Posted on 05/26/2008 12:14:16 AM PDT by calcowgirl
NEW YORK Even as Hillary Clinton worked to defuse her Friday comment about the 2008 campaign and the Robert Kennedy assassination, a Fox New contributor went much further, joking about someone actually targeting Barack Obama.
Appearing on Fox News today, Liz Trotta, a former editor with the Washington Times and reporter the Chicago Tribune and Newsday, was asked by the host, Eric Shawn, about the Clinton controversy and the 2008 race. This led Trotta to refer to the Clinton misstep, in which she mentioned the RFK killing to show (the candidate later claimed) that previous campaigns, like the current one, went into June.
Trotta, according to video, replied, "And now we have what some are reading as a suggestion that somebody knock off Osama, uh Obama. Well, both, if we could." She laughed.
The host, Shawn, clearly understanding how far she had gone, quickly commented: "Talk about how you really feel."
Then he continued: "But do you really think that--she didn't mean that she thinks that he going to get assassinated, and she apologized--
Trotta: "Well, that's beside the point, whether she meant it or not."
Shawn: "And she's just using it in a historical context?"
Trotta: "She's tone deaf, because it's a radioactive word. And the whole question of the first black man becoming a candidate for presidency of the United States has all kinds of overtones and all kinds of caveats that really have to be considered in this thing. And his security has been a real issue. He's had bodyguards earlier than anybody else. Surely this woman had to know that that was a third rail to say 'assassination.' And it's hard to argue for her on this, because it isn't the first time she's made this step."
I’d post my picture, but then you would just want more.
I disagree. The “suicide” of Vince Foster was clumsily handled. It was only because of their vast support system in the media and whatever fear factors they instilled in the Ft. March Park Police who did the “investigation” was it classified as a suicide.
Put a half decent CSI or forensics crew on the case, and there is no way they would rule it a suicide.
Interesting- Liz Trotta now on FOX live- very unusual for a Monday (even if it’s a holiday) - FOX may be giving her an opportunity to say it all differently..
UPDATE- she is now apologizing for her statement yesterday.
“Nobody batted an eyelash when in February 2008, Nobel Peace Prize winner Doris Lessing said: [Obama]...’would certainly not last long, a black man in the position of president. They would murder him.’”
Not to excuse what this woman said, but there is a difference in a writer saying what she said, and your opponent whose many associates have died under mysterious circumstances, or “accidents”, making reference to an assassination of a presidential candidate right around the same time of year said assassination happened. A comment by a woman who appears to so driven to be president, that she would stop at nothing to get what she wants, is a far more serious offense than from a journalist, who we can chalk up her comments to bad taste.
Don’t bet on it. I am over 65 and happily married for 31 years to a man I have always considered very handsome. May you be lucky enough to find someone who will say that when you are our age.
Don’t bet on it. I am over 65 and happily married for 31 years to a man I have always considered very handsome. May you be lucky enough to find someone who will say that when you are our age.
“May you be lucky enough to find someone who will say that when you are our age.”
Your post reads as though you made some incorrect assumptions.
Good grief! Think she’s been fired yet?
It doesn't sound like it. SE Mom said above that Fox aired an apology.
SE mom, how was the apology? What did she say? Was it convincing?
Nobody could get to Obama.
He’s guarded by thugs from NOI.
The same kind of terrorists who support Obama did this:
http://www.frugalsites.net/911/attack/
Never apologize for them.
Never appease them.
Never forget.
Never mind. Youtube already has today’s apology.
http://www.youtube.com/watch?v=4B-hRSgPPZc
It is at the end of a long discussion with Trotta on the whole Hillary gaffe.
The apology comes just before the 3 minute mark.
http://www.youtube.com/watch?v=aKlv6vQca8k
I suspect it won’t end there.
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