This excerpt from About That DHS Report on Right-Wing Extremism signals the end of the world:

Some bloggers, prompted by World Net Daily, are reading this as an attempt to “smear half of the country or more as kooks for criticizing the government’s handling of the economy.”

That’s ludicrous. First, this DHS assessment was begun more than a year ago, before Barack Obama was even nominated. It has absolutely nothing to do with “tea parties,” and it was not done at the behest of the Obama administration.

It's part of a pattern of posts that I've seen popped up on memeorandum that have left not scandalized but bewildered and utterly confused. I don't know what to make of titles like Horowitz Unloads on Obama Derangement Syndrome, Bush Bowed Too, Romney: Don't Wish for Obama to Fail, To Everything There is a Season and a two-parter about Glenn Beck: About Glenn Beck's Extremist Rhetoric and About Glenn Beck's Extremist Rhetoric, Part 2.

Why am I so confused? The source is Little Green Footballs.

Back in 1999-2000, when I was testing different blog publishing platforms that would liberate me from the hell of Dreamweaver, I stumbled upon a blog that was refreshing and inspiring: a geek posting his code and web design ideas along with his thoughts on the topics of the day. That blog was Little Green Footballs and it was published by a guy called Charles Johnson, part tongue-in-cheek pundit, part awesomely generous code jock.

Then the attacks of September 11 happened.

Back in 2002, Anil Dash best describes my feelings about what happened to Charles Johnson: Since the attacks, Charles, at least in the context of his weblog, lost his shit.

For us old-school bloggers, political activism came out of our very personal values and had nothing to do with political parties. It explains why Charles Johnson is still reticent about calling LGF a blog just about politics. It also explains why Six Apart's Chief Evangelist, got into one of the first very public political altercations in the blogosphere during his Quixotic quest to understand the islamophobia heaped by barrels from Little Green Footballs.

Little Green Footballs went to such a deep end that even a white (albeit nuanced) supremacist Norwegian like the anonymous blogger Fjordman (a darling of the extreme-right blogosphere), has called out Charles Johnson and his blog examples of Islamophobia and racism in the blogosphere. It's also earned it it's own "watch blog" (LGF Watch) and even the scorn of Zionist and anti-Jihadist activists.

So is there something new going on at LGF? Are they coming back from that dark ring of hate they just loved dwell in? I mean, Charles refuses to join Glenn Reynolds, Michelle Malkin and her lapdog Ed Morrissey in their game of smear Obama. Check out what Charled published this past Monday:

Maybe I’m old-fashioned, but what the hell happened to “The buck stops here”?

President Barack Obama is the Commander in Chief of the US armed forces. I certainly don’t agree with a lot of his policies, but I’ll be damned if I won’t — at the very least — respect the office and give him congratulations when it’s deserved. And when the US military succeeds in a critical mission, the CinC deserves congratulations.

There is way too much mean-spiritedness in modern politics, and I for one am totally sick of it. And disappointed in those few LGF lizards who can’t find it in themselves to be gracious and say, “Well done.”

Take a step back from the brink, folks. Oppose Obama’s policies all you like, but be the loyal opposition, not a bunch of ranting haters. The Internet already has more than enough of those.

And that’s my screed for the evening.

Wow.

I've been saying this to anybody who will hear me: We need to have a healthy opposition if this country is going to come back from the neo-con brink.

I am actually repulsed by the leftocracy's insistence that we don't need no dissent. Fuck them. We had dissent under Bush, we'll certainly need it under Obama.

The problem is that we have the Malkins, Reynolds, Morrisseys, Becks, Palins, Jindals and Limbaughs of the right. A motley crew of mentally imbalanced cynics and tyrannical dillettantes that nobody, not even people in their own party, can take seriously.

Maybe it's why Little Green Footballs sounds like it makes so much sense: the "tempered" leaders of the right are showing their egomaniacally extremist colors in the face of their epic defeat. Maybe it explains why on November 4th Johnson wrote:

President Barack Obama
POLITICS | Tue, Nov 4, 2008 at 8:10:15 pm PST

Barack Hussein Obama is the next President of the United States, and we extend our sincere congratulations.

Country first.

When was the last time you hears any of the wingnuts and teabaggers say anything like that?