Hillary Clinton’s not-namesake passes away
Sir Edmund Hilary, New Zealand’s famed climber and conqueror of Mount Everest, passed away today (hat tip – JWF). He was 88.
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.
She finally admitted the lie in October 2006. In typical Clintonesque fashion, her campaign blamed her poor mother:
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.
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Forgive me, Sir Hillary. My sincere apologies, but when I saw the headline, I sprayed my laptop with some Starbucks, because of the Shrillary connection. I hope you will understand, and Rest In Peace, sir.
R.I.P. Sir Edmund.
Jennifer Hanley went on to explain that she was named after Jennifer Lopez, a story her mother shared to inspire a world-class butt on her daughter…film at 11.
LOL! I just heard this on the radio and thought, poor guy, but how timely for everyone to speak about one of Bill & Hill’s 10,000 white lies.
Now she’ll just smile coyly and blame her mother when really this was pure Hillary invention, first used when she was First Lady visiting NZ and giving a speech. Ugh, how can people not see through the two of them??! Its becoming really nauseating because she’s on TV so much now.
RIP, Sir Edmund Hilary.
as I wish the campaign for Hillary does soon, too.
Since Hillary’s mom is on the campaign trail with her, why doesn’t somebody ask her how Hillary got her name?
This highly educated women was unable to subtract and figure out that she could not have been named for this man????
It was her Mom’s fault. These people lie and then lie to correct it…
If I was her Mother, I would wash her lying mouth out with soap! This
woman lies just to have something to say. There was no reason on earth
for her to tell that lie about Sir Edmund Hillary. She makes Bill look
truthful.
Thanks for the link, Michelle.
I wonder if Hillary is getting weepy over this?
HAHAHAHA!!!! I just did the same basic Headline for this story!
I was named after Sir Edmund Hilary too. My full name is Sir Edmund Hilary Rodham Clinton. Okay, not really, but it makes a really inspiring story.
Re:“It was a sweet family story her mother shared to inspire greatness…”
It sounds to me like she is saying that it is OK to lie to children if it encourages them to turn out the way you want them to.
And she wants universal pre K… be afraid, be very afraid.
You guys have go this all wrong. It wasn’t Sir Edmund Hillary who climbed Everest that she was named after. It was Sir Edward Hillary who climbed the worlds largest pile of fertilizer in 1946. It brings a tear to my eye that Hillary has dedicated her life to honoring his acheivement by spreading that same fertilizer wherever she goes.
Now that Sir Edmund has passed, Hillary is free to claim that he was named after her.
I read today that the woman that asked HRC the question that caused her to
tear up for 10 seconds voted for Obama because she immediately quit crying
and went back into political mode. In other words, she couldn’t hold the lie
of crying but for 10 seconds. Maybe HRC is the smartest woman in America.
I would not be able to remember all those lies and keep them straight. But I
certainly would not blame one on my Mother! Talk about
someone going up side your head!
Sir Edmund conquered Everest in 1953…years after Hillary Rodham was even conceived. The only mountain Hillary has conquered to date, is the pile of deceased friends, attorneys, and confidants she and her pseudo-spouse have left behind, in her climb to glory!
Just in time for the Minnesota Primary-hmmmm,I question the timing.Another opporunity for” she who will be obeyed” to show her “soft”side.sarc off.
Does this mean Hugh Rodham wasn’t named after Hugh Grant? I mean it would really be inspiring if it were true.
“She who must not be named” lied and Sir Edmund Hillary died. I think I just invented a new moonbat poster for the unhinged. Rest in peace sir and thank you for having the courage, grit, and luck to do something remarkable with your life, “because it was there.”
Indeed.
It proved that none of them paid particularly close attention in High School history/geography class, and that most folks are pretty stupid.
Oh, and that her husband is a gullible fool.
Amazing results. Really.
Just a thought, really, but if she is willing to lie about something so trivial as the origin of her first name, shouldn’t we doubt everything uttered by her and her following?
If Sliccary becomes President is she going to blame her mom when another batch of psycho-islamists bomb us again? Sliccary spokesperson: “Oh, it was all her moms fault for trying to teach her to bake brownies instead of the wisdom of Socialism”. Slick+Sliccary presidency = downfall of Western Civilization.
Why did her momma add the extra “L” then? My name is Sue. I was named after Johnny Cash song Boy Named Sue. Of course I was born prior to the song but my momma was psychic.
Now that he is dead, the lie can safely be changed to that Sir Edmund was in reality named after Hillary Clinton!
Nice idea Boomer, but you know they’ll find a way to blame it on Bush, not “she who must not be named”.
R.I.P. Sir Edmund Hilary
May Sir Hilary R.I.P. now for the Klintoon (kartoons) just bull$hiT from the left…these people have no morals.
You don’t have to be religious to have morals which neither of these 2 have.
Loser.
So, the “smartest women in the world” couldn’t figure out for herself that she was born in 1947 and Sir Edmund performed his feat in 1953. You’ve got to be kidding me! The knuckle-dragging liberals lap this stuff up and expect us to go along with it. Then when someone points out that Hillary “Karl Marx” Clinton is a bald-faced liar, they get indignant. Like it’s our fault for telling the truth!
Liberals. Have. No. Shame.
No, no, he was named after Dennis Rodman, the basketball player. The spelling is different, but immaterial. This would kind of, in a way, make her the second black President.
Because Hillary Rotten Clinton thinks she’s so much smarter than everyone else that she didn’t think someone would notice.
Sir Edmund climed a mountain. He was a great man.
Hillary has sunk into a molehill. She is a great liar.
#27
I thought it was for “Looney”
And actually Dave, lying about something so VERY easily disproven (I mean, look at the YEARS for crying out loud) would make you a “Horrible Liar”…
And a lot of people who bought it “Reall Stupid”.
Just because people are morons and believe whatever you might say doesn’t make you an astonishingly good liar. Just lucky to have such a gathering of fools.
On FreeRepublic, someone posted the news with the headline “HILLARY’S DEAD.”
Sir Edmund scaled many mighty mountains and was an honorable soul. Ms. Hillary Rodham Clinton has sputtered many humongous lies and….I’ll leave it at that.
What a tawdry “climber”.
The woman is an obsessive compulsive narcissist.
Once again, the only reaction PIAPS inspires in me is— DRUM ROLL—-
Puke.
Thank god her mom didn’t name her Edmond. LOL
R.I.P Sir Edmund. I am originally from New Zealand and his climbing of Mt Everest in 1953 is one of my earliest childhood memories. He will be remembered for the many wonderful things that he did for the people of Nepal as well as conquering the hightest mountain along with his guide Sherpa Tensing. It is such a shame that a man of his stature should have his memory forever besmerched by someone like HRC.
No, Hugh Rodham was named after Hugh Hefner.
It has been reported, the rumor that Sir Hilary cried tears at the “Second Step”, was untrue. It was also untrue that his wife was planning to climb it too, using his ropes. And, no, the “Hilary Step” was not named after Hilary Clinton.
God Speed Sir Edmund Hilary.
It wasn’t reported what is being done with his body, but, if he’s cremated, it would be fitting to take a container of his ashes to the peak of Mt. Everest. If not, a bronze memorial should be placed there for him.
Man, talk about a guy at the top of his game…..
That was much more funny an hour ago.
I suppose Chelsea was named after Eleanor Roosevelt’s 3rd cousin of her Butler’s dog walker’s next door neighbors sister’s goldfish?
That was funnier too.
I’ll keep my day job.
Comeon guys! Won’t the explanation be a simple one?
Hillary Rodham Clinton was called Sweetiepie for the first several years of her life, until inspiration came in the form of Sir Edmund Hillary conquering the peak of Mt. Everest.
Well, I’m glad we got that cleared up.
Now let’s get back to derailing the democratic machine that will end up destroying the West.