This week's Mainstream Media Scream features a post-debate analysis of Donald Trump's statement that he'd put Hillary Rodham Clinton "in jail" if he was president and she was facing charges linked to her email scandal.

CNN's Wolf Blitzer and Dana Bash were discussing this clash in the debate:

CLINTON: "It's just awfully good that someone with the temperament of Donald trump is not in charge of the law in our country."

TRUMP: "Because you'd be in jail."

CNN's analysis unfolded this way:

Wolf Blitzer: "One candidate says not only is he going to put forward a special prosecutor to investigate his rival, but – and this is very significant – he's going to put her in jail if he's elected president of the United States. That's pretty extraordinary."

Dana Bash: "Okay, not to sound too corny, but what makes this country different from countries with dictators in Africa or Stalin or Hitler or any of those countries with dictators and totalitarian leaders, is that when they took over, they put their opponents in jail. To hear one presidential candidate, say – even if it was a flip comment, which it was – 'you're going to be in jail' to another presidential candidate on the debate stage in the United States of America, stunning, just stunning."

Media Research Center Vice President of Research Brent Baker explains the pick: "Quite a bit of baseless indignation from the CNN crew. All Trump did was quip 'you'd be in jail' if he were president – simply suggesting that she would have been held accountable by a fair and impartial Justice Department. That's a long way from Stalin and Hitler and the inability of Blitzer and Bash, who are quick to presume the worst in Trump, to understand that is what's 'stunning.'"

Rating: Four out of five screams.

Paul Bedard, the Washington Examiner's "Washington Secrets" columnist, can be contacted at pbedard@washingtonexaminer.com