2024 Martini Awards Part 4: Best Ideas, Worst Ideas, Boldest Tactics
3 Martini Lunch
Radio America
4.6 • 1.4K Ratings
🗓️ 27 December 2024
⏱️ 26 minutes
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Summary
They start with the best ideas of the year. Jim chooses a clear message that voters sent on Election Day that was long overdue. Meanwhile, Greg's award goes to the clever tactics that successfully eliminated one of the world's most prominent terrorists..
Then it's time for the worst political ideas of the year, with both Jim and Greg finding many good options. Jim focuses on a ridiculous aspect of Biden's Middle East policy. Whereas, Greg highlights one of the most stunning political miscalculations in recent memory.
Finally, they're on to the boldest political tactics for 2024. Jim chooses a Trump campaign tactic and message that undoubtedly worked to perfection. And Greg salutes a group of athletes who sacrificed a lot to send a message that's now yielding results.
Don't miss Monday's special edition as Jim and Greg reveal their choices for Most Overreported Story, Most Underreported Story, and the Best Story of 2024.
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| 0:32.6 | Welcome to the three-martini lunch. Grab a stool next to Greg Corumbus of Radio America and Jim Garrity of National Review. |
| 0:40.6 | Three martini's coming up. |
| 0:43.0 | So glad you're with us for the Friday edition of the Three Martini Lunch. |
| 0:46.8 | If you've been with us pretty much at all this week, you know that we are in our year-end awards season. |
| 0:51.9 | We started back on Monday with overrated, underrated, and honest |
| 0:55.0 | political figures. Tuesday, we shift to the figures we're most sorry to see pass away in |
| 0:58.8 | 24, plus the rising stars and the figures we think are fading into oblivion. Time will tell for sure, |
| 1:04.9 | if we're right about that. I think Jim's definitely going to be right about his. But Wednesday, |
| 1:09.8 | of course, Christmas Day, we heard from Robert Davy, looking back at that fun interview that we did with Special Agent Johnson from Die Hard. And then yesterday, of course, we looked at things like biggest lie and best and worst political theater of 2024. So today, as we close out the week, but there's more to come next week, we look at best idea, |
| 1:29.8 | worst idea, and boldest tactic in 2024. |
| 1:33.8 | So, Jim, the best idea of 2024. |
| 1:37.0 | Greg, this is another one of those categories. |
| 1:38.8 | A lot of years, it's a rebuilding year. |
| 1:40.5 | And you're just looking for an idea that wasn't that bad. |
| 1:44.1 | So for the best idea, |
| 1:46.0 | it's a little nebulous, but I'm going to say the rollback of woke or the backlash to woke. |
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