I could care less about the media and “our betters”. What I care about is giving the media the raw material with which they can convincingly make us look like a bunch of freaks such that not only the moderates and independents but also reserved conservatives that we need to win elections start to believe that the Tea Party, Freepers, and so on really are freaks. You have the freedom to donate money to Media Matters and MoveOn.org but that would be stupid. Helping the enemy is stupid.
Maybe we should just preemptively surrender before we make anyone look bad?
When we did the Get Out of Cheney's House protests we had thousands of newbies join us for weeks without incident or bad press. They had signs and some wore costumes. We had fun, made our point and got no bad press because we policed our own but didn't get all Glenn Beck on people.