The leftists at Politico tried to stage a hit on Rudy Giuliani and Peter King today, and I received more than a dozen emails pointing me at their deceptive piece: Giuliani adviser criticized for remark.

WASHINGTON - A homeland security adviser to Rudy Giuliani came under fire Thursday for claiming there were “too many mosques” in the United States — and defended himself by saying his point was that not enough Muslim leaders cooperate with law enforcement.

Rep. Peter King, R-N.Y., the former chairman of the House Homeland Security Committee and the top GOP member on the panel, said his comments to the Politico Web site were taken out of context. Democrats said Giuliani should drop him as a campaign adviser.

“I stand by everything I said other than the fact that the Politico totally took it out of context,” King said Thursday.

In the Politico interview, King said: “Unfortunately we have too many mosques in this country, there’s too many people who are sympathetic to radical Islam. We should be looking at them more carefully, we should be finding out how we can infiltrate, we should be much more aggressive in law enforcement.”

After King complained, Politico posted video of the entire interview.

UPDATE at 9/20/07 8:29:27 pm:

Unindicted Hamas co-conspirators CAIR are also involved in this attack: Giuliani Adviser Under Fire for Comments.

The congressman was denounced by the DC-based Council on American- Islamic Relations, a group that has long accused King of lobbing unfair attacks against American Muslims.

“We call on Republican leaders and other people of conscience to repudiate Representative King’s bigoted remarks and to support the civil and religious rights of all Americans,” said CAIR official Corey Saylor.

Both the Muslim group and the Democratic party called on Giuliani to drop King from the campaign.

UPDATE at 9/20/07 8:41:57 pm:

Daily Kos front page writer ‘DHinMI’ aligns with CAIR: Daily Kos: Peter King, Bigoted Jackass.