-126720 [...] Cheney: Written in the Wind, Truthout, Bastard.Logic, Spout Blog, Grant Lawrence, Roger Hollander, Unconquerable Gladness, Huff Post, Greedheadswine, Land of the [...] [...] Cheney: Written in the Wind, Truthout, Bastard.Logic, Spout Blog, Grant Lawrence, Roger Hollander, Unconquerable Gladness, Huff Post, Greedheadswine, Land of the [...]

]]> By: daveed http://blog.spout.com/2009/04/29/7-characters-who-are-stand-ins-for-dick-cheney/#comment-126694 daveed Fri, 01 May 2009 16:55:34 +0000 http://blog.spout.com/?p=13801#comment-126694 For your consideration, more Cheney tropes: Senator Charles F. Meachum (Ned Beatty) in <i>Shooter</i> Ward Abbott (Brian Cox), <i>Bourne Identity</i>, <i>Bourne Supremacy</i> Burch (Ed O'Neill), <i>Spartan</i> Retroactively: Henry F. Potter (Lionel Barrymore), <i>It's a Wonderful Life</i> For your consideration, more Cheney tropes:

Senator Charles F. Meachum (Ned Beatty) in Shooter
Ward Abbott (Brian Cox), Bourne Identity, Bourne Supremacy
Burch (Ed O’Neill), Spartan

Retroactively:
Henry F. Potter (Lionel Barrymore), It’s a Wonderful Life

]]> By: aaron http://blog.spout.com/2009/04/29/7-characters-who-are-stand-ins-for-dick-cheney/#comment-126588 aaron Thu, 30 Apr 2009 04:57:35 +0000 http://blog.spout.com/?p=13801#comment-126588 jonah nolan has stated that the surveillance stuff in the dark knight was a clear nod to the infinite crisis storyline in the batman comics, based on a spy computer called the brother eye. also, public knowledge of NSA "terrorist surveillance" wasn't known till december of '05; the dark knight was conceived and written toward the end of '05, just after batman begins came out. it's highly unlikely they were making a direct nod toward the bush administration or had intentions of making batman out to be some sort of stand-in for bush or cheney. the film is full of references to various batman comics and this was just one of them. but in the movie, the sonar business was there to show how far off the deep end batman had gone and how deranged he had become. it was showing that he isn't as morally pure as he'd like to believe he is. why people took that shit at face value and assumed the movie was an apology for the bush administration just amused me to no end. jonah nolan has stated that the surveillance stuff in the dark knight was a clear nod to the infinite crisis storyline in the batman comics, based on a spy computer called the brother eye. also, public knowledge of NSA “terrorist surveillance” wasn’t known till december of ‘05; the dark knight was conceived and written toward the end of ‘05, just after batman begins came out. it’s highly unlikely they were making a direct nod toward the bush administration or had intentions of making batman out to be some sort of stand-in for bush or cheney. the film is full of references to various batman comics and this was just one of them. but in the movie, the sonar business was there to show how far off the deep end batman had gone and how deranged he had become. it was showing that he isn’t as morally pure as he’d like to believe he is. why people took that shit at face value and assumed the movie was an apology for the bush administration just amused me to no end.

]]> By: yeoman http://blog.spout.com/2009/04/29/7-characters-who-are-stand-ins-for-dick-cheney/#comment-126585 yeoman Thu, 30 Apr 2009 04:34:30 +0000 http://blog.spout.com/?p=13801#comment-126585 embrace the banality embrace the banality

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