Anytime you do something like they did knowingly...it IS assault. The intent was to do HARM. Why else would someone put feces on something someone else was going to eat? It was intentional. You don't put feces on someone's food for the fun of it.
Obviously, you did NOT go back and read the article, as suggested.
Perhaps FR is beyond your intellectual level. But don't fret, there's always the hannity.com forums.