Extremists are Extremely Shocked!

I find this simply hysterical. The right wing, led by Limbaugh and others, are up in arms about this. What is a right wing extremist they wonder? Can such a thing exist?

Of course, they were the very people who championed the Patriot Act and lambasted anyone who objected to what was going on as "unpatriotic". Perhaps it simply never occurred to them that their own particular brand of extremism might ever come under scrutiny.

Glenn Greenwald:

When you cheer on a Surveillance State, you have no grounds to complain when it turns its eyes on you. If you create a massive and wildly empowered domestic surveillance apparatus, it's going to monitor and investigate domestic political activity. That's its nature.

To use the very words they used when others objected to the state imposing these laws: "If you've nothing to hide then you have nothing to fear."

Of course, the real problem here is that right wingers like Limbaugh, O'Reilly, Coulter and Malkin simply do not believe that they are remotely extremist.

An extremist is something which is only ever produced on the left of the political spectrum. That's why they are spluttering with rage. They imagined that only extremist leftists ever said bad things about them. It simply stuns them that the DHS might ever look at what they are doing with a critical eye.

This from one of Greenwald's commenters:

"When they have a club in their hands, no one is more sadistic. When the club is removed, no one is more whiney."

Amen.

Tags: Limbaugh, Lou Dobbs, extremists, right wing, DHS