Showing posts with label politics. Show all posts
Showing posts with label politics. Show all posts

Wednesday, October 15, 2008

The Great Debate - Batman vs. Penguin



I'm a big fan of the original Batman television series. In 4th grade I had a pet gerbil that I named Burgess, after Burgess Meredith the actor who played the Penguin (and later Rocky's trainer Mickey). In one famous episode, The Penguin runs for mayor of Gotham City and the only candidate who can stop him from stealing the election is Batman himself.

I wasn't the first to notice this correlation, but try to watch the above clip owithout thinking of Obama as Batman and John McCain as the purposefully misleading and aspersion-casting Penguin.

The Penguin experiences a post-debate bump in the polls after his command performance, but Batman ends up winning in a landslide.