The Fifth Column (private feed for bitterone31droid@googlemail.com)

* Moynihan’s hobo disaster* KMW, disinformation queen, stops by for a few, tells us how she broke her kneecap* KMW: The Fifth is staffed by crotchety scare-mongering old dudes (Ed. - This is disinformation)* So why *is* KMD the disinformation queen?* Wait, what does “disinformation” even mean??* The movie Contact is pretty libertarian * Killing old people, dead crank doctors, and libertarian Rachel Welch* According to hundreds of stupid people, the New York Times is a hate group or something* Religious TRUTH replaces reasoned debate * Nothing is real and everything you say is killing people* Moynihan’s Caribbean plea………* And so much more! Thank you for subscribing. Leave a comment or share this episode.

We know we should give you more warning next time (although we sort of like just dropping a Zoom link and seeing who shows up). But never fear, because the rambling mess that is Second Sunday LIVE was committed to tape and now available for download………….* Patricia has correct opinions about the Fifth* Orthodox basketball* Stan Smiths and “Meatball Ron”* A hot Jamaican lady in search of a…green card?* Notes on Kansas City * ChatODB* A Nazi butterknife * A Bedford boy asks about affirmative action* On the Sy Hersh article that no one read * Revisiting Ken Burns * Why Nikole Hannah-Jones won’t debate anyone* And so much more! Thank you for subscribing. Leave a comment or share this episode.

* How Jamie ended up writing about Armie Hammer* So what *is* the Hammer story anyway?* How the motivated reasoning media ignores inconvenient inconsistencies* Is there a path back from an utterly destroyed reputation?* How Jamie’s book Secret City informed his reporting* Heroes and homophobia* So is it true what they say about James Webb?* The Lavender Scare and Joe McCarthy* Who was worse, JFK or RFK?* Would anyone care about Larry Craig in 2023?* Why was Moynihan at a political event in Florida? * SMDH at the FUBAR SOTU* A bit about those Twitter hearings…* And so much more! Thank you for subscribing. Leave a comment or share this episode.

* Armie of the damned* Jamie Kirchick’s piece on Armie Hammer* The Robin DiAngelo of Sports* Ethan’s piece on “DEI man” Richard Lapchick* The question that ended Ethan’s interview with Lapchick* The NBA’s Foreskin Ceiling * “In this day and age…”* Maverick Carter isn’t going to hire you* That shocking 1976 PBS documentary about racism in Queens * Kids don’t like sports any… Thank you for subscribing. Leave a comment or share this episode.

* The George Wallace travel app* The genius and utter stupidity of WEB Dubois* That disgraceful Dubois obit for Stalin* A copy of the Conservation of Races book* Len Downie’s rotten, horribly written piece about objectivity in news* Jeff Gerth’s really good piece about Trump-Russia coverage* Remember Hamilton 68? Bush 911? Heaven 17?* Hunter’s sexy jobs program* Did anyone notice that Ol’ Joe said that weird lie again?* Racist tax robots* What’s good for me isn’t good for thee, silly poor person* Welcome to WhiteFolksIsBad.com Thank you for subscribing. Leave a comment or share this episode.

* A famous Texas hat* Kmele’s Twitter beef with a former guest* The tragedy in Memphis, the predictable response* Ubiquitous white supremacy* Don’t even read Mark Twain aloud* A listener speculates on Kmele’s “blackness”* Back to Texas: they are just nice people, says Moynihan* Name this listener’s baby* The etymology of “Kmele”* Nicola Sturgeon splutters when asked about … Thank you for subscribing. Leave a comment or share this episode.

A sober first segment about war and death is interrupted by our chaotic and fatphobic friend Ben Dreyfuss, who joins the Fifth to discuss his insane Twitter account and why he keeps making people really mad. * We haven’t seen many of these Oscar movies* German Leopards for Ukraine* The arrival of “Jaws star Richard Dreyfuss' actor son Ben, 36, [who was] slammed for saying he'd never have sex 'with a fat person’”* That Daily Mail article / We read Ben some of the comments* Wait, why did Ben get fired from Mother Jones again?* Will there ever be a deal-breaking sex scandal again?* Peter Falk, gay icon?* An important conversation about Rocky* Trump can come back to Facebook* The government is suing Google Thank you for subscribing. Leave a comment or share this episode.

* Santos: Hotter as a lady?* Hunter is a shitty person who makes shitty art* Kmele shuts down a Netflix indoctrination session* Georgia: Stupid people play stupid games and win stupid prizes * A shooting in LA * Another shooting in LA* A tribute to a listener* More on Cormac McCarthy (and Camus and Sartre)* Objecting to Douglas Murray* On the weirdness of the Phantom of th… Thank you for subscribing. Leave a comment or share this episode.

* Release The List* Crosby, Not So Great* A Few Nights In Chicago* Squashing Racism ($5 Million at a Time)* Reparations and the US Constitution * A Seat at the Table* Hereditary Culpability and Entitlement* Manhattan Beach* Daily Wire vs. Mug Club* Drew Carey 🖤 CDC* “We ain’t gonna talk bout dem papers (so y’all can quit asking)”* Debt Limit Hold’em* The Anti-Woke Caucus* Florida’s “Objective” Nonsense* What Students Deserve* “If We Lose, You Lose”Recorded: 1/19/23Published: 1/20/23 Thank you for subscribing. Leave a comment or share this episode.

* The Corvette Papers* “So my friend gets arrested for murder in South Sudan…” * No sex please, he’s British * The times, they have a’ changed * From Belfast to Pyongyang* If I Did It: Eichmann versus the neo-Nazis* Russophilia, left and right* America: a net exporter of bad ideas* Is there a war on the West?* Douglas’s new podcast, Uncancelled History* In defense of Lincoln and Churchill* Regrets, I’ve had just…one* Disqualifying Kant and Hume* That idiotic USA Today piece cited by Matt * And so much more! Thank you for subscribing. Leave a comment or share this episode.