2023 Martini Awards Part 1: Most Overrated, Underrated, Honest Political Figures
3 Martini Lunch – Political Humor & Commentary
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🗓️ 21 December 2023
⏱️ 23 minutes
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Summary
In this first installment, they offer their individual selections for Most Overrated Political Figure, Most Underrated Political Figure, and Most Honest Political Figure. Jim and Greg are largely in agreement on whom they see as the most overrated political figure of the year, although they come at the selection from different perspectives.
When it comes to underrated political figures, they both pick presidential candidates but for very different reasons.
Finally, Jim's choice for the most honest political figure is someone he would have never imagined just a few months ago, while Greg picks one of the few lawmakers who have no problem calling out his own side.
Don't miss Friday's special edition, when Jim and Greg list the political figures they were sorry to see pass away in 2023. They'll also name their rising stars over the past year and people who seem to be fading into political oblivion.
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| 0:00.0 | Welcome to the Three Martini lunch. Grab a stole next to Greg Carumbus of Radio America and Jim |
| 0:08.3 | Garrity of National Review. Three Martini's coming up. |
| 0:12.0 | So glad you're with us for the Thursday edition of the Three Martini lunch. |
| 0:17.0 | For the rest of the year though, it is not going to be our usual good, bad, and crazy. |
| 0:21.0 | It is time for our very highly respected and sought after three Martini |
| 0:26.8 | lunch awards, the Crystal Martini Glass, and a variety of categories over six special episodes starting today, continuing tomorrow. |
| 0:36.0 | We'll be off for Christmas Day next week and then we'll finish our awards Tuesday through Friday |
| 0:41.2 | of next week and then we're off on New Year's Day and starting back into |
| 0:44.8 | our normal fair January 2nd, 2024. Can't believe we're already here. This is of course a |
| 0:50.9 | blatant rip-off from the old McLaughlin group and their post-season awards. |
| 0:55.6 | They used to wear tuxes. |
| 0:57.2 | We're not, but you can imagine that we are. |
| 1:00.0 | I'm not sure who's Fred Barnes or Pat Buchanan neither of us is Eleanor Cliff I can |
| 1:04.6 | promise you that but I guess Jim we start with issue one today's categories are |
| 1:09.6 | overrated underrated and most honest political figures. |
| 1:14.0 | So Jim, let's start with your choice for most overrated political figure of the past year. |
| 1:20.4 | So it doesn't give me any pleasure to say this but I think it I think unfortunately a title is well earned and it |
| 1:28.3 | It fits uncomfortably well. I guess you could say |
| 1:31.3 | former house speaker Kevin McCarthy, |
| 1:33.8 | began this year, becoming a speaker |
| 1:36.9 | after a long difficult series of negotiations. |
| 1:40.5 | People said that the deal that he reached with, I'm going to say the House Freedom Caucus, |
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