Posted on 10/17/2006 8:35:45 AM PDT by SirLinksalot
Hillary comes clean about Sir Edmund
Finally admits she was not named for famous mountain climber
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Posted: October 17, 2006 10:39 a.m. Eastern
Years after alternative media pointed out the virtual impossibility, Sen. Hillary Clinton finally has admitted she was not named for the famous conqueror of Mount Everest, Sir Edmund Hillary.
The New York Times, which repeated the claim as fact in a story just one week ago, reported Sen. Clinton's campaign issued a correction yesterday.
"It was a sweet family story her mother shared to inspire greatness in her daughter, to great results I might add," said spokeswoman Jennifer Hanley.
For more than a decade, Sen. Clinton's informal biography repeated the story, and it was recounted in former President Bill Clinton's 2004 autobiography, "My Life."
The problem with the tale, however, is one of timing. Sir Edmund and his Sherpa guide, Tenzing Norgay, became known to the world only in 1953, after becoming the first men to reach Everest's summit. Sen. Clinton was born in 1947.
Nevertheless, Clinton recounted to the press her meeting with Sir Edmund in 1995, during an Asian tour, in which she told the mountain climber how her mother had named her.
"It had two l's, which is how she thought she was supposed to spell Hillary," she said. "So when I was born, she called me Hillary, and she always told me it's because of Sir Edmund Hillary."
In 1947, Sir Edmund was an unknown beekeeper, but Clinton had explained her mother read about him in a publication while pregnant and liked the name.
The Oct. 10 Times story about Sen. Clinton's mother moving in to the family's house in Washington stated "her mother named her for the mountaineer Sir Edmund Hillary."
So she is saying lying is a family trait?
"It was a sweet family story her mother shared to inspire greatness in her daughter, to great results I might add," said spokeswoman Jennifer Hanley.
*barf*
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In relation to this topic, I bring you more fibs from our would be president in 2008 ...
http://worldnetdaily.com/news/article.asp?ARTICLE_ID=49176
Here it is the ultimate, irreverent Hillary Clinton quotebook.
Never before has one work so damned someone with his or her own words.
It's "I've Always Been a Yankees Fan" just in time to arm yourself with the truth as the senator from New York prepares for her ambitious mission of becoming the first woman president of the United States.
Remember when she claimed to be named after Sir Edmund Hillary, the famed mountaineer who climbed Mount Everest? Only problem his accomplishment came years after she was born.
How about the her claim, while running for the U.S. Senate in New York, about being a lifelong Yankees fan. Only problem she grew up in Chicago rooting for the Cubs.
This is the biggest and best collection of famous and infamous Hillary quotes ever assembled and includes extensive, attributed sources, including recollections from former Clinton aide Dick Morris fully illustrated, too.
How about her respect for the men and women who risk their lives for her protection?
Here's what she told her Secret Service guard who wanted to keep his hands free in case of a security threat: "If you want to remain on this detail, get you're a-- over here and grab those bags."
Here's what none other than Morris had to say about the book in his forward: "This wonderful little book will give you all the ammunition you need to hold up your end of the argument and make sure that Hillary's quotes and lies are not forgotten but come back to haunt her."
Get : "I'VE ALWAYS BEEN A YANKEE FAN" now.
Oh it's just a lie...everybody does it...no big deal...surely it doesn't rise to the level. /sarc
"It was a sweet family story her mother shared to inspire greatness in her daughter, to great results I might add," said spokeswoman Jennifer Hanley.
*barf*
Naturally....when the lie catches up to her...does SHE admit it was a lie..and apologize??
NO, she has a campaign aide say it "was some story...."
This is one of the leaders of the group that complains that Bush's lack of accountability....LOL
Unlike her husband, she's NOT a particularly good liar.
From "Top Secret":
Nick Rivers: Hillary. That's an unusual name.
Hillary Flammond: It's a German name. It means 'she whose bosoms defy gravity'.
Nick Rivers: I'm pleased to meet you. My name's Nick.
Hillary Flammond: Nick? What does that mean?
Nick Rivers: Oh, nothing. My dad thought of it while he was shaving.
It seems that most Democrats' biographies are at least 50% fake. Think of Gov. Richardson and his claim he played pro baseball! And Kerry's entire life. John Kennedy had fake heroism and a Pulitzer for a book he didn't write. They all get away with it, who will challenge them on it....the media?!
You guys are all out to lunch. Sir Edmund was a very famous bee keeper.
I named my son after a world renowned eskimo philatelist.
Owl_Eagle
If what I just wrote made you sad or angry,
it was probably just a joke.
Her given name, the story goes, was Hildegard, and she was born in a bunker under the city of Berlin in the waning days of WWII. (Of her parents it is known that her father had a moustache and that he married her mother just before they both died.) She became an orphan when her poor parents perished by their own hands shortly after her birth, and a few months later she arrived on an orphan ship in Chicago, where a kindly couple the Rodhams adopted the unfortunate creature.
Breeding will tell...
My guess is that the Hillary 2008 campaign has a whole schedule put together moving into 2007 to deal with this type of stuff in preparation for the presidential campaign.
But you notice she's getting this lie out of the way before the 2008 campaign begins.
Marrying a rapist/adulterer/traitor and gravytraining off his career is "greatness?"
New York Times: All the Lies That's Fit to Print
I think you're all misunderstanding. Hillary IS named after Sir Edmund Hillary. See, before his famous climb, she had another name: Jezebel. But eventually they felt they needed to give her a less evil sounding moniker...
Inspired her to find a Sherpa (Bill) to drag her fat ass up Everest?
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