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I love how they thoughtfully go ahead and provide a headline-ready name for the data set now.

"Cablegate."

At this point the Watergate should just assign rooms scandal names ending in -Gate instead of room numbers.



Actually, I think that would be a huge selling point for the hotel. That would be hilarious.

"Ooh, what controversy is YOUR room?! I have [Antennagate!][1]"

[1]: http://en.wikipedia.org/wiki/Antennagate#Antenna


http://en.wikipedia.org/wiki/List_of_scandals_with_%22-gate%...


"Cablegate" has been used for at least the last 2.5 years. It's unclear after a good 15 minutes of googling who first started calling the leaked cables Cablegate, but here's an example from pbs back in Nov, 2010:

http://www.pbs.org/newshour/rundown/2010/11/digging-into-wik...


There's a nice British comedy sketch about naming everything -gate https://www.youtube.com/watch?v=vB9JgxhXW5w


The advert I got for that YouTbue video started with a Lionsgate logo...


That name was already used in 2010. I don't know who made it up.




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