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Welcome to the commentary magazine podcast today is Monday January 29th, 2018.

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So guys, who watched the Grammys? Anybody watched the Grammys? I'm 56, of course. I really enjoyed the performances from Aveda and Westside Story.

That's my idea of a good Grammy show, that, and maybe some, you know, Gerrital and, you know, soft food for my soft palate.

I started watching it, and then it became increasingly a sort of background element in my apartment as it went on.

My favorite point was when some neurostemic 5-foot-3-inch tall guy with glasses, who goes by the name of Logic, made a big speech to women about how you need to keep revealing your truth.

You know, he looked like he was a sort of person who, after the song was over, would go into the locker room, and then the bigger boys would snap their towels at him.

That was the weirdest moment, was, you know, men's, logics, men's, explaining to women about how they should, they should keep talking.

Of course, the big moment in the Grammys that we need to talk about was the joky film clip in which John Legend and Snoop Dogg and various other people read from Michael Wolfe's Fire and Fury, and they kept reading, and then finally the book dropped at the end.

And it was Hillary Clinton reading a passage from Michael Wolfe's Fire and Fury, which occasioned a reporter named Anne Geeren writing about how that was so funny and oddly instantly Nikki Haley are ambassador to you and responded by saying that it ruined the Grammys for her.

She hates all the politicization, and she used to like watching it, but now they're ruining it.

Which actually seemed to be an interesting moment. It was sort of like an unguarded moment from a political official saying I really don't like how this stuff happens.

It seems to be an uncontroversial thing for a conservative to say that they can't stand how all award shows are just taken over by liberal path.

And then the response was various people in the mainstream media making including Bill Ware of CNN and David Scoff at the New York Times and others making fun of Nikki Haley for daring to question the political view of the Grammys.

So here again we have one of these mini controversies that erupts solely exclusively because a public official and an admirable public official in my view simply like said something heartfelt about something that really annoyed her.

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