{"id":923,"date":"2008-05-25T15:01:57","date_gmt":"2008-05-25T22:01:57","guid":{"rendered":"http:\/\/www.newscorpse.com\/ncWP\/?p=923"},"modified":"2014-03-10T10:57:49","modified_gmt":"2014-03-10T17:57:49","slug":"liz-trotta-of-fox-news-jokes-about-knocking-off-obama","status":"publish","type":"post","link":"https:\/\/www.newscorpse.com\/ncWP\/?p=923","title":{"rendered":"Liz Trotta Of Fox News Jokes About Knocking Off Obama"},"content":{"rendered":"<p><iframe loading=\"lazy\" width=\"320\" height=\"240\" class=\"alignleft\" src=\"\/\/www.youtube.com\/embed\/BjYpkvcmog0\" frameborder=\"0\" allowfullscreen><\/iframe>It doesn&#8217;t get much worse than this. Liz Trotta is a Fox News contributor and former New York bureau chief of The Washington [Moonie] Times.<\/p>\n<p>As if it isn&#8217;t enough to conflate Osama and Obama by mixing up the names (as many have done before her), she goes on to assert with giddy laughter&#8230;<\/p>\n<blockquote><p>&#8220;and now we have what some are reading as a suggestion that somebody knock off Osama &#8230;uh&#8230; Obama &#8230; well, both if we could.&#8221;<\/p><\/blockquote>\n<p>The Fox anchor, Eric Shawn, merely laughed along saying, <em>&#8220;Talk about how you really feel.&#8221;<\/em> This is, sadly, not the first call for violence from Fox News personalities. Bill O&#8217;Reilly told listeners that he didn&#8217;t want to <a href=\"http:\/\/www.newscorpse.com\/ncWP\/?p=806\" target=\"_blank\">lynch Michelle Obama<\/a> unless there was <em>&#8220;evidence.&#8221;<\/em> <a href=\"http:\/\/www.newscorpse.com\/ncWP\/?p=220\" target=\"_blank\">Sean Hannity said<\/a> that keeping Nancy Pelosi from becoming Speaker of the House was <em>&#8220;worth fighting and dying for.&#8221;<\/em> Non-Foxie Rush Limbaugh has been <a href=\"http:\/\/www.newscorpse.com\/ncWP\/?p=880\" target=\"_blank\">inciting his dittoheads<\/a> to <em>&#8220;riot in Denver&#8221;<\/em> at the Democratic National Convention.<\/p>\n<p>I suppose this just validates <a href=\"http:\/\/www.billoreilly.com\/newslettercolumn?pid=22545\" target=\"_blank\">O&#8217;Reilly&#8217;s warning<\/a> that <em>&#8220;before this presidential election year is over somebody is going to get hurt.&#8221;<\/em> And it makes me wonder what he, and the rest of the Fox terrorists, know that we don&#8217;t.<\/p>\n<p><strong>Update:<\/strong> In some quarters of the InterTubes&trade; there is grumbling that the video above was deceptively edited. For anyone interested, <a href=\"http:\/\/youtube.com\/watch?v=I-AxdVWZFvM\" target=\"_blank\">here is a longer clip<\/a>. I don&#8217;t see how the context changes with regard to Obama, but it does include Trotta disparaging Clinton as an evasive, lying, pandering, race-baiter. So much for objectivity.<\/p>\n<p><strong>Update II:<\/strong> <a href=\"http:\/\/www.politico.com\/blogs\/michaelcalderone\/0508\/Fox_analyst_apologizes_for_Obama_assassination_joke.html\" target=\"_blank\">Trotta apologized<\/a> this morning:<\/p>\n<blockquote><p>&#8220;I am so sorry about what happened yesterday and the lame attempt at humor. I feel all over myself, making it appear that I wished Barack Obama harm or any other candidate, for that matter, and I sincerely regret it and apologize to anybody I have offended. It is a very colorful political season, and many of us are making mistakes and saying things we wish we had not said.&#8221;<\/p><\/blockquote>\n<p>I&#8217;m glad she apologized, but did she have to tack on the qualifier at the end that implies an excuse because, <em>&#8220;Hey, everybody&#8217;s doing it.&#8221;?<\/em><\/p>\n","protected":false},"excerpt":{"rendered":"<p>It doesn&#8217;t get much worse than this. Liz Trotta is a Fox News contributor and former New York bureau chief of The Washington [Moonie] Times. As if it isn&#8217;t enough to conflate Osama and Obama by mixing up the names (as many have done before her), she goes on to assert with giddy laughter&#8230; &#8220;and [&hellip;]<\/p>\n","protected":false},"author":1,"featured_media":0,"comment_status":"open","ping_status":"open","sticky":false,"template":"","format":"standard","meta":{"jetpack_post_was_ever_published":false,"_jetpack_newsletter_access":"","_jetpack_dont_email_post_to_subs":false,"_jetpack_newsletter_tier_id":0,"_jetpack_memberships_contains_paywalled_content":false,"_jetpack_memberships_contains_paid_content":false,"footnotes":"","jetpack_publicize_message":"","jetpack_publicize_feature_enabled":true,"jetpack_social_post_already_shared":false,"jetpack_social_options":{"image_generator_settings":{"template":"highway","default_image_id":0,"font":"","enabled":false},"version":2}},"categories":[152,1,16],"tags":[389,33,388],"class_list":["post-923","post","type-post","status-publish","format-standard","hentry","category-election","category-general","category-wankery","tag-eric-shawn","tag-fox-news","tag-liz-trotta"],"jetpack_publicize_connections":[],"jetpack_featured_media_url":"","jetpack_sharing_enabled":true,"jetpack_shortlink":"https:\/\/wp.me\/p4Ijg-eT","jetpack-related-posts":[{"id":6455,"url":"https:\/\/www.newscorpse.com\/ncWP\/?p=6455","url_meta":{"origin":923,"position":0},"title":"Vietnam Veterans of America Demand An Apology From Fox News","author":"Mark NC","date":"2\/20\/2012","format":false,"excerpt":"The despicable remarks from Fox News commentator Liz Trotta last week are still reverberating through the ranks of the military and the civilian populace as well. 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