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Fox’s Trotta Says Sorry for Obama Comment

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Posted on May 28, 2008
Liz Trotta

The Fox News personality who incited outrage with a horrible giggly tailspin of a comment about “knocking off” Barack Obama apologizes for her “lame attempt at humor” and chalks it up to a “very colorful political season.”

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By rangertommy, May 31, 2008 at 6:34 pm Link to this comment

Talk about a staged set-up for a fake apology!  The only people they’d fool with this tripe are those who regularly watch Fox in the first place.

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By Frank Cajon, May 30, 2008 at 6:48 pm Link to this comment

This entire campaign is one long repetition of talk bad, do bad, apologize, repeat. All like nothing happened. Both Bubba and Hillbillary have played the race card, and now the kill the black guy card, over and over; when they get called on it, they’re ‘sorry’, or their lackey resigns having accomplished the mission. Same with McCain and Fascist News running that excerpt from motormouth Wright into our subconscious. Now FN makes a kill the black guy ‘joke’ and chalks it up as okay because it was ‘lame’? Give me a goddamn break. They took Don Imus off the air for a less inflammatory racist remark (and he should still be off the air). Where is the FCC? Oh, Bush/Cheney Reich controls them as well, apparently. This, people, is what Germany was like in 1933.

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By CaptRon, May 29, 2008 at 7:19 pm Link to this comment

I have seen enough of comments made with supposed unintended intent this political period. I have formed my opinion, and to Ms. Trotta and all like you who think the non-elite are stupid people, keep your apology, you have no soul and continue to prove to me why I am proud to be blue collar. What’s next for you, powdered whigs and guillotines. I dare you.

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By Aegrus, May 29, 2008 at 11:02 am Link to this comment

Er, correction. That’s John Yoo I was thinking of. What a difference one letter makes. Yikes

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By Aegrus, May 29, 2008 at 10:56 am Link to this comment

Unfortunately, as long as John Woo is teaching I can believe Trotta is brainwashing people too. Fight these violent fascists with knowledge and information! Get active! Educate people! Help them find the belief that America is better than these ideological fallacies!

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By omop, May 29, 2008 at 7:22 am Link to this comment

....Trotta you betta trot over to the set of The Last Comic Standing.  You might get a guffaw or two and make it to Las Vegas just for st jude’s sake.

    Uncle Zebbo who watches you all the time has suffered several broken ribs from falling off his high chair laughing at your ditties. He is convalescing right now and watches another comedian on tv by the name of Hagee for laughs.

    Follow your instinct.  You are a born comedian. So dont miss out on your deserved future.

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By stevelaudig, May 29, 2008 at 3:26 am Link to this comment
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What was the joke anyway? I’d like to hear it explained even if it wasn’t funny. Was it “oh a twofer” shoot two Usama/Obamas for the price of one. She slipped and showed us who she really was. This is how she thinks she equates Usama and Obama. After to her way of thinking they are both not quite white and thus not quite American. Muslim is the new N***** for her.

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By Fadel Abdallah, May 28, 2008 at 3:15 pm Link to this comment

Thank you Teofi for your revealing post, which proves that Trotta’s bigotry runs in the blood; it was not a simple slip of the tongue or a joke. So your comment is very important, especially for a scholar like me who hopes to use your information to support my research on the subject of bigotry and racism, of which I myself has been a victim.

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By Teofi, May 28, 2008 at 2:26 pm Link to this comment
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I was in Trotta’s class for about three days in 2005 at the New School in New York City. It was a media class on the Foreign Correspondent.

In the middle of her lecture, someone questioned Fox News reporting on the War on Iraq in response to her critique of Arab news coverage, she replied, “Yeah, but they (from Fox) are real journalists, not some crazy rag-heads blowing themselves up.”

This was the final straw in a long list of comments and her generally abrasive and irritating personality. FIve students dropped the class the next day. Maybe 3 were left.

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By Norm, May 28, 2008 at 1:37 pm Link to this comment
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Let’s get this straight, both sides attack and make fun of the other, and claim they are the victims. So some of these posts seem almost too self righteous to me. But that is the ironic thing about her comment and apology. If a liberal media outlet did that to a conservative candidate, Fox would be once again making claims about a liberal media bias and double standards. Fox is a joke, as are some of the posts here. Trotta is a nobody, and her comment is meaningless. Move along, nothing to see here.

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By Aegrus, May 28, 2008 at 1:03 pm Link to this comment

Yeah, it’s pretty sickening, non credo. Today, I actually had the privilege of viewing one of these self-proclaimed hard-right conservative shops online, and everything is about guns, roe vs wade, violence and hatred of everything they don’t identify with.

Really, education has to be pushed throughout this country to stop these conservative brown-shirt fascists. The whole reason conservatism seems to have any following is through its dehumanizing of opposition by selling self-righteousness to people who are the least economically well-off, educationally achieved and politically informed through the barrel of a gun. It’s fascism, not Americanism.

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By Can O' Whoopass, May 28, 2008 at 12:56 pm Link to this comment
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You know she’s an old skank who dried up eons ago.
The last time she saw a boner was before McCain was making videos for Ho Chi Minh!

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By espaz, May 28, 2008 at 12:50 pm Link to this comment
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What a fn hag!  this woman should be prosecuted for making threats towards a government official!  the sick part about this is that the people these people represent are the traitors who took us into an illigal war, broke various constitutional laws and now continue to bash the good people who just might be able to salvage the damage done to our great country’s reputation.  I say prosecute this ignorant woman and pull Fixed new’s license to broadcast.

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By Aegrus, May 28, 2008 at 9:57 am Link to this comment

Trotta is scum. As bad as George Bush, John McCain, Dick Cheney and Karl Rove (Amongst others), the left, center and progressive camps have never called for assassination because we still value human rights and non-violent resolutions.

Saying, essentially, it would be great if both Osama bin Laden and Barack Obama were ‘offed’ if you ‘could’ is one of the most disgusting things to ever be uttered in a so-called journalistic organization. You’re trash, Trotta, and you should have lost your job for that gaffe. There is never an excuse to joke about the assassination of a presidential candidate in a forum where it’s supposed to represent integrity, professionalism and journalistic equality.

However, we see that there are double standards. Mike Huckabee is allowed to get off with a weak apology, and so is Trotta. Clinton gets the worst of it, and only from the Democratic camp. All three are wrong, and all three should be reprimanded accordingly.

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By Fadel Abdallah, May 28, 2008 at 7:10 am Link to this comment

No Ms. Trotta, your apology is not accepted. The damage has already been done, and if there is any sense of decency left in you, then you should voluntarily shut up your not-so-clean mouth for the rest of this political season at least!

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By Purple Girl, May 28, 2008 at 6:26 am Link to this comment

These BS’ers should be relegated to short wave radio, Or lost in the MASS http://www.Fire Her TOO!!!
Let them start their own blog or Web BS ‘Newspaper’ like HuffPo or now apparently Salon.Both only skim the surface- shalow in content and shallow in personality!Seems HuffPo has a ‘Protetion clause’ for Incs (banned for demanding Personal Liablity accountablity) and psudeo ‘feminist’(Vendetta/special priviledge seekers-Don’t dare Bitch about a $0.02 raise in 35 yrs or that Roe v Wade has been on the ropes & on the 9 count, NOW has done a ‘Heckova Job!”)Then on HardBall Joan Walsh let her slip hang out!Protecting and even defending Hillary’s ‘RFK Comment’ . Come On Joan- if she needs an an interpretor at ALL times she is the Wrong person for the JOB!!!! 3 times Joan- she is either a cold hearted bitch or she’s an Idiot! Do we Need another One of These running the Country. Listen Sister- I’m as much of a womens Libber as anyone- cut my teenage teeth in the 70’s and I have watch (and met) some pretty damn aweful Women, Not all are Qualified Nor are They ALL ‘Mother mined’- Some are selfish, Arrogant, small minded and just plain Stupid. I am a LIBBER- liberation means Equal Opportunity for ALL.Failing to choose the BESt candiate for ANY Job not only counter productive it is ‘Sexism, Racism, Ageism , oreintationism…..In REVERSE, but still UGLT ‘ISM’.
Not only her ‘RFK’ repeated ‘misspeak’ Her repeated “Obliterate Iran” with NUKES!?!? You want this person to represent OUR country?Possilby DEstroy Our country by statments such as this? She probably made the Recruitment for ‘terrorism’ skyrocket and NO Doubt made Hagee’s Heart Sing!Are You Kidding Me? I thought you were a woman of real Principles- Obviously I was Wrong. I’ve unsubscribed to your blog too.

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