WP contest: Name bush* scandal....this is DUers big chance to

[diamond14]

put the RIGHT name to bush* WMD/yellowcake/intelligence scandal....
The RIGHT name is extremely important to ratcheting this scandal up...it needs a meme....(Loop Fans refers to those of us living inside the Washington DC loop, the freeway looping around the Capital Area - but anyone can send an entry, even those of you watching us here inside the Loop)...

-snips-

But it would be a shame historically to let the whole flap disappear without at least giving it a name, a shorthand phrase, anything but a " -- gate" of some sort, so it can be referred to easily in the future.

Loop Fans can help! Yes, it's the Loop Name That Flap Contest. Simply think of a catchy name to call Bush's current problem, scandal or whatever, and submit it via e-mail to [e-mail] or mail to: In the Loop, The Washington Post, 1150 15th St. NW., Washington, D.C. 20071. Don't forget to include your name, occupation, address and day and evening telephone numbers. Entries from Hill folks or administration officials may be submitted on background.


http://www.washingtonpost.com/wp-dyn/articles/A42884-2003Jul24.html

[fertilizeonarbusto]

1. there's a great one out already

I forget who started it though: "slaughtergate." I know you won't take "-gate" formations, but I find this one hard to beat.

[diamond14]

3. yes, "slaughtergate",especially now that the "Brothers" execution

is the latest TV gore...

but, sadly, it doesn't pass the " -gate" requirement...and does that mean (sadly) that the WP is trying to dissociate us from a previous reTHUGlican criminal adminstration...watergate and nixon?

sad really, since it was the WP that exposed the crimes in the nixon administration....

nevertheless...we DUers can give great input for this unfolding scandal...put on your creative hats...YOU can be famous, be a part of history, be the person who "Named bush* Scandal", an American hero, a noted player in taking down the shrub adminstration...(later in your life, after the impeachment, you can appear on talk shows, write a book about your thoughts and be hired by a major advertising company or a big time newspaper....

[GumboYaYa]

5. I think it wise not to have "gate" in there.

This is much bigger than Watergate. It goes to the fundamental basis of government.

Using "gate" minimzes the importance in my mind. This is no follow on to the other so-called Scandals. It is not "monicagate." Give it a name of its own.

[1monster]

9. How 'bout White Slaughter House ?

Or the Slaughterhouse Seven?

[TacticalPeek]

19. The Unnecessary War

which makes it the Dishonorable War...

[GumboYaYa]

2. The Iraq Deception

or something that imparts the idea that Bush lies.

On edit: the Iraq Lies Scandal. I like the word "scandal."

[Squeech]

4. The American Prospect ran this contest already

From the TAPPED blog:

NAME THAT SCANDAL! Many readers have weighed in on what to call the growing brouhaha over the Niger-Iraq connection. Several objected to "Yellowcakegate" on the grounds that it would trivialize the scandal. Here are some alternatives:
The Prewar Forgery
Yellowcake ("Just like 'Whitewater' sounded ominous, all by its lonesome.")
Yellowgate (Same number of syllables as Watergate, we note)
The Yellow Affair
Deceitgate ("The issue is broader than Niger. It's about a climate of falsehood.")
Yellow Cakewalk
Yellowfake
Yellowcakefake
The Yellow Cake Conspiracy (Sounds to Tapped like the name of a jam band)
The Taurine Egesta
The Nucular Canard (Misspelling intentional, we're assuming)
The Weapons Whopper

And our personal favorite:

Urain'tium
Posted at 04:59 PM

[gratuitous]

6. <Puts on thinking cap>

How about "The Incredibly Fucked Up Bit of Stupidity That Got Thousands of People Killed for No Good Reason Except to Prop Up His Fraudulency's Poll Numbers"?

Or is that too vague?

[seemslikeadream]

7. Just what it is

Crime of the Century

[Creamed Corn]

8. Intimigate

[nannygoat]

10. I like it!

Shades of sex. It should get those anti-BJ repukes' panties in a twist, for sure.

[diamond14]

11. rules: anything but a "---gate" of some sort....WP wants a new

era...introducing a whole new era of OUR National Scandals...they're breaking away from the trivial "monicagate, travelgate, etc.)

DUers could set a new higher standard for naming THIS bush* scandal...it is a real low to have the pResident falsifying data, using forged documents, ordering political assassinations of leaders, and their sons and grandsons, and then mounting their heads on world-wide TVs...killing and maiming thousands of patriotic American soldiers for nothing...no WMD...lies, lies, lies, bombing a major city for no reason, no threat to us...and a coverup in progress that would make nixon blush...the whole bush* cabal full of convicted criminals from the reagun adminstration, and shrub even brings in kissinger (wanted war criminal) to head the 9-11 investigation....

we DUers need to put on our thinking caps...how about all you young Duers, studying advertising, media, PR....time to become FAMOUS...

name the bush* scandal...

[flpoljunkie]

12. I still like 'Prevarigate'

It is perfect for these prevaricating and corrupt bastards!

:kick:

[snippy]

13. The Single Seamless Scandal

Stolen from this line in the Wall Street Journal:

Democrats including Mr. Graham, a former Intelligence Committee chairman and current presidential aspirant, say questions about how the White House used intelligence to justify the invasion of Iraq are merging with Sept. 11 intelligence issues into a single seamless scandal.

http://online.wsj.com/article/0,,SB105900909639432200,00.html?mod=politics%5Fprimary%5Fhs

"The Single Seamless Scandal" does not identify the yellowcake lies, but those lies are only a small part of the campaign of lies to justify the Bushleague Invasion of Iraq. Plus, the lies about Iraq are just an extension and continuation of the lies about 9/11.

Alternative: It is not 16 words - It is 1600 lies.

[diamond14]

14. WOW! bush* scandal is ready to explode....merging into one

BIG scandal...the yellowcake/WMD/slaughtergate lies merging into the 09/11 scandal....WOW !

Now, I see why WP is needed a NAME for shrub's scandal.....

upcoming on front pages all over America...it will be even more spectacular than shrub's previous Enron debacle...and it could happen fast...like Enron did...just a sudden downward spiral...the rats jumping off the sinking ship...the arrests...the "I am NOT a crook".....

[enough]

15. "Iraqscam" (nt)

.

[Cheesehead]

16. How about "Operation Manufactured Urgency"?

I like to call it an operation in the military sense because it was an organized and choreographed plan by the administration neocons (ever notice how neocons rhymes nicely with morons). It was manufactured using the finest bullshit money could buy. And the message that they built was urgency.

[Bandit]

17. How about Fabrigate?

:-)

[DagmarK]

18. we need something soooooo general.....that it takes in all the new

scandals that are going to come out.........

So we can just ADD to it.......

Let me think.......

And it isn't focused on uranium.....it's ALL ABOUT BUSH......and him manipulating the world to get his oil war.

And, what about something that GIVES bushfuck his due on how he says he was manipulated (lied to?) by his admin people......and how DUMB he is.....so dumb taht he doesn't seem to know anything that is going on. Taht's how can tell the lies he does......he doesn't really understand the WEIGHT of them at the time that he tells them; easy to keep a straight face when you're an ignorant ass.

[hang a left]

20. how about

Operation Project For A New American Century Phase I

[DagmarK]

21. How's about: SuperDupe

Since we were ALL duped...........

[DagmarK]

24. Okay.....how about NukeDupe??????

*

[Richardo]

22. "weapons of mass hysteria"

.

[Robbien]

23. Sale of America or Sold out to the highest bidder n/t

[foole]

25. "Spinoccio"

(which I can't take credit for -- saw somewhere in LBN but can't find post now to give credit where it's due)

[Cheswick2.0]

26. in honor the daily show

Mess-o-potamia

[BurtWorm]

27. Folies Niger

[Melinda]

28. Iraqmire

And they can send my cash prize directly to DU. :evilgrin:

[ModerateMiddle]

33. Oooh, I like this one

It really does need to encompass the whole thing, not just the yellow cake, not just the SOTU, but the whole thing - the lies before hand, the lack of realistic planning for, well, anything.

I like this one! Ties in nicely with quagmire.

[myrna minx]

29. Operation Ameri-conned. n/t

[Robbien]

31. That one is good. Nice and catchy! n/t

[Emboldened Chimp]

30. Operation Chimpy Lied, People Died

[fob]

32. Bushel of Lies

As in where do we start discussing the Bushel of Lies in this scandal?