2023 Martini Awards Part 4: Best Ideas, Worst Ideas, Boldest Tactics
3 Martini Lunch – Political Humor & Commentary
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🗓️ 27 December 2023
⏱️ 24 minutes
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They start with the best ideas of the year. Jim chooses an event that actually happened late last year but the true impact of it has been felt far and wide in 2023. Meanwhile, Greg's award goes to a critical policy movement that made significant progress this year.
Then it's time for the worst political ideas of the year, with both Jim and Greg finding so many terrible ideas that they both have multiple winners with no overlapping. Jim focuses on three terrible and simply wrong ideas pursued by the Biden administration on the international stage. Whereas, Greg highlights United Nations advocacy of a truly terrible idea that should horrify every parent. And he cites a governor's effort to blatantly defy the Constitution.
Finally, they're on to boldest political tactics for 2023, with neither of them agreeing with the tactics they chose to honor. Jim starts with a move made in the 2024 presidential campaign that was widely unpopular but has undoubtedly worked well. And Greg points to am aggressive and disruptive move on Capitol Hill.
Don't miss Thursday's special edition as Jim and Greg reveal their choices for Most Overreported Story, Most Underreported Story, and the Best Story of 2023.
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| 0:00.0 | Welcome to the Three Martini lunch. |
| 0:04.7 | Grab a stole next to Greg Carumbus of Radio America and Jim Garrity of National Review. |
| 0:09.6 | Three Martini's coming up. |
| 0:11.6 | Very glad to have you with us for the Wednesday edition of the Three Martini |
| 0:16.8 | lunch. |
| 0:17.8 | As you know, we're right smack dab in the middle of our six year and specials here on the |
| 0:22.3 | Three Martini lunch looking at a whole wide |
| 0:24.5 | variety of categories we started this past Thursday with overrated underrated |
| 0:30.2 | most honest political figures then on Friday we did Rising Star and |
| 0:34.1 | figure fading into oblivion as well as our people we were most sorry to see go in |
| 0:38.0 | 2023. Yesterday we were discussing things like best political theater, worst political theater, and the biggest lie of |
| 0:46.8 | 2023 and today's categories are best idea, worst Idea, and Boldest |
| 0:53.4 | Tactics of 2023. |
| 0:55.6 | So, Jim, what was the best idea of 2023? |
| 0:59.3 | Well, Greg, once again, this is a rebuilding year for best ideas. |
| 1:04.0 | The draft picks did not turn out the way we hope, free agent signings. |
| 1:08.0 | To quote Bill Bellachik, we just didn't get it done. |
| 1:11.0 | I got to focus on next year. But I was able to |
| 1:14.4 | come up with a best idea. Actually ironically it was kind of the consequences of |
| 1:18.4 | something that occurred in late 2022 and it comes with a couple asterists I can't say it's entirely been a |
| 1:25.5 | positive development but I think Elon Musk's purchase of Twitter which was |
| 1:30.5 | finalized in October 2022 had a lot of really interesting dominoes fall as a result of that purchase |
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