Related thought- the buzz is that this incident was renamed by someone as “Bridgeghazi” and that people went apoplectic because they thought it demeaned those murdered in Benghazi. I was wondering if it really does demean those who were murdered, or if it keep the Benghazi lies and scandal at the forefront, as it should be. In other words, the left has been using “gate” as a suffix since the l970’s to describe every scandal that’s come down the pike. What would happen if we use “ghazi” as a suffix to illustrate the message that we aren’t going to let it go.. just as the left hasn’t let Watergate go for 42 years (and is using “gate” to perpetually commemorate the resignation of a republican).
I thought about that too. Before we jump down their throats with our righteous indignation, lets just think. At least this (the very thought of the Bengazi Misadventure) is part of the conversation, if that is the way it must be in this barely literate culture we have now, where very few read full news articles anymore. It’s a suffix, like the way we use ZILLA from Godzilla. ZILLA means anything big, dangerous and exaggerated i.e. BrideZilla.
In the big picture, this word doctoring is not that big a deal. They’re not directly making fun of the four who dies, thank God for that little courtesy (so far).