The Fifth Column

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We’re joined by former ABC News senior national correspondent Terry Moran, who now publishes Real Patriotism with Terry Moran on Substack and hosts a podcast of the same name on YouTube.
-Terry reads that tweet
-Fired, suspended, non-renewed…whatever
-Any regrets?
-Network news is dying and everyone’s jumping ship
-The 9/11 flag-pin controversy
-Hire more people who voted for Trump
-Why not …

-Kmele is out of Adderall
-Did anybody actually watch this Tucker and Hunter interview?
-“Montrosity” and other difficult words
-The adventures of Proximity Hong
-The curious case of Jason Arday
-Is there any chance Jesse Singal is racist?
-AOC discovers Woke 1.0 was crazy
-Shane Gillis and the conspiracy of enforcing things nobody believed
-Thank you, Thom Tillis. Also, fuck you.
-Funding the other side’s whackos
-Mamdani declares war on Amazon
-A general rent strike. Over one cockroach.
-David Remnick meets the DSA
-Kmele gets swarmed by the Hasan bots
-So, how great was Mao?
-Midterm Madness and the 2028 Democratic sweepstakes
-Clip Roulette
-Kmele tries to explain himself. It does not help.
-Can America get at least a busted Boris Johnson?
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-a pre-obit for the esteemed David Frum
-involuntarily unionized at The Atlantic
-spy novels, bureaucrats and expense reports
-turning down Bill Buckley’s golden ticket
-prosperity, security and how quickly it can all disappear
-Frum is forever a man of 1989
-God makes you lucky, then convinces you you’re smart
-Tucker Carlson was always capable of many things
-falling flat on your back isn’t progress
-the Michigan Senate choice from hell
-Democrats discover Trump’s permission structure
-Midterm Madness in Michigan
-the polling industry has a phone problem
-politics for people who can afford to lose
-“I saw you coming so I could stop you”
-immigration restriction without the Trumpism
-fascism has the better sales pitch than communism
-what Donald Trump loves besides himself
-the conservative future Frum got very wrong and other reflections
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Michael Moynihan has returned from his Italian sojourn where he barely escaped arrest…
-Moynihan has the clap or something
-Who exactly is the demographic for this show?
-Moynihan’s European vacation involved bus karaoke, too much drinking, and now the shakes
-Matt went to Cooperstown with Bill Schulz…
-The forgotten insanity of the Peekskill riots
-Paul Robe…

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So that’s where these Genius Grants come from…
-Most roads lead back to Prague for Matt Welch
-about that letter…six paragraphs, $5 million in free publicity and Harper’s back in the mainstream
-It was NAFTA, not woke, that elected Trump. Or was it?
-Illegal immigration is a wage issue
-Who still believes free trade is the answer to everything?
-Vietnam made …