
The Fifth Column
#407 - The Cruelty, the Conspiracist, and the Report (w/ Eli Lake)
May 18, 2023
01:55:13
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The Campaign to Slay Disinformation Might Have Been Based on Russian Disinformation
2min
* “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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