The Fifth Column

The Fifth Column

By Kmele Foster, Michael Moynihan, and Matt WelchComedy
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The Fifth Column episodes

  • 115 w/ Bari Weiss "Kavanaugh, Believing Her, Abercrombie & Fitch Forever"

    -Kanye West's very MAGA SNL Appearance-Getting Totally Kavanaugh Faced-Moynihan at the Mississippi Trump Rally-Believe All Women-Bari Would Have Hated Kavanaugh in High School-Kavanaugh's Kamikaze-Apocalypse Skeptic-Bari's New Book, "The New Seven Dirty Words"

    (Recorded October 2nd, 2018)


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    1 hr 16 min
  • 113 "McCain's Eulogy, Louis CK's Resurrection, Monkeying Things Up"

    Pusha T's new album and Whitney Huston's bathroom countertop. Bobby Brown's prerogative. Was it Maurice Starr (or) Lou Pearlman? Remembering a 'Mavric'*. Jack Shafer wrote a bad piece. You can’t criticize McCain, except when you totally can. Matt vs Antiwar libertarians. Immigration policy, racism, Trump and Europe. Hasidics in Williamsburg. Louis CK returns to the Comedy Cellar. The Patriarchy = White supremacy. Everyone's Guilty. The Kids are alright.

    (Recorded August 29th, 2018)


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    1 hr 36 min
  • 112 "Cohen, Manafort, and the Inveterate Liar Defense"

    Karl Malone, Post Malone. Manafort, Cohen. John Brennan's Clearance. 'The Verge of Civil War' or Just 'The Usual Bullshit.' Rutgers, White Privilege, and Gentrification. Asia Argento. A FIRE for All Seasons. Problematic Becky. Razor Blades in Your Favorite Breakfast Cereal.

    (Recorded August 22nd, 2018)


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    1 hr 49 min
  • 111 w/ Jesse Singal "Dangerous Convos, Unite the Right 2, The War on Journalism"

    w/ Jesse Singal (Contributing writer at New York Magazine | Author, "The Quick Fix")

    - Jesse's New Book- Jesse's Atlantic Cover Story ('When Children Say They’re Trans')- Omarosa vs Trump- Unite the Right 2- Laura Ingraham- The War on Journalism

    (Recorded August 15th, 2018)


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    1 hr 57 min
  • 110 w/ Jessica Tarlov "Purging Alex Jones, Antifa in Portland, Kmele at MSNBC"

    w/ Jessica Tarlov (Bustle, FoxNews Contributor)

    - The Case Against Impeachment [ Mike Pence Would Be Worse ]- Kmele at MSNBC [ How To Be An Uncle Tom ]- Owning the Libs, Beefin on Twitter- Libs vs. Socialists- Black Chicks- Talking to the Enemy, Sitting Down w/ Trump- Race, Essentialism, Identity Politics

    (Recorded August 8th, 2018)

    'shout out to the plug'


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    1 hr 54 min
  • 109 "Moynihan Meets D'Souza, NYT Controversy, Manafort on Trial"

    (Recorded Aug 1st, 2018)

    - Moynihan Meets D'Souza, Trump Jr

    - Kmele Finishes A Story

    - Sarah Jeong: Racist or Racist?

    - Russian Hacking + Facebook

    - QAnon

    - Trump, Manafort, Witch Hunt

    - Some Idiot Wrote This

    - RIP, Andrea Rich


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    1 hr 47 min
  • 108 w/ Jane Coaston "Conservative Proclivities, Ridicule Over Censorship"

    w/ Jane Coaston (Senior Politics Reporter, Vox)

    - Jane's Origin Story

    - What Conservatives REALLY Want

    - 'Locking HER Up'

    - Ignoring Michael Cohen

    - Facebook's Holocaust Problem

    (Recorded Wednesday, July 25th, 2018)


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    1 hr 33 min
  • 107 w/ Ben Domenech "On Acting, Russian Indictments, Putin and Trump, Just Say The Word”

    w/ Ben Domenech (Publisher, The Federalist)

    Acting Trans, Scaling the BuildingRussian IndictmentsTrump/PutinThe New Vietnam SyndromObama's Mandela SpeechWould that we could all say [that one word] - Part IIWHO FUNDS THE FEDERALIST?

    (Recorded Wednesday, July 18th, 2018)


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    2 hr 21 min
  • 106 w/ Ken 'Popehat' White and Damon Root "Justice Kennedy Quits, Various Other Things SCOTUS”

    Foster and Fisher are joined by legendary civil liberties attorney Ken White (of Popehat blogger and Twitter fame) and Damon Root (Reason's resident SCOTUS journalo and the author of "Overruled") to chop up the Justice Anthony Kennedy's surprise retirement announcement, his legacy, and the confirmation shitstorm that's sure to come.

    Also on tap:

    - SPLC's capitulation to Maajid Nawaz's defamation suit- SCOTUS upholds the travel ban, busts public sector unions, and tells cops to get a warrant for long-term cellphone location records.

    Bonus bull session on civility, Sarah Huckabee Sanders, civil rights, public accommodations, free association, and why no elected officials should be allowed to eat anywhere, ever.

    (Recorded: Tuesday, June 27th 2018)


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    1 hr 35 min

About The Fifth Column

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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…

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