# When does political speech become sedition?

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**Created:** [May 25, 2012, 4:05am UTC](https://boards.straightdope.com/t/when-does-political-speech-become-sedition/623043 "2012-05-25T04:05:40Z")\
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**Author:** ![septimus](https://sea3.discourse-cdn.com/straightdope/user_avatar/boards.straightdope.com/septimus/32/410_2.png) [@septimus](https://boards.straightdope.com/u/septimus)\
**Post date:** [May 25, 2012, 8:46pm UTC](https://boards.straightdope.com/t/when-does-political-speech-become-sedition/623043/31 "2012-05-25T20:46:11Z")

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> [@Bricker](#):
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> So you are comparing your behavior to the behavior of the worst out-of-control right-wing politicians?

So let’s make a fair comparison then.

Show us a comment by a Democratic Congressman that is as insolent toward GWB as Congressman Coffman’s was toward Obama. Or a verbal apology as asinine as that in the video which Shodan has trouble understanding (or dares not to view).

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