good gawd, cnn is calling it 'gatesgate'

[spanone]

cnn, the least trusted name in news.

[jkshaw]

1. They'll keep it alive as long as they can.

[spanone]

20. they just had it on nbc nightly news. my local news just referred to it as racial furor

in cambridge

[Engineer4Obama]

2. Can we stop adding Gate at the end of scandals?

I mean I understand the internet doing it but aren't media outlets supposed to hire people who can creatively coin an original label for real world events? Or am I mixing my ideal world up with the real world again?

[spanone]

3. i doubt it. the real world doesn't seem to be very innovative.

[Berry Cool]

6. Yeah, you're mixing it up.

Even Keith Olbermann does it. And he's creative.

Let's face it, it's something we're stuck with. "-gate" is a suffix that means "scandal." Been true for ages now, whether it makes sense or not.

[timeforpeace]

18. Hey, we asked for it, Watergate is still the high water mark.

[SDuderstadt]

19. Yesgate.

Sorry, couldn't resist.

[omega minimo]

23. No. That's the last time national pubic officials were held accountable.

:shrug: The next time that happens, maybe a new term will be born.

[Odin2005]

30. It's called Grammaticalization. "-gate" has become English's "scandal" suffix.

Many languages of indigenous peoples have affixes specialized things dealing with things that are important in those societies, so why can't a language spoken in a modern Western society have an affix for something like scandals? :dunce:

[bbinacan]

4. Are you serious? n/t

[spanone]

9. i just flipped over there for a minute and they were calling it that.

just had to laugh and post.

the anchor was don lemon talking with bill schnieder

[bbinacan]

11. Damn. n/t

[spanone]

12. yep.

[City Lights]

5. They're still covering it?

:eyes:

Silly me. I thought it was over yesterday after Obama called Crowley and invited him and Gates over for a beer.

[Berry Cool]

7. Bad assumption. Nothing's over until the media say it's over.

And they're not done with this yet. *sigh*

[muriel_volestrangler]

8. Coming soon - 'Journogate'

In which the scandal of hundreds of trained journalists who are still unable to write about any subject for more than 3 days without tacking '-gate' onto the end of a word to describe it, 35 years after the original, is exposed to an outraged world.

[depakid]

10. Looking forward to the day when "Journogate" breaks

and Americans finally get fed up with the dreck they're being fed.

[booley]

13. And yet

CNN is probably petting itself on the back for their own cleverness.

Part of being stupid is being totally unaware of how stupid one is.

[spanone]

15. another part of stupid is allowing lou dobbs to call our President an illegal alien

[ProgressiveProfessor]

14. I saw it called StupidGate this AM

Given that its going to be settled over beers, could we call it BeerGate?

[godai]

16. Isn't that the perfect name for it?

I thought of this the other day. A guy named Gates involved in a media controversy.

If you think this has gone away, I think otherwise. Obama is coming to VA to campaign for Deeds. Not great timing. I'm sure that the Repubs will be using this, using law enforcement people in their ads.

[LLStarks]

17. Ha! Don just read a user comment criticizing the label. nt

[Iggo]

21. I guess AssholeCopGate was taken.

[omega minimo]

22. Well they can't call it "JimCROWleyGate"!!

Why not call it "DoorGate"? :bounce:

[spanone]

25. bwahahahahaaa...

[bridgit]

24. Heh, I've thought CNN was a contemporary example of a simple obomination...

for some time ~ :)

[juno jones]

26. Perhaps that will break the evil spell

and there will never be a 'gate' again.

The suffix 'palooza', however, will not be affected

[omega minimo]

27. Just wait for

Obamapalooza

[juno jones]

31. LOL! n/t

[Occulus]

28. This is starting to feel like I'm living in some twisted movie

a Tarantino film, maybe.

[gauguin57]

29. Until they get the final autopsy report on Michael Jackson, they don't have anything to talk about.

So GatesGatesGates will have to fill air time till then.

Oh, wait. I forgot. Octomom signed a TV deal for her kids.

They want to talk about ANYTHING other than explaining health care reform to the American people.