Martini Awards Part 3: Worst Scandal, Best Political Theater, Worst Political Theater

3 Martini Lunch – Political Humor & Commentary

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Government, News, News Commentary

4.6 • 1.5K Ratings

🗓️ 26 December 2019

⏱️ 27 minutes

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We hope you had a wonderful Christmas and we're glad to have you back as we return to our prestigious Three Martini Lunch Awards. Today, Jim and Greg discuss the worst scandals of 2019, which Jim choosing a foreign policy mess and Greg opting for a domestic one. Next, we sift through a ton of possibilities for the best and worst political theater of 2019, with a pretty heavy emphasis on the 2020 campaign.

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0:00.0	Welcome to the Three Martini lunch.
0:04.6	Grab a stole next to Greg Carumbus of Radio America and Jim Garrity of National Review.
0:09.4	Three Martini's coming up.
0:11.6	Happy Thursday. Three Martini's coming up.
0:15.0	Happy Thursday. Grab a stool for the Three Martini lunch.
0:18.0	Hope you had a wonderful Christmas with your family and friends.
0:21.0	We are back at it today with the third installment of our year-end three Martini
0:26.2	awards, the Crystal Martini is being handed out.
0:29.6	After today, we'll be halfway through this prestigious award season.
0:33.4	You know, early next year you've got the SAG and the Golden Globes
0:36.7	and eventually the Oscars, nothing on us.
0:39.1	These are the most prestigious awards that get given out any year in particular.
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0:52.0	So our categories today, Jim, our worst
0:54.6	scandal, best political theater, and worst political theater. So let's dive right
0:59.6	in with the worst scandal of 2019.
1:12.0	So Greg, I know we're supposed to say Ukraine and something that triggers the impeachment process probably would count in most years as the worst scandal. But I think there was actually something much bigger and much
1:15.6	more consequential than even the impeachment process. And the president's strong arming of Ukraine
1:21.3	and efforts to get Ukraine to investigate
1:23.0	Biden and do it all through the Giuliani. That was bad. But I think the abandonment
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