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This cropped up a couple days ago in light of Hillary Clinton's remark about Robert Kennedy being assassinated in 1968 as a reason she is staying in the race.
In it, Fox News analyst Liz Trotta apparently mixes up Barack Obama's name with Osama bin Laden's, and instead of covering up her slip-up, she says both men should be assassinated, then laughs it off.
She said, "And now we have what some are reading as a suggestion that someboy knock off Osa, Ob, Osama, Obama -- well, both, if we could," and then continues to chuckle.Trotta, a former New York bureau chief for The Washington Times, then called Clinton "tone-deaf" for making the comments and said it doesn't matter whether she meant it in the context of her rival's personal safety, after asked by Eric Shawn, the anchor.
"What's really important here is not whether she meant it or not, which is not for me to decide," she said. After Clinton made the comment, the New York senator quickly apologized and said she meant it entirely in a historical context.
Trotta has since apologized for her "lame attempt at humor," saying "many of us are making mistakes and saying things that we wish that we hadn't said."
Her Fox News bio touts three Emmy awards, two Overseas Press Club awards and her graduate degree from Columbia University's journalism school, one of the most prestigious in the country.
Like the original Clinton gaffe, this one flew around the Internet on YouTube almost immediately after the analyst appeared on television Sunday.
In it, Fox News analyst Liz Trotta apparently mixes up Barack Obama's name with Osama bin Laden's, and instead of covering up her slip-up, she says both men should be assassinated, then laughs it off.
She said, "And now we have what some are reading as a suggestion that someboy knock off Osa, Ob, Osama, Obama -- well, both, if we could," and then continues to chuckle.Trotta, a former New York bureau chief for The Washington Times, then called Clinton "tone-deaf" for making the comments and said it doesn't matter whether she meant it in the context of her rival's personal safety, after asked by Eric Shawn, the anchor.
"What's really important here is not whether she meant it or not, which is not for me to decide," she said. After Clinton made the comment, the New York senator quickly apologized and said she meant it entirely in a historical context.
Trotta has since apologized for her "lame attempt at humor," saying "many of us are making mistakes and saying things that we wish that we hadn't said."
Her Fox News bio touts three Emmy awards, two Overseas Press Club awards and her graduate degree from Columbia University's journalism school, one of the most prestigious in the country.
Like the original Clinton gaffe, this one flew around the Internet on YouTube almost immediately after the analyst appeared on television Sunday.
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