OK, Last week, trying to out cute herself, pundit Liz Trotta made an "oopsie" when she suggested that, essentially, killing anyone whose name rhymed with "drama" (Osama, Obama...) and then giggled like a kindergartner on cookie detail.

Shit-fire (a technical term).

Now, she joins a growing list of news chatterheads who have had to make the Mea Culpa. Here's what she said:

And because I scarcely get past her Endora impression ("Oh, alright, Durwood. I'm sorry I turned you into a randy goat but you must admit it: you're grass has never been so neatly clipped...and the neighborhood cat will come back some day."), here's the text of her apology:

"I am so sorry about what happened yesterday. In a lame attempt at humor I really just fell all over myself in making it appear that I wished Barack Obama harm or any other candidate for that matter. I sincerely regret it and apologize to anybody I’ve offended (Lalita: unless you're as dimwitted and devoid of class as Ms. Trotta seemed that day). It’s a very colorful political season and many of us are making mistakes and saying things we wish we hadn’t said."

Ms. Trotta joins cable news luminaries Chris Mathews and Glen Beck who were also called upon to do the Oopsie Two Step. Here's Chris Matthews apologizing and apologizing and apologizing for having referred to Senator Clinton as She devil, Nurse Rached and Madame Defarge (quite the literary defamer, that Chris).

Not to be left out, Glenn Beck stepped up to say "Sorry" after having run a truncated clip that was spun to have Bill Clinton say that "We just have to slow down our economy" in order to combat global warming--a line taken out of context to such an extent that, when run in its entirety, shows he meant the opposite:

CLINTON: And maybe America, and Europe, and Japan, and Canada -- the rich counties [sic] -- would say, "OK, we just have to slow down our economy and cut back our greenhouse gas emissions 'cause we've got to save the planet for our grandchildren." We could do that.

But if we did that, you know as well as I do, China and India and Indonesia and Vietnam and Mexico and Brazil and the Ukraine, and all the other countries will never agree to stay poor to save the planet for our grandchildren. The only way we can do this is if we get back in the world's fight against global warming and prove it is good economics that we will create more jobs to build a sustainable economy that saves the planet for our children and grandchildren. It is the only way it will work.

The pundits are creating a funny kind of alternate universe wherein politicians must carefully parse their every word, while the pundits, well, don't. I'm not much for that world. There's enough of substance (war, economics, international relations, healthcare and the explosion in illness if you've found yourself so lost in the weeds you forgot) to discuss without having to resort to ad hominem attacks or just making things up.

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