When, oh when, will people stop slapping "gate" at the end of every mini-scandal that happens. Gate is not a suffix that means "scandal" or "controversy." Watergate was not a scandal involving water -- it was the name of the hotel.
This year alone, there has been spygate, NAFTAGate, and now, apparently, Monstergate. Then there's Skategate, Marthagate, Kobegate, Nipplegate, Camillagate, Fajitagate (huh?), Rathergate, and Monicagate.
So please, media, I beg of you. Just stop it. It's not funny. It's not clever. It's not cute. It's a cheap way to coin a phrase, and it jumped the shark 35 years ago.
Update: Spitzergate!
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