Elizabeth Trotta is an American journalist and conservative commentator, best known for contributions to various Fox News programs.

Biography

Trotta was born in New Haven, Connecticut

New Haven, Connecticut

New Haven is the second-largest city in Connecticut and the sixth-largest in New England. According to the 2010 Census, New Haven's population increased by 5.0% between 2000 and 2010, a rate higher than that of the State of Connecticut, and higher than that of the state's five largest cities, and...

. Her parents, Gaetano "Thomas" Trotta, a successful pharmacist, and the former Lillian Theresa Mazzacane, were both Catholic

Catholic

The word catholic comes from the Greek phrase , meaning "on the whole," "according to the whole" or "in general", and is a combination of the Greek words meaning "about" and meaning "whole"...

s who had emigrated from Italy

Italy

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.Beside her parents,Liz had a sister, Mary L. Juba, who passed away in 2002. Liz has three nieces,Susan Christian of California, Dorene Juba-Peplau of CT., and Catherine Juba of Florida, and one great nephew and two great nieces who reside in CT.

Trotta is a Fox News contributor and the former New York

New York

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 bureau chief of The Washington Times

The Washington Times

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. She began her career in 1965, covering the Vietnam War

Vietnam War

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 as a correspondent for NBC News

NBC News

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 and later working for CBS News

CBS News

CBS News is the news division of American television and radio network CBS. The current chairman is Jeff Fager who is also the executive producer of 60 Minutes, while the current president of CBS News is David Rhodes. CBS News' flagship program is the CBS Evening News, hosted by the network's main...

. Trotta has taught Journalism at Stern College of Yeshiva University. She has won three Emmy awards and two Overseas Press Club

Overseas Press Club

The Overseas Press Club of America was founded in 1939 in New York City by a group of foreign correspondents. The wire service reporter Carol Weld was a founding member...

 awards, and is a graduate of Columbia University Graduate School of Journalism

Columbia University Graduate School of Journalism

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.

Controversy

On 25 May 2008, Trotta expressed on Fox News

Fox News Channel

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 an apparent desire that presidential candidate Barack Obama

Barack Obama

Barack Hussein Obama II is the 44th and current President of the United States. He is the first African American to hold the office. Obama previously served as a United States Senator from Illinois, from January 2005 until he resigned following his victory in the 2008 presidential election.Born in...

 be assassinated prior to the 2008 United States presidential election

United States presidential election, 2008

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. While speaking about Hillary Rodham Clinton

Hillary Rodham Clinton

Hillary Diane Rodham Clinton is the 67th United States Secretary of State, serving in the administration of President Barack Obama. She was a United States Senator for New York from 2001 to 2009. As the wife of the 42nd President of the United States, Bill Clinton, she was the First Lady of the...

's reference to Robert F. Kennedy

Robert F. Kennedy

Robert Francis "Bobby" Kennedy , also referred to by his initials RFK, was an American politician, a Democratic senator from New York, and a noted civil rights activist. An icon of modern American liberalism and member of the Kennedy family, he was a younger brother of President John F...

's assassination, Trotta said:

Trotta apologized the next day. A petition demanding that Trotta be fired was soon up on Care2

Care2

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 gathering over 14,000 signatures.
More recently, on Fox News during the afternoon of Oct. 8, 2011, Liz Trotta mocked the participants in Occupy Wall Street

Occupy Wall Street

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for being “people who like good weather”, and who spout “the ravings of what sounds like the Unabomber.”