Buttongate - WTF!?
There’s a lot of talk about whether or not Jenson Button will be at Williams or BAR next year..
All I want to know is WTF does Buttongate mean!? Every news site seems to be using the term. Is it a European reference that I don’t understand? And now we have Buttongate II. What will be next, Buttongate III - Revenge of the Sith? Buttongate Atlantis? 
Date: Friday, September 9th, 2005 at 7:40 pm
Category: F1 Drivers, F1 Stories
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“Buttongate” is a play on Watergate, the 1970’s White House political scandal. The addition of “-gate” on the end of whatever is being discussed is meant to indicate political manuvering, but I agree with you when you say it is rather daft. The only real politics involved is how much money went where.
And let’s hope there is no Buttongate III, otherwise it’ll probably be subtitled “And We’re All Fed Up With It”.
Thank you Alianora! Very clever!!
After one and a half years we finally have an answer 