LATE NIGHT CHILD ABUSE

How pathetic. Americans actually sit around their flat screens and entertain themselves watching a child be put on display by her parents and abused.

The real Honey Boo Boo: What reality TV did to the pint-size pageant queen

So this edited version of Honey Boo Boo becomes what we celebrate. We laugh at this kid with the funny catchphrases, the quirky dances, the affinity for go-go juice, but I suspect that she might not actually exist. The Honey Boo Boo we know is a compilation of shticky moments in what has clearly been a strange, tough childhood. The Alana I saw on “The Tonight Show” set was visibly troubled: disrespectful, defiant, entitled. Of course, with a bit of editing, “disrespectful” becomes “precocious,” “defiant” becomes “sassy,” and “entitled” becomes “confident.”