Ooh, We've Been Mentioned On Telly!

I plan on watching approximately zero hours of coverage of both the Democrat and Republican conventions over the next two weeks; there's more important things to watch, like preseason NFL football. But I have been following some of the behind the scenes stuff from my list of conservative bloggers, and if the Las Vegas Sun (via Hot Air) is to be believed, the Democrats are so worried about Hillary supporters going nuts on live T.V. that they're thinking about getting rid of one of the three reasons anyone would even consider watching:

Democratic officials involved in the negotiations said Monday the idea is that at the start of the state-by-state vote for the presidential nomination Wednesday night, delegates would cast their votes for Clinton or Obama.

But the voting would be cut off after a couple of states, the officials said, perhaps ending with New York, when Clinton herself would call for unanimous backing for Obama from the convention floor. The officials spoke on condition of anonymity while the deal was being finalized.

There's really only three reasons to watch convention coverage these days. There's the acceptance speech by the candidate (eg. "reporting for duty"). There's (usually) a bomb-thrower-type speech (eg. "Poor George!" or "Spitballs?").

And then there's the roll-call vote, where viewers can eagerly watch until their state gets mentioned (eg. "Hello, Springfield!") and the anchors can keep their little tally board going until it reaches the "magic number". But apparently, the Party Of Unity can't quite keep it together this year, and so the country might sadly have to do without one of its cherished traditions.

I suspect we'll survive.