@SilverLycan - Just so you know, Sarcasm is appreciated by some members here. We will know it when we read it. When I write a sarcastic post, I usually add the "rolling eyes" emoji.. As for @Hush.... I don't think there are many members who is as sarcastic as she is, and , I think her posts are hysterically funny!

 

This scandal needs a name with "gate" on the end. Like exposure gate

 

Sarcasm: A literary devise for identifying the stupid.

 

Nice to here a cop say he made a mistake.....

ever shoot and unarmed person?

 

I would not ask IF he shot an unarmed person, just how many. Also i think he could anonymously tell some of the current money making scams the police use to extort the public. ....

 

Yes you have been identified. ....lol

 

oh, the irony

 

I am a painting pretending to be human... Don't expose me...

 

And this is a person pretending to be a painting

 

And yet, the biggest scandal in American history, nobody ever added that. Who exactly was it that was so stupid as to start thinking that " -gate" meant a scandal?

 

I lost my glasses...
Think my cats hide them..

 

You mean "Gate-gate"?

 

I was told the Watergate scandal started the addition of the "gate", i have noticed news people add it to anything political here.

 

Was it called "Watergate-gate"?

 

From Wikipedia

The suffix -gate derives from the Watergate scandal of the United States in the early 1970s, which resulted in the resignation ofU.S. President Richard Nixon.[2] The scandal was named after the Watergate complex in Washington, D.C.; the complex itself was named after the "Water Gate" area where symphony orchestra concerts were staged on the Potomac River between 1935 and 1965.[3]

The suffix is used to embellish a noun or name to suggest the existence of a far-reaching scandal, particularly in politics andgovernment. As a CBC News column noted in 2001, the term may "suggest unethical behaviour and a cover-up".[4] The same usage has spread into languages other than English; examples of -gate being used to refer to local political scandals have been reported from Argentina, Germany, Korea,Hungary, Greece and the formerYugoslavia.[5]

Such usages have been criticised by commentators as clichéd and misleading;[6]James Stanyer comments that "revelations are given the 'gate' suffix to add a thin veil of credibility, following 'Watergate', but most bear no resemblance to the painstaking investigation of that particular piece of presidential corruption".[7] Stanyer links the widespread use of -gate to what the sociologist John Thompson calls "scandal syndrome"

The adoption of -gate to suggest the existence of a scandal was promoted byWilliam Safire, the conservative New York Times columnist and former Nixon administration speechwriter. As early as September 1974 he wrote of "Vietgate", a proposed pardon of the Watergate criminalsand Vietnam Wardraft dodgers.[9]Subsequently he coined numerous -gateterms, including Billygate, Briefingate, Contragate, Deavergate, Debategate, Doublebillingsgate (of which he later said "My best [-gate coinage] was the encapsulation of a minor ... scandal as doublebillingsgate"), Frankiegate, Franklingate, Genschergate, Housegate, Iraqgate, Koreagate, Lancegate, Maggiegate, Nannygate, Raidergate, Scalpgate, Travelgate, Troopergate andWhitewatergate. The New York magazine suggested that his aim in doing so was "rehabilitating Nixon by relentlessly tarring his successors with the same rhetorical brush – diminished guilt by association".[10]Safire himself later admitted to author Eric Alterman that, as Alterman puts it, "psychologically, he may have been seeking to minimize the relative importance of the crimes committed by his former boss with this silliness".[11]

 

I thought everyone knew that Watergate is where -gate started. But then I lived through it, whenever Watergate was mentioned, it was a cue to change the channel on the TV. This was when that meant you had to reach the TV and push a button on it.

 

Just call it Assholegate and be done with it!

 

You had a push button TV tuner?????

WOW, you were indeed a modern family. We had to twist a knob, move the rabbit ears and adjust the fine tuning (sometimes add a bit of aluminum foil).

 

Nobody EVER referred to that scandal as Watergate-gate.

 

Is there an echo in here?