Obama apologizes for calling reporter 'sweetie' [View All]

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Source: Detriot Free Press


Obama apologizes for calling reporter 'sweetie'

By KATHLEEN GRAY • FREE PRESS • May 14, 2008

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Sen. Barack Obama, who is inching closer to the Democratic nomination for president, off-handedly called a Detroit television reporter “Sweetie” during a visit to Chrysler’s Sterling Stamping Plant after she hurled a question at him — during his tour of the plant — “Senator, what are you going to do to help American autoworkers.”

The item got picked up by the national media and the film, which shows Obama saying “Hold on one second sweetie, we’ll do a press avail,” to WXYZ-TV reporter Peggy Agar, is playing on YouTube.

Several hours later, Obama left a message on Agar’s cell phone, apologizing for the slight,

“It’s a bad habit of mine,” he said in the voicemail, which is on the television’s Web site. “I mean no disrespect, so I am duly chastened on that front.”



Read more: http://www.freep.com/apps/pbcs.dll/article?AID=/20080514/NEWS07/80514084

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Note: this was posted today (within the last 24 hrs) at a major US news organization, the Detroit Free Press, and concerns a major national candidate apologizing for his action.