NY Daily News: "Shot at Harry Reid, Nancy Pelosi lands CBS golf analyst in hot water"

The New York Daily News reports:

He said WHAT?!

CBS golf analyst David Feherty sparked outrage after he asserted that U.S. soldiers, given the chance, would kill House Speaker Nancy Pelosi and Senate Majority Leader Harry Reid.

"If you gave any U.S. soldier a gun with two bullets in it, and he found himself in an elevator with Nancy Pelosi, Harry Reid and Osama Bin Laden, there's a good chance that Nancy Pelosi would get shot twice, and Harry Reid and Bin Laden would be strangled to death," Feherty wrote in a magazine piece.

Pelosi spokesman Nadeam Elshami ripped into Feherty for his eye-popping remarks in the April issue of D magazine, a Dallas publication.

"Such comments are unacceptable and beyond the pale and an insult to our patriotic men and women in uniform," Elshami said.

Jim Manley, a senior communications adviser for Reid, called Feherty's statements "irresponsible."

"I understand that he thought that he was trying to be funny with the article," Manley said. "If that is the case, it was a pretty pathetic attempt at humor."

Feherty's outrageous claim appeared in a first-person piece about how former President George W. Bush's return to Texas might affect Dallas residents.

The comments drew the ire of Washington and media groups after Feherty's column was read on conservative commentator Rush Limbaugh's radio show Friday.

Eric Burns, president of Media Matters, a liberal media watchdog group, called the statements "disgusting."