Fox News Contributor Says Female Press Jealous They Couldn’t Bag A Rich Guy Like Ann Romney Did (VIDEO)

By Don Hamel/Addicting Info

Liz Trotta is a Fox News ‘contributor.’ Of course, in Fox-ese that means ‘right wing apologist and talking point supplier.’ Yesterday she went on air to discuss why Ann Romney is perceived as out-of-touch; you might think it’s because of things Ann Romney has said, but that’s because you are naive. The real reason is jealousy.

Yes jealousy. The female members of the press are all engaging in class envy, because unlike Ann Romney, they failed to reel in the rich husband, that every gal dreams of:

“Recently the lefty WAGs [wives and girlfriends] went on about Romney’s $1,000 blouse, a scandal. But the $7,000 jacketMichelle Obama wore to Buckingham Palace drew only approving nods from her fans in the left-wing media.”

Ann wore the blouse to do a television show, Michelle Obama wore the jacket as a representative of the United States meeting the Queen of England…Oh and the same people (Fox) that pointed out how much the jacket cost, criticized Obama for not dressing well enough to meet the Queen the first time. Of course.

But Liz Trotta had more to say:

“Don’t try to make any sense of this hypocrisy. For with their inborn sense of class warfare — as well as their funny clothes — the ladies of the press really believe they are acting on principle, except that the principle is driven by envy, envy of a woman who managed to do exactly what their mothers told them, although they would never admit it: marry a good, preferably rich man; raise your children full time and dress like a lady.”

This is actually a pretty standard piece of psy-ops for Fox News; the words are crafted to dismiss the discussion of Ann Romney’s charmless elitism, by making any notice of it the real problem. And you loyal viewers, you wouldn’t want to be like those tacky, desperate old maids in the press corp, would you?

In one fell swoop, she manages to turn a group of women who chose a career in journalism, into a cluster of Jan Bradys, bitter because their prettier sister (“Marcia, Marcia, Marcia!”) got asked to the prom, and they didn’t.

Then add in the kicker: Class warfare. Fox hammers away at it, because the man they’re trying to sell is wealthier than the last eight presidents combined. And that include 2 Bushes. When they talk about class envy, it’s always a smokescreen; we could all use more money. And I’ll wager that thereare plenty of people who, if given the unlimited resources Ann Romney has been given, would be every bit as superficial and self-indulgent as she is; But I doubt any of them are in the press pool, following presidential candidates and their wives around. People who take jobs like that, usually are aware of how politics shapes our world, and you don’t take a job analyzing politics, if your secret ambition is to play dress-up with a horsie.

But here’s a thought: If what Trotta disdainfully refers to “inborn sense of class warfare,” is real, isn’t that really just a survival instinct? We also possess “inborn” reactions to loud noises, extreme heat, unpleasant smells…The human body has myriad “inborn” reactions to outside stimuli, both bad and good. Maybe there’s something to that. And I’m glad we have the women (and men) of the press who have the temerity to point out the danger to the rest of us.
Of course with the right in general, and Fox in particular, there’s always a significant amount of projection involved. It is easy to dismiss actual journalists as jealous agenda-driven class warriors, when your job is to cloud the water’s of journalism with your class conscious agenda.
Here’s the video:

Fox Pundit Says Women In The Military Should ‘Expect’ To Be Raped

By Ben Armbruster/Think Progress




The Pentagon announced new rules last week easing the ban on women serving in combat. While conservatives like Rick Santorum are a little uneasy with the news, the announcement only formalizes military practices that were already taking place.

But Fox News contributor Liz Trotta’s commentary on the matter took the issue to a whole other level. She’s not really concerned about the “controversy” surrounding the Pentagon’s announcement. For Trotta, the issue is having “women once more, the feminist, going, wanting to be warriors and victims at the same time.” She cited a recent Pentagon report that violent sex crimes in the military have increased over the last 6 years and said women should “expect” it, decrying more levels of bureaucracy to support women who have been “raped too much“:

TROTTA: But while all of this is going on, just a few weeks ago, Defense Secretary Leon Panetta commented on a new Pentagon report on sexual abuse in the military. I think they have actually discovered there is a difference between men and women. And the sexual abuse report says that there has been, since 2006, a 64% increase in violent sexual assaults. Now, what did they expect? These people are in close contact, the whole airing of this issue has never been done by Congress, it’s strictly been a question of pressure from the feminist.

And the feminists have also directed them, really, to spend a lot of money. They have sexual counselors all over the place, victims’ advocates, sexual response coordinators. … So, you have this whole bureaucracy upon bureaucracy being built up with all kinds of levels of people to support women in the military who are now being raped too much.

To his credit, Fox host Eric Shawn tried to talk Trotta down a bit. “You certainly want the people fighting the war to be protected from anything that could be illegal,” he said. But Trotta wouldn’t have it. “Nice try Eric,” she said, “This whole question of women in the military has not been aired properly, and it’s the great sleeping giant.” Watch the clip via Media Matters:

Just to clarify, Trotta complained about government supporting women who have been “raped too much,” a statement seeming to imply that there is an acceptable amount of rape one can or should endure in order to prevent more layers of bureaucracy from swooping in to help out.