sweetiegate ’08!

barack obama calls a reporter from fox news “sweetie.” there’s a lot of very important, world-changing implications here. first, she works for fox news. she got off pretty light with sweetie. second, i don’t think the comment is so much sexist as it is condescending, the female equivalent of “buddy” or “chief” or “gaylord.” it’s kinda dickish, but it’s also kinda funny.

but the real issue is, when did it become ok just to tag “-gate” at the end of any word to name a political scandal? i wish there was a term for this kind of lazy usage of the english language. for now i’ll go with the old standby: retarded.

“I’ve met many chocoholics but I’ve never seen any Chocohol. We’ve got an epidemic – people that don’t understand the rules of word endings… they’re probably over-workahol-d.” -demetri martin

-srd