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* [[NPR]]-gate: NPR fired one of its longtime members, Juan Williams, for saying that he "felt uncomfortable" if he was on a plane with a devout Muslim.
* [[NPR]]-gate: NPR fired one of its longtime members, Juan Williams, for saying that he "felt uncomfortable" if he was on a plane with a devout Muslim.
* [[Fox News]] christened [[Sarah Palin]] being booed by an audience member at a taping of ''[[Dancing With the Stars]]'' "Boo-Gate."
* [[Fox News]] christened [[Sarah Palin]] being booed by an audience member at a taping of ''[[Dancing With the Stars]]'' "Boo-Gate."
* [http://blogs.discovermagazine.com/cosmicvariance/2008/07/16/crackergate/ Crackergate / Wafergate]: Catholics take communion very seriously. Not eating the host/cracker immediately resulted in one student being assaulted and receiving death threats. The overreaction resulted in another consecrated wafer being thrown in the trash.
* [https://web.archive.org/web/20130605110901/http://blogs.discovermagazine.com/cosmicvariance/2008/07/16/crackergate Crackergate / Wafergate]: Catholics take communion very seriously. Not eating the host/cracker immediately resulted in one student being assaulted and receiving death threats. The overreaction resulted in another consecrated wafer being thrown in the trash.
* "GatesGate" was the name given to the scandal involving the arrest for disorderly conduct of (black) Harvard professor Henry Louis Gates, who believed that the arrest was the product of racial discrimination and profiling.
* "GatesGate" was the name given to the scandal involving the arrest for disorderly conduct of (black) Harvard professor Henry Louis Gates, who believed that the arrest was the product of racial discrimination and profiling.
* Iraqgate: Anneli Jäätteenmäki, then-Prime Minister of Finland, had acquired secret Foreign Ministry documents relating to the War on Terror in 2003 with the ensuing scandal eventually leading to her resignation.
* Iraqgate: Anneli Jäätteenmäki, then-Prime Minister of Finland, had acquired secret Foreign Ministry documents relating to the War on Terror in 2003 with the ensuing scandal eventually leading to her resignation.
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