In Newsweek , for example , Stuart Taylor Jr. spends an entire column proposing and defending a better question than the media have asked Bush so Would you seek long prison terms for today 's 18-year-olds for doing what you say you may or may not have done as a young man--and when you now suggest that whatever you did was a mere youthful indiscretion , and thus irrelevant to your candidacy ?
News reporters are damming Bush based on his youthful criminal activities .