CNN is slipping word battles onto the airwaves while we aren’t looking. If not for @slantsmcgee the Fareed Zakaria vs Iranian Regime Spokesman Mohammed Marandi showdown would have been missed. Some say time stamp 4:20 the moment Zakaria loses his shit by calling the Tehran professor “a mouthpiece of a dying regime.” We say he came out swinging and never stopped.

The line that caught our ears is towards the interview’s end. The prof let snark that he is not the “mouth of Sauron.”

We listened twice to be sure.

First, professor, that’s exactly the kind of thing The MOS would say.

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