Harry Reid calls Chinese leader Hu Jintao a 'dictator'

And this is news? He spoke the truth--which is rare for politicians in Washington. The liberal establishment won't scream in protest as they did with Reagan's "evil empire" remark, because Reid is a Democrat.

“I am going to go back to Washington and meet with the President of China. He is a dictator. He can do a lot of things through the form of government they have. Maybe I shouldn’t have said dictator, but they have a different type of government then we have, and that is an understatement,” Reid said in the interview.

“So we have to work in the system we have, the best system ever devised to rule the affairs of men and women,” Reid continued. “And one of the few ways we get things done, in fact the most important way we get things done, is through compromise. It’s not a bad word, and that is how we get things done.”