Rush Limbaugh stretched hard enough to pull a muscle this week when he suggested that "The Dark Knight Rises" included the villain Bane as a means to smear presidential candidate Mitt Romney.
But Conan O'Brien thinks that Limbaugh might be on to something.
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Addressing Limbaugh's conspiracy theory — which posits that Bane was chosen to draw attention to Romney's controversial tenure at Bain Capital in the months running up to the election — O'Brien unveiled a slightly tweaked version of the "Dark Knight Rises" trailer on his show Wednesday night in order to bolster Limbaugh's point. Or at least to draw a few laughs.
In O'Brien's revised "Dark Knight Rises" trailer, Bane tells Batman that he's going to torture him "like a dog tied to the top of my car" and declares that it's "time to send every job in Gotham overseas."
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He also vows, "the streets will run red with blood before I release my tax returns."
Watch O'Brien vindicate Limbaugh in the video.