The award for best actor in a thought-leading role goes to Howard Fineman, for this penetrating observation:
#AcademyAwards show diversity, tolerance, cultural creativity of US in Obama Era. Hard power matters, per Putin, but Oscars r as powerful.
— Howard Fineman (@howardfineman) March 3, 2014
Indeed. Cold War Two, which will be waged entirely in fits of geopolitical microagression, strongly favors the Obama Era United States. Somewhere in Simferopol, a convoy of Russian security forces huddles in front of a department store window, taking in Jared Leto's important acceptance speech. "If this is what we're up against," one says, "we've already lost."
All due credit to Fineman's wife:
Before I tweeted that earlier thing out, my wife said it was the most vapid observation ever. I guess she was right!
— Howard Fineman (@howardfineman) March 3, 2014