Even if God, in His infinite wisdom, decides to allow the Republican Convention go on as scheduled, nobody will be watching, anyway:

At 10:30 on Monday night, Ann Romney is scheduled to take the stage at the Republican National Convention, in Act 1 of her husband’s four-day introduction to the nation. But tens of millions of people will not be able to watch.

CBS plans instead to show a rerun of “Hawaii Five-O,” its hit police series. Viewers on NBC will see a new episode of “Grimm,” about a homicide detective with the supernatural ability to sense evil. And ABC plans to show its series “Castle,” about a best-selling mystery novelist who helps solve crimes.

The networks, which reap considerable advertising dollars even from summer reruns, have told the Romney campaign that they will broadcast an hour of convention coverage on the final three nights — but no more.

Okay, I do have to say that this "will not be able to watch" line is total bullshit. This is not a sign of the end of western civilization. If you want to watch Ann Romney's speech at the RNC, you will no doubt be able to watch the speech—on cable, on the internet—and so this apathy thing is overplayed. There is quite a bit of entitlement in the political school of thought that every network should be happy to air every second of their carefully scripted and staged PR event. Now, if the networks decided not to air a presidential debate, that would be another story. But the conventions? If you want to watch them, you have plenty of avenues for that. This is not a particularly convincing argument for American apathy.