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Fri Jul-11-03 03:27 PM
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Can we please stop attaching the -gate suffix to every scandal |
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It cheapens the severity of the current scandal. We're not talking about breaking into a party office, we're talking about the treasonous use of american power for political and economic gain. It's also very uninventive. It has become such a cliche that it now seems to minimize the impact of any scandal. People become cynical much too quickly to propagate old comparisons.
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Fri Jul-11-03 03:28 PM
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1. Why this is some sort of a Posting-Gate! |
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Fri Jul-11-03 03:28 PM
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2. if watergate happened now |
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Fri Jul-11-03 03:30 PM
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3. You mean like Troopergate, Monicagate, and Travelgate? |
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Really important "gates" if you ask me.....
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Fri Jul-11-03 03:31 PM
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I think a suffixgate is unfolding.
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Khephra
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Fri Jul-11-03 03:32 PM
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5. We could try it as a prefix, just to be different |
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GateIraq....hmmmmm...not quite as catchy.
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Fri Jul-11-03 03:33 PM
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I imagine Sausage-gate has sent you over the edge.
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Fri Jul-11-03 03:37 PM
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7. Attachmentgate Stirs Antagonism |
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Sorry, no link.
"The sacred answers to no dogma." - Kathelin Gray
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Fri Jul-11-03 03:38 PM
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8. if a scandal ever occurs regarding Microsoft and govmt. |
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they can call it Gates-gate.
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Fri Jul-11-03 03:40 PM
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9. Bring back the "affair" and "scandal" monikers |
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that were popular in the 1980's.
Did Raygun ever have a gate suffix associated with him?
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Fri Jul-11-03 03:42 PM
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The Iraq Scandal sounds worse than Iraq Gate.
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Fri Jul-11-03 03:42 PM
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10. I agree...especially when the scandal is worse than Watergate... |
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It tends to minimize a treasonous act.
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