Reply #27: Moore and Limbaugh are very different. You can dislike Moore's films w/o equating the two. [View All]

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Listen to Limbaugh for years like I have. Moore is one-sided, even manipulative, but Rush is beyond that. He's a flat-out liar, a man who works to fill his listeners with hate and resentment based on lies. Just this week he's been telling his listeners that Rev. Wright and Bill Ayers are currently "silent advisors" to Barack Obama, for instance. Rush lies nearly with every breath. If you can't tell the difference between Moore and Limbaugh you aren't much of a progressive, frankly.

One more thing, on edit: You also have to take quantity into account at some point. Limbaugh does a 3 hour show every weekday, and it's rebroadcast on the weekend. He puts out more lies and hate in one week than the running length of Michael Moore's entire oeuvre. And Rush has been doing it for decades. Those folks you've seen in the YouTube videos at Palin rallies, screaming terrorist and communist and socialist, waving stuffed monkeys at the camera? Those are Limbaugh listeners. Those are his folks. Moore's movies do not inspire that kind of corrosive hate, no matter what you think of them.