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!
#394 w/ Jamie Kirchick "Hammer Time, Larry Craig 2024, TLDR SOTU"
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The Fifth Column
Your weekly rhetorical assault on the on the news cycle, the people who make it, and occasionally ourselves. Kmele Foster (Freethink), Michael Moynihan (Vice), and Matt Welch (Reason) talk and laugh and drink their way to at least quasi-sanity in a world gone mad, often with the aid of clean and articulate guests. Weekly Members Only subscription edition often comes with listener mail and professional-quality (if inappropriate) singing. Analysis. Commentary. Sedition.
Your weekly rhetorical assault on the on the news cycle, the people who make it, and occasionally ourselves. Kmele Foster (Freethink), Michael Moynihan (Vice), and Matt Welch (Reason) talk and laugh and drink their way to at least quasi-sanity in a world gone mad, often with the aid of clean and articulate guests. Weekly Members Only subscription edition often comes with listener mail and professional-quality (if inappropriate) singing. Analysis. Commentary. Sedition.Listen on
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#394 w/ Jamie Kirchick "Hammer Time, Larry Craig 2024, TLDR SOTU"