Got hailed as a warrior for playing in pain, wearing a plastic mask to protect his broken nose.
Paul Ryan has been running around for years with a supposed fiscal plan constructed largely out of magic asterisks, and got hailed as a Bold Truthteller.
Unless we get hail, you won't hear rain inside the auditorium".
We might get a little rain, but we also might get hail, or we might not get any rain for four years.
Click here to view Every three months, some pre-pubescent child comes along and gets hailed as the new Justin Bieber.
A band form, release a few albums, get hailed by a hyperventilating music press as the saviours of indie rock, then burn out, disappearing into an "indefinite hiatus".
Meanwhile, phony memoirists get hailed (initially) on Oprah, and gasbag talk-show actors (they are not journalists, by a long shot) become millionaires as paragons of truth.
Before she got within hailing distance, however, a third worshipper, an old gentleman, sidled up to him & muttered.
CHRIS CHRISTIE'S overwhelming re-election as governor of New Jersey this week immediately got him hailed as the great hope of Republican pragmatists in the 2016 presidential elections.
Jan Vermeer was reported to have lost two shoes during the race, so his final finishing position of fourth may have been creditable, but even with an extra pair of legs he would not have got within hailing distance of Workforce.
But jeez, at least go up and get the Hail Mary.
