tag:blogger.com,1999:blog-22301740.post2833507369085909649..comments2024-03-26T09:49:07.212-07:00Comments on The Scratching Post: My Take On The Republican National ConventionK T Cathttp://www.blogger.com/profile/10259428595745509790noreply@blogger.comBlogger1125tag:blogger.com,1999:blog-22301740.post-86223140759103143452012-08-29T06:52:51.542-07:002012-08-29T06:52:51.542-07:00To be honest, I never could get into political con...To be honest, I never could get into political conventions. When I was a kid, I thought that they were the pure, concentrated essence of dullness, and I kind of still feel that way now. They are like golf - presumably fun for the participants, but painfully boring to watch as a spectator. <br /><br />I remember back in 1976, during the Democratic convention, my brothers and I were home alone while our parents were at a Farm Bureau meeting, and we had the chance to stay up late watching TV - and both of the channels we could normally get had nothing but convention coverage. So we were scanning through the dial, including fooling around with aluminum foil on our normally-useless UHF antenna to see might be skipping in, and kept getting these ghostly, remote, barely-viewable signals that were *all covering the convention*! Finally, we managed to pick up a Canadian station that was actually showing something else - and then the show ended, and they switched to a program that was *making fun* of the convention! Well, that was a little better. I mainly remember one cartoon they showed of a broadly smiling Jimmy Carter, with the caption, "Hi,I'm Jimmy Carter, and I need your help! You see, for this past year, I've had this coat hanger stuck in my mouth!"<br /><br />As far as I'm concerned, that was the highlight of televised convention coverage.tim eiselehttp://somethingscrawlinginmyhair.comnoreply@blogger.com