3 Martini Lunch – Political Humor & Commentary

Hillsdale College Radio General Manager and Radio Free Hillsdale Hour Host Scot Bertram is in for Jim. Today, Scot and Greg are glad to see Hertz recognizing reality and dumping 20,000 electric vehicles after seeing higher than expected costs related to repairs and collision damage. And this after Hertz committed to have EV's comprise a quarter of its total fleet by the end of the year. They also...

Join Jim and Greg as they break down the biggest developments in the presidential race, stubbornly high inflation, and a pivotal day in sports. First, they dissect former New Jersey Gov. Chris Christie's decision to suspend his 2024 presidential campaign but not endorse anyone else and trash Ron DeSantis and Nikki Haley in addition to Donald Trump. They also cringe as the December inflation number...

Join Jim and Greg as they serve up martinis from Iowa and beyond. First, Jim's excellent reporting uncovers a major surplus for the Iowa government and how GOP Gov. Kim Reynolds is eyeing additional tax cuts. Meanwhile, the high taxing states like California, Maryland, New York, and Massachusetts are running significant deficits. Then they roll their eyes at the kindergarten-level treatment White...

After Greg's quick celebration of Michigan winning college football's national championship and Jim explaining his efforts to acclimate to Iowa's cold and snow, they serve up good, bad, and crazy martinis. First, they welcome the National Park Service reversing plans to remove a statue of Pennsylvania founder William Penn from Welcome Park in Philadelphia. They note how the left now seeks to erase...

Hillsdale College Radio General Manager and Radio Free Hillsdale Hour Host Scot Bertram is in for Jim. Today, Scot and Greg serve up all crazy martinis. First, they walk through the bizarre saga of Defense Sec. Lloyd Austin being in the ICU with post-surgery complications and no one apparently telling the President of the United States, the National Security Adviser, or even the Deputy Secretary o...

We've made it to the first Friday of 2024! And Jim and Greg are ready to serve up three martinis - right after Greg shares a fantastic 'Die Hard' story. They start the martinis on the lighter side by reacting to an Axios story outlining tensions in the White House press office as Karine Jean-Pierre and John Kirby split duties in the press room and neither one is particularly is happy about it. The...

Join Jim and Greg as they did into three major stories and parental discretion is advised on the first one. First, they react to the initial revelations of Jeffrey Epstein's contacts, what it means and doesn't mean about their conduct, and the many important questions about Epstein that remain unanswered. Then they hammer Homeland Security Sec. Alejandro Mayorkas for suggesting the record number o...

After no good martinis to kick off the year on Tuesday, Jim and Greg have two on tap for today! First, they welcome the resignation of Harvard University Pres. Claudine Gay following scandals over her congressional testimony about speech advocating genocide on campus plus dozens of examples of plagiarism in her academic work. They also get a good laugh as CNN wears out its Thesaurus trying to defe...

Happy New Year! Well, after nearly two weeks since our last regular episode, we have found nothing resembling a good martini. Not the greatest omen for 2024. But we do have three important bad martinis, at least one of which has a whole lot of crazy to it as well. First, they weigh in on the Maine Secretary of State unilaterally deciding that former President Trump is disqualified from this year's...

Jim and Greg close out 2023 with the finale of this year's 3 Martini Lunch Awards. Today, they give our their prestigious choices for Person of the Year and Turncoat of the Year. Then they finish with predictions for 2024. On Person of the Year, Jim looks to the 2024 presidential field for his first selection before adding a second, less known choice based on his powerful reporting overseas this y...

It's media day in our year-end Three Martini Lunch awards and Jim and Greg have plenty to say about how things were covered - if they were covered at all. Specifically, they look at the stories the mainstream media covered far too much, the ones they conveniently ignored because they didn't fit their narrative, and they highlight what they saw as the best stories of 2023. First, they dig into the...

More year-end awards today! Jim and Greg embark on the second half of their six-episode series of the 3 Three Martini Lunch Awards. Today, they offer up their selections for the Best Political Idea, Worst Political Idea, and Boldest Political Tactics for the year. 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 be...

We hope you had a wonderful Christmas! Jim and Greg are back today for the third round of the Three Martini Lunch Awards. Today, they discuss the Biggest Lie, Best Political Theater, and Worst Political Theater of 2023. They start with the biggest lies of the year. Jim kicks things off my questioning the conventional wisdom that seems to be building from recent polls, while Greg takes aim at a lie...

Join Jim and Greg as they offer the second installment of their highly coveted year-end awards. Today they remark on the people connected to politics that they're most sorry to see pass away in 2023. They also share their choices for rising political stars and those who appear to be fading into political oblivion They begin with those who left us over the past year. Jim chooses two friends involve...

Today, Jim and Greg begin handing out their prestigious annual 3 Martini Lunch Awards! Starting today and running through next week, they reveal their choices in categories ranging from rising star to best and worst political ideas to the stories the media ignored and the ones they could not stop talking about. And it all builds up to Friday of next week when Jim and Greg reveal their Person of th...

Join Jim and Greg as they cheer Virginia Gov. Glenn Youngkin for making a strong case to permanently kill the horrible car tax that resident have to pay every year simply for owning a car. But will the idea go anywhere with Democrats controlling the legislature? Then they dig into the Colorado Supreme Court's decision to ban Donald Trump from the 2024 Republican primary ballot because he allegedly...

Join Jim and Greg as they dissect a New York Times poll that the Times itself insists is proof that Biden needs to be less supportive of Israel in order to keep young people voting for him. Jim gets a kick out of the Times trying to help Biden while actually hurting him and explains why it's doing a terrible job of reading the poll. They also issue a parental advisory as they reflect on the 25th a...

Join Jim and Greg as they enjoy reports suggesting Biden is frustrated with his advisers because the American people continue to think he's doing a lousy job. And Democrats down the ballot are getting worried he could become a drag for them too. They also fume as Iranian proxy groups targets American forces for the 100th time in the past two months. Biden's responses have been extremely timid and...

Jim and Greg finish off the week with three important martinis, right after they give the very predictable update of that Hamas official from yesterday saying his comments were "taken out of context" and that he does not support the recognition of Israel. Then they give credit to former New York Times Editorial Page Editor James Bennet for savaging the paper by evolving from taking sides in debate...

Join Jim and Greg as they discuss a Haaretz story quoting a Hamas official arguing that it's time for the terrorist organization to follow the PLO's lead and recognize Israel. Have two months of intense military operations caused some Hamas figures to seriously reconsider their radicalism or is this simply a tactic designed to attract some more international sympathy? They follow that up with a ne...

Join Jim and Greg as they once again serve up at least two good martinis, and possibly a third. First, they applaud House Speaker Mike Johnson for demanding major action on border security as part of any deal to continue aid to Ukraine. And Jim fumes that Biden could have done this deal months ago, all to his own political benefit but his refusal to acknowledge the reality at the border is costing...

It's bad and crazy martinis today after a Monday full of good news. Join Jim and Greg as they wince over CNBC's Rick Santelli offering a painful much much-needed explanation of compounding inflation - far from the White House narrative that Biden has it under control. He doesn't. They also roll their eyes as Al Gore takes a reasonable concern - social media pushing questionable posts to the top of...

Join Jim and Greg serve up three good martinis to start the week. First, they watch new Argentinian President Javier Milei with great interest, especially after he shuttered 12 of 21 government ministries on his first day in office. What impact will these libertarian principles have on the nation and beyond? They also breathe a sigh of relief for Houston, Texas. While they have no great expectatio...

Join Jim and Greg as they close out the week with three big martinis. First, they review the nine new tax charges filed against Hunter Biden, including three felonies, and review just how brazen Hunter's lies to the IRS were. Listener discretion advised as we discuss his "business expenses." They also recoil at the comments of CAIR Executive Director Nihad Awad, who referred to October 7 as Gaza r...

Join Jim and Greg as they serve up three important martinis, but they begin by reacting to Thursday morning's House censure of New York Democrat Jamal Bowman for deliberately pulling a fire alarm to delay a floor vote a couple of months ago. Then they cheer a couple of strong moments from Florida Gov. Ron DeSantis in Wednesday night's debate, including demanding college and universities have more...