The Fifth Column (A Podcast)
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#438 - The Tsarina Has Abdicated. The Audie Murphys of Journalism. The Veep Will Make Toasters
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#438 - The Tsarina Has Abdicated. The Audie Murphys of Journalism. The Veep Will Make Toasters

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  • Anything happen since we left?

  • La Bubblewrap

  • The media will do it for you

  • Everyone will forget about that NABJ appearance

  • Every journalist in that room is Audie Murphy

  • Who’s black?

  • Not in defense of Thomas Eagleton (soz)

  • The polls changed so let’s attack Nate Silver for noticing

  • Every one in politics is “weird”

  • The child will never fly coach again

  • The honorable resistors

  • JD Vance’s amazingly stupid economic ideas, which he cannot actually believe

  • The end of the Venezuelan dictatorship

  • Killing bad guys in Tehran and Beirut

  • Resistance vs. escalation

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The Fifth Column (A Podcast)
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.