Yikes! I wouldn't say Rage... is a favorite. Objectively I'll warrant their ability to produce a compelling sound and performance, but they're waaaaaaay to far gone into lefty land for me to willingly subject myself to their ministrations.
The one that really got to me was catching Viggio Mortense (sp?), the actor playing Aragorn in LOTR, on Charlie Rose. The fool was wearing a self-made "No Blood for Oil" tshirt, and this was during Afghanistan. The only thing that mitigated it was that he was so unbelievably mewling in his hand wringing, and ludicrously counter-factual in the hatred and blame he heaped on America. (His main rap was to debunk the notion that LOTR was analogous to the war on terror by "pointing out" that LOTR was about an alliance of different races, whereas Afghanistan was about white Americans attacking native Afghans. HOW STUPID CAN YOU GET? We fought a good bit of that war with only a couple hundred Americans fighting side-by-side with Afghanis. And we fought on the side of a multi-tribal, multi-ethnic alliance of Tajiks, Uzbeks, Turkmen, etc, whereas our enemy, the Taliban, were the mono-tribal, mono-ethnic group, being almost entirely Pashtun.)
It damn near ruined the whole series for me.
Does it ever. I was blocking out my schedule to see School of Rock just before Jack Black signed on to that 'Rock Against Bush' thing.
It'll kill me to wait for cable for it, but I ain't putting any dough in that guy's pocket via the box office.