Congressman Peter King (R-NY), who serves as an advisor to Rudy Giuliani's campaign, is being put on the hot-seat for his statement, "Unfortunately we have too many mosques in this country, there's too many people who are sympathetic to radical Islam."

King now claims that his remarks were taken out of context, and that he was simply referring to there being too many mosques whose leaders are sympathetic to radical Islam. Now if that's true, then it would much easier to defend. On the other hand, he might have genuinely meant that there are too many Muslims in this country, and he's not backtracking from a rather impolitic statement.

So what do you think? Was he really just stumbling over his words? Here's a video of his interview with The Politico:

GOP Rep. Sue Kelly, who's facing a tougher-than-expected challenge from former rock star and Dem candidate John Hall, boiled over with indignance at a debate yesterday between the two candidates. Today's Times Herald-Record reports that after Hall made his first reference to Foleygate, Kelly exploded:

"I just can't believe that you would accuse me, a wife, a mother, a grandmother, a teacher of doing something that would harm children," Kelly said. "I have fought for children all of my life! You have no shame!"

Kelly's been on the defensive since Foleygate broke because she headed the board which oversees the page program; a recent poll shows Hall within four points of Kelly, and CQ Politics recently downgraded the race from "Republican Favored" to "Leans Republican." View Kelly's eruption here.

GOP Rep. and House Homeland Security chair Peter King calls for racial profiling, says people of "Middle Eastern and South Asian" descent should undergo additional security checks. Airport screeners shouldn't be hampered by "political correctness," King says.