The Fifth Column

Guest: Glenn Greenwald @ Co-Founder, The Intercept

• The Move to Substack (https://greenwald.substack.com/)
• The Marvelousness of the Fifth Column
• The Job Market
• The Reply to Critics
• The Blow by Blow
• The Culture
• The Hunter Biden Laptop Situation

Recorded Oct 30th, 2020

Published Nov 19th, 2020

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Guest: Jason Stanley @ Author, "How Fascism Works", Professor of Philosophy @ Yale.

• The Answer
• Extremely Online, Prospective Hypocrisy
• Cancel Culture
• No Tellin
• Trump's Blacketst Swan
• But He's a Fascist
• Critical Race Back and Forth
• Pretty Good (for a Black Guy)
• Covid

Recorded Nov 12th, 2020

Published Nov 14th, 2020

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• What Election?
• The Perils of Watching Cable News
• What You Talkin Bout Welch
• The Got'Damn Polls
• Anticipated Unrest
• Black Woman Stabbed, By Black Lives Matters Supporters?
• What Happens to the Media
• What Happens to Republicans
• What Happens to Democrats
• Stereotypes are Fine Now
• You People Aren't Supposed to Vote That Way
• Woke-spiracy
• Fighting Them on The Beach

Recorded Nov 4th, 2020

Published Nov 5th, 2020

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• Bannon's back. The New York Post isn't.  
• Don’t talk about Hunter!
• Are we living in a Techno Fascist Reich?
• Regulate, regulate, regulate
• The unforeseen consequences of deplatforming?
• Qanon inflation 
• To the gulag, go!
• Russia, Russia, Russia
• Which New York Times editor does Matt call "a loathsome toad"?
• FYI: Political journalists cannot cover “politically driven events”
• Debate, debate, debate
• Coherent on Corona! 
• But also full of shit!
• And Corona reporting is still awful 
• Mad Matt on a Mendacious Media 
• Are people still wiping down their groceries?
• WHATS UP TWITTER WORLD, IT’S THE JUICE
• Jeff Toobin, American Hero / OJ, not guilty
• Maybe an election-night Zoom thing?

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• Moynihan's Old, New House
• COVID... is Fake?
• Siri, Do Black Lives Matter?
• Dueling Town Halls
• Everyone is Awful, Even You, (But Not Really)
• The Brief And Highly Overrated Return of Respectability Politics
• Politics of Bullshit
• Foreign Bodies
• The Revolt of the Public
• Darkest Totalitarian Hellscape

Recorded Oct 18, 2020

Published Oct 20, 2020

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Guest: Damon Root @ Reason Magazine, Author, "A Glorious Liberty: Frederick Douglass and the Fight for an Antislavery Constitution"

• Trump Makes His Pick
• How Republicans Will Be Disappointed
• Court Packing And Other Shenanigans
• Historical Context, Oppressing People of Color
• COVID Rumors
• Debate Night Dog Whistles
• What Trump Really Means
• Vote by Mail (But Throw Out the Ballots)
• The First and Only Lady

Recorded Oct 1, 2020

Published Oct 3, 2020

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NOTE: This dispatch was beleaguered by technical and logistical challenges. The audio actually turned out pretty good (all things considered), but the entire thing was very nearly scrapped. Those challenges contributed to a delayed-release — and because the world has gone quite mad —the news cycle is evolving rapidly. 

All the same, still lots of very relevant (even prophetic) stuff in this dispatch, but it was recorded before the Breonna Taylor Grand Jury announcement that inspired a night of protests, riots, and violence. 

• Home Improvement
• Latinx, Things You Must Know About The Cuban
• Trust the Process
• Debate Preview
• RBG
• Hypocrisy and Norm Evisceration
• Who to Blame
• A Loss of Faith, A Looming Election Hellscape
• About that TikTok Deal
• We Choose Violence
• 1619 Lies, Bullshit, Stealth Edits, Motivated Reasoning
• If The Schools Already Suck, Can 1619 Make Them Worse (or better)
• National Patriotism Curriculum
• All My Critics Are Racist, Which Is Terribly Convenient for Me

Recorded Sept 20, 2020

Published Sept 24, 2020

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Guest: Steve Kornacki, National Political Corespondent @NBC News / MSNBC

• Making TV News During a Pandemic
• Doing Your Own Makeup
• Last Man in Midtown
• We're All You Tubers Now
• It'll Be a Blow-Out, Or It'll Be Close
• Polls You Can Trust
• Black Voters, Impeachment, Collusion
• State of the Parties
• State of the Union
• State of the Media
• Paper or Plastic

Recorded Sept 11, 2020

Published Sept 13, 2020

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Guest: Nancy Romemelmann, journalist and author of To the Bridge: A True Story of Motherhood and Murder

Moynihan is back from Kenosha, and Nancy Rommelmann returns for an update on the goings-ons in Portland.

• On the ground in Kenosha
• On the ground in Portland
• Media Malpractice, Self Deception
• DC, Rochester, What's Next
• Biden v Trump
• *Worse Than Useless Facts*
• Details That Matter
• Going Full MAGA

Recorded Sept 5, 2020

Published Sept 6, 2020

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w / Tina Nguyen (White House Reporter @ Politico)

• Watching the RNC
• Trump's on Twitch
• Nasty Emojis
• The Fire Next Time (Kenosha Edition)
• "What's the big deal? Your insurance will pay for it?"
• Total Failure of Political Leadership
• Matt Welch: Snowflake?
• Marines in Portland? 
• Libertarian Enough?
• Leaping to Conclusions, Outright Lying
• Independent Investigations
• Jacob Blake: Things We Don't Know
• Kyle Rittenhouse: Things We Don't Know

Recorded Aug 31, 2020

Published Sept 1, 2020

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