But how can they get their arms around him

Him being so fat and all?

``If you were to hang out with me here it won't be five or 10 minutes before you see a Republican hug me. That is almost as entertaining as some of the films,'' Moore said in an interview.

Moore has not budged from the central claim of his 2004 documentary ``Fahrenheit 9/11'' -- that the Bush administration misled the American public about the reasons for war in Iraq -- but he says that more people have come around to his view.

``That's the shift that I'm seeing in the past year or so in the country, and as it relates to me,'' he said.

Some in solidly Republican northern Michigan and elsewhere now believe that they made a ``colossal mistake'' in initially supporting the war in Iraq, Moore said, and they have let him know it in chance encounters on the streets of Traverse City, a resort town where he has relocated from New York.

Why should Moore budge one iota from any of the claims made in 'Fahrenheit 911" let alone the central one?

Other than proclaiming him fat, what claim has the right wing actually proven about the film.

Here's some factual information that we now know:

- George Bush is a disaster
- Mel Gibson is an anti-semite
- Iraq is a fiasco
- Michael Moore was right

The fact that the right wing just off-handed uses Michael Moore to excuse rabid hate-slut Ann Coulter's behavior is all they have -- and it is about as accurate and verified as all their other positions.