The Fifth Column - Analysis, Commentary, Sedition

By Michael Moynihan (Vice), Matt Welch (Reason), and Kmele Foster (Freethink)

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News, politics and culture w/ Michael Moynihan (Daily Beast, Vice), Matt Welch (Reason) and Kmele Foster (Freethink). Each week this triumvirate scrutinize the big stories and offer comment.

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10.28.2021

w/ Zaid Jilani, former reporter at The Intercept and current substacker (inquiremore.com) Kmele, missing in a mudslide?Zaid, the most left-wing staffer at the Center for American ProgressCable news is horrible / Jeff Toobin slays white supremacySchool board chaos in VirginiaCreating ...

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10.28.2021 334 w/ Zaid Jilani "Jeff Toobin, Fapping Antifascist; The Terror Parents of Northern Virginia; A Bad Bisexual in a Bad Vest" w/ Zaid Jilani, former reporter at The Intercept and current substacker (inquiremore.com) Kmele, missing in a mudslide?Zaid, the most left-wing staffer at the Center for American ProgressCable news is horrible / Jeff Toobin slays white supremacySchool board chaos in VirginiaCreating ...
10.16.2021 333 w/ Ethan Strauss "Locker Room Culture Wars, When Jokes Are Pretty Much Murder" w/ Ethan Strauss, (HNIC @ "House of Strauss" / Substack) Enemy of the SyntaxEthiopian RoyaltyBreaking the Fourth WallLeaving the AthleticNot Just for Sports FansBreaking for Black BodiesNBA Vax MandatesObama Decides to Be Black"Racist" EmailsMoynihan's First JobDouble 0' SistasJokes that Kill ...
10.11.2021 332 w/ Robby Soave "Tech Panic, Phyrric Stalemate, Bifurcated Holiday" w/ Robby Soave, (Senior Editor @ Reason - Author, "Tech Panic") Oral SurgeryBuying Robby's BookHow Facebook (Isn't) Destroying The WorldIncompetent + ill-informedPlease, Think of The Teenagers A Vintage Moral PanicMark Zuckerberg's Body Count Victims + VictorsMessy SpeechWhen Google Becomes Microsoft26 ...
10.02.2021 331 w/ Katie Herzog "Once Upon A Time In Williamsburg, Wizard of Ozy" w/ Katie Herzog, Host @ "Blocked and Reported" Stay in Your HoodSo Many SourcesDog Run ConfidentialWhat Emma KnewKatie's NightmareHow Did You Get This NumberCool OffDenzel Was DrinkingMore ShaftVery Heavily RedactedEven More Heavily RedactedTwo SpiritsWizard of Ozy Recorded: 9/30/21 Published: 10/2/21 ...
09.24.2021 330 w/ Antonio Garcia Martínez "Would Apple Hire Steve Jobs, Conservatives Hate Big Tech" W/ Antonio Garcia Martínez, Propritor @ "The Pull Request" False StartDriven to DrinkCultural Valley ("Crazy Ones Need Not Apply")Mission ProtocolsThe Full NYT Software DownloadSection 230The Devil in the DetailsA Conservative War on Big TechStormfront / SJWAn Uncertain FutureGOP
09.17.2021 329 "Recall Flops, Covid Recount, Forgetting Afghanistan -- Again" - Bacon Egg and Cheese (Late Capitalism Edition) - The Met Gala -- America's Most Glamours Tax Shelter - Hetro Negative - No Sex Cults for Kmele - Democrat Wins Most Democratic State - Larry Elder: White Nationalist? - The ...
09.09.2021 328 w/ Josh Szeps “Living in the Lockdown Under” -- Aussie Impressions of a Missing Moynihan -- A Gay Dad’s Homophobia -- Australian Federalism; Who Knew? -- Libertarianism, Shmibertarianism! -- Islands Are Weird, Man -- QR Covid Tracking Is Totally Fine -- Concentration Camp or Exercise Yard? -- Anti-Science ...
09.03.2021 327 "Autumn in Kabul, Askew in Texas" - Lead Astray - Wrong Line - Blues Traveler - Sugar in his Tank - When in Kabul - Repeal/Replace/Keep the AUMF for another 20 years? - Matt's Basement is Flooding (No, Really) - 1/2 Trimester - The Reverend Dr. ...
08.25.2021 326 w/ Eli Lake "Afghan Withdrawal, Pandemic Surrender, Daddy Issues" W/ Eli Lake, Opinion Columnist @ Bloomberg - New Dad - Moynihan's Big Night Out - Things to Remember (or Naw) - Meet Gutter (He Kidnaps Kids) - Whose on Top - The Most Inevitable Thing in the World - ...
08.10.2021 325 w/ David French "Systemic Racism, Earnest Disagreement, About Those CRT Bans" W/ David French - Various Notes on the Amy Cooper Interview - The Enablers - Earnest Disagreement - The Two Illiberal Wings of Twitter - False Dichotomies, All The Way Down - Negative Partisanship and the Politics of Animosity - ...
07.29.2021 324 "Simmon's Flu Game, Why Amy Cooper Matters, Bet on the House?" Coco Shoots Her ShotGangs All HereNew York is Back**Real Winners Don't Bother Trying Carrying MJ Off The FloorJust QuitMasks + SuperstitionSave the BabiesSurprise
07.09.2021 323 w/ Jonathan Rauch "Saving Truth, CRT Martyrs, Equal But Separate" w/ Jonathan Rauch @ Author of "The Constitution of Knowledge: A Defense of Truth." Senior fellow @BrookingsInst. Contributing writer @TheAtlantic. - I Heart Lizzo - Where Things When Wrong - Flooding the Zone - Breaking Journalism - The Humanitarian Threat ...
07.02.2021 322 w/ Chris Rufo "Banning Critical Race Theory, Robin DiAngelo's Retread, Bill Cosby - Free, Guilty" "Well, it's my show. So, it's how I wanna do it." - Joy-Ann Reid "I can do what I wanna do." - Bobby Brown "Whateva! Whateva! I do what I want!" - Eric Cartman w/ Chris Rufo @ Senior Fellow, ...
06.24.2021 321 - "Back to the Ramble, How to Gauge the Age of Outrage, Racist Car Crashes" Kmele reveals his big secret!What on Earth is a "coupon Karen"?When Shaun Was KingWhen Kmele was king of Juneteenth Measuring the outrage economyMeasuring the wages of junk historyRacist car crashes"When the people fail, the concept fails"The end of Afghanistan (the ...
06.19.2021 320 w/ Harry Siegel - "Bonfire of Insanity, The Unmaking of a Mayor, CRT IRL" New York Daily News columnist Harry Siegel joins TFC for the first hour to talk all things New York (with a focus on halfwit mayoral candidates jockeying to replace a halfwit mayor). But if you don't care about kvetching, NYCentric ...
06.09.2021 310 - "Two Live Shows and a Key West Hangover" Florida is open for business, so The Fifth Column flung its masks into the garbage and headed to the Sunshine State for back-to-back live shows in Miami (coming soon to Patreon!) and a poolside recording in Key West (hence that ...
06.02.2021 309 w/ Jane Coaston "The Argument, The Reckoning, and Unfinished Business" w/ Jane Coaston @ (Host, "The Argument" @ The New York Times) Take FourFrom Vox to NYT's "Rising Libertarian Star" Coming OutJohn BrownThe Black CommunityAppraisal of America's Racial ReckoningThe New Culture WarAnti-Racist Classrooms and WorkplacesSlightly Off MicWhole Foods Edge LordPanics, ...
05.30.2021 308 - "A Year of Reckoning, Return to the Ramble, Objectivity (or Something)" Radical HonestyA Year of (Racial) ReckoningLosing the ThreadGeorge FloydAmy Cooper, Christian Cooper... and the other dog walkers?Covering Lab Leaks and UFOsThe Death of TruthThe Myth of ObjectivityJournalism for the Real WorldBoston Basketball (and racial slurs)Trump Grand jury Recorded May 26, ...
05.21.2021 307 w/ Peter Meijer - "Investigating The Capitol Riot, The Truth About UFOs, Future of the GOP" w/ Congressman Peter Meijer (R-MI) Crypto BloodbathUFOs -- or are they UAPsThe Jan 6th Commission (Part I)Lori Lightfoot Won't Talk To White JournalistsHomeless in San FranciscoThe White Man's Burden A Call from PeterAbout That VoteThe Revolt of the PublicThe FeelsThe ...
05.13.2021 306 w/ Gustavo Arellano - "Ask a Mexican, Trump's a Mexican, and the Republican Crackup" The lads (minus Kmele, recently felled by his second Pfizer shot) welcome Los Angeles Times columnist Gustavo Arellano, host of the new LAT podcast "The Times" and author of Taco USA: How Mexican Food Conquered America. Note that after an ...
05.07.2021 305 - "Systemic and Unspecific, AbasedCamp, The Socialist Network, " - The Fifth Column live in Miami! Is this the post-COVID Gilluming you’ve been waiting for? - Matt is Drudged: equity v. equality - Racism becomes more systemic, less specific - Basecamp asks employees to leave politics at the door…or ...
04.24.2021 304 w/ Paul Rossi - "Verdicts, Reckonings, High School Indoctrination" w/ Paul Rossi (Math Teacher and Writer) https://bariweiss.substack.com/p/i-refuse-to-stand-by-while-my-students A verdict in the trial of Derek Chauvin, the former officer convicted of murdering George Floyd, is an undeniable milestone for the entire country with wide-ranging implications for American media, politics, and ...
04.16.2021 303 w/ Alex Nowrasteh - "The Time We Fixed Policing and Immigration" "What you think all the guns is for?" - Christopher Wallace w/ Alex Nowrasteh (Director of Immigration Studies @ The Cato Institute) A supersized dispatch, because fully resolving the various problems in America's immigration and criminal justice system -- takes ...
04.09.2021 302 - "Making Arrangements, Ghost Guns, Pullin' Out" Hunter "Squirtle" BidenMatt "Making Arrangements" Gaetz Adventures in the Havana Hilton?When Everything is Sex Trafficking? (Not Exactly)A New Era of BipartisanshipWin Ben Stein's HeartThe American Metaphor CouncilWho's D riving the Democratic PartyChina and BitcoinSelf Correcting JournalismTweets Bad. Accessory to the ...
04.03.2021 301 - "Five Years of Impending Doom, Chauvin on Trial, Blowin Money Fast" (In No Particular Order) Live From New YorkDRINKAOC AMACDC Press Conference Mask EtiquetteDRINKDerek Chauvin on Trial (Week 1)Eight Fingers LeftTar BabiesA Thing Greater Than YourselfVoter Suppression 2.0DRINKCorporate WelfareFive PinocchiosEnding Ken BurnsThe Cowardly Doormen Recorded April 1st, 2021 Published April 3rd, ...
03.27.2021 300 - "A Do Over Episode (Mostly Uncut)" Summary Kmele Loses an Entire DispatchMoynihan's Most Racist VoiceImportant Homework What We Might Have Talked AboutMass ShootingsHate Crime Hysterics and LiesEnding the War in AfghanistanNationa BuildingWhale Watching + 400 Years of SufferingLeaving Sesame Street Recorded March 25th, 2021 Published March ...
03.22.2021 229 w/ Jeffrey Sachs - "How to be a Dictator, Anti-Woke Hypocrisy" Guest: Jeffery Sachs, Lecturer in Politics @ Acadia University Snyder CutSympathy for DictatorsUseful Pretense of JusticeHow Did Sachs Get It So WrongState of the New Culture WarFree Speech HypocrisyThe Left Is Worse, Right?Power ImbalanceCoastal MyopiaWhat if We're Wrong (Again*) Recorded ...
03.12.2021 228 w/ Katie Herzog - "1.9 Trillion Reasons to Block and Report You" Guest: Katie Herzog, HOST @ "Blocked & Reported" Keeping SecretsComing 2 AmericaTransphobia is BadA Most Prescient CancelationSay THE WORD, KatieThey'll Never Give You A ResonThe Tax Code is RacistPlato's UtopiaRescue Package in Name OnlyTucker Carlson, Mean PersonTinker Taylor, Toy SoldierVirtual ...
03.05.2021 227 w/ Ben Smith - "Sign O’ The Times, Memo to Kendi" Guest: Ben Smith, Media Columnist @ The New York Times From BuzzFeed to The NYTWhen Your Bosses are Kinda THE StoryWhy We Can't Stop Talking About The TimesNewsroom Cultural White Privilege and Employee OrientationResignations*Caliphate vs. 1619"My Notebook Remains Open"Losing the ...
02.26.2021 226 w/ Matt Taibbi - "Why Journalism Got Substack'd" Guest: Matt Taibbi @ Contributing Editor @ Rolling Stone. Author, "Hate Inc" NiggaratiPrivilege ChildhoodThe Art of the Substack DealThe ShiftAn Active Conspiracy or An Active ConspiracyThe Escape, And Uncertain HorizonIt's Just a Camp, For Kids, So It's FineTrump at CPACA ...
02.19.2021 225 w/ Martin Gurri - "The Revolt of the Public" Guest: Martin Gurri @ Author, "The Revolt of the Public" Prophecy, Historical Cycles, and Modest FrameworksFrom Information Monopoly to Information TsunamiPublic DissatisfactionElites in CrisisPublic NihilismHistorical AmnesiaThe Yellow Vests, Jan 6th, 2021Political SectarianismTruth + Objectivity + ResentmentDrama at the New York ...
02.06.2021 224 - "MTG v AOC, Merit is so Racist, Determined Incuriosity" Pump and DumpMatt Bought CrackReal Compton City GsReally Only One Bad WordThe Public InterestIrrelevant ContextMTG vs. AOC: Most Insane? Best Actress?"I Can Only Be a Non-White Person"Why The Culture War MattersMerit: The Racism of Fairness RacistCovid Cumo, And the Incurious ...
02.04.2021 223 w/ Van Lathan - "Productive Disagreements and Common Ground" Guest: Van Lathan @ "Higher Learning" (Co-Host), Previously @ TMZ Kmele and Van connect for a wide-ranging conversation about racism, reconciliation, and finding common ground. It's yet another exercise in constructive disagreement. In fact, it's the back half of a ...
01.30.2021 222 - "Moynihan Squeezes the Short, Cynics and Skeptics" Make a Mint w/ MoynihanWho's Behind the SqueezeOn the War PathStrange BedfellowsPopularity ContestsEven LibertariansEquity and Private PrisonsComing Attractions Recorded Jan 28th, 2020 Published Jan 29th, 2020 See acast.com/privacy for privacy and opt-out information.
01.25.2021 221 - UNLOCKED Patreon Episode - Kmele's Victory Lap (Dem Haters) It is upon us: that very rare occasion when we unlock a Patreon episode for the masses.
01.22.2021 220 - The Dawning of Yet Another Terrible Era Is Melania the greatest first lady since Florence Harding?Does MC Hammer hate Kmele?Let the sycophancy begin!QanonsenseUnderstanding the Trump voterWe're all weird and wrongThe new Republican Party is awful. So is the new Democratic Party.The dumb 1776 project: "It's like Stephen ...
01.15.2021 219 - w/ Anna Khachiyan "Double Impeachments, All the Balenciaga You Can Carry" Guest: Anna Khachiyan @ "Red Scare" (Co-Host) Kinda CanceledHolding the MicOutrage BonerDirtbagsTight Sweaters, Tighter ShirtsMo' ImpeachmentsThe MAGA RiotsCulpabilityCultural Amnesia, Sweetest TaboosCanceling TrumpCanceling the Rest of Yall? Recorded Jan 13t, 2020 Published Jan 14th, 2020 See acast.com/privacy for privacy and opt-out ...
01.08.2021 218 - "A Slovenly Rebellion (Pass The Tequila)" Welcome to 2021 A Coup d'état? An Insurrection? A dark beginning? A despicable bookend? A world of shit?We'll get to that -- but we're gonna need a lot more booze. Recorded Jan 6th, 2021 Published Jan 7th, 2021 See acast.com/privacy ...
12.31.2020 217 - "You Gon Learn, Hawley's Gamble" - Kmele 2020 - AllyShip - Secret Shows - The Internet Never Forgets - Trap Lord - Burning the Witch (and maybe that annoying lady from down the street too) - Puritanism Without The Fun - Schadenfreude - Inconveniencing the ...
12.26.2020 216 - w/ Greg Lukianoff "From Campus to Caliphate" Guest: Greg Lukianoff @ Foundation for Individual Rights in Education (President). Co-Author, "The Coddling of the American Mind"
12.19.2020 215 - "New in Town, Vax Populi" New ViewsDemographic ConsiderationsWhat Seems to Be The Problem Officer?The Honorable MinisterVaccine RolloutCareful ReportingPost Trump News CycleThe FlagrancyPredicting Apocalypse Recorded Dec 17th, 2020 Published Dec 19th, 2020 See acast.com/privacy for privacy and opt-out information.
12.12.2020 214 - w/Ben Dreyfuss "Another Dreyfuss Affair" Look, you asked for it. Fifth fan favorite (ed - we really don't understand you people) and Mother Jones editorial director Ben Dreyfuss (né Gould) is back. And the results are wonderfully shambolic. But seriously: make sure the kids are ...
12.04.2020 213 - "Da Mystery Of Defunding the Police (while Stopin' the Steal)" "The Toad style is immensely strong, and immune to nearly any weapon. When it's properly used, it's almost invincible." - Five Deadly Venoms Way Out Of LineThe Incredible Asshole MachineRelated Controversy A Stolen*** ElectionObama
11.26.2020 212 - "A Thanksgiving Miracle" An issue with the mics. An inspired fix. A nearly aborted dispatch manages to slide into your feed just in time for the stranges Thanksgiving in decades. A Rolling StartWhen Moynihan Met OprahCoup d'é HAHAHAHAHA"I Told You"Salvaging the CultureCrisis of ...
11.19.2020 211 - w/ Glenn Greenwald "Leaving The Intercept, Crying Like a Baby" Guest: Glenn Greenwald @ Co-Founder, The Intercept The Move to Substack (https://greenwald.substack.com/)The Marvelousness of the Fifth ColumnThe Job MarketThe Reply to CriticsThe Blow by BlowThe CultureThe Hunter Biden Laptop Situation Recorded Oct 30th, 2020 Published Nov 19th, 2020 See acast.com/privacy ...
11.15.2020 210 - w/ Jason Stanley "What the Fascist, Covid Season, Race Critical" Guest: Jason Stanley @ Author, "How Fascism Works", Professor of Philosophy @ Yale. The AnswerExtremely Online, Prospective HypocrisyCancel CultureNo TellinTrump's Blacketst SwanBut He's a FascistCritical Race Back and ForthPretty Good (for a Black Guy)Covid Recorded Nov 12th, 2020 Published Nov ...
11.05.2020 209 - "And The Winner Is..." What Election?The Perils of Watching Cable NewsWhat You Talkin Bout WelchThe Got'Damn PollsAnticipated UnrestBlack Woman Stabbed, By Black Lives Matters Supporters?What Happens to the MediaWhat Happens to RepublicansWhat Happens to DemocratsStereotypes are Fine NowYou People Aren't Supposed to Vote That ...
10.24.2020 208 - "Techno Fascism, Jerking Jeff, and the Mendacious Media" Bannon's back. The New York Post isn't. Don’t talk about Hunter!Are we living in a Techno Fascist Reich?Regulate, regulate, regulateThe unforeseen consequences of deplatforming?Qanon inflation To the gulag, go!Russia, Russia, RussiaWhich New York Times editor does Matt call "a loathsome ...
10.20.2020 207 "Hunter's Laptop, Ordinary Corruption, Darkest Night" Moynihan's Old, New HouseCOVID... is Fake?Siri, Do Black Lives Matter?Dueling Town HallsEveryone is Awful, Even You, (But Not Really)The Brief And Highly Overrated Return of Respectability PoliticsPolitics of BullshitForeign BodiesThe Revolt of the PublicDarkest Totalitarian Hellscape Recorded Oct 18, 2020 ...
10.20.2020 207 "Hunter's Laptop, Ordinary Corruption, Darkest Night" Moynihan's Old, New HouseCOVID... is Fake?Siri, Do Black Lives Matter?Dueling Town HallsEveryone is Awful, Even You, (But Not Really)The Brief And Highly Overrated Return of Respectability PoliticsPolitics of BullshitForeign BodiesThe Revolt of the PublicDarkest Totalitarian Hellscape Recorded Oct 18, 2020 ...

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