The definition of "heckler."

Last week Putz called Ray McGovern, the former CIA officer who used to give George H.W. Bush his daily CIA briefings a "heckler" for asking him, among other things, why the hell he said this:

SEC. RUMSFELD: …We know where they [WMD] are. They’re in the area around Tikrit and Baghdad and east, west, south and north somewhat.

In response, Rumsfeld simply denied he ever said it, which apparently didn't bother Putz a bit. And, by the way, Rumsfeld was taking questions, and called on McGovern.

Over the weekend John Murtha gave the commencement address at Seton Hall, and Putz writes, quite accurately,

MURTHA GETS HECKLED: Gateway Pundit has a roundup.

The link, if you have the stomach to read it, starts off with this beauty:

After His Cut-&-Run Remarks, Murtha Gets Heckled at Speech

The article linked by Gateway Loser begins,

Rep. John Murtha called for the immediate withdrawal of troops from Iraq during a university commencement speech, drawing mixed reaction.

"We don't care. This isn't about graduation," Leonard Pierce, the parent of a graduate, called out several times from the audience during Seton Hill University's commencement Saturday.

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Damian Zottoli, who identified himself as a former Pennsylvania National Guard company commander, said Pierce should have "just sat there and let (Murtha) tell the truth."

More than half of Seton Hill's 204 graduating seniors gave Murtha a standing ovation. The small, Catholic, liberal arts university is in the heart of Murtha's 12th Congressional District, which he has represented since 1974.

Now this Pierce character would seem to be the classic definition of a heckler: one who interrupts, inappropriately, the prepared remarks of a speaker, who's not taking quesitons.

Who does that at a graduation speech?

What's baffling still is that Putz called McGovern a heckler, despite his being at a Q&A, despite the fact that he was called on, and despite the fact that he calmly asked Rumsfeld three fairly direct questions (Why did you lie? Why did you say you knew where the WMD were? Why did you say there was bullet-proof evidence that tied al-Qaeda to Saddam?). Rumsfeld answered them with varying degrees of honesty (the first one, tough call; the second, lie; the third, a weak evasion).

What's also annoying is that Putz would consider any source that characterizes Murtha's comments as "cut and run" worth linking to.

So it's clear, at least, Putz knows the definition of a heckler. He just sees the word through a partisan filter.