hillary clinton was named for sir edmund hillary!!

[dempartisan23]

i hope cbs doesnt expose that story as well.

[grassfed]

1. snopes

For more than a decade, Sen. Clinton's 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.

http://www.snopes.com/politics/clintons/hillary.asp

[bluedawg12]

6. Is that you Michelle? Doing the RW's dirty work?

http://michellemalkin.com/2008/01/10/hillary-clintons-not-namesake-passes-away/

"He was also a victim of an embarrassing Hillary Clinton whopper. Hilary scaled Everest in 1953. Hillary Clinton claimed for more than a decade that she was named after the climber–even though she was born in 1947, six years before he rose to worldwide prominence."

A victim of a whopper! Oh noooooooooooo...famous mountaineer dies of shamefull whopper.

At least Malkin had the decency to tell the whole story.

>>For more than a decade, one piece of Senator Hillary Rodham Clinton’s informal biography has been that she was named for Sir Edmund Hillary, the conqueror of Mount Everest. The story was even recounted in Bill Clinton’s autobiography.

But yesterday, Mrs. Clinton’s campaign said she was not named for Sir Edmund after all.

“It was a sweet family story her mother shared to inspire greatness in her daughter, to great results I might add,” said Jennifer Hanley, a spokeswoman for the campaign.<<

Good grief a mother trying to inspire her little gril--how shameful.

Keep it up maniacs.

[tammywammy]

2. This is false and a smear

You'd do better to not post crap like this.

[SemiCharmedQuark]

3. So?

I'm named for a Steven.

[bluedawg12]

7. No you're not!

Go look on snopes- Steven Colbert was not famous until atfter you were born.

[unkachuck]

4. K&R....

....why would her mother name her after Sir Edmund Hillary?

[bluedawg12]

5. Oh the shock- call Rush! Call Annnie the K!!! Good grief! LOL.

The RW is kinder to her then some LW smearboaters. :ROFL:

http://www.wnd.com/news/article.asp?ARTICLE_ID=52477

>>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." <<

[bluedawg12]

8. When did Barry become Barrack? n/t