While we don't normally cover politics here, we felt compelled to tell you about this very geeky analogy President Barack Obama reportedly made to describe the Islamic State and the danger they pose to the United States.

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In the past the President may have described ISIS (or ISIL) as a "jayvee" basketball team, but now Obama has likened the al-Qaeda affiliate to Heath Ledger's anarchic Joker in The Dark Knight As The Atlantic reports: "Advisers recall that Obama would cite a pivotal moment in The Dark Knight, the 2008 Batman movie, to help explain not only how he understood the role of ISIS, but how he understood the larger ecosystem in which it grew. 'There’s a scene in the beginning in which the gang leaders of Gotham are meeting,' the president would say. 'These are men who had the city divided up. They were thugs, but there was a kind of order. Everyone had his turf. And then the Joker comes in and lights the whole city on fire. ISIL is the Joker. It has the capacity to set the whole region on fire. That’s why we have to fight it.'"What do you think of President Obama's Dark Knight/ISIS analogy? Sound off in the Comments below.