Fox News’s interview with Syrian president Bashar al-Assad may go down in the history books as one of the stranger episodes of journalism in recent memory — mostly because of the role that former Democratic congressman–and current Fox News contributor–Dennis Kucinich played in speaking to Assad.
The sight of a very liberal man representing Fox News in the session was, to put it mildly, jarring. Maybe that’s why the network worked so hard to disavow any connection it had with Kucinich, assuring viewers that he “was not there in the capacity of a journalist, nor was he representing Fox News in that role.”
That’s a strange statement, because it sure seemed like Kucinich was doing both of those things, as the Washington Post’s Erik Wemple exhaustively documented on his blog on Thursday.
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