Such shabby shabby reporting . Hillary Clinton WAS NOT the first woman to run for president of the U.S. How horrible to use such a platform for MISEDUCATION.
truelly amazing. i never thought i would see the word 'Sweetie" as a negative thing. He wasn't even talking down to her, he was just being polite. People amaze me
THATS TRUE MAN. AND THIS IS A WORD WOMEN USE A LOT WHEN TALKING TO MEN I DONT UNDERSTAND IM NOT AMERICAN BUT IVE TALKED TO AMERICAN WOMEN WHO HAVE CALLED ME SWEETIE ITS A GOOD WORD I DONT KNOW WHATS THE BIG DEAL WITH THIS.. THIS LOOKS LIKE A GOSSIP NEWS PROGRAM NOT A SERIOUS NEWS CHANNEL MAKE A BIG PROBLEM FOR THAT SIMPLE WORD
This news was biased from the beginning, even the phrasing of the questions encourages the audience to take their side instead of letting the audience decide. Bad reporting- unbalanced.
@Kieran195 LoL yeah, that woulda been a much more newsworthy. Little clip of him going "Hang on bitch, I'm working on it." Jesus, they'd have had a hay day with that.
very interesting seeing this on the BBC. LOL! It depends on culture but I would be a little surprised if he called me sweetie. I was called ma'am when I was 16 but didn't know at that age that it was more of a respect thing. I just thought it meant been old. Still not wild about the term. Interesting.
I mean, I have to agree that people are being overly sensitive, as usual. Obama is not a sexist, and does not deserve that lable. But do you really think the reporter was trying to be sweet and cute when she asked that, or was she trying to be a professional?
LOL he apologized for this!??! What the hell if anybody actually got offended by him saying that has got issues. It's probably just the wierd ass feminists.
Obama calls a woman sweetie and he's considered a sexist. While Sarah Palin votes for a bill where rape victims have to pay for their rape examinations and that diesn't make the news.
Barack Obama is not the first black man to run for president of the USA, and Hillary is not the first woman to run for president of the USA. Jesse Jackson and Alan Keyes (who are both black) ran for president long before Obama ever did (and Obama is bi-racial). Also, Elizabeth Dole ran for president before Hillary ever did.
Obama's use of the word "sweetie" to a professional woman displays the element of superiority he feels over other people...
"In parts of the American Deep South, like Hawaii, Cambridge, Chicago, textile factories in Allentown PA, and Chrysler factories in Detroit, "Sweetie", or "Honey" and "Darling", are all used as harmless terms of endearment with no sexism implied. So it seems it's a matter of context..."
You know what...I think you are right. Sweetie is only used commonly for women because the definition of Sweetie is-- pleasing to the mind or feelings-- and that is obvisouly not men.
Cindy Mc Cain seems to be a kind, beautiful and gentle soul. However, I believe that she is a battered wife. The woman kowtows and acts so skittishly in the presence of her husband. I don't believe for one moment that an over-zealous supporter hurt her arm which is in a sling these days.
Well we can all start calling professional men our Sugar then right? Or how about's Honey? Or Baby, or sweetie? Is that what your equals at work call you?
means alot coming from a person who can't spell intelligence...
besides, this is another person. Not a robot, he has a personality and that was definately not a sexist remark. It was informal, not sexist. If he had called a man "bud" or something, we wouldn't have heard a word about it.
i see where you are coming from, but... sweetie isn't used for men such as dude, brother, pal, or bud isn't generally used for women. it was INFORMAL. if he had called a man 'dude' would it have been sexist? not at all. if you call a woman 'dude' it wouldn't fit either would it? it's not common to call a man sweetie and it's not common to call a woman dude. tell me how you can call this sexist?
This woman was on the job as a professional reporter. He is not going to call a male reporter dude. Not a chance. It would be worldwide headlines. It shows that he doens't see working women as worthy of the same dignity that he gives male professionals. Informal talk is kept for informal situations. Talking with a news reporter with a camera crew and calling the reporter Sweeties while you are conducting a campaign showed his true sexist colors.This wasn't a student or a campgain music rally.
Sweetie isn't used as a sexist remark in any situation...it's used alot when people don't know the name of other people, some places more than others. Just because you are not familiar with someone calling someone sweetie doesn't mean it's sexist. why should he have to treat a person in a professional role with more respect than a student anyway? in a country for equal rights you say it's ok for him to show (in your eyes)disrespect to a student? if yes, there's something wrong with you...
It is not the student/professional context it is the context of a professional work situation compared to a social/informal situation. Just because you know of people who regularly call female people sweetie in professional contexts doesn't mean that the general public accepts this. As the video says, in the wrong circumstances, women and men alike would not like to be called sweetie. Sweetie isnt a term of respect for professional situations anymore than calling him BOY would be. Use Miss, etc.
i have watched some of the videos on your page, and see that you are wholeheartedly against Obama. It's obvious that even if this wasn't sexist you would try to twist it to make him sound sexist. You are a closed-minded individual with the purpose of undermining Obama. To be honest with you, i wouldn't vote for him, or any of the other candidates that ran for the 08 presidency. I'm not a fan of Obama by any means and think that he may be a twisted individual indeed, but this is not sexist...
O lord! What do we want "ME TARZAN YOU JANE?" Some men abuse women and call them all sorts of foul, derogatory, four-letter word names. The Senator said "sweetie" and we are offended? Come on girls, let's be real. Lighten up.
Okay Dumb Dick, big thug, bro, dude, fryhead, meathead, muscle head, Brute, crackhead, .. anything goes in a professional context cause some men are abusive.. Just cause some fleas don't know how to show respect doesn't mean our presidental candidates should be disrespectful meatheads. Great standards you have of holding yourself up to what? Nothng? class up low life.
sunbeansnflowerstuv: First off learn how to spell intelligence and what the hell is a ghosty? If you think sweetie is sexist, how about Mccain calling his own wife a cunt or making a joke about rape victims? Those are obvious sexist remarks, and I've noticed that you failed to mention them.
I call a lot of women sweetie,and none have ever called me sexist. Women I don't know call me honey, darlin, and sweeite all of the time and I see nothing wrong with it. Stop being so damn sensitive!
Honestly, sexist or not, he's a hell of a lot less sexist than McCain, who has a 0% approval rating from Planned Parenthood. Even if he has some outdated views, he's not trying to change the laws of the country to accommodate them.
My boss used to call me "sweetie" and "honey". I asked him politely to stop and he said he repected me more for addressing it. It's a term of endearment, which I think is not appropriate in a professional setting. What if he had called a male reporter "sweetie"? Would that be appropriate?
He's Black, and any idiot knows that Black American English includes a lot of deep south colloquialisms. It's not racism, sexism, or any ism. It's just Obama being informal when he should be a bit more formal.
Any feminist who says they'll vote McCain instead of Obama, thus throwing away a woman's right to choose, is no true feminist. She's just a man-hater or a racist, or a Republican who is lying about her affiliation.
typical bbc propaganda. The "deep south" if full of sexist pigs, which does not make it acceptable. Also, Obama is a CHICAGOAN! not deep south at all! He is a LAWYER! does he not get you do not call professional women in a professional environment "sweetie"? What does his wife have to do with the question? She is not a feminist and his marriage to her proves nothing!
How up-tight can people get! What's so wrong with 'sweetie'? I think I've heard George Bush call people worse! Does this really merit being on prime time news?? If so then the extreme politically correct have won.
Oh my god, Obama used the S word. He's going straight to hell. Her point that he is fresh and new and has to watch what he says. Stupid point, that's why people like him. He seems like a real person, not some frickin robot.
Do some proper news, bitches!!
danbh84 1 month ago
Who gives a fuck what he said?! I call ladies sweetie, honey, darling - it doesn't mean anything!
danbh84 1 month ago
He said "sweetie" because he is an arrogant elitist.
Jazzanswer 6 months ago
oh my god who cares! americans are way too afraid of words!!
nataliewheeleryo 8 months ago
Tell that to your husband,ya guna call him sexist when he calls ya sweetie.
Ragilex 9 months ago
This is pissing me off Women like so dramatic he was being polite whats wrong being called sweetie women wise the fuck up
MrHamsterpower 9 months ago
Such shabby shabby reporting . Hillary Clinton WAS NOT the first woman to run for president of the U.S. How horrible to use such a platform for MISEDUCATION.
ANCIENTMYS 9 months ago
i personally like being called sweetie.....that may be cuz of where im from but it is a sign of enderment
loveme4mybody 9 months ago
truelly amazing. i never thought i would see the word 'Sweetie" as a negative thing. He wasn't even talking down to her, he was just being polite. People amaze me
ninmachine109 1 year ago
@ninmachine109
THATS TRUE MAN. AND THIS IS A WORD WOMEN USE A LOT WHEN TALKING TO MEN I DONT UNDERSTAND IM NOT AMERICAN BUT IVE TALKED TO AMERICAN WOMEN WHO HAVE CALLED ME SWEETIE ITS A GOOD WORD I DONT KNOW WHATS THE BIG DEAL WITH THIS.. THIS LOOKS LIKE A GOSSIP NEWS PROGRAM NOT A SERIOUS NEWS CHANNEL MAKE A BIG PROBLEM FOR THAT SIMPLE WORD
vergajo222 9 months ago
This is important News~
YTCENS0R 1 year ago
Who cares what these thought police think?
This kind of nonsense--females nonsense--only has power if you let it.
So why let it?
Just shut these people out, the same way the Klan etc is.
SeanMacCloud 1 year ago
Excuses, excuses.
doneidson 1 year ago
Bonnie is certainly no sweetie, more like dragon ...
firefightermeath 1 year ago
Bonnie Erbe' s dumb and boring.
grozde 1 year ago
This news was biased from the beginning, even the phrasing of the questions encourages the audience to take their side instead of letting the audience decide. Bad reporting- unbalanced.
Bridieable 1 year ago
ALL Conservatives and Republicans should be sterilized....
rlibos 1 year ago
So Obama needs to be sterilized since he is a Neo-Con who has Neo-Cons in his Cabinet.
The great Martin Luther King Jr needs to be sterlilized since he is a Republican.
Without Republicans there would still be slavery in the US. Abolitionists are Republicans.
Democrats created and still support the KKK.
TheStormchaser1 1 year ago
@rlibos Thats right and anyone else, you don't agree with, Right?
FastFreddy007 1 year ago
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@rlibos Thats right and anyone else, you don't agree with, Right?
FastFreddy007 1 year ago
Sweetie? My god. Is this really news? Wouldn't it be worse if he called her a b**ch?
Kieran195 2 years ago
@Kieran195 LoL yeah, that woulda been a much more newsworthy. Little clip of him going "Hang on bitch, I'm working on it." Jesus, they'd have had a hay day with that.
WinterSoilder 1 year ago
you people make a storm out of a glass of water,get a life,
loveroni75 2 years ago
this is what British call news......pathetic
Steelers26426 3 years ago 2
very interesting seeing this on the BBC. LOL! It depends on culture but I would be a little surprised if he called me sweetie. I was called ma'am when I was 16 but didn't know at that age that it was more of a respect thing. I just thought it meant been old. Still not wild about the term. Interesting.
thomesocksup 3 years ago
@Steelers26426 beats the shit out of fox news any day lol
Marko767 2 years ago
This is ridiculous. Sweetie sounds like a compliment. It meants your sweet and cute.
Steelers26426 3 years ago
I mean, I have to agree that people are being overly sensitive, as usual. Obama is not a sexist, and does not deserve that lable. But do you really think the reporter was trying to be sweet and cute when she asked that, or was she trying to be a professional?
jamieleeeq 2 years ago
Geesh, it is a term of endearment and he didn't mean it negatively. Is there no forgiveness for human error? Get over it!
stepherz76 3 years ago
Damn talk about blowing things out of porportion he meant nothing sexist by it.God really women have grown so sensitive it is ridiculous.
Plato86 3 years ago
damn that's no big deal ! why are they making so much of a deal about it !?
ca280491 3 years ago
Ofcourse the apology received more attention than the original comment, the media was all for him.
naomiscooldad 3 years ago
there nothing wrong with that he can say that
sofiekat 3 years ago
omigod what is the big deal? poor guy. its not sexist its just like an endearment
zzzindia 3 years ago
He used the term "sweetie", now he's such a sexist person... I guess certain individuals are looking for the most petty reasons to be against him.
knowles27 3 years ago 2
Well said. It is a flattering term... what the fuck is everyones problem?
xShakespearex 3 years ago
I guess if that's the only issue critics find wrong with him, then he's not bad at all. Dirty politics...
knowles27 3 years ago
This WAS a controversy?...GTFOH
MackTheKnife12 3 years ago
LOL he apologized for this!??! What the hell if anybody actually got offended by him saying that has got issues. It's probably just the wierd ass feminists.
DieFAGSroflcopter 3 years ago
i would faint if he called me sweetie, probably.
mavichen 3 years ago
This is ridiculous.
Obama calls a woman sweetie and he's considered a sexist. While Sarah Palin votes for a bill where rape victims have to pay for their rape examinations and that diesn't make the news.
suroj 3 years ago 2
BBC once again lies to its viewers...
Barack Obama is not the first black man to run for president of the USA, and Hillary is not the first woman to run for president of the USA. Jesse Jackson and Alan Keyes (who are both black) ran for president long before Obama ever did (and Obama is bi-racial). Also, Elizabeth Dole ran for president before Hillary ever did.
Obama's use of the word "sweetie" to a professional woman displays the element of superiority he feels over other people...
andrea082 3 years ago
i think what the bbc means is 'realistically' run for president. they're just being pc!
ghbaby08 3 years ago
"In parts of the American Deep South, like Hawaii, Cambridge, Chicago, textile factories in Allentown PA, and Chrysler factories in Detroit, "Sweetie", or "Honey" and "Darling", are all used as harmless terms of endearment with no sexism implied. So it seems it's a matter of context..."
Parody, Thy Name is BBC.
BuddyPC 3 years ago
You know what...I think you are right. Sweetie is only used commonly for women because the definition of Sweetie is-- pleasing to the mind or feelings-- and that is obvisouly not men.
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blueguise23 3 years ago
Cindy Mc Cain seems to be a kind, beautiful and gentle soul. However, I believe that she is a battered wife. The woman kowtows and acts so skittishly in the presence of her husband. I don't believe for one moment that an over-zealous supporter hurt her arm which is in a sling these days.
grannyvonng 3 years ago
this is ridiculous
i dont like obama but women freaking out over sweetie is so childish and just trying to nit pick at shit he says
radrocker101 3 years ago
Well we can all start calling professional men our Sugar then right? Or how about's Honey? Or Baby, or sweetie? Is that what your equals at work call you?
sunbeansnflowersluv 3 years ago
wow, i wish the news actually covered something important...
it might have been informal, but it doesn't make him sexist.
these are people who take things too personally.
I'm sticking up for Obama and I don't even like him all that much...!
GhostManOnSixtieth 3 years ago
If you don't think this is sexist your intellienge is ghosty.
sunbeansnflowersluv 3 years ago
means alot coming from a person who can't spell intelligence...
besides, this is another person. Not a robot, he has a personality and that was definately not a sexist remark. It was informal, not sexist. If he had called a man "bud" or something, we wouldn't have heard a word about it.
GhostManOnSixtieth 3 years ago
But we couldn't call these men SWEETIE or HONEY COULD We? dah. Definately a sexist remark
sunbeansnflowersluv 3 years ago
i see where you are coming from, but... sweetie isn't used for men such as dude, brother, pal, or bud isn't generally used for women. it was INFORMAL. if he had called a man 'dude' would it have been sexist? not at all. if you call a woman 'dude' it wouldn't fit either would it? it's not common to call a man sweetie and it's not common to call a woman dude. tell me how you can call this sexist?
GhostManOnSixtieth 3 years ago
This woman was on the job as a professional reporter. He is not going to call a male reporter dude. Not a chance. It would be worldwide headlines. It shows that he doens't see working women as worthy of the same dignity that he gives male professionals. Informal talk is kept for informal situations. Talking with a news reporter with a camera crew and calling the reporter Sweeties while you are conducting a campaign showed his true sexist colors.This wasn't a student or a campgain music rally.
sunbeansnflowersluv 3 years ago
Sweetie isn't used as a sexist remark in any situation...it's used alot when people don't know the name of other people, some places more than others. Just because you are not familiar with someone calling someone sweetie doesn't mean it's sexist. why should he have to treat a person in a professional role with more respect than a student anyway? in a country for equal rights you say it's ok for him to show (in your eyes)disrespect to a student? if yes, there's something wrong with you...
GhostManOnSixtieth 3 years ago
It is not the student/professional context it is the context of a professional work situation compared to a social/informal situation. Just because you know of people who regularly call female people sweetie in professional contexts doesn't mean that the general public accepts this. As the video says, in the wrong circumstances, women and men alike would not like to be called sweetie. Sweetie isnt a term of respect for professional situations anymore than calling him BOY would be. Use Miss, etc.
sunbeansnflowersluv 3 years ago
i have watched some of the videos on your page, and see that you are wholeheartedly against Obama. It's obvious that even if this wasn't sexist you would try to twist it to make him sound sexist. You are a closed-minded individual with the purpose of undermining Obama. To be honest with you, i wouldn't vote for him, or any of the other candidates that ran for the 08 presidency. I'm not a fan of Obama by any means and think that he may be a twisted individual indeed, but this is not sexist...
GhostManOnSixtieth 3 years ago
O lord! What do we want "ME TARZAN YOU JANE?" Some men abuse women and call them all sorts of foul, derogatory, four-letter word names. The Senator said "sweetie" and we are offended? Come on girls, let's be real. Lighten up.
grannyvonng 3 years ago 2
Okay Dumb Dick, big thug, bro, dude, fryhead, meathead, muscle head, Brute, crackhead, .. anything goes in a professional context cause some men are abusive.. Just cause some fleas don't know how to show respect doesn't mean our presidental candidates should be disrespectful meatheads. Great standards you have of holding yourself up to what? Nothng? class up low life.
sunbeansnflowersluv 3 years ago
haha. your an idiot. im sure youre ugly and no one calls you sweetie. youre just mad peggy did.
thetk421guy 3 years ago
sunbeansnflowerstuv: First off learn how to spell intelligence and what the hell is a ghosty? If you think sweetie is sexist, how about Mccain calling his own wife a cunt or making a joke about rape victims? Those are obvious sexist remarks, and I've noticed that you failed to mention them.
I call a lot of women sweetie,and none have ever called me sexist. Women I don't know call me honey, darlin, and sweeite all of the time and I see nothing wrong with it. Stop being so damn sensitive!
mrbronze013 3 years ago
when did "sweetie" make a person sexist
esideeuknome 3 years ago
Honestly, sexist or not, he's a hell of a lot less sexist than McCain, who has a 0% approval rating from Planned Parenthood. Even if he has some outdated views, he's not trying to change the laws of the country to accommodate them.
PerHV 3 years ago
McCain has 0% approval rating from Planned Parenthood because he is 100% against abortion. Think before you post, please.
Musicfan399 3 years ago
lmao. yo the media and feminists are always looking to hate
thereemix 3 years ago
My boss used to call me "sweetie" and "honey". I asked him politely to stop and he said he repected me more for addressing it. It's a term of endearment, which I think is not appropriate in a professional setting. What if he had called a male reporter "sweetie"? Would that be appropriate?
southerncharma 3 years ago
hed probably not use a term at all. "hang on a sec" maybe "hang on a sec man'
thetk421guy 3 years ago
helloooo wake up people, whats wrong with "sweaty" really???
mehabe 3 years ago
He's Black, and any idiot knows that Black American English includes a lot of deep south colloquialisms. It's not racism, sexism, or any ism. It's just Obama being informal when he should be a bit more formal.
Any feminist who says they'll vote McCain instead of Obama, thus throwing away a woman's right to choose, is no true feminist. She's just a man-hater or a racist, or a Republican who is lying about her affiliation.
ZeroCorpse 3 years ago 9
@ZeroCorpse
no dummy
he was raised by whites in hawaii and created his career in chicago
why would he have back/southern slang?
he is an egomaniac and calling a woman is condescending
how would you have liked it if bush called a woman sweetie?
he would have been played off as a chauvinistic devil, but if bho does it he is just a nice guy!
bullshit!
jkweddingentrancesux 1 year ago
@ZeroCorpse It's also because it was a reporter and they can be iritating at times, I'm sure male reporters have copped worse.
zzsharka 8 months ago
typical bbc propaganda. The "deep south" if full of sexist pigs, which does not make it acceptable. Also, Obama is a CHICAGOAN! not deep south at all! He is a LAWYER! does he not get you do not call professional women in a professional environment "sweetie"? What does his wife have to do with the question? She is not a feminist and his marriage to her proves nothing!
cathanimator 3 years ago
How up-tight can people get! What's so wrong with 'sweetie'? I think I've heard George Bush call people worse! Does this really merit being on prime time news?? If so then the extreme politically correct have won.
tupac662 3 years ago 5
Oh my god, Obama used the S word. He's going straight to hell. Her point that he is fresh and new and has to watch what he says. Stupid point, that's why people like him. He seems like a real person, not some frickin robot.
vernlaw 3 years ago