Since Hillary Clinton's campaign has been in damage control after the candidate brought up the assassination of Robert F. 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.

Trotta: Yes, I am so sorry about what happened yesterday and the lame attempt at humor. I feel all over myself, making it appear that I wished Barack Obama harm or any other candidate, for that matter, and I sincerely regret it and apologize to anybody I have offended. It is a very colorful political season, and many of us are making mistakes and saying things we wish we had not said.

Besides joking about the assassination of a senator who's had to take on a Secret Service detail because of such threats, will analysts continue thinking its really funny to mix up "Osama" and "Obama" through November?

Anyway, after the jump is Trotta's apology from Monday's segment. (Hat tip Johnny Dollar).

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