P-O-P -- do you mean "factual and researched" the way Fahrenheit 9/11 was "factual and researched"?
I'm not busting stones, but too many folks buy Moore's line of crap as either "factual" or "researched"... and some of the looniest think it's both. The great social deceits that have been foisted upon us have always had some "factual and researched" predicate ... even if the proponents have done nothing more intellectually (let along mathematically) rigorous than a BA in sociology.
It's been my experience that the left is not only more about "truth" than "fact" and more about abstract principle than practicable-in-reality and emphasizes means almost to the exclusion of ends ... so that it will "research" the heck out of a "fact" until such "fact" it says what they want it to say.
Well, frankly, that, or ignore, exclude or selectively, snidely caricature the other side's arguments; if there's only one position admitted into evidence, to the exclusion or abuse of all contrary opinion, it probably looks like the best opinion, no?
I offer the Left's absolute, messianic faith* in the "fact" of Global Warming as Exhibit A to the two foregoing examples.
*The irony is that this is a secular faith of such immersion and conviction as to shame the "retrograde" fools who "believe" in "God."
To answer the thread question, once; for about 10 sec, and I realized that someone out there believed what was being said. In the interest of full disclosure, I neither don't listen to Rush or Hannity or any other Rightie broadcaster; one of them really pissed me off a little while ago ... I don't remember which one (it wasn't Rush or Hannity). But I thought "dang, here's why the Right is so easily caricatured as isolationist bigots.
I was subjected to NPR for about 3 hours once on a ride I bummed back from Okemo. That was painful stuff, my friends. I was afraid I'd get out of the hybrid spouting Tom Tuttle (from Tacoma, Washington) lines out of Volunteers.
JP