Note: Greetings lovely Kossacks. For various reasons (most personal), I have neither published a diary in quite some time nor posted any comments, although I have visited regularly. Still, I am a bit rusty with respect to the rules, vagaries, and guidelines that have no doubt arisen since I last published; as such, please bear with with me.



Just forced myself to watch a bit of Hannity tonight to see what the right is thinking now that Christie is not going to "save" them and they are stuck with a very sad and, as Chris Matthews described, "blah" field." Hannity appeared to be self-deprecating while of course being nothing of the kind before a large crowd in Atlanta. Hannity's guests were Oliver North and Neal Boortz. After Boortz and Hannity each congratulated each other for a few minutes (and after North made some absurd argument about how Obama was a "disaster" at foreign policy because he did not go in to kill Osama bin Laden WITH the Navy Seals himself), I expected more "crazy talk" to shake my head at and then change back to MSNBC. Instead, I became shocked and horrified and burst into tears when I heard what Neal Boortz shouted to a crazed and gratified crowd:

[Hannity says something about how 9/11 changed Boortz. Boortz replies that yes 9/11 changed him...but]