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**The Fifth Column**

Your weekly rhetorical assault on the on the news cycle, the people who make it, and occasionally ourselves. Kmele Foster (Freethink), Michael Moynihan (Vice), and Matt Welch (Reason) talk and laugh and drink their way to at least quasi-sanity in a world gone mad, often with the aid of clean and articulate guests. Weekly Members Only subscription edition often comes with listener mail and professional-quality (if inappropriate) singing. Analysis. Commentary. Sedition.

www.wethefifth.com

Latest Episodes:

131 “Jussie Smollett Indicted, Hate Crimes, Hacks in the Newsroom, Bernie" Feb 21, 2019

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- Jussie Smollett, Indicted (Kmele Totally Called That Shit)

- But Then Again, The Whole Gang Totally Called That Shit Too

- Coast Guard Neo-Nazi would-be terrorist arrested

- Kmele and Liz Plank on "Reliable Sources"

- Unreliable hate crime statistics

- Social Justice Judo

- CNN Hires Sarah Isgur Flores

- Bill Moyers, Problematic Icon

- Bernie Sanders, Front-runner

- Some Idiot Wrote This

- Download "Headspace" Today

Recorded: PM 2/20/2019

Published: 2/21/2019

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130 “The Jill Abramson Affair, Jewish Money, Indentured Servitude" Feb 13, 2019

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(Plagiarism, Green Room Encounters, and All The Receipts)

- We Need to Talk About Jill Abramson

- Too Important to be a Plagiarist?

- Rep Omar: You Might Be An Antisemitism, But Maybe Not

- Blackface: The Highest Form of Flattery?

- Klobuchar, FTW

- Team AOC's Green New Deal Fiasco

ALSO:

- Moynihan Steps Out of Line

- The Huxtable Compound

- Indentured Servitude

- 22 Savage

- The Red Shoe Diaries

- Emergency Podcasting

Recorded: PM 2/11/2019

Published: 2/13/2019

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129 w/ Brendan O'Neill “ Yellow Vests, Subway Sandwiches, Mostly Free Speech" Feb 04, 2019

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w/ Brendan O'Neill (Editor in Chief, "Spiked")

- Jussie Smollett

- Stories For Every Narrative

- Ralph Northam

- Fancy Dress Parties

- The Weird Man’s Burden

- Anti Semitism, Hate Speech

- Stormy or STORMZY

- Yellow Vests Revolution

Recorded: PM 2/2/2019

Published: 2/4/2019

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128 “A BOMBSHELL (If True), Punching MAGA Teens, Venezuela" Jan 24, 2019

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- Jerry Brown

- BuzzFeed's Bombshell?

- Jason Leopold, Oliver Darcy

- The Temple of Journalism

- Anonymous Sourcing

- Punching Catholic Kids

- Stolen Valor, Callin' Bullshit

ALSO:

- Jill Abramson (Part 2)

- "GUILTY" - By M.C. Moynihan

- On Venezuela

Recorded: 1/22/2019 PM

Published: 1/24/2019

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127 w/ Brian Stelter “The Holy Order of Journalism, Excommunicating Steve King" Jan 18, 2019

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"They're like a train -- a train that's always runnin' right on time." - Anonymous

w/ Brian Stelter (Chief Media Corespondent, CNN) (Host, "Reliable Sources")

- Moynihan Meets Ann Coulter (Again)

- A Boy and His Blog

- Authoritarian Storm Clouds

- The Temple of Journalism

- Is CNN in Resistance Mode?

- Grading Trump on a Curve

- Excommunicating Steve King

ALSO:

- Media Literacy

- "Page One", and The Business of News

- Kasich to CNN, Rep. Omar's Really Bad Day

- NPR + MAGA

- Russia-gate, and The Biggest Story of Our Time

Recorded: PM 1/17/2019

Published: 1/18/2019

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126 “Trump's Fence, Dating Ocasio-Cortez, Shaun King's Crusade” Jan 11, 2019

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"Smarter, harder, about the same length as usual." - Anonymous

- The Border Fence Shutdown

- Reasons to Dislike AOC

- Tea Party Retrospective

- Ellen Met Kevin

- Jazmine Barnes, Shaun King, and Overconcen

- Destroying The Weatherman

- Race Price, New York City Public Schools, and Historical Fictions

- Human Rights + Angela Davis

Recorded: PM 1/9/2019

Published: 1/11/2019

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125 w/ Ben Smith “The (Syrian) Withdrawal Method, Journalistic Imperatives” Dec 22, 2018

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w/ Ben Smith (Editor in Chief @ BuzzFeed News)

- BuzzFeed's Day in Court

- About That Dossier

- Insider Political Journalism vs Crisis Political Journalism

- Sports Metaphors, Panglossian History

- Newsroom Diversity

- Indisputably Racist

ALSO:

- Syria, Afghanistan, and Impulse Control

- The Best Laid Plans

- Another Shutdown

- GoFundMe Governance

- Trust Issues

Recorded: PM 12/22/2018

Published: 12/23/2018

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124 w/ Yascha Mounk "The People vs Democracy, Beyond Nationalism and Identity Politics" Dec 15, 2018

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w/ Yascha Mounk (Author, "The People vs Democracy") (Host, "The Good Fight")

- Liberal Democracy (and Liberal Democratic Values)- Democratic Deficits, Excesses, and Limits- Authoritarian Populism (on the Left and Right)- Political Norms- Domesticating Nationalism- Injustice and Identity- Inequality and Globalization- Free Speech

AND- Cohen Gets Sentenced- Kmele Crashes an *Unusual* PTA Meeting- Fukuyama was wrong, but none of you assholes read “the end of history” - Matt Says "Yemen" on MSNBC- Norms

Recorded: PM 12/13/2018Published: 12/15/2018

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123 w/ Michael Barbaro and Jody Avirgan "Live at the Comedy Cellar in NYC" Dec 06, 2018

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Our first live recording; taped at the legendary Comedy Cellar in New York City.

With Guests: Michael Barbaro, "The Daily" (The New York Times)Jody Avirgan, "30 for 30" and "The Five-Thirty-Eight Politics Podcast" (Five-Thirty-Eight, ESPN)

"On Speech Controversies and The State of Journalism After Two Years of Trump."

Recorded: 12/4/2018 (@ The Comedy Cellar in New York City)Published: 12/6/2018

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122 w/ Kevin Roose “Russiagate Reloaded, Facebook, Google, China" Nov 30, 2018

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w/ Kevin Roose (Columnist, The New York Times)

- *Black* Intellectuals- Live @ The Comedy Cellar- All the Presidents Rogues- Nature, Severity, and Consequence- Facebook's Peril- Google's Dragonfly- China's Citizenship Scores

Recorded: PM 11/29/2018Published: 11/30/2018

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