The Fifth Column

#407 - The Cruelty, the Conspiracist, and the Report (w/ Eli Lake)

May 18, 2023

01:55:13

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Kmele: “dunno if I like motive speculation “

03:11

How big is the lane to primary Biden? P(change)?

01:20

The Corruption of Public Life

01:20

Igor Danchenko: A Russian Spy

01:20

Introduction

2min

How to Fly Coach for Camille

2min

Cory Bush's Big Tattoo

2min

The Suicide Mission Tonight

2min

Joe Biden Maintains Edge Over Trump in US Election

2min

The Lanes in the Democratic Primary

3min

The No Platforming of Alex Jones

2min

The Conspiracy Theory

1min

The Unspoken Rules of Conspiracy

2min

10.

The Red Line for a Libertarian

2min

11.

The Cruelty Is the Point

2min

12.

The Cruelty Crisis at the Border

2min

13.

The Cruelty of Hotels in New York

2min

14.

The Cruelty of Refugees

2min

15.

The Conspiratorial Mindset of the Trumpest Tucker Carlsonist Right

3min

16.

RFK's Position on Immigration

2min

17.

The Importance of Immigrant Rights

2min

18.

The Importance of Migrants

2min

19.

The Optics of Asylum

2min

20.

Eli Lake on the Durham Report

2min

21.

The FBI's Report on the Durham Scandal

2min

22.

The FBI's Shutdown of the Clinton Foundation

3min

23.

The Clinton Campaign's Strategy to Pin the Russian Intervention on Trump

2min

24.

The Chef-Kissed Moments of the Durham Report

3min

25.

The Campaign to Slay Disinformation Might Have Been Based on Russian Disinformation

2min

26.

The Reverse Working of the Refs

2min

27.

The FBI's Smear Campaign

2min

28.

The Steel Dossier

3min

29.

Papadopoulos's Refute of the FBI

2min

30.

Michael Cohen's Guilty but Framed

2min

31.

Trump's Inconsistency in the White House

2min

32.

The Importance of Open Debate and Honesty

4min

33.

The Power of Prosecutors to Trip You Up

2min

34.

What Makes the Durham of the Fourth?

2min

35.

The Bad Look of David Church

2min

36.

The Culture of Politics Allows This to Happen

2min

37.

The Re-Education: How Ulrika Meinoff Invented Punk Rock

2min

38.

The Progressive Hero Who Was Striked Down Too Soon

2min

39.

The 9-11 Truth About Bobby Kennedy Jr.

2min

40.

The History of James Baldwin

2min

41.

Rachel Maddow's Podcast Ultra

2min

42.

The Durham Report

2min

43.

The Importance of Re-Judgement

2min

44.

The Wall Street Journal's Editorial Page Has Been Good on This

2min

45.

Carter Page and Bob Woodward

2min

46.

The Struggle Between Management and Labor

2min

47.

The Gerontocracy of the Democratic Party

2min

48.

The Mystification of the President

2min

49.

The One Party State That's Good

2min

50.

The Importance of Legislation

3min

51.

The Case for the Super Wealthiest Families

2min

52.

The Difference Between America and Europe

2min

53.

The Friends Who Went Over in the Viral Situation

2min

54.

The Black Woman Who Gets a Flat White

2min

55.

The Black Girl Who Changed Her Name to Sada Shakur

2min

56.

The Story of Two Women Who Fall Apart

2min

57.

The Triple Saw That Changed My Life

2min

58.

The Cultural Shift

2min

59.

The George Floyd Moment

3min

* “Zero-to-insane in the first three minutes”

* The terrible 2024 election

* The right’s bizarre infatuation with RFK Jr.

* The immigration crisis in NYC

* The cruelty isn’t always the point

* How the average American thinks about illegal immigration

* Eli Lake joins to wish us all a Happy Durham Week

* Takeaways from the Durham Report

* The “heroes of democracy” are, in fact, the villains of democracy

* David Frum’s Atlantic piece

* Eli on Robert Kennedy Sr., the cop

* Diane Feinstein, John Fetterman, Joe Biden

* That insane LA Times piece (that we will talk about more later)

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The Fifth Column

#407 - The Cruelty, the Conspiracist, and the Report (w/ Eli Lake)

Episode guests

Kmele: “dunno if I like motive speculation “

How big is the lane to primary Biden? P(change)?

The Corruption of Public Life

Igor Danchenko: A Russian Spy

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