The libfix -gate seems to be irresistible, trotted out for all sorts of public fusses; discussion here. Recent example, reported by Victor Steinbok on ADS-L:
According to MediaBistro, there’s now yet another -gate. Newly crowned NYC Mayor [Bill de Blasio] was caught on camera eating pizza with a fork, which is sacrilege in NYC. Appropriately, the affair has been dubbed “forkgate”, lack of coverup notwithstanding…
Like most -gate formations, this will surely be short-lived. Then Joel Berson suggested on ADS-L that Gate-gate is likely to come upon us,
for the scandalous way in which the former Secretary of Defense [Gates] has dissed the present VPOTUS
Previously coined for a silly British scandal involving David Cameron, detailed in 2012 here (among other places).
And then Larry Horn chimed in with some overlap portmanteaus involving -gate:
two of my fave combo-gates, Underwatergate (the blowing up of the Greenpeace ship the Rainbow Warrior by, as it turned out, agents of the French government) and Pearlygate (one or maybe more of the televangelist brouhahas). I may be missing a couple…oh, right, Whitewatergate. Love those overlaps.
