I saw through their Foley crap, it didn't stop me from going out to vote last month and yet there is a lot of people here who are proud to say they voted Libertarian.
I don't think they voted L because of the MSM (I may be wrong, but don't think so), but because they were angry and voted their anger. The MSM is dying a slow death of their own choosing, one could make the same case for our party right now and hiding from it or trashing the people who are spewing things you don't like (or because they signed up on FR in 2004) doesn't provide a solution... instead trying to engage these people in discourse to determine what they are angry about and hashing out the differences is much more productive. In the end that person may still vote L or C and not R in 2008, but if we can hash things out maybe a lot fewer will do so.
Sorry to say, the MSM is not dying. The have 50% of the people believing them. And for my reasoning the 2004 and later crowd of newbies are trolls, well, just look a the the facts, they can't site anything factual, they are knee jerk and they don't back anything up with facts. They just try to be 'cute' with their replies. And that is the way it is. Us oldtimers expect facts, but all we get a cute response to some sexual reference.
FR is read by far more people(including non members)than the relatively small number who actively participiate. I think of late, even going back several years, we have been infiltrated by trolls/phonies who try to appear conservative but are here to show the outside world that there is growing dissent among conservatives.