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December 11, 2008
Enough with the gates
Every political scandal seems to get a name. I don't know when creativity died, but I can only assume it occurred at about the time some clever newspaper editor appended -gate onto something, and that became the new name for the scandal. The King Kong of scandals was Watergate, and now every scandal doesn't become a scandal until it gets gated. I mean, look at this list of "gate" scandals. It's huge!
But I refuse to call this Blagojevich thing "Blagogate," "Senategate" or some other asinine gate name. There has to be a few billion people on the internet. Unfortunately, only three or four of them read this site, but we should be able to put our collective brains together to come up with something.
Do I have any ideas right now? No. My brain hurts.
Update: Zorn is on top of this, and my favorite of his suggestions is "Teapot Dumb," but now the only contenders are "gBay," "Corruptapalooza" and the aforementioned "Blagogate." Whatever, dude.
Having thought for a bit, my first suggestion is "Public Official A-Hole," after Blago's not-so-subtle nickname in federal documents. Though, I don't know if I could see how elementary school students can learn about the "Public Official A-Hole" scandal in school without getting their mouths washed out with soap. Does anyone even do that nowadays?
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Posted at December 11, 2008 10:54 PM