The Oscars Were Awful, CPAC Was Awful. Will Donald Trump's Big Speech Be Awful? [Reason Podcast]

Plus, will the Democrats ever find a pulse again?

Nick Gillespie | 2.27.2017 6:30 PM

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The Oscars Were Awful, CPAC Was Awful. Will Donald Trump's Big Speech Be Awful? [Reason Podcast]

It's the Monday after the Oscars (which were pretty awful) and the Monday after the Conservative Political Action Conference or CPAC (also awful). And it's the Monday before President Donald Trump's first address to Congress (you know where this is headed…).

Nick Gillespie is joined by Reason magazine Editor in Chief Katherine Mangu-Ward and Features Reporter Eric Boehm to talk the politics of awards shows, whether the Democratic Party will find a pulse again, what CPAC was like, and what to watch for in Trump's big speech.

Produced by Mark McDaniel.

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Fist of Etiquette 8 years ago

Is America about to lose total faith in its institutions? Donald Trump may not be the hero this country deserves, but he's the one we need.
1. Libertarian 8 years ago
  
  Not to brag, but when it comes to losing faith in institutions I think libertarians are way ahead of the curve.
  1. Greg F 8 years ago
    
    Were libertarians ever on the curve?
    1. Acosmist 8 years ago
      
      Nope, just the spectrum.
    2. Radioactive 8 years ago
      
      or the square and level?
2. gaoxiaen 8 years ago
  
  He's not the one that America needs, but the one that America deserves.
3. MarconiDarwin 8 years ago
  
  Just as soon as he is a hero.
Chipper Morning Wood 8 years ago

So Nick is now complaining about everything. Congratulations. You are now officially an old man.
1. Juice 8 years ago
  
  But it's true. All those things are awful and you should avoid watching them.
  
  https://www.youtube.com/watch?v=CY0Qjx5K53o
Lowen 8 years ago

The Oscars aka The Academy of Motion Picture Arts and Sciences was awful BUT NOT BECAUSE OF WARREN BEATTY which he had no control over it was a DISASTER BECAUSE THE ACADEMY ALLOWED POLITICS TO INFRINGE, PERIOD!!!!!!! Hollywood and all involved don't understand that the rest of us "THE REAL PEOPLE" are hip to the stranglehold on all the actors resulting in NO WORK UNLESS THEY CONFORM TO ONE BELIEF OR ELSE NO WORK FOR YOU!!!!! Sunday evening they allowed to be made a
1. Lowen 8 years ago
  
  total ASS of.
2. Chipper Morning Wood 8 years ago
  
  Hey, hey, hey.....this is library!
Fascist loofa-faced shitgibbon 8 years ago

Question:
Why is there an Oscar for best Foreign movie? Why does liberal Hollywood divide the Film world into 'us' and 'them'?
pan fried wylie 8 years ago

Trump surprises everyone with a 15min cockmagic performance instead of a speech.
Bra Ket 8 years ago

Will Nick Gillespie say Trump's speech was awful? I think we can answer this one now.
1. Rational Exuberance 8 years ago
  
  Nick's response to Trump's speech (pick one):
  
  (1) Trump showed himself not to be a Libertarian.
  (2) Trump's speech was awful.
  (3) Trump was literally Hitler!
  (4) All of the above.
  1. MarconiDarwin 8 years ago
    
    "(5) Drumpf was surprisingly good, and I am not exaggerating when he resembled a libertarian Reagan."
ColoradoKook 8 years ago

Awful things are awful? Who would have guessed?
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AlgerHiss 8 years ago

If you're associated with the company PwC?that does the balloting for the "oscars"... chill out and have a beer. You have nothing to fret.

That you gave some insidious "actor" a wrong envelope was of absolutely no consequence to anyone. No person, thing or animal was harmed.

What you got wrong?there is nothing on earth that has less importance than what "movie" may have been called the best. This is the epitome of no-harm, no-foul.

No one cares.

No one.
1. Radioactive 8 years ago
  
  and yet the sun rose in the east and life went on despite the horror of the Oscars 2017...oh the complete lack of humanity!
Rebel Scum 8 years ago

I have it on good authority that everything 'Drumpf' is "uniquely" awful because reasons.
1. Rational Exuberance 8 years ago
  
  You must know by now that the Oscar mixup was Trump's devious plan to distract people from the tongue lashing he received by Hollywood actors! You read it here on Reason!
2. Radioactive 8 years ago
  
  and scienze...
MikeP2 8 years ago

I predict that one of the following will occur tonight.

1) Trump will give a statesman-like address full of wonkiness and insight that will shock everyone. And Reason will say it was aweful.
2) Trump will give a mediocre address with constant heckling from the Dems, silence from the Repubs leaving people cringing for weeks. And Reason will say it was aweful.
3) Trump will give a gloriously Trumpian address directly calling out the Dems as clowns from the podium, destroying any remaining decorum in DC. Meryl Streep will be pelted with water bottles from the floor, a brawl will follow between John McCain and John Lewis, while Pelosi stabs Ryan with a pen leading to the capital police discharging all available tasers on various elected officials. And Reason will say it was aweful.
1. Radioactive 8 years ago
  
  and this is news, how? I propose a naked Claymation DeathMatch 3000 between Trump & Streep, pay per view of course...winner gets John McCain & Soros in bondage gear for a month.
MarconiDarwin 8 years ago

Oscars were awful, CPAC was awful

Indeed, two events that have relatively the same importance in our lives.
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