Friday, July 25, 2008

Does That Make Cheney "The Boy Wonder"?

Andrew Klavan, in the Wall Stree Journal, opines that The Dark Knight is really veiled homage to George W. Bush.
And like W, Batman understands that there is no moral equivalence between a free society -- in which people sometimes make the wrong choices -- and a criminal sect bent on destruction. The former must be cherished even in its moments of folly; the latter must be hounded to the gates of Hell.

He also slams Hollywood for churning out bomb after moral-equivalance bomb castigating the War on Terror while relegating all the true depictions of heroism to the fantasy/superhero category--which then set box office records.

Read the whole thing.

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