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The Ricochet Podcast

Taking The Fifth

The Ricochet Podcast

Ricochet

News Commentary, News, Politics

4.71.4K Ratings

🗓️ 24 May 2013

⏱️ 75 minutes

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Direct link to MP3 file This week on the one and only Ricochet Podcast, Peter is MIA, but Rob and James soldier on in style with guests AEI President Arthur Brooks (read his WSJ op-ed The GOP’s Hispanic Opening) and The Weekly Standard’s Mark Hemingway on the IRS scandal. Also, we ponder whether taking the fifth always implies guilt, and Lileks v. Buzzfeed. We bet they’re going to regret taking... Source

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0:00.0

Activate program.

0:02.0

I'm out of time.

0:03.0

What I really wanted to ask is why the hell I have to keep updating the apps on my iPhone all the time?

0:08.0

And why you don't fix that?

0:10.0

I think, Mr. Chisholm.

0:12.0

Sir, we're trying to make him better all the time.

0:13.8

Thank you.

0:14.8

This is nonsense.

0:17.0

Mr. Gorbachev's tear down this wall. It's the reciche podcast with Rob Long in. and Peter Robinson in absentia. I'm James Lylex and our guests

0:36.1

today are Arthur Brooks of the American Enterprise Institute and Ricoche's own and weekly

0:40.4

standards own Mark Hemingway. Lots to discuss as you can well imagine. So let's have

0:45.1

ourselves a podcast.

0:47.0

There you go again. Yes, it's being called the greatest threat to American democracy in the last 30 years.

1:00.0

I refer of course to the absence of Peter Robinson today on our podcast and also to the burgeoning

1:04.2

IRS and AP scandals which we will discuss in depth with everybody else including of course Rob Long

1:08.6

who's always there who's never never never absent never I never I never plead the fifth that's the thing Peter's taking the fifth

1:15.4

He's taking a Mickey's taking a take it. He's taking a many things

1:20.3

You know, I got to think that anybody who who finds themselves in a situation of standing before Congress or sitting is tempted to just take the fifth and just so so nothing they ever say comes back to haunt them.

1:31.0

But here's a woman who took the fifth and in doing so managed to

1:35.8

screw up taking the fifth. Is that the fifth? Yeah, well I understand it. What's the downside of,

1:42.4

I mean, what's the upside of taking the fifth I mean everybody

1:46.2

who takes the fifth

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