I watched (with absolute stunned disbelief), live, Fox News media analyst Liz Trotta as she ripped into Sarah Palin. Trotta, a true Fox News conservative shredded Palin so badly I was beginning to wonder if perhaps she was being too tough on the outgoing Alaska governor and should perhaps give Palin what boxing fans know as a standing eight count. Actually, I wasn’t going to blog anything about it. My approach, originally, was going to be to wait and see what others had to say and to see if anyone else came away with the same impression I had of the segment. Huffington Post writer Rachel Weiner had the same impression of the segment I had as I viewed it.
I got the impression the host felt Trotta had gone horribly off script with her criticisms of Palin. The host opened a segment by highlighting all of these criticisms of Palin and, from time to time, rolled up his sleeves and went to work in Palin’s defense.
Trotta certainly is no friend to liberals as she has shown repeatedly with jokes made in poor taste about Barack Obama and one-sided slams of figures who are not conservative and Republican.
In this case, however, she certainly took off the gloves and bloodied Sarah Palin before a national television audience on Fox News.
Here is part of what Huffington Post transcribed from the segment as Trotta lit into Palin:
“The woman is inarticulate, undereducated,” Trotta said, arguing that for once liberal criticism was “well-deserved.”
“I think all the liberal stylists … really have a case. She just begs for adjectives like flaky and wacky.” When pressed, she added, “We’re talking about somebody who, right from the get-go, has been a flashy person who gets into a lot of trouble and really has no credentials for any job.”
OUCH! Actually, I think Trotta was a little too harsh on Palin … especially bashing her education.
