Moore's movies are always entertaining, but I always get the same feeling listening to him as I get after listening to an hour of Rush Limbaugh. Moore and Limbaugh both distill reality into convincing soundbites, and many find truth in both sides of the debate. What worries me about America's embrace of rhetoric is that we are losing sight of the real problems and facts which we face - AIDS in Africa, the continuing conflict in Chechnya, how to strengthen cultural ties between China and Europe. How do we help Africa, how do we address third world issues, how do we (as a world community) cooperate on health issues, scientific research, sustainability planning.

Moore's movies and Rush's ranting are partisan blame games. I could care less if Bin Laden's family flew out of the country after the attacks, Osama has been estranged from his family for some time. Blaming Bush for not doing enough to protect the WTC after-the-fact seems strange, would Moore have wanted Bush to preemptively invade Afhanistan in August 2001.

I get pissed off when Moore uses 9/11, the same way I get pissed off when Limbuagh uses 9/11. Or when, Cameron Diaz recently told us (on Oprah) that the "paparazzi" are the real terrorists. Partisan whores want to distill complex issues into little sound bites, boths sides struggling to the November elections saying, "I told you so."