New Republic: The Pop Culture Tastes of Dictators 0 Randall Gross WeirdMarch 2012Saturday, March 17, 2012 at 7:16 am PDT • Views: 1,112 npr.org American Musicians Bashar Al Assad Bashar Assad Eccentric Dictators Hugo Chavez Kim Jong-il ITunes Libyan Dictator Moammar Pop Culture Tastes Saddam Hussein