Bashar Assad must really love mush-headed Western mediabots like Barbara Walters: Barbara Walters: Syrian Dictator ‘Charming,’ ‘Intelligent’.

While most Americans celebrated Independence Day with fireworks and barbeques, Barbara Walters spent the occasion dining with Syrian leader Bashir al-Assad, whom Walters described as “intelligent” and “charming” who wants “very much to have good relations with us.” Perhaps realizing her own gushiness about Assad Walters pre-empted accusations and denied she is “brainwashed.”

I think brainwashing requires a brain, so I believe her on that one.