I’m sure that she is veeeeeeeeery sincere….

If apologies matter, that’s a pretty good one.

These people can’t help but let their hatred bubble over in this colorful electoral season.

Yes, Liz, “many of us” are making mistakes, alright. So, of course since “many of us” are making mistakes during this “colorful” political season, that tempers your responsibility. Nice qualifier, you twit.

I’m glad she apologized but as the host of the show said - “tell me how you really feel.” Fox, more than ever, should be boycotted. I believe it’s a travesty that they will have the press feed at the Democratic Convention. Should never have been decided that way and must be protested against!

Bull + Shit = another insincere reich-wingnut “apology”

Holy crap … an actual “sorry” ..

not “sorry if I offended anyone that misconstrued my comments”
but “sorry, i F-ed up and said something stupid”

Are we sure that was really Fox News?
Really?
Wow!

Call me krazy…..but I think it was scripted. Fox are dirty players but what really gets me is that there are people who believe there b.s. They are so over the top…regardless of what party you belong to. I guess if they reported the truth no one would watch……okay I get it.

Let’s see her get grilled by the other networks. Coming from Faux Nooz, I doubt the sincerity.
OK, let’s see what happens next.

Try making a lame attempt at humour the next time you check in for a flight Liz, and using something like ‘bomb in my luggage’ or ‘blow up the plane’ in it. I’m sure everyone will get a big chuckle over you trying to apologise for THAT one.

Sheesh

it’s like being in court and bringing up inadmissible evidence, the jury is told to ignore the evidence at tit is stricken from the record but…..

the jury still heard the evidence

This is an effective tactic, the “toothpaste out of the tube, the bell has rung” theory. Say what you want to make your point, then retract/apologize. The tactic always works, the damage always done. Apologies are cynical/meaningless. This is not the last assassination “joke” we will be hearing.

Well, at least she said “colorful” instead of “colored I mean black I mean negro OH MY GOD THE DARKNESS.”

I still say “FIRE THAT BEE-OTCH”!!

isn’t this inside of a week of huckabee making a poor attempt at humor talking about obama ducking a bullet?

was it really just a slip, it seemed entirely as contrived as her slipping in “osama” rather than obama… she even paused and thought about the name for a moment, and then went ahead and said “osama”.

C*nt. anyway, to be slightly more candid, somebody should [Deleted-Sitemonitor].

Oh wait, I apologize, I got lost in the “colorful” political season. lol.

I’m sure she actually is mortified if for no other reason that this kind of thing can kill careers. It’s a real apology at least, not one of those ‘if I offended some overly sensitive pearl clutches, I guess I should apologize’ apologies.

1] Trotta is a hack.
2] She should be fired for her comment.

It aint a REAL apology today until she invokes Jesus, the ‘Lord and some kind of personal praying session she held with God. Til then it’s just “Ooops, i got caught, sooooo sorry. til next time…..heheheheheheh.”

Can the ol’ whore.

Can’t imagine (rolling eyes) what Fox “News” or the rest of our “media” would be doing right now if this were said about Bush or McSame. All the apologies in the world wouldn’t make a bit of difference.

She is an award-winning professional journalist and has no excuse for the several mistakes and unintentional body-language in her “joke” yesterday.

First of all, she should never fumble Senator Obama’s name. That’s just incredibly unprofessional and inexcusable for a woman of her calibre.

Second, her smirk, tilt of the head and tone when she said, “or both of them,” yesterday was extremely telling. It was authentic, unscripted, gut-level honest. It’s how she really feels, period.

Third, she should have apologized not only for her (b.s.) “lame” attempt at humor (and it’s not funny on any comedy scale), but for screwing up Senator Obama’s name, for giving longer legs to a despicable story (Sen Clinton’s ugly remarks that set this off) and for furthering the dialogue.

If she had any class, she would have commented that the entire premise of the Clinton argument was flawed, tacky, irresponsible and beneath the dignity of any thoughtful person.

But, no, she had to pile on. Her apology is not only insincere, it’s not even apologizing for the right things.

F– her, F— Faux Noise, F— Hillary, and anyone else who justifies this atrocious garbage or dares to blame the victim, as the Clinton camp is now doing.

We should not stand for it.

that was the most condescending apology i have ever heard…some of you people are listening to her words and not her tone of voice

i hope the [Deleted. Site Monitor] gets [Deleted] by a bunch of rabid badgers…and i wont apologize for that statement

she has no buisiness being an analyst for anything…

The problem is that right wingers have developed an unseemly habit of making nasty inappropriate comments that they just can’t help themselves. Perhaps Americans are finally starting to become repulsed by their offensive and inflammatory rhetoric so right wing nut jobs are finally being forced to apologize.

Haw haw haw….

“Colorful”, she says.

Ah well!

At least Obama is getting something from her. Why couldn’t Hillary just say she was sorry and move on. Instead she tries to explain it away, then she blames the media, now she’s blaming Obama. When will it stop?????

Why hasn’t the Secret Service investigated her threat against a Presidential contender? If she had said this about Bush she would be in leg irons already.

Yeah her apology was a good one. Pity Hillary’s couldn’t have been as good.

No, this was NOT what was needed to be said. Her apology doesn’t mean shit. She should be FIRED! What does it take for one of these neocon gasbags to lose their jobs? She LUAGHS about the assassination of a presidential candidate, and some lame-ass apology is good enough. She shouldn’t be allowed on ANY news network, whether Fox or not. She should be shunned, ridiculed and banished. If Olbermann had said this about McCain or Bush, Secret Service agents would have flooded the MSNBC offices 5 minutes after the comments were made. And how come that idiot Bill Hemmer isn’t taking some flak, too. He, by finding her comment amusing, basically agrees with her.

I’m not that familiar with her or her work. It was a stupid thing to say, but it’s good she apologized.

Apology not accepted. Fox News, and the idiots that go on there, can take their hate filled violent rhetoric and stuff it where the sun doesn’t shine.

And yet we are still waiting months for Brian Kilmeade to apologize for his “lets go do car bombings” and “they should be tasered” comments on Faux

Sorry I got caught showing my hate for people who will not believe the way I want them to, sorry from these folks is a four letter word!—CEO

Unfortunately all an apology does at this point is draw more attention back to the original remark. Mission accomplished.

uncle joe hussein mccarthy @ 21:

that was the most condescending apology i have ever heard…some of you people are listening to her words and not her tone of voice

i hope the [Deleted. Site Monitor] gets [Deleted] by a bunch of rabid badgers…and i wont apologize for that statement

she has no buisiness being an analyst for anything…

Yes, condescending was the word that immediately came to my mind. The apology is hollow and sounded trite.

On the other hand, she, like Hillary, said something in the heat of the moment and I don’t for one minute believe she wished Obama dead like she wished Osama dead. Sometimes you equate a true feeling — like say you don’t like Democrats — with something more serious.

Anyone remember the film 12 Angry Men? “I’ll kill you” doesn’t always mean “I’ll kill you”, does it?

I’ll give her the benefit of the doubt to that extent, although I agree she has proven herself unfit to be a responsible commentator — even on a network brim full of irresponsible commentators.

Sounds like an elitist snob being forced to apologize. The only thing missing was she wasn’t holding her nose as she was being forced to read the script. But I’m sure her fingers were crossed.

Yes, “Colorful.” Please insert other large foot in mouth now, thank you.

Wuzup Hussein Dawk @ 33:

uncle joe hussein mccarthy @ 21:

that was the most condescending apology i have ever heard…some of you people are listening to her words and not her tone of voice

i hope the [Deleted. Site Monitor] gets [Deleted] by a bunch of rabid badgers…and i wont apologize for that statement

she has no buisiness being an analyst for anything…

Yes, condescending was the word that immediately came to my mind. The apology is hollow and sounded trite.

On the other hand, she, like Hillary, said something in the heat of the moment and I don’t for one minute believe she wished Obama dead like she wished Osama dead. Sometimes you equate a true feeling — like say you don’t like Democrats — with something more serious.

HRC said it ‘in the heat of the moment’ four or five times over several months…

What’s great is how she pretends to be surprised he’s asking about it…

And of course there’s an irony that she was making the mistake about words spoken without thinking when talking about Clinton’s apparent slip about assassination. Sigh.

B

“It’s a very colorful political season and many of us are making mistakes and saying things we wish we hadn’t said.”

Would she accept such an excuse were it given by a tree-hugging America-hater? What if Hillary herself said it? This is as phony an apology as they get.

This is too little too late. Any FOX person (seeing FOX news is a clearing house for this administration) says anything like that, it was not a “oops” moment or has been used for McCain recent a “senior moment”. At least McCains senior moments lately are his being uniformed unlike what this idiot said on a national news network.
Making those comments she did was about as light hearted in comedy as someone grabbing their chest in the middle of a major heart attack.
It seems to me the latest comments being made in this vain by Clinton, Huckabee and now this fool is like they are sending out their stamp of approval for some nutcase to hit the streets. We’ve seen it over the many years in our Nations existence that these nutcases are out there and looking for a green light.
God knows there is always some nut out there that has mulled this scenario over in their warped mind so why try to get them motivated by making these totally criminal and horrid comments????
It was uncalled for and she knew this from the get-go and anyone who buys this so-called apology…..well I have some swamp land in the middle of a desert….are you interested?

Wishing a presidential candidate dead is an attempt at humor? Yeah, its as funny as playing “Dead Kennedys’ songs the day that Ted Kennedy’s diagnosis and prognosis became public. Proof positive that John Stuart Mill was right, nearly 200 years ago, when he said “While its not true that all conservatives are stupid people, it is true that most stupid people are conservative. If Imus lost his job for non-murderous-but-idiotic “joke” . . .

Now why can’t Hillary Huckabee make such an apology? Even a condecending one?

Is Trotta a more decent human being?

Martunez @ 37:

“It’s a very colorful political season and many of us are making mistakes and saying things we wish we hadn’t said.”

Would she accept such an excuse were it given by a tree-hugging America-hater? What if Hillary herself said it? This is as phony an apology as they get.

Any left leaning Libural who makes such a comment about a RW politician would be investigated by the FBI and harassed to the point of suicide or some such accident, or find their name and address passed onto reichwing hate websites with the resulting events that would follow.

On the brighter side, teh internets and sites like C&L jumping right on this forced her into making this apology. Never would’ve happened 10 years ago.

I hope for the sake of ‘fair and balanced’ both Liz Trotta and Brian Kilmeade are both on the TSA ‘no fly’ lists now for their terroristic comments.
But of course they wont be, those lists are only for furreigners and domestic dissidents of the ruling regime.

Not good enough, and where is Hemmer’s apology for laughing & joking along with her?

DoctorRoberts@24: Being objective, and not like some, Hillary and her camp has
reason to be concerned about Obama’s campaign headquarters jumping into the
fray as to her “June 1968 comment about RFK”. Go to:

www.thecaucus.blogs.nytimes.co.....ex.html?hp

and you will find that his camp admits that they immediately put on erroreous
information about what she said. So, not only the media, but Obama’s camp
is almost equally as responsible(irresponsible) for disseminating false information.

Doggiebobo @ 45:

bollox

Yea right. She was just joking. And every moron on FoxNooz who mistakes Osama and Obama do it by mistake. Bunch of liars!

Bad link Doggiebobo.

Don’t buy it.

These people are fascists. Racists. Sexists. Ageists. All of the bad “ists.” And, yes, elitist — though they try to pin that tag on intelligent people such as Barack Obama. Hey, it’s McCain who has the multiple palatial residences, not Barack.

Money and power are all that matter to them. If you’re not among their ruling caste, get the hell out of the way.

boycott fox–and all their works and all their pomps and all their sponsors.

DoctorRoberts@24: Being objective, and not like some, Hillary and her camp has
reason to be concerned about Obama’s campaign headquarters jumping into the
fray as to her “June 1968 comment about RFK”. Go to:

www.thecaucus.blogs.nytimes.co.....ex.html?hp

and you will find that his camp admits that they immediately put on erroreous
information about what she said. So, not only the media, but Obama’s camp
is almost equally as responsible(irresponsible) for disseminating false information.

Sorry, the NYTimes website did not come through, but you can go to the NYT
Blog website(Caucus) for Monday, May 26, 2008, at 12:35PM and find the article
I attempted to reference above..

I believe her. Listening to the original clip - I felt she had inadvertently boxed herself in - that she didn’t realize what she had implied even. Terribly careless and unprofessional - but I felt that was true.

And god knows - I know that virtually NOTHING good comes from anyone on Fox news.

Thank you for doing the right thing Ms. Trotta.
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