The Fifth Column

By Kmele Foster, Michael Moynihan, and Matt WelchComedy

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March 18, 2019 135 "Privileged College Parents, Platform Revoked"
DESCRIPTION:
- Kmele's in 'Frisco', Moynihan's hungover, Matt got lit up on Twitter
- Desperate wealthy college parents headed to prison?
- The injustice of legacy admissions
- Elite colleges are overrated
- Biden v. Beto
- Venezuela's blackout and the three initials who shall not be named
- Platforming vs de-platforming
- Tucker Carlson's shock-jock period
- National Review swinging (and missing) at Trump
- If you’re going to “Cancel,” cancel everything
- Matt's Pat Caddell tribute/roast thing

Recorded: 3/12/2019
Published: 3/18/2019

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1 hr 56 min
March 11, 2019 134 w/ Andrew Yang “The Universal Basic Income (and a few other things besides)"
A discussion w/ entrepreneur and 2020 Democratic Presidential hopeful, Andrew Yang. We explore The Freedom Dividend, Yang's proposal to pay $1,000 per month to every American over the age of 18.

Recorded: 3/6/2019
Published: 3/11/2019

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1 hr 5 min
March 07, 2019 133 “Canceling Neverland (and everything else), They're All Socialist Now"
- Smooth Criminals, "Leaving Neverland" Skepticism
- Canceling Michael Jackson, R Kelly, and The Entire 1970s
- All Hate Matters
- Dual Loyalties
- Bernie Sanders Marched for Civil Rights, He's Still "Too White"
- Democratic Socialism**
- Revisiting Moynihan v. Weisbrot
- Some Idiot Wrote This
- Salman Rushdie

Recorded: 3/5/2019
Published: 3/7/2019

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1 hr 45 min
March 04, 2019 132 w/ Mark Weisbrot “Venezuela: Failed State or Coup D'etat?"
w/ Mark Weisbrot
Co-Director @ Center for Economic and Policy Research
Author, "Failed: What the 'experts' got wrong about the global economy"

- Visiting w/ Hugo Chavez + Sean Penn
- Is "dictatorship" a hate word?
- Venezuela's elections
- Political prisoners
- State violence or police violence
- Coming coup?
- Embargoes, sanctions, and the collapse of the economy
- Who's to blame for hunger?
- The opposition
- What's a good faith negotiation entry point?

Recorded: 3/1/2019
Published: 3/3/2019

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1 hr 11 min
February 21, 2019 131 “Jussie Smollett Indicted, Hate Crimes, Hacks in the Newsroom, Bernie"
- 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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1 hr 59 min
February 13, 2019 130 “The Jill Abramson Affair, Jewish Money, Indentured Servitude"
(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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1 hr 41 min
February 04, 2019 129 w/ Brendan O'Neill “ Yellow Vests, Subway Sandwiches, Mostly Free Speech"
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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2 hr
January 24, 2019 128 “A BOMBSHELL (If True), Punching MAGA Teens, Venezuela"
- 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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1 hr 47 min
January 18, 2019 127 w/ Brian Stelter “The Holy Order of Journalism, Excommunicating Steve King"
"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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1 hr 24 min
January 11, 2019 126 “Trump's Fence, Dating Ocasio-Cortez, Shaun King's Crusade”
"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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1 hr 35 min

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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…