Wretchard,

If I understand you correctly, you say that the Left has figuring out its opposition consists of Right’s “buzzing hornet swarm” of civic action, but you think that Umair Haque’s advice amounts to:

1) Using faster appeals to higher authority to;

2) More effectively condescend to those masses of opposition, plus;

3) Hiring bigger astroturfed crowds for the Main Stream Media cameras.

If so, according to Drew Brown over at the American Thinker, Obama’s people seem set to take Umair Haque’s advice:

http://www.americanthinker.com/2009/08/barack_obama_doesnt_care_what.html

What I am concerned about, and warning everyone about, is the media machine that uses these organized events to broadcast the agenda. Framed differently, these activities aren’t meant to convince attendees that healthcare is good; these activities are meant to manufacture the news, spread propaganda tropes, and over-inflate the image of the pro-socialized healthcare forces. PR stunts. The Obama modus operandi is to make his goons look bigger than they are. These are the people who will make a group of twenty conservatives appear diminutive with a far-away camera angle, and then give individual interviews to all three liberal attendees. It’s just like a real estate agent photographing a small house from the best angle. Organizing for America is an illusion. It is the Wizard of Oz.

The question I have regards all of this frenetic action — given main stream media viewing demographics — is who will the MSM’s audience be now that they’ve alienated the Depends generation?