All it takes is a bit of search on the internet and those families could find out what the sponsoring groups are really about.
Though it's pretty bad when your above-average citizen, namely Doc, knows more than the journos who report on this stuff. Why did Doc have to inform the reporter about ANSWER, for example? That's the journo's day job.
I've noticed that other than National Review and Horowitz's Frontpagemag that publish articles giving background information on these anti-war groups, their leadership, their funding and their larger umbrella groups, etc. the US media gives NO BACKGROUND AT ALL.
They've had over a year now to absorb this investigative journalism provided to them by these sources.....or at least to double check the truthfulness of these reports themselves. Instead they leave the impression in the public mind that all of this protesting is either, at the very least, a spontaneous expression of people's feelings or, at most, organized by your average citizen.