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Personally, I love the guy, he makes liberals look like a bunch of fat hypocrtical, mainly in the wrong, socialists. He is about 1000x more detrimental to the liberal cause than his closes counter example, Hannity, is to the conservative cause.

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I think Hannity is good for the right and Moore is good for the left.

Sure, for people who are reasonably intelligent and well read on the opposite side these guys cause them to have more disdain for the other side. I care significantly more about politics and people on the left winning elections than I would if Hannity and Coulter weren't around. In a vacuum that's bad for the right because it makes me and others like me more likely to contribute or volunteer for Obama or whoever.

However, politics is often about numbers. When how ever many millions of people listen to Hannity or Limbaugh many more of them influenced by what they say and in the direction they want. Similarly, even with the media backlash from people making the kind of statements you're making Fahrenheit 9/11 got more people on the left more involved and more people in the middle to move away from Bush than people in the middle moving right or people on the right more fired up.

Moore and these types on the right rely on the fact that most people not bothering to look things up and seek out the truth or think it through for themselves. Whatever your favorite lie or misleading line is from one of Moore's movies or Hannity's show I'm sure well over 50% of the people watching the movie or show believe it. Look at how many people thought Saddam played a significant part in September 11th before the Iraq war.