Dumbest "-gate" of the primary season!

[anonymous171]

I'm torn between bookbaggate and snubgate myself. Be sure to tell me if I forgot one.

[mcctatas]

1. ...

:rofl: That list is a cavalcade of silly. For my money, fingergate had to be the absolute goliath of stupidity;)

[mrreowwr_kittty]

2. Fingergate. Though it was a tough choice. nt

[Frank Booth]

3. Looks like you forgot Elton John-gate.

Though I dare say that no one would mistake that incident as overblown.

Two months and Elton John still has not apologized for the hateful things he said about this country!!

[anonymous171]

4. I know! And she just stood there and watched him defame America!

[Symarip]

41. Elton John is a godless, soulless terrorist.

And he hates your freedom.

[cbayer]

50. Elton John to the stockade!!!! nt.

[silverojo]

5. What about Haircut-gate?

The media jumped all over that, and it actually hurt John Edwards' campaign terribly. How freaking stupid can people get?

[anonymous171]

6. Adding for the Edwards folks.

[ccharles000]

7. Assassinationgate.

In my opinion people were blowing it out of proportion.

[anonymous171]

10. It played into people's worst feelings about Hillary.

And therefore it sold big for the MSM.

[Skittles]

21. it sold big to Obamabots too n/t

[anonymous171]

23. Hey! I resent your use of labels!

I didn't think she was implying that Obama was going to be assassinated or anything.

[Skittles]

24. not all people who support Obama are Obamabots n/t

[Arkansas Granny]

37. I have to agree with you on this one.

[TexanDem]

8. flagpingate -- it's STILL abounding!

[MrSlayer]

9. Sweetiegate

That to me was the dumbest of the dumb.

[NYC_SKP]

11. Flag Pin gate. n/t

[EFerrari]

12. What about Sweetiegate?

:)

[anonymous171]

13. Added.

[EFerrari]

25. Thank you.

:)

[LordJFT]

14. what were fingergate and bookbaggate? i need a refresher

[Indenturedebtor]

16. Fingergate was a stupid photo caught at the right moment

To make Obama look like he was flicking hillary off. HRC peeps went crazy over it.

Bookbag gate was when HRC made a speech about when MLK died on MLK day and it went something like "I was so upset, I ran home and threw my bookbag really hard and trashed my room and cried."

I picked "sweetiegate" though it was a tough call. That was such a desperate attempt to call Obama a sexist it was utterly pitiful.

[LordJFT]

22. I'm not sure I even understand why bookbaggate became a gate

maybe that's a sign that a should be voting for that one

[Indenturedebtor]

26. It wasn't really a "gate" so much as a cause for ridicule

No one said "OMG HER CAMPAIGN I OVER!!!!!!! BOOKBAG GATE WILL KILL US ALL!!!!!!" Like they did with the other "gates"

[TheDoorbellRang]

45. The "controversy" was that bookbags allegedly were not invented yet

when she claimed to throw hers across her college dorm room. It was enflamed by duelling pictures of 60's students without/with bookbags to prove she was lying/telling the truth.

[yellowdogintexas]

52. bookbags as we know them were not invented yet. But there was a more

basic drawstring type bag used by students back in the 1960's and 1970's
I remember seeing them when I lived in the Harvard/MIT area back then

Very rudimentary but it kept all your junk together and more or less dry if you got caught in the rain

[americanstranger]

18. Quick definitions...

Fingergate - when Obama scratched his face and people went nuts for days speculating on whether he 'gave Hillary the finger.'

Bookbaggate - When a young Hillary Clinton heard about the death of Martin Luther King and was so upset she 'flung her bookbag across the room.'

Or something like that. I didn't really pay attention to Bookbaggate.

- as

[DrZeeLit]

42. Some ranted over the "fact" (I didn't ! Don't hit me!) that bookbags weren't even "invented" then...

sooooo.... that meant she was exaggerating once again.
They, whoever "they" are as usual, tried to point out a pattern.

DUH.

It was pretty darn lame.

[americanstranger]

15. Brush It Off-Gate.

I mean, it was just so...sexist! :sarcasm:

- as

[Indenturedebtor]

17. You forgot the :sarcasm: n/t

[americanstranger]

19. Fixed.

Thx for the reminder.

- as

[dailykoff]

20. You're likeable enough gate.

Followed by He said periodically gate.

[Adelante]

39. Oh, God!! That one! Yes

I would have certainly have picked: He said periodically gate. No contest.

[FrenchieCat]

27. Let's put it this way.....None of those "gates" helped lower gasoline prices,

or help pay for my Health care. So they were all a waste of time.

[Teaser]

28. whiteygate

it didn't even exist....

[JustABozoOnThisBus]

29. I liked "sweetie-gate", but "islam-gate" was pretty good

Not Islamic, or so I've been told.

[tomg]

30. Wasn't there also a

"failing to put his hand over his heart during the National Anthem only to find out that you only 'have' to do it during the Pledge of Allegiance, so, sorry, our bad, but he is still unpatriotic or something or other" -Gate. Or was that a subgate to FlagGate? Well, all I can say to all of these gates is "I knew Watergate, and you're no Watergate."

[Recursion]

33. It's got to suck for that hotel

since through no fault of its own, half of its name now means "the suffix applied to any political scandal".

There actually was a gate, at one point, that let water through, back when Con Ave was a canal. Now there's just a plaque in the parking lot for the Georgetown movie theater.

[On the Road]

43. The Watergate Complex Has Been Doing Just Fine

I'm sure the notoriety has been great for business over the years.

It's a whole complex -- hotel, condos, restuaurant, shops, a law school in the basement. Worked room service there in my 20s for a little while.

[tomg]

54. A law school in the basement?

Well, at least now we know where Gonzales,Mukasey,Yoo and the rest of them came from.

[Patsy Stone]

31. Snubgate

A HUGE waste of time and pixels that we'll never get back.

[izzybeans]

32. All of the above

[JeffR]

34. Essaygate

where a precocious young radical Islamist named Barack wrote at length about his long-term plans to steal the presidency and establish the seat of his caliphate along the banks of the Potomac. That evil little bastid.

[Max_powers94]

35. basketballgate

[PassingFair]

36. I think "Terrorist Fist Jab" looks good going into the General....

but I picked Wrightgate for the primaries.

If everyone had to own what their
"spiritual guides" said, the churches would
be empty.

[Adelante]

38. I thought sweetiegate, bookbaggate and snubgate were really dumb

But fingergate took it.

[liberaldem4ever]

40. Fingergate was the goofiest to me

But there was a lot of silliness going on. :eyes:

[Renew Deal]

44. Reagangate

That was a blast.

[helderheid]

46. How did I miss fingergate? What was that?

[DearAbby]

47. Gawd I forgot about finger-gate

bookbag gate was real stupid as well.

[helderheid]

48. what was fingergate?

[Pathwalker]

49. Fistdapgate, followed by lapelpingate.

n/t

[TexasObserver]

51. Snub gate was the most absurd. "He turned the other way!!"

Of all the things that made Hillary assume a fetal position and start whimpering, the most ridiculous was snub gate.

[DS1]

53. All of them. Only useless bastards slap -gate on everything

[Cessna Invesco Palin]

55. Kantorgate.

Jesus fucking christ that was retarded.

[democrattotheend]

56. Bookbag-gate never really materialized beyond the blogosphere

So if you are torn vote for Snubgate.

[democrattotheend]

57. You forgot "Fingergate"

Although like bookbag-gate, that was largely confined to the blogosphere.

[GodlessBiker]

58. "Terrorist," "Black Power" fist bump-gate. I mean, Howie Mandel does it.