They have many differences, but I still find Michael Moore and Rush Limbaugh opposite sides of the same entertainment coin – astute, but still emotion hawking shock-jocks.
Every Michael Moore film I watch I am stupefied at: A.) how technically mediocre and cheap the movie is (relative to hype), B.) how much stronger his points could should be, if just delivered with less waddling buffoonery, bias, and overstatement, and C.) how insincere and feigning his questions are.
In this sense both men are their own worst enemy to sensible minds. They masticate and over dramatize what might otherwise be great political commentary.
I find early Limbaugh by far the more sagacious mind. I have often agreed with Michael Moore’s point of view, but only rarely sympathetic to his delivery.
Limbaugh’s vaudevillian sarcasm was legend (but he may have wondered off the reservation of reason some time ago.) Michael Moore’s abstracted cine interpretation of Limbaugh’s late 80s act is still weak sauce in my book.
At its worst, Michael Moore is to leftism what the Bevis & Butthead show is to Heavy Metal. At its best it is exhilarating and timely commentary.