Adam Schiff: "It's not spy-gate, only lie-gate"

[Miles Archer]

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False statements about wiretaps at Trump Tower.

False statements about unmasking.

False statesments about a political spy in the Trump campaign.

False statements about the Mueller investigation that has indicted the President’s top staff.

It’s not spy-gate, only lie-gate.

5:27 AM - 24 May 2018

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[mnhtnbb]

1. Well said.

[DownriverDem]

20. Just Saw This Morning

where trump admitted that he is just playing Americans with spygate. Help us all. I find every day more and more disgusting with trump.

[Stuart G]

2. Brilliant comment !!! .Schiff has defined Trump's problems "forever"...LIE-GATE

[Freethinker65]

3. Schiff forgot the hashtag?

#liegate

It is unfortunate that many voters can be manipulated by who has the catchiest slogans.

[riversedge]

4. #liegate is a hashtag already.......

Link to tweet

[malaise]

5. That's brilliant

Get thee to the greatest page

[Kirk Lover]

6. We got it...this is it. Repeat repeat repeat. nt

[malaise]

9. Repeat it in bold CAPS

The entire Con presidency is LIEGATE!!

[Achilleaze]

7. #LieGate (R)

republicans will roast in hell for their unpatriotic lying...

[superpatriotman]

8. The power of words

Why not Snitch or Rat?

That's what he means.

[spanone]

10. K&R...

[dalton99a]

11. Kick

[Tom Rinaldo]

12. Liegate. Make it Viral! Trump reporting should be prefaced with "today's Liegate developments..."

The biggest political scandal in our lifetimes (that includes folks over 100) is a President who consistently lies to the American People.

[calimary]

13. THAT is what to call it, AND how to brand it.

Let’s fight branding with branding. OUR branding.

WE should decide what to call this. I’m not gonna use his words. That just reinforces them and helps them sink in.

And “LIE-gate” is SO much more accurate and appropriate.

My only question would be - how to write it. For maximum clarity and impact.

“Liegate”?

“LIEgate”?

“LIE-gate?”

Which works best? “Liegate” seems to me to be the least effective, visually, because it doesn’t direct you to the point - which is the “LIE” part.

So I’d go with one of the other two. The “LIE” part is what’s most important, and what deserves the greatest emphasis. Seems to me, just regarding marketing and mending and branding, if you want to open their eyes, maybe you gotta punch ‘em in the nose (FIGURATIVELY speaking, of course).

[pangaia]

15. Looks like liegate is already out there...

[calimary]

23. Well, then, it's already warmed up! I say we grab it

and make it OURS. And use it like there’s no tomorrow!

[pangaia]

30. good idea.....

no more of this-- mis-spoke gate.

[calimary]

31. Let's make this "a thing."

Elevate it and give it a lot of calcium supplement!

[calimary]

32. One way to make it "a thing" and set it apart: the way it looks on paper.

When it's written out, visually, as opposed to spoken, it can be written in a way as to distinguish it. That's why I often capitalize words. It's for emphasis. Physical emphasis. Even if you're just skimming the thread and aren't actively reading each post, you can't help but notice a capitalized word or phrase. It kinda sticks out from the rest of the text.

I'd suggest LIE-gate, or LIEgate without the hyphen. Drawing added attention to the money syllable by capitalizing it (the LIE part) is driving the point home. REALLY "telling it like it is" and WHAT it is.

Bonus points for the visual aid making it obvious how you pronounce it!

[pangaia]

14. Adam, come on guy your good at this.. should all be Lies, instead of false statements...

Tell the WHOLE truth..
LIES LIES LIES....

Keep up the good work..

[duforsure]

16. I agree

Thank You Senator Adam Schiff. Liegate is more fitting .

[NewJeffCT]

19. He's not a senator yet

He's a Representative from California.

[duforsure]

22. That's right, sorry, my mistake.

[usaf-vet]

17. #liegate

#liegate not spygate

[BSdetect]

18. Say it loud and long.

[R B Garr]

21. This is so brilliant. Just brilliant.

I also wish the media would interrupt Trump when he tells them they (or everyone) is calling it "spy-gate" and ask for an example of which network and which person called it "spygate". Don't just let him talk.

Love Adam Schiff!

[Boomerproud]

24. The media and your fellow leadership needs to follow your courageous and truthful example.

Come on CNN, MSNBC, NBC, CBS, ABC and NPR!!!!!!

[gratuitous]

25. And when the inevitable pushback comes

Just say, "If this is one of the greatest political scandals ever, as Trump has claimed, why is he taking a long weekend to sit around, watch TV, golf, and tweet? Why isn't he doing something to exonerate himself? If he's not taking 'Spygate' seriously, why should anyone else?"

[Demsrule86]

26. I love this guy. yesterday, I heard Adam Schiff being equated with Nunes which is a damn lie.

This was on CNN...so not listening to CNN much...the 'they all do it' is getting to be too much.

[triron]

27. kick for visibility

[triron]

28. kick again

[sarcasmo]

29. #LIEGATE