#394 w/ Jamie Kirchick "Hammer Time, Larry Craig 2024, TLDR SOTU"

02/09/23 • 116 min

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The Fifth Column

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!

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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!

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

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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...

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#395 w/ Katherine Mangu-Ward "Nothing Is True and Debate is Murder"

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!

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