The funniest things from the convention

The funniest things I found from the Democratic convention.

From the Sunday Times,  AA Gill travels to Denver and writes as only a Brit can - think Monty Python with a slight sneer  - and the results are hilarious with
Barack Obama's army with epic razzamatazz .
Cumulatively, these stories sound like the Yorkshireman’s sketch from Monty Python as a 12-step share. Each silky, coiffured and polished senator, congressman and governor outdoes the other with Stygian hardship. The effect is so cloyingly sentimental, it could give cynicism diabetes. But I am again the only one who finds the parade of Little Nell revelations hideously patronising. The implication being that if you don’t wind up at least as an Ivy League lawyer, then your poverty wasn’t bad enough and your dream isn’t lavish and American enough. The only person who doesn’t tell us about growing up in a bucket under the sink is Ted Kennedy, because we already know that he was born into patrician splendour paid for by illegal whisky-running during prohibition.

Peggy Noonan brings the house down

The hilarious Jason Mattara goes undercover  with a petition to bring Cinemax, Netflix, and MSNBC to Guatanamo prisoners.  The hippies sign.  Via Hot Air