Mike Harris ruins a genuine opportunity
Toronto � After 30 years of suffixing any name associated with a scandal with the word �gate�, the press is really peeved at Mike Harris for ruining an opportunity to have a legitimate �Watergate� by retiring before the �manure hit the fan�.
Speaking from inside a hyperbolic chamber, Lloyd Robertson, the Iron Man of Canadian Broadcast Journalism, it says so on his bathrobe, said, �Do you know how long we have been flogging that suffix? If there were a support group for suffixes, it would be the one that has its own telethon. How the hell could he (Harris) have done this to us?�
�We have tried to duplicate the sense of outrage associated with the original Watergate during the last 3 decades with Iran-Contra-gate, Lewinsky-gate, came close with Whitewater-gate and recently Enron-gate. Here was a perfect chance to close the book on all gates with a return to Watergate but he resigned before the news leaked out last week,� moaned Peter Trueman, former nightly news anchor for Global TV. �But that, too, is reality.�
Former Canadian news-pretty-boy and current heir-apparent to Dan Rather, John �JD� Roberts concurred.
�I have always hated the overuse of that suffix. Why did people flog it so? How�s my hair look?�
Walter Cronkite quipped, �It seems that the gate was closed after the horse�s ass escaped and that�s the way it is!!� |
