Day: July 19, 2012

Discovery Channel still has it

 

The Discovery Channel switched over from educational programming to reality shows (except for that one week when they air every shark show ever made) years ago. But, they like to test the audience to see if they still have their old credibility every so often by airing their equivalent of Fox’s Alien Autopsy.

Viewers were taken in once again by Discovery’s “what if?” documentary, Mermaids: The Body Found despite it not being about ghost hunting, crab fishing or pumpkin chunkin’. Despite this repeated success, executives are worried about being called the Network Who Cried Mermaid and have greenlit several new test specials, including:

  • How It’s Made: Crack Coccaine, AIDS and Other Government Inventions
  • Lobstermen: They’re Actually Half-Lobster, Half-Man
  • Gullible: It’s Written On Your Ceiling (No, Really. Look!)

Batman for president

Who is Batman, and why do we keep thinking he’s an elected official?

Remember when The Dark Knight came out, and everyone thought that Batman’s approach to terrorism (Joker) was very George W. Bush-like? Right down to the part where everyone hates him at the end. Noted film critic Rush Limbaugh now thinks that the Caped Crusader is Barack Obama.

We all know that El Rushbo will say anything stupid to get ratings. In this case, it’s all about the character names and a couple lines. Catwoman says something about how rich people are rich and the poor are poor, and there’s a bad guy in the film named Bane, you know, like Bain Capital, the thing Mitt Romney’s tied up in right now. Even though Bane is a decades-old villain, and the film began shooting long before the campaign, or even the Occupy movement for that matter.

But still, good forward thinking, Rush. A black Batman. Wait, does that make Catwoman Hillary?