Fighting with and/or publicly showing-up or otherwise challenging the authority of your boss, no matter how "right" and "wrong" (you think) you and s/he respectively are, is like stepping in front of an oncoming, red-light-blowing mack truck just cuz you have the right of way. You may be "right", but you also dead. You can't put your need to let your boss (and colleagues) know you're smarter than s/he before plain common sense (and continually condescend to your colleagues) and then be shocked, SHOCKED when your boss doesn't like you and won't promote you. Even in an Enron-level situation needing whistleblowing, there are better ways to handle yourself.