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PLANK JUNE 11, 2012

How To Get Away With Murder

BY TIMOTHY NOAH

 “He speaks English, and he has a hot wife.”

—Andrew Tabler, Washington Institute For Near East Policy, explaining to the New York Times how the bloody Syrian regime of Bashar al-Assad managed to get fawned over by Vogue, Paris Match, French Elle, the Huffington Post, and Barbara Walters.

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Well, that explains it then.

- liberalref

June 11, 2012 at 12:21pm

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Even better is the writer of the Vogue profile explaining why Assad's wife warranted inclusion in the magazine: She's super-thin and dresses well. Well, at least the Vogue folks are honest.

- ekeizer

June 11, 2012 at 12:27pm

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So was Coco Chanel...

- Sophia

June 11, 2012 at 2:32pm

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