The Fifth Column

With more than 80% of Americans under some form of movement restrictions, civil liberties are in retreat, authoritarians are gaining ground, and Kmele is feeling positively messianic. PLUS "The Fifth Column's Pandemic Shopping Guide: How to beat the system, score hard to find paper products, and avoid deadly CHINESE pathogens" - Keep Buggering On Recorded: March 31st, 2020 Released: April 2ndth, 2...

- The lads are losing it in quarantine - New York is "authentic" again / full of crackhead zombies - Being entrepreneurial in a time of crisis - So what's happening in COVID world - And what does Kmele think *now*? - Is this all capitalism's fault? - More studies, more confusion - The shitty media is even shittier than ever - Hating on De Blasio - Manufacturing scientific consent - It's MH370. And...

The quarantine continues...the Fifth Columnists have thoughts... - Kmele is the Kurtz/Lauren Hill of Virginia - Some listener mail - We have the results! (Calm down Todd) - Updates on the COVID - Is it all going to fall apart? Probably - Are we are at war? Not really - Some more listener mail - Some audiobooks to listen to while quarantined - Some more sports to watch while no sports is happening...

UPDATE: The original version of this episode was uploaded out of sync. It has been replaced with a corrected version. We regret the error. But stop complaining. It's free. The bat virus apocalypse continues. The Fifth Column soldiers on, shouting ¡No pasarán! - Kmele is in the woods, Matt is in South Brooklyn, Moynihan is in hiding - All COVID, all the time! - Wait, so does he have it or not? - Km...

w/ Ross Douthat Columnist @ New York Times - Author of "The Decadent Society: How We Became the Victims of Our Own Successes" DESCRIPTION:  - Decadence, Low and High - The Four Horseman - “Giving Decadence Its Due” - Birth Rates, Populations, Populism - It’s Manifesto Season on the American Right - Ross Still Wants to Ban Porn - TVs Golden Age - The Case for Joe Biden - Don Jr's GOP - A New York T...

w/ Eli Lake ( Columnist @ Bloomberg Opinion) - Typhoid Welch - Biden crushes South Carolina and Super Tuesday - Good 'ol Uncle Joe or Cognitive Decline - "Democratic" Socialism? - MAGA Corps and Bernie Bros Will Excuse Almost Anything Their Candidates Do - Elizabeth Warren Lost -- It's Empirically Not HER Fault - DNC Subterfuge - Biden's Lies About Getting Arrested, Mandela Thanking - Preview of t...

w/ Aaron Maté (Host @ PushBack, Contributor @ The Nation) - Throwin Up Gang Signs - COVID-19 - Cuban History 101 - Giving China Credit - Billionaires and Unicorns - Harvey Weinstein Recorded: February 26th, 2020 Released: February 27th, 2020 See acast.com/privacy for privacy and opt-out information. This is a public episode. If you'd like to discuss this with other subscribers or get access to bon...

w/ Asawin Suebsaeng and Lachlan Markay (White House Reporters @ The Daily Beast) Co Authors: " "Sinking in the Swamp" How Trump's Minions and Misfits Poisoned Washington" Description: - Moynihan's Vocal Fry and "Actually Good" Accents - Searching for "Henry Hills" in Trumpworld - Lachlan's Conservative Apostasy - Al Gore: Most Boring Interview Subject Ever - Rats and Snitches - Daily Beast: A "Hig...

Description: - Black History Month - There's no Barbecue Sauce in American Dirt - Believe Some Death Threats, Leverage Others - Oscar Obsession (Beautiful Mind Edition) - Yang Dead Is Dead, Long Live Yang Gang - Bernie's Ceiling, Biden's Ebony Firewall - A SHOCKING Presidential Endorsement - Bloomberg's Stop + Frisk Memory Hole - ADL: "White Supremacy is On The Rise!" Recorded: February 12th, 2020...

The last time we did this, we said don't get used to it . Well, we meant it. But we're also feeling overly generous. So here is last week's Patreon-only dispatch, featuring Moynihan and Kmele. You're welcome. -------- Kmele and Moynihan are back in Williamsburg drinking bad wine and talking shit...while trying to figure out why Welch isn't returning anyone's calls.  Moynihan returns to Iowa and re...

Description: - Kmele's Inner MAGA - State of the Union Theatrics - “Oh, God -- Fire the Media!” - "The Big Lie" (and other nonsense) - Mitt Romney’s Moment - Trump’s Criminal Justice Reform - Iowa Fiasco - Waiting for Bernie to Turn on MSNBC - Preview of Upcoming Patreon Episodes Recorded: February 5th, 2020 Released: February 6th, 2020 See acast.com/privacy for privacy and opt-out information. Th...

Description: - When the mob came for the Fifth - Hong Kong: Proto Police State - The Democratic Field - Bernie's Got a Shot, The Joe Rogan Bounce - Criminalizing Disinformation - Watching Lou Dobbs - Fearing the Bern - Truthy Skepticism - An Impeachment Drive-By - Eli on the FBI - Some Idiot Wrote This (and this... and this...) Recorded: January 29, 2020 Released: January 30, 2020 See acast.com/pr...

GUEST: Miriam Elder, senior political reporter for BuzzFeed News and former Russia correspondent for The Guardian. ( @MiriamElder ) DESCRIPTION: Our fake bios Miriam's seven years in Moscow Get Shorty, Alex Jones, and the D-list bullshit artists Matt’s Russophobia isn’t as bad as MSNBC’s Political theater provides cover to Putin’s authoritarianism  Moynihan and Elder throw down over Bernie's alleg...

GUEST: Noah Rothman Associate Editor@ Commentary -- Contributor @ MSNBC/NBC News Author: “Unjust: Social Justice and the Unmaking of America” (Jan 2019) DESCRIPTION: - Why the Washington Bullets became the Wizard  - Bomb Iran? - Will Americans ever support another Middle East War again? - International commerce —> global middle class —> less war - Trump thinks China should police the Strait...

DESCRIPTION: - Neighborhood Watch - Moynihan’s Anti-Brit Streak - Bernie’s Fundraising Clout - Ron Paul’s Newsletters and Everlasting Ice Cream - Buttigieg Wants to Decriminalize All Drugs - Iran’s Quds Force commander Soleiman Killed in Iraq - Media Malpractice on Vaping - Chuck Todd's Fake News special - About That Memo Recorded: January 2, 2020 Published: January 3, 2020 See acast.com/privacy f...

Happy Kwanza -- We've UNLOCKED a Patreon Only dispatch just for you (and everyone else)! Enjoy it, but don't get used to it. The Williamsburg Tapes (Dispatch #4) "Losing Our Religion" DESCRIPTION It's a pre-Christmas miracle! The Fifth Columnists are back at the stammtisch (stupid table) in Williamsburg for a long-ass special dispatch, mostly discussing things distant from the news cycle. Kmele wa...

GUEST: Conor Friedersdorf Staff Writer @  The Atlantic DESCRIPTION: - Patreon-only Preview - Chapo Trap vs Conor - An Underreported Attack in Jersey City - Afghanistan Mea Culpa - Something About Impeachment - Reauthorize Every War, Every Year - Biden, Dove of the Obama Administration - Complicated Brexit voters - Gesture politics - The Paternalism of Blooombergism - The Pronoun Talk - Civility, W...

Description:  - Kmele’s Dog Ate His Own Tail - Debunking mediums and magicians - UK elections, the problem with Jeremy Corbyn - WaPo’s “Afghanistan Papers” - IG report and the FBI's no-good, very bad behavior - Mispronouncing Nunes - Acela Wars - Greta Thunberg: Person of the Year - The case against Welches Case Against Impeachment Recorded: December 12, 2019 Published: December 14, 2019 See acast...

Description:  - [ GRRT, BAOW ] - Dragonball Z - Kamala Drops Out, A Narrative Quickly Take Shape - A De-platforming in South Bend - 1619 and Historical Skepticism - Are the Democratic Primaries Racist? (Can We Call It Seeding or Naw?) - A Farewell to NATO? And the WTO? And the EU too? - "Impeachment", The Board Game - "The Irishman", A Review Recorded: December 6, 2019 Published: December 8, 2019...

The director of classic documentaries "The Thin Blue Line," "Fog of War," and "Standard Operation Procedure," Errol Morris has long been the doyen of critics...until he made "American Dharma," a film exploring the worldview and influence of former Breitbart boss and Trump campaign chief executive Steve Bannon. Predictably, Morris was accused of "platforming" Bannon and, for the first time in his c...

Description: - Trumpian Slam Poetry ("I Want Nothing!") - Got a Thing for Fiona Hill - Blue Pill Confessional - Burisma Biden - The Good, The Bad, and The Career Diplomats  - Weird John Bolton Tweets - The Wrestle Mania Impeachment - Sacha Baron vs Facebook, Borat as Proto-Hate Speech - Grading the Democratic Debate - Spiking the Kaepernick - About that Patreon Recorded: November 22nd 2019 Publish...

- Who Shot Ya? (Tupac, Biggie) - Moynihan Drinks w/ Trump Supporters in Bay Ridge - Buttigieg - Impeachment Hearings - Devin Nunes’ Garbage Clown Schtick - Roger Stone Goes Down - What Happened to Rudy Giuliani? - Stealing Land in Texas, Pardoning War Criminals - Patreon Launche ( https://www.patreon.com/wethefifth ) Recorded: November 15th 2019 Published: November 17th 2019 See acast.com/privacy...

Recorded: November 6th 2019 Published: November 9th 2019 GUEST: Bari Weiss Op-Ed Staff Editor and Writer @ The New York Times Author, "How to Fight Anti-Semitism" (2019) See acast.com/privacy for privacy and opt-out information. This is a public episode. If you'd like to discuss this with other subscribers or get access to bonus episodes, visit www.wethefifth.com/subscribe

Recorded: October 20th 2019 Published: October 31st 2019 GUEST: Thomas Chatterton Williams Author, "Self-Portrait in Black and White: Unlearning Race" (2019) See acast.com/privacy for privacy and opt-out information. This is a public episode. If you'd like to discuss this with other subscribers or get access to bonus episodes, visit www.wethefifth.com/subscribe

Recorded: October 18th 2019 Published: October 22nd 2019 GUEST: Meghan Daum Author, "The Problem With Everything" (2019) See acast.com/privacy for privacy and opt-out information. This is a public episode. If you'd like to discuss this with other subscribers or get access to bonus episodes, visit www.wethefifth.com/subscribe