THE END of "BookBag-Gate." Yes, they were around in the 60s. PROOF. Now apologize to Hillary.

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Just took a little googling...


NYT article from 1963:

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BOOK BAGS ABROAD; 'Lunch Bag' Bag Has Many Uses Methods of Carrying

By ELIZABETH DICKENS

May 19, 1963, Sunday

LAST year, when she heard that my sister and I were going to spend the summer in Europe, a young Radcliffe student gave us each a sturdy, green book bag. I thanked her prettily, wondering what in thunder I should...

http://select.nytimes.com/gst/abstract.html?res=FB0717FE3C5A157B93CBA8178ED85F478685F9

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Here's another one:

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MORE ON BOOK BAGS; A Campus Tradition For Shoppers, Too MORE ABOUT THE BOOK BAG Different Versions Many Uses


By PHYLLIS MERASThe New York Times (by Sam Falk)

June 2, 1963, Sunday

WHAT is a book bag? This question has been besieging The Times Travel Section since May 19, when there appeared, on Page 1, an article entitled "Book Bags Abroad."

http://select.nytimes.com/gst/abstract.html?res=F70C11F73F581A7B93C0A9178DD85F478685F9

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Now, you have to pay to read the actual articles, but it seems pretty damned clear, from the titles and the snips, that book bags were indeed real, and known to college students, as early as 1963.

I'll hold my breath for apologies to Hillary for yet again calling her a liar based on nothing but bullshit.

[flowomo]

1. add this one...

http://alumni.indiana.edu/magazine/issues/200103/protest.shtml

gotta read down a ways

[QC]

2. It's a pity that a thread like this is necessary.

This place gets dumber and more juvenile every day.

[The Wielding Truth]

23. Yea, I even think she said, backpack, anyhow.

[rinsd]

3. Al Gore invented the internet, Al Gore's mom's dog's medication is cheaper. Al Gore....

[AX10]

7. The sad thing is that this time we...

have a sizable part of the Democratic party playing along.

[grasswire]

10. and the MSM too

Dan Abrams, for one.

[rodeodance]

11. the real sick part is that they think they are 'progressives"!!

[JoFerret]

76. O'Bush lites. Non-compassionate condescending conservatives

.

[ElsewheresDaughter]

4. the majority of the O peeps are all bullshit artists and will aviod this thread like the plague

forget about an aplogy for their bullshit lies on Hillary

[wiggle-room]

6. Evidently.

[Lisa0825]

19. not the majority.... just as with the Hillary camp, a minority stir the most shit...

but I'd expect no less from you. If the majority of Hillary supporters are as negative as you, then maybe that's a telling sign...

This is a stupid thing to argue about. I was disappointed in Abrams for giving it air time. I knew it would blow up here again.

[Texas Hill Country]

55. yeah, i have yet to hear an apology about the hospital... much less this.

and these people still dont think there is an anti clinton bias?

[Milo_Bloom]

5. It doesn't prove she owned one.

*SNARK*

[PBS Poll-435]

51. What do you think she carries around her tax returns in?

[Bonobo]

8. I apologize unreservedly.

[tekisui]

9. This one was always stupid.

[quakerboy]

32. Amen

If I had propounded this, I would appologize. It was always dumb from every angle.

[QC]

12. Yeah, but she didn't need a bookbag!

Satan gave her a demon especially for carrying her books around!

[rodeodance]

13. REC

[dysfunctional press]

14. all the goldwater girls flung them out of anger when they heard about mlk

it was in ALL the best papers.

[splat]

17. There weren't any Goldwater girls in 1968. Does that spoil your spew?

[dysfunctional press]

24. did they commit mass suicide after '64...?

and if so, why wasn't shrillary a "joiner"...?
:shrug:

[Bake]

43. Did you learn "shrillary" over at freeperville?

Careful, somebody might start talking bad about your boy ...

Bake

[dysfunctional press]

53. my..."boy"??? nice racism, dude.

do you like to take it out for some exercise every now and then, or is it a regular thing?

[Bake]

56. No more offensive than"shrillary"

But thanks for playing the race card, sexist pig.

Bake

[dysfunctional press]

57. there's nothing sexist about "shrillary", but "boy" has a LOOOONG sordid history with black MEN.

and you KNEW that when YOU played your race card.

[Bake]

69. I did that to make a point. You were being insulting, so I gave it right back to you.

I'll see your one and raise you five, asswipe.

Nothing sexist about "shrillary?" I guess that's why it's so popular over in freeperville. Sounds like you've been there, or else got your daily talking points fax from Limpballs.

Bake

[dysfunctional press]

72. yeah...it's a real stretch to derive "shrillary" from hillary just by watching her.

:eyes:

i guess it's too much to expect a racist pig to have any intelligence to call your their own.

that's WHY you're they're the racist pigs you they are to begin with.

btw- which term is more sexist on it's face- "shrillary", or "limpballs" ???

asswipe, indeed. :hi:

[Crunchy Frog]

15. I won't apologize...

since I never participated in any of these discussions, and regarded the whole issue as being almost unbelievably silly.

[Lisa0825]

21. Same here...

I didn't participate because I thought it was stupid.

[splat]

16. Defend your right to be ignorant in the name of the messiah!

[Lisa0825]

20. real mature.

:eyes:

[PetraPooh]

18. I won't apologize because my reason for not believing her had nothing to do with bookbags;

it has to do with the fact that she keeps being exposed as a liar when she tells these types of stories.

[BlueIdaho]

22. Book bag no book bag

She's still finished - its over - deal with it.

[PBS Poll-435]

52. Then take the rest of the Spring off!

[Johnny__Motown]

25. I never doubted she had a book bag, it is the rest of the story I think is pure sniper shit

[Cali_Democrat]

26. Sadly, Hillary lies so often, I don't think I can give her the benefit of the doubt

nt

[Warren Stupidity]

27. As I paid no attention to this idiocy to start with I see no reason

to pay any attention to a refutation of this idiocy. I really do not care if Senator Clinton flung a bookbag or not. There are more important matters.

[rug]

28. When were BICs invented?

Should I start a thread?

[juno jones]

29. Personally I don't give a shit about Hillary's bookbag in the 60's.

I'm only concerned with her actions now. This is such a non-topic. I have no idea why this has several threads of name-calling and back-biting attatched.

There. Rant out. I'll never comment on Hillary's book-toting accessories again, nor do I expect to really have cause to do so.

[GoldieAZ49]

30. I had a plaid book bag in first grade

in the 60's

and not many books at that level

[proud2BlibKansan]

31. As soon as she apologizes for lying about the sniper fire in Bosnia

[eleny]

33. Right, I tried to tell the orignal OP. They called them the "Harvard Bag"

A green cloth, drawstring type bag you flung over your shoulder but had to keep hold of the drawstrings. Guys could finally have a bag to keep their books without it being girly girl.

I went to college in Brooklyn, NY and didn't use one but we saw them and they were considered cool. I wouldn't doubt that Hillary used one.

http://www.democraticunderground.com/discuss/duboard.php?az=show_mesg&forum=132&topic_id=5389686&mesg_id=5391403

[LostinVA]

62. Ha -- I just posted that!

I should have read the thread first.

[DeepModem Mom]

34. I guess I missed this whole GDP episode. When the hell were there not book bags?

Ancient Rome??? Did this controversy start with some blogger, or did it originate here at DU? Or am I missing some major piece of the puzzle?

[IndianaGreen]

35. Why was Hillary coming back to her dorm room after 8 o'clock at night with her book bag?

For all we know she probably was on spring break.

[WinkyDink]

36. 1968 was light-years from 1963. For the record. I mean, these references are pre-assassinations!

Pre-Beatles!
Pre-Summer of Love!

[AtomicKitten]

37. It's unfortunate that she is perceived as untrustworthy, but that's her own damn fault.

Still I said zip, nada, goose-egg about this episode, so I have nothing to apologize for.

[Shakespeare]

38. It's not about the book bag. It's about the overall veracity of the anecdote.

It rang totally false to me. I make no apologies for that.

[McCamy Taylor]

39. I already said that hippies had macrame book bags. Jeez. I told you that last Friday.

People have no memories at all. It is like their brains do a memory dump once a year in the US.

[Emillereid]

46. The macrame bags of the era were not strong enough to carry more than a pocket book or two.

Book bags existed but were used by children, not college students.

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40. shameless kick

[HiFructosePronSyrup]

41. Well I'll be a monkey's uncle.

Unlike WMDs in Iraq, there really were bookbags in the 60's.

[Alter Ego]

42. Did anyone actually care about this?

I just assumed it was more hyperbole from Hillary about actually throwing her bag across the room--whether or not bookbags actually existed in the 60s never even occurred to me.

So no, I won't apologize to her.

[scheming daemons]

44. The reason this thread is necessary is LOST ON YOU....

It's because your candidate lies about so many things, that the American people can no longer take at face value ANYTHING that she says.


Every single statement she makes now has to be fact-checked.....


This unfortunate situation exists because your candidate is a pathological liar.

[Liquorice]

47. Al Gore was called a pathological liar too. He's not and neither is Hillary Clinton. nt

[Emillereid]

45. Book bags existed - but were mainly used by children. By the time I was in

junior high the custom was to carry books in your arms. I looked through my college yearbook of the mid-60s and NO ONE was carrying a book bag. Now maybe Hillary was the exception - but admit that it would have been unusual.

[bunnies]

48. The bookbag thing is infinitely dumb.

And not that it really matters but... This Obama supporter wasnt part of it.

[FlyingSquirrel]

49. I'd apologize, but

I have actually avoided the whole stupid issue.

x(

[izzybeans]

50. Don't have conversations with concern trolls. just throw snark at them.

You'll find yourself spending less time defending your candidate from ridiculousness.

[taterguy]

54. I'll apologize when her supporters apologize to me for this

[Arkansas Granny]

60. What happened? Would you care to elaborate?

[taterguy]

74. I made a mistake while cutting down a tree

It had nothing to do with Hillary or her supporters but I'd really appreciate it if someone else would accept responsibility for my own stupidity.

[Danger Mouse]

58. Well, since I stayed out of bookbag gate, I ain't gotta apologize for NOTHIN.

:P

[IDemo]

59. Allow me a nazistic moment

Enough of this-gate and that-gate.

The "Watergate Scandal" was so named because it involved a break-in of Democratic offices located in the Watergate hotel complex in Washington, DC.

The Watergate scandal was not an incident involving water, with "gate" appended to let everyone know it was also a scandalous issue. It was the name of a freaking hotel.

There was no "Wright-Gate", no "Sniper-Gate", and no "Bookbag-Gate". There were incidents, events, statements, misstatements, and maybe a lie or two. It is a sign of intellectual laziness to attempt to elevate an issue to the same level as Watergate with the ridiculous attachment of "Gate" to each and every news buzzword of the hour.

I'll discuss the incorrect usage of "issue" versus "problem" later!

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[taterguy]

64. When was the last time someone went to the gas chamber over a language quibble?

I object to your over-use of the term Nazi.

[IDemo]

66. Sorry. Objection noted.

I was trying to save responders the trouble of typing in the typical "language nazi" epithet.

[LostinVA]

61. What the fuck is "bookbaggate" and YES, bookbags existed tyhen

My Mom used one in HS (early 60's), and it used to be a rite of passage for Harvard and Cliffie students to buy one at the Coop. And, I had one when I wqas in second grade (I was born in 1964).

Crazy.

[hfojvt]

63. I guess four or five DUers doubted Hillary's story

When she said on the day MLK was shot she came into her dorm room and threw her bookbag across the room. Heck maybe it was as many as a dozen, but apparently it is now a badge of shame for all Obama supporters.

[Beaverhausen]

65. totally crazy and yet there are some Obama supporters in this very thread still saying she lied

jesus- nothing like doing the RWs work for them.

[last1standing]

67. Is this really what DU has become?

A few Obama supporters take over the GDP forum to whine about whether a bookbag existed in the '60's and now we're going to start it all up again because of an article from 1963?

This is all beyond sad.

[Catherine Vincent]

68. It was more than a few.

And yes it was sad that thread after thread we read about Hillary's bookbag throwing. Idiots.

[Buzz Clik]

71. But you've got to admit -- that was damn fine investigative reporting.

:eyes:

[Buzz Clik]

70. This is huge. You still have time to vote in this poll!

http://www.democraticunderground.com/discuss/duboard.php?az=show_topic&forum=132&topic_id=5403895

I don't think the outcome will change, however.

[Jamastiene]

73. I STILL cannot believe you people had a flame war over THIS

:rofl:

:popcorn:

[PVnRT]

75. Neither can I

I didn't even hear about it until now.

[TheDonkey]

77. Bookbag-gate? Didn't realize that had been upgraded to "gate" status

:rofl: