He's just an easy way for some people to have a good laugh at his expense. If people really wanted to shut up the political opposition, they surely wouldn't be using someone like Martoon. He keeps threads going way beyond their natural lifespan, and it's so easy to discredit pretty much everything he says. I think if anyone was really using him to make the other side look bad, it would be the people who disagree with his views, not the other way around.