"Here Comes Mitty Boo Boo" by Kathryn Borel at the Globe & Mail

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Here Comes Mitty Boo Boo

by Kathryn Borel at the Globe & Mail

http://www.theglobeandmail.com/commentary/columnists/here-comes-mitty-boo-boo/article4513641/?cmpid=rss1

"SNIP..................................

By the time Mr. Romney glided onstage, the room was aching for him, ready for a barnburner. He opened strong, knitting those gorgeous cashmere eyebrows of his and expressing gratitude to the delegates. There was a pause. Then he pivoted toward Mr. Ryan with his big comeback: “But Paul, I still like the playlist on my iPod better than yours.” Boom goes the dynamite! as they say.

It was difficult for Mr. Romney to maintain that level, though he did refer to America as “the greatest country in the history of the world” twice, described how his mother learned about his father’s death as if it were a droll anecdote, and made fun of Mr. Obama for caring about rising sea levels. (Will America still be the greatest country in the history of the world if 32 per cent of its coastal populations are living out The Poseidon Adventure?)

In the end, though, maybe none of this pageantry matters. And speaking of pageantry, did you catch the fourth episode of Here Comes Honey BooBoo? There’s a good chance you did, as it got better ratings than the RNC – maybe it’s easier to relate to a bunch of overweight, hardscrabble Georgians making tough decisions about which grocery coupons to use than to a bunch of millionaires in Florida bragging about giving themselves tax breaks.

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[riverwalker]

1. Mitty Boo Boo! lololol

"But Paul Ryan was undoubtedly the belle of the ball, looking out on the breathless crowd on Wednesday with those sympathetic, deep-socketed eyes that make it seem, just for a moment, that he couldn’t have a couch at home made from the washed and treated skin of deceased vagrants."

[BlueStreak]

2. Now let me get this straight

"Here Comes Honey Boo Boo" airs on The LEARNING Channel?

We are doomed.

[Kalidurga]

3. Well it Here comes Honey Boo Boo...

has subtitles, so you know that it's intellectual.

[BlueStreak]

4. I thought that was for people who don't speak Hillbilly

[GreenPartyVoter]

5. The Learning Channel suffered a serious decay of programming years ago, and never bounced back.