Ok I am not even sure what this says about our country but it is just well, funny. The TLC series Here Comes Honey Boo Boo got higher ratings than the Fox coverage of the Republican National convention. To be fair when considering combined viewers the Republican National Convention had more viewers than "Honey Boo Boo" but still made for some funny headlines, like the title of this diary.
The title of this diary is a direct quote of an a title of an article on the Us weekly website Honey Boo Boo Beats Republican National Convention in Ratings also the same story is on hollywoodreporter.com 'Honey Boo Boo' Ratings Top the Republican National Convention. Also article with same title on nbcnews website'Honey Boo Boo' ratings top Republican National Convention. Doing a google news search for " Honey Boo Boo Ratings Top the Republican National Convention" right now comes up with 81 articles.
So yes the article title is pretty misleading but still it is pretty funny and Mitt must be so proud. I guess people would rather watch a show about "a self-proclaimed 'redneck' family and their Toddlers and Tiaras" daughter" than be lied to by a bunch of rich white hatemongers.