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]
I'll say it. Obama has been worse for this country than 9/11!
The crowd roars as Boortz smiles. He is proud to diminish our President and compare him and his presidency to the slaughter of more than 3,000 people and one of the worst human tragedies in our nation's history.
I am disgusted. There are no words. I can't be eloquent right now because I am barely coherent. I know what you will likely say: what do you expect? How you can you be surprised? Fox News and its ilk have been attempting to delegitimize President Obama since he was elected (and, of course, even before then).
But to actually say Obama was worse for our country than more than a dozen terrorists taking four planes hostage and ramming three of them into buildings? Worse than killing thousands? Worse than something that was so evil in nature we can never understand or comprehend the events of that day?
I cannot accept that. Fox News, Sean Hannity, and Neal Boortz will be hearing from me. It's just too bad that the angry Republican crowd from which we've heard far too much will never hear a thing.