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Mainstream Scream: CNN talker compares Assad to Cheney

By Paul Bedard
Published April 10, 2017 5:34pm ET
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Mainstream Scream: CNN talker compares Assad to Cheney
A Navy F/A-18 fighter jet is seen in the background as Vice President Dick Cheney arrives to greet sailors and Marines at a rally aboard the USS John C. Stennis aircraft carrier in the Persian Gulf, Friday, May 11, 2007. (AP Photo/Gerald Herbert) | Gerald Herbert

This week’s Mainstream Media Scream features one of the strangest comparisons between Syrian President Bashar al-Assad and a top Republican the media loves to hate, former Vice President Dick Cheney.



It came from Intercept co-founder Jeremy Scahill who was on CNN’s Reliable Sources Sunday talking about Assad’s use of poison gas and the media coverage of the U.S. military strike. He ripped the media, even CNN talking heads, then ended with this:

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