Why the hell do all scandals have to end in "Gate"?

[politicaholic]

Doesn't anyone have any originality anymore?!

How about this:

The Whistle Scandal

The Teletraitor

The Wilson Affair

Yellowcakes Revenge

My god! Those took about thirty seconds...Man I hate the media, a bunch of unimaginative hacks.

[Richardo]

1. If they had a time machine, they'd call Nixon's scandal Watergate-gate

:eyes:

[Liberal Veteran]

3. And if we have a scandal about Watergategate

We can call it Watergategategate.

[Former Republican]

2. I would call it...

Patriotism-finally-backfires-gate.

[ixion]

4. it started with Watergate

which, of course, was the name of the building the repugs broke into. I've always thought it a bit strange, because the 'gate' suffix really adds no meaning (although using it continually will eventually make it an official suffix).

Ain't American-English grand? ;-)

[Liberal Veteran]

5. Let's call it....

...Rove's a fucking asshole gate.

[Chovexani]

6. LOL

That's the best one yet. :)

[opihimoimoi]

8. Maybe.... ROVEs Gate?????

I been using LeakyGate.

Its a natural...

[expatriot]

7. why do they call addicts: "something-holics" not "something-ics"

[expatriot]

9. or something that lasts an extend time, "something-athons?"

[expatriot]

10. or outside festivals "something-palooza?"

[damnraddem]

11. Thirty proud years of tradition.

Paying homage to the scandal that brought down a Republican president (a real president, at that). What more reason do we need?

And Dubya would like nothing better than to have us abandon a name that brings to mind Nixon's undoing.

[WhoCountsTheVotes]

12. It started to compare Democratic scandals to Nixon's crimes

I just read in Blumenthal's book that there is a specific writer who was a big fan of Nixon's that started using "-gate" for every Democratic scandal, in some sort of attempt to make Nixon not seem so bad. At least, that's what I remember.

[expatriot]

13. or ppl who immigrate to US "something-Americans" oh wait, that one works.

[tjdee]

14. I HEART "The Wilson Affair".

That's my favorite of all of them. Sounds classy like.

:silly:

[VolcanoJen]

15. LMAO, politicaholic!

At least the "Gate" term is forever and ever and ever attached to a Republican President, though... :-)

And you're so right: buncha unimaginative media hacks!!!

[karlschneider]

18. Not necessarily, remember "travelgate"?

:eyes:

[VolcanoJen]

23. Just more evidence of the unimaginative media hacks!

;-)

TravelGate, whatever... Try "OutingACIAOperativeGate."

:-)

[RobertSeattle]

16. "Wilson Teapot Dome" just doesn't have a good ring to it!

[alfredo]

17. first they thought sex would be a good scandal suffix, but

most scandals start with sex, so they had to find another word.

[polmaven]

19. Let them call it what they want to....

as long as it ends inside the prison gate.

[frank frankly]

20. yes, it is stupid. yes, it is very stupid.

lets call it:
The Nazi's are back and trying to kill us all.

[SnohoDem]

21. "The Plame Game"

Part of "Follow the Yellowcake Road"

[Jackhammer Jesus]

22. My vote has, and always will go to...

Bushisfuckedgate.

Has a nice ring to it.