Tuesday, May 27, 2008

Redlining on the Gaffe-O-Meter

Senator Barak Obama recently created a flap when he impatiently addressed a persistent woman reporter as “sweetie”. This is not the first time that the Illinois Senator and Democratic presidential candidate has used a condescending epithet in talking to women reporters, but you won’t hear about it in the mainstream media.

Fortunately, the Press Association Covering Obama has been collecting these gaffes and is able to present other terms Senator Obama has used in addressing women (both reporters and questioners in the audience). They include:

1) Toots;

2) Baby doll;

3) Little girl;

And,

4) You dimpled blob of quivering cellulite.

Senator Obama’s rival for the Democratic presidential nomination, Senator Hillary Clinton, moved quickly to try and capitalize on these heretofore unpublicized gaffes at a major press conference at Columbia University, but substantially undermined her strategy by unaccountably departing from her prepared comments and imitating the calls of various New York waterfowl. Although this episode led to considerable consternation among Senator Clinton’s campaign staff, several ornithologists in the audience said afterwards that she gave a very creditable imitation of the bufflehead (Bucephala albeola), the surf scoter (Melanitta perspicillata), and the red-throated loon (Gavia stellata). The Obama camp, however, was quick to criticize her greater scaup (Aythya manila), intimating that the extent of her knowledge of bird calls was more apparent than real, “just like her knowledge of foreign policy.”

7 comments:

SwampWoman said...

Dang. Everybody knows the way to address an impatient female reporter is "Get out my way, bitch!"

He is soooooo out of touch.

Anonymous said...

Awww, come on huh? He says the same thing to male reporters.

kc said...

Did he use #4 on the other candidate?

SwampWoman said...

Nah, I don't think John McCain has much cellulite.

Anonymous said...

What I want to know is...

What were the size of her sweater cows?

Is it relevant to the question asked?

No, but then I'm just a guy with limited interests.

Anonymous said...

Please tell me this guy isn't going to be President!

Minicapt said...

Ash
Nope, you'll have to wait till Jul/Nov with the rest us.

Cheers