Top Ten ‘-Gate’ Scandals Of 2009
Dec 29th, 2009, 2:01 pm
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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