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
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We’re joined by Jessica Tarlov, co-host of The Five on Fox News, and Raging Moderates with Scott Galloway. •Among the cons •What does it all mean? •Over performance. Under performance •AOC’s war •What if the people who you want to destroy are the same people who ensure your existence? •You can afford to live here. Just
This is a free preview of a paid episode. To hear more, visit www.wethefifth.com • Don’t mess with the Zoran • The opacity of hope • Inspiration is overrated • Wait, what if none of these proposals actually work… • The return of identity politics? • Is offline politics “additive, human, humane, and empathetic?” • The D
* We are now alone / He’s out of our life * The Republican rebels? * Announcing a Fifth Column live show in LA! Subscribers get first crack! * Prediction: a stadium full of lusty boos for Matt Welch * Cuomo’s nonexistent campaign * The Truth and Armpits Party * On Zohran’s vaunted “political instincts” * If the cops ro
This is a free preview of a paid episode. To hear more, visit www.wethefifth.com Michael McFaul, former US ambassador to Russia, has a new book… - The disaster of Russia - Trump’s evolving views on Putin (and Nigel’s…and Georgia’s…) - When McFaul met Putin…in 1991 - Was the Maidan uprising an American-sponsored coup? -
•Who subscribes to the New York Post? •One Battle After Another Redux •Myrna Opsahl and other deep cuts •F. Lee Bailey, legal consultant •Fawn Hall Gate •Double secret Nazis •Second Amendment People •The one on the right is on the left •Rehabilitation of the American radical •Omnibombers of the 1970s •I beg your pardon
Members Only #282 – There Will Be Spoilers (One Battle After Another, Cartoon Politics, and Car Chases)
This is a free preview of a paid episode. To hear more, visit www.wethefifth.com Rooting against the dancing Irish poor Does One Battle After Another “whitewash left-wing violence?” LOTS OF SPOILERS, FYI In praise of Bullitt-esque car chases… The Lockjaw cartoon The genius of Jim Downey Matt is hemophobic Right-wing SN
