Newbold reports: "During a segment about new rules regarding women in the military, Fox News contributor Liz Trotta attacked the Department of Defense for increasing spending on support programs for victims of sexual assault. Trotta also reacted to a Pentagon report showing a 64% increase in violent sexual assaults since 2006 by stating: 'Well, what did they expect? These people are in close contact.'"
Fox News contributer Liz Trotta, 02/12/12. (photo: Media Matters for America)
Fox Commentator: Military Rape, "What Did They Expect?"
13 February 12
Fox's Liz Trotta on sexual assault in military: "What did they expect? These people are in close contact."
uring a segment about new rules regarding women in the military, Fox News contributor Liz Trotta attacked the Department of Defense for increasing spending on support programs for victims of sexual assault. Trotta also reacted to a Pentagon report showing a 64% increase in violent sexual assaults since 2006 by stating: "Well, what did they expect? These people are in close contact."
Trotta began by claiming "we have women once more, the feminist, going, wanting to be warriors and victims at the same time" and later added that 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.... 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."
When Fox News anchor Eric Shawn said that "many would say that they need to be protected," Trotta replied: "That's funny, I thought the mission of the" armed forces "was to defend and protect us, not the people who were fighting the war."
From the February 12 edition of Fox News' America's News HQ:
ERIC SHAWN (co-anchor): So this is now causing a controversy?
LIZ TROTTA (Fox News contributor): Well, it's a controversy that won't be a controversy because of political correctness. But we have women once more, the feminist, going, wanting to be warriors and victims at the same time. So what is the news? The news is that the Pentagon is going to add 14,000 more jobs for women in the military, but the overall ban against serving in the infantry, in special operations units, and combat tank units, is still in place. Well, you may ask, why did 140 women die in Afghanistan and Iraq if this ban was in place? Well the whole way we wage war has changed enormously. No front lines, no clear delineation of where troops are. Women can be attached to battalions, but they can't actually be in battalions. That would get down to the real guts of how we fight wars - and that is being a member of the infantry.
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. Let me just read something to you from McClatchy Newspapers about how much this position on extreme feminism is costing us. "The budget for the Defense Department's Sexual Assault Prevention and Response Office leapt from $5 million in fiscal 2005 to more than $23 million in fiscal 2010. Total Defense Department spending on sexual assault prevention and related efforts now exceeds $113 million annually." That's from McClatchy Newspapers.
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.
SHAWN: Well, many would say that they need to be protected, and there are these sexual programs, abuse programs, are necessary -
TROTTA: That's funny, I thought the mission of the Army, and the Navy, and four services was to defend and protect us, not the people who were fighting the war.
SHAWN: Well, you certainly want the people fighting the war to be protected from anything that could be illegal.
TROTTA: Oh, look, I mean, that's - nice try Eric. This whole question of women in the military has not been aired properly, and it's the great sleeping giant.
Trotta also appeared on Fox News yesterday to discuss a Newsweek story about the persecution of Christians globally. During the segment, the topic of CBS News reporter Lara Logan's sexual assault was raised, and Trotta said:
TROTTA: I think the Lara Logan thing is a completely separate thing. Any woman - and I've been in those crowds - any woman who's going to be in one of those highly passionate crowds in the Middle East where Islamics are running around yelling "Allahu Akbar" is taking her life in her hands. And so, I mean, you know the least that can happen to you is that you'll get felt up, so you have to know that going in. But I think that's separate from what's happening to Christians. They are being sacrificed for their religion.
From the February 11 edition of Fox News' America's News HQ:
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Our young people, men AND women litterally have to kill for an education
Count on faux "news" to be total jerks about a serious problem, and instead fault the women. When will people see the light and understand what a disgrace Faux is??
I have said it before: Murdoch and faux are a cancer on our society, and untill more people realize it. there will be NO HEALING. Murdoch belongs in jail.
I see two parallel movements here; The first is to keep the African Americans in their place (hopefully to stick them back into their roles as slaves) of which there is great undercurrent still in this country (as per the hate for Obama) and which we have seen crawl out from under the rock since he has been in office. The second is to shove women back into their place as being submissive third class citizens to only make babies, cook meals and serve them and to scrub floors and such.
I encourage everyone to watch the wonderful t.v. program that ran tonight on public t.v. on the second phase of slavery for African Americans in America. Brilliant piece! Greatly educational and should be required for every citizen to watch. It illustrates part of our history that has been given only a tiny bit of focus. It explains the roots of much of the politics and evil we are seeing in the current political system--more than a hundred years after those events!
Instead of buying slaves, now blacks were thrown in jail for all sorts of trumped up charges. Out and out lies, but what could a poor black man or woman do???
Businesses or farmers put in an order for a number of prisoners to be delivered to them, and they were then worked, often to death. Or they were BEATEN to DEATH, particularly if they had the nerve to protest their innocense.
This outrage went on with the knowledge and complicity of the law. Which were often DOING the jailing of totally innocent blacks.
It is no wonder that some black people have a lot of anger. I am so infuriated, that it makes me shake. And I am a white woman I really feel for all the poor mistreated people, and we know. A lot still is.
The black people were treated WORSE than when they were actually slaves. Because a slaveowner didn't want to damage his posession...too much. After all it was money.
The people, who rented the blacks, were not out that much money, so they didn't give a damn.
This infuriating disgusting practise went on into the nineteenthirtie s. I can't remember when it was stopped, maybe not totally. But one distraught mother wrote Elinor Rosewelt, and begged for help.
IMHO, any rapist or pedergast ought to be castrated. There is no excuse for such bestiality.
As for that snotty b---h, I'd like to rearrange her nasty face with a trenching tool.
Feminists, indeed.
During the Vietnam War, the Navy asked serving the WAVES: Would you be wiling to serve in Vietnam if restrictions against your doing so were lifted? Our YES was so overwhelming that the subject was dropped like a hot rock. Our brothers, dads, sweethearts and husbands were over there, and it was humiliating that we at home, safe and sound. Did we WANT to go? Heck, no! But did we have some inherent right to serve only in safety? NEVER!!
No evolution in her universe. She must be the product of creation(appare ntly in Hell). Certainly not intelligent design.
What would be the right amount of rape?
What we really need is a return to the days when newscasters, advertisers, politicians, doctors (in fact anyone) were prohibited from lying in public! What a concept. Then old Trotta the traita would not have a forum to demonstrate her deficits. Canada has it so Faux cannot own stations in that country. Don't wait for an organization. Get off your own duff and start some real patriotism.
The troops suffer enough. They do not deserve her.
Of course, the military and war are not the best environments for encouraging decent behavior. Testosterone gone wild.
This woman's role is to create controversy through the media, just as Ann Coulter does in politics. Bet we'd all be surprised how many people would agree with Liz Trotta though, sadly.
a) stop hiring rapists and
b) adopt a less tolerant policy towards rape.
Just sayin'
PS. If they're raping women this often, they're raping men, too.
Glen, oddly enough, nothing inherent in either the military world or even combat theatres encourages rape. It is true that combat is brutalizing to normal respect for human life--how could it not be?--but it also often brings out the moral best in human beings, if only because the unavoidable brutality of war is so repugnant to most people.
Cambridgemac, the military isn't "hiring" (it recruits, not hires) rapists, but you have nailed the problem of "tolerant" policy, and I think you might well be correct in musing that men may also suffer rape. The official policy is condemnation of such bestiality toward any other person, whether in their own unit or in the "enemy" community. However, that policy must be enforced all the way down the chain of command if it is to be effective. And responsibility for its enforcement runs from the most junior NCO to the Chairman of the JCS, the Chief Executive, the Congress--and the American citizen. We will have only what we insist upon having.
Apparently, what you are saying here is that it is OK to kill but not to rape. Such an ideal world during combat! In fact, rape is a hallmark of war and violence and the degradation of those being invaded. Why would anybody assume 18 to 30 year old men would not also turn to women recruits?
True, all are responsible, but that, too is an ideal world.
Let's be honest, the "all-volunteer force" does not recruit our best. These "heroes" are scraped from the bottom of the barrel, the least-employable, most crude, and borderline criminal element. They are expendable chumps. No woman in her right mind should enlist.
During WWII women served to release military men from duty here in the States for combat abroad. How about signing up so a woman can be released frm her service and come home?
You've obviously not been through military boot camp or basic training, or you'd know that they are designed to teach personal and group discipline, teamwork, and pride in self, unit, serivce, and country.
Our all-volunteer Armed Forces recruit the best people they can, and your characterizatio n of our servicemen and servicewomen displays not only your ignorance but also your arrogance. It doesn't seem likely that you would be an improvement if you joined or were drafted into their ranks.
You owe every veteran and active duty member of our Armed Forces an apology.
Its going to take me time just to sort them out.
'annually' and I'm pretty sure I heard her say:"Anally" Hmmmmm
But then again, this is:
FAUX-NEWS..."fair(???)& balanced
Ohhhh??? F&B Yeah, "right":D:D
Fox is a deeply sick organization, but what do they expect? Look who owns it.
Ignorant ass farm animal, Liz Trotta...how about educating boys early to learn you dont do that to girls and women. Watch the company you keep liz ya know you might end up getting raped if you get too close to the men in the news who are OBVIOUSLY leaps and bounds ahead of you in our ADVANCED intellect. Ugh. What a dumb waste of a body.
sexual assault among our men and women in
military service is not warranted my dear, and you need a Psych Eval, Pronto!
Please do not reproduce, your kind of thinking is dangerous!
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