Top Ten ‘-Gate’ Scandals Of 2009

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by Robert Quigley | 2:01 pm, December 29th, 2009

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2009 has been a year of controversies. Some of them were big, like Climategate, spurred by a set of hacked emails which caused widespread public questioning of the reality of global warming. Some of them were not very big, but were nevertheless blown up by blogs and cable news, like Jackass-gate, when President Obama referred to Kanye West as a “Jackass” in an off-the-record interview that got out. Many were united by that ever-persistent “-gate” suffix.

In this slideshow, Mediaite fondly looks back on a year of -gates (and wonders if it’s time to give the “-gate” suffix a rest):

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disgusted

They deserve/deserved this AND worse!
disgusted

These & MANY other people – remind me of those pictured in the 1992 satire, “Mastergate”, a congressional inquiry!
http://www.swissarmyjew.com Keeva

The only “gate” here is “Mediagate” where lazy journalists slap a tired old suffix on anything they don’t quite understand and then report on their reporting.
http://www.karlspensen.blogspot.com Karl Spensen

I don’t see CZARS anywhere!!1 As soon as the Obamessiah – UNLIKE ANY OTHER PRESIDENT IN AMERICAN HISTORY – started appointing these SCARY-SOUNDING RUSSIAN KINGS to INCREDIBLY POWERFUL positions in the government, I KNEW our days were NUMBERED!!1 Only Glenn Beck (JESUS) was BRAVE enough to take a STAND on this COMPLETELY RELEVANT and IMPORTANT issue!!1 SHAME ON YOU, media!!!11
Moderate

“A few illegally leaked emails”

Always a dead giveaway towards a reporters bias.