-gate [Re: Random Note for 2014 WOTY: #2]

Joel S. Berson Berson at ATT.NET
Fri Jan 10 18:14:17 UTC 2014


At 1/10/2014 12:16 PM, Laurence Horn wrote:
>--scandal *and* (attempted) coverup; without the coverup, or attempt
>at one, there's no -gate (I says)

Can something be a scandal (at least in politics) without a coverup?

Joel

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