So it finally happened; Professor Gates, Sgt. Crowley, President Obama and Vice President Joe Biden (called in for whitey back up) all sat down in the Rose Garden and threw back a cold one. This may have been the biggest waste of a sitting President’s time since Bill Clinton took 11 days off work to learn the Macarena.
But possibly the most significant fall out of this event is what it has done to media coverage in America. This country’s media has a tradition of giving clever names to political controversies and ending them with the suffix -gate-. Since Watergate in 1972, every scandal ends with gate i.e. Irangate, Iraqgate, steroidgate, whitewatergate etc. What are they going to call this, Gatesgate? That sounds retarded! The media has no other option than to refer to this as the “Beer Summit”. That sounds like some kind of semi-queer drinking game they play at the Sigma Chi house. This is no doubt the end of an era for political coverage in America; no more “gate”. A precedent has been set. All future scandals will be called a summit. The next time a politician is caught with a dead hooker in his hotel room they’re going to call it the Dead Hooker Summit. It’s just not the same 
That would force the media to start talking about healthcare again.
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