Michael Calderone’s Blog: Politico.com
Since Hillary Clinton’s campaign has been in damage control after the candidate brought up the assassination of Robert Kennedy before the editorial board of a South Dakota newspaper Friday, you’d think political analysts would be careful when talking about the fallout.
But yesterday, Fox contributor Liz Trotta, a former Washington Times editor and three-time Emmy winner, clearly wasn’t when Fox host Eric Shawn asked about Clinton’s Kennedy comment. Instead, she made a distasteful joke (in the clip above).
Trotta: “And now we have what some are reading as a suggestion that somebody knock off Osama, uh Obama. Well, both, if we could.”
Shawn: “Talk about how you really feel.”
With an uproar in the blogosphere, Trotta appeared around 9:40 this morning to apologize. Anchor Bill Hemmer reminded her that people have been criticizing her remarks.
nice to see these rocket scientists are still going with the whole osama/obama thing
This is America where the racial divide is long and deep. Recall why Powell did not run in 2000?
So, yes, things are better but things aren’t 100% Kosher as yet. Probably never will be given homo sapiens penchant for making idiotic associations and then being willing to kill/die for them.
And yes, that is a characteristic all too often of good religious folks and good non-religious folks as well==all those that raise an ideology above the value/dignity of human life. Just a bit more stress, and the eco-warriors will join this mob.
Nice copy-pasta #2.
The great thing about the media coverage of all the various political gaffes:
McCain: doesn’t know the difference between Sunni and Shia.
Clinton: hard-working white people support her.
Obama: didn’t realize his pastor was a nut-ball.
is that it allows the media to completely avoid covering important issues. After all, the media’s main purpose is to cover itself.
You start with a trivial story.
Then cover the controversy.
Then cover the apology.
Then cover the coverage of the apology.
Then cover the coverage.
Then do an “in-depth” analysis of the people covering the story.
I heard this in the gym and the osama slip-up sounded so deliberate that I was a little disgusted, but then again thats what thinking people get for watching faux news
I wouldn’t even watch the video link. Anything emanating from Faux Spews isn’t worth wasting 30 seconds watching. Talk about a waste of the broadcast spectrum.
Miss Trotta should go back to the Reverend Sun Myung Moon’s paper, where nobody has to hear her actually vocalize.
Meanwhile it was CNN that admitted to skewing its coverage to satisfy the host regime.
She also has a bumper sticker on the front of her car that says, “Run Obama, Run.”
Wow she adds that it would be nice to kill Osama, while talking about other people mentioning assassination of Obama. No big deal.
Liberals saying “Faux News” is pretty entertaining: They admit to not being able to argue against something, and decide to try to discount it.
Fortunately, the ratings show this attack isn’t working. Nice try kids.
Personally, I found the comment to be typical of all C-level (read, Sunday morning) talking heads who try to be funny: They fail, and they don’t graduate to weekdays until they show an ability to fake a personality.
>>Liberals saying “Faux News” is
>>pretty entertaining
Naw, nobody with a triple-digit IQ would call that political Republican pimp-job “news”. It’s Faux Spews.
Other than to laugh at Loofah Pad O’Reilly and the other dipsticks on that station, I don’t think anyone who’s not married to his sister or mother actually watches that network. As humor, it’s hilarious.
#10–James==now don’t those ratings show just the opposite of what you claim? Try this as a stretch exercise in critical thinking: This thread is about a talking propaganda puppet used as an “analyst” on Faux News and she is spouting the evil hatred that is supposed to slip by as acceptable insight. Yes indeed the audience of Faux news loves it and reports on it daily to the other anchor in sleaze, Mr Rush Limbaugh. Now==the audience here at DU call it Faux news because it is not news, it is propaganda and spin from the right wing to their repuglikan audience who can’t read so must rely on radio and tv for their talking points. So, not news, its is FAKE NEWS, meant to inflame what little insight YOU have by putting a french twist on it as well.
Funny you have to have it spelled out what everyone else here is reponding to. And yet it was spelled out in Bold Print, the first line. Where do you get your news James?
All the network makeup artists in the world can’t hide ugliness when it emanates from deep inside.
One can’t help but wonder if a joke about McCain having a heart attack would be equally tolerated on Fox News.
people joke about killing Bush all the time. Whats the difference or the big deal.
The knock off reply sounds like a Dvorak comeback.
Gee is she after Ann Coulters job?
16, i guess if she has the balls for it
Joking about assassination in a country like the United States, with a long history of political assassination, is beyond the pale. I don’t care who is doing it.
Further, the people who think it’s OK to joke about that are showing their own lack of humanity.
#18, pedro,
which of these is the real Obama: the one that says it wants to meet with castro & chavez …
It ??? the one that says IT wants to … What kind of fucking asshole are you? Because Obama is half black he is an IT?
If you are trying to be funny, it didn’t work.
#18 – pedro – which of these is the real Obama: the one that says it wants to meet with castro & chavez or the one that says that he wants to investigate and prosecute goverments like the one chavez has which aids and funds known terrorists like FARC?
Pedro, only bad leaders shut the door to dialogue and reason.
Maybe she just wants to know what a visit from the secret service is like.
Not a fan of Obama but I don’t wish him an ill wind, that’s just juvenile.
Funny, Death of a President didn’t get all your Lib panties in a bundle, why should this garbage?
Hmm, say that about Bush and you wind up in Gitmo. Seems fair to me. [/sarcasm]
We should give comedy shows like SNL, The Onion, The Daily Report, and Faux News, a lot of latitude in their comedy skits. This bit isn’t all that different than the jokes about sending Bush a bag of pretzels.
For me, the black humor and dry delivery, of the shows on Faux, is a brand of humor I seldom enjoy. I do have to give them credit on really pushing the envelope of comedy, in several areas. Some of their racial, sexual orientation, and political stuff, is way out on the leading edge of what is funny, and what can be said on TV. Some of the things they say are more shocking than hearing Dan Aykroyd call Jane Curtin “an ignorant slut”, in the 70’s.
Then again, she may just be a washed up, has been, looking for one last glimpse of the spotlight. Whom after hearing the uproar over Hillary’s comment, decided to whore herself out with a premeditated, over the top version of the same spiel. And, like all of the jokes on Faux, it comes out sounding like a made for TV version of the Aristocrats.
Right now I feel mostly sick to my stomach. I don’t agree with all of Obama’s views but I would love to have him over for dinner any day of the week.
He’s a smart guy and I’m sure I would learn a lot from him.
And it makes me want to vomit to hear this kind of spew coming from the former New York bureau chief of The Washington Times and a three time Emmy award winner.
She knows better. Makes me wonder just how far we have gone in the last 40 years.
Fox news is like the Anti News show. I cannot imagine anyone who considers themselves a journalist working for them. Is their any unbiased news in America anymore?
WATCH OUT !
Folks, what you saw is a GOP-TV coded message to the their sleeper loonies to take Obama out.
If that fails, the next loonie pool is the religious fanatical waiting for the pastor’s go ahead.
We need help from friendly nations to oversee our elections even if it means deploying UN troops.
For all those who say that there are comments about Bush being killed, I’d like to see some links. Otherwise you people are full of shit and are simply throwing red herrings out there with no basis in reality.
LOL,you think if Obama goes down, it’s the Republicans who will be at fault? Really?
No, given the record of our past several assassinations, if Obama is ‘lone nutted’ I’ll assume that its the Texas establishment that is at fault. In light of the last few deathbed confessions (which I tend to believe) Johnson whacking Kennedy was a coup, and the corrupt Texas money men essentially took over the union; Bush Sr. nearly whacking Reagan by the hand of the son of an oil man was merely reinforcing that point.
If they kill Obama they will stage a ‘race riot’ to go along with it; even if it is only 12 actors in black face in a closeup, it is enough to enact Directive 51, and then America is over.