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Originally Posted by Broadsword2004
There was one good thing in the Oscars though, which was when one of the editors (sound or special effects editor, something like that) was receiving the award for his work in one of Clint Eastwood's films (either "Flags of Our Fathers" or "Letters From Iwo Jima") and when he was saying all his thank you's, he also said something on the order of, "...and I especially want to thank all of the members of America's armed forces who are out fighting right now and risking their lives for our safety, thank you very much..." that wasn't the exact quote, but it was something like that.
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That was such a deviation from the usual "Free Tibet" monologues that I shut the TV off, figuring (correctly it seems) that speech was the highlight of the entire show.
+1 on the "hot air elimination" idea