I can hear knees jerking from here to Schenectady

David says that Hevesi:

calls for the assasination of the President of the United States

What Hevesi really said:

“We really feel bad for poor Chuck – United States senator. The man who, uh, uh, how do I phrase this diplomatically, will put a bullet between the president’s eyes, if he could get away with it,” Mr. Hevesi told graduating students at Queens College.

Mr. Schumer had spoken a few moments earlier.

You’ll note that I quoted that directly from the conservative New York Sun, so there can be no allegation of partisan spin.

It was a metaphor for Charles Schumer’s tenacity. It was an incredibly stupid, ill-advised, and inflammatory metaphor, but was a metaphor nonetheless.

There is, however, no way that anyone with a rudimentary grasp of the English language could equate that statement with:

calls for the assasination of the President of the United States

Naturally, David links to Michelle Malkin, who is by no means shrill or inflammatory herself /sarcasm.

You’ve seen the actual quote above. Here’s the definition of “taking something out of context” and giving it a borderline criminal meaning it never had if read in context:

State Comptroller Alan Hevesi publicly apologized Thursday for a “beyond dumb” remark about “putting a bullet between the president’s eyes.”

Hevesi hastily called a mea culpa press conference hours after putting his foot in his mouth at the Queens College commencement.

What Hevesi said was patently idiotic. To say that he called for the assassination of the President is also idiotic.

(And believe it or not, David – I didn’t get my official NY Dems or ECDC spin fax yet this morning, so these opinions are my own. Go figure).