I'd like to see if Media Matters picks it up.

I would like to add that contacting the local media affiliates will not help. They will only refer you back to FNC. Every other avenue is absolutely worth pursuing. And, absolutely should be pursued.

Coincidentally, Canada's National Post reported today:

"Edmonton — A construction worker convicted of threatening Alberta Premier Ed Stelmach has been sentenced to four months in jail, a provincial court judge has ruled.
"Ronald Labelle, 57, was convicted in March of 31 offences in connection with threats he made against the premier last September. Mr. Labelle called the Premier's office and announced he was going to go to Mr. Stelmach's farm northeast of Edmonton, hurt him and kill his cattle."

The guy had been drinking; Trotta didn't appear to have that excuse.
And the only assassination mentioned was of the bovine variety.

So, Otto and you other guys who are saying this is a non-issue, if Olbermann or Matthews would have joked about doing away with Hillary on MSNBC you would have just brushed it off, right???

And I agree with the person above who did not find her apology sincere; I thought it sounded sarcastic and satirical.

I found the tape very troubling, all the more troubling because listening to the longer tape of the interview and Trotta's comments leading up to her gaffe and 'joke' seemed to be fairly well reasoned. So I gave the link to a friend of mine who is a defense attorney who played it four times, and he gave me this impression: What Trotta started to say before she slipped on the name 'Obama' was 'And now we have what some are reading as a suggestion that somebody knock off Oh... Osama...(interruption) Obama...well both if we could..." she visibly stumbled before saying 'Osama' and at that point, my friend said she was visibly very embarrassed and her laughter was one of acute discomfort, and tried to construct a joke based upon the first part of her sentence about 'somebody knocking off Osama AND Obama' and said 'we' instead of 'they' as she ham-handedly, in her own words, 'fell all over herself.' He is not excusing what she said, but he is explaining that what she was trying to make a joke about was that in speculating about 'somebody wants to knock off Obama' (not herself) that they would be just as happy to knock off Osama too. Which goes to intent. He said it was obvious from her manner that she was laughing nervously about slipping up on the name, but that her inept joke was about somebody else wanting to murder him, not that she was expressing a hostile desire. Of course, with that apparent 'we' in there, it sounds terribly damning.

I was mildly relieved at the explanation, because I find it ghoulish that a senior correspondent with 40 years of television reporting experience would actually chortle over a personal expression of ill-will.