But Reid simply calls Bush a loser. Bush is NOT a loser. Reid is demeaning the office by so doing, teaching kids to disrespect their President and all because he disagrees with him. That's really bad! The level of discourse is cheapened by his comments.
No net gain is awarded Reid here for honesty. He was just being destructive!
IRT Newsweek, it's atrocious to propagate lies which cause riots and deaths. It's called sedition. The punishment for such reckless speech has not historically speaking, been to issue an apology.
I don't think Bush is a "loser," and it's ludicrous to say that he is -- but it's still a valid opinion -- and yeah, it cheapens the discourse, but both parties do so. That's not to say it's good -- I just don't like political correctness.
As for "sedition," it's tough for me to balance national security with free speech. "Sedition" wasn't part of the Constitution, and was abused in its early forms -- requiring newspapers to conform to a standard that the courts would laugh at, today. I would say that to prove sedition, you'd have to prove, first, that it was reckless disregard -- which is really hard to prove. That said, Newsweek should have known better than to sensationalize something like this. Their gatekeepers need to get some sense in their heads.
I don't know if you saw the little weasel from Newsweek on CNN. This punk, Dan Klaidman, blew it off like it was nothing, and tried to deflect the story to the overall hatred of America all over the world! What an anti-American punk!