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The legend of Sir Edmund Hillary

By Michelle Malkin  •  June 23, 2004 09:59 PM

I promised myself I’d be a Clinton-free zone for the summer, but Bill Clinton’s resurrection of Hillary’s pathological lie about how she was named is too rich to pass up. From ABC News Online (via C-log):

Bill Clinton’s autobiography “My Life” has been raising eyebrows in New Zealand amid rumblings the former US president has been less than truthful about the mountainous origins of his wife’s name.

Mr Clinton’s claim that Hillary was named in honour of Sir Edmund Hillary, the New Zealander who conquered Mount Everest, has created more interest here than the former president’s relationship with White House intern Monica Lewinsky.

On several visits to New Zealand during his time in office, the president referred to Sir Edmund as “the second favourite Hillary in our household”, while Hillary herself has attributed her moniker to the mountaineer.

There is even an after dinner joke here that goes: “What do Bill Clinton and New Zealand have in common? They both owe their reputations to Hillary.”

But the story has a fundamental problem: Edmund Hillary reached Everest’s peak on May 29, 1953, nearly seven years after the infant Hillary arrived in the world.

Yes, and did you know that my parents named me after Olympic medalist Michelle Kwan?

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  1. #1
    On June 24th, 2004 at 9:07 am, Noble Eagle said:

    “Yes, and did you know that my parents named me after Olympic medalist Michelle Kwan?”

    That’s common knowledge. In fact, I’ve known that for over thirty years.

  2. #2
    On June 24th, 2004 at 9:35 am, Fausta said:

    That’s one of the lies that Christopher Hitchens wrote about 5 years ago in No One Left To Lie To: The Triangulations of William Jefferson Clinton

  3. #3
    On June 24th, 2004 at 10:06 am, Jack said:

    Should we be lamenting the fact that Clinton’s book is full of lies? That is this man’s legacy, along with Monica and debasing the office of the Presidency.

    Watching President Reagan’s funeral, all I could think is there is man we can be proud of, and he was proud to be an American. The same could not be said about Slick Willy.

  4. #4
    On June 24th, 2004 at 10:21 am, Steve said:

    They could have also gone with famed actress and martial-arts expert Michelle Yeoh.

  5. #5
    On June 24th, 2004 at 10:39 am, Peter said:

    The Cintons lied, even when it didn’t matter. That will be their place in history, along with destroying the Democrat Party.

  6. #6
    On June 24th, 2004 at 10:42 am, SpaceMonkey said:

    Bill was’t lying, the righties are guilty of revisionist history. Now, how they changed my grandmothers world book encylopedias printed in the mid seventies to comfirm their lie is another question altogether.

  7. #7
    On June 24th, 2004 at 10:47 am, McGehee said:

    Now, how they changed my grandmothers world book encylopedias printed in the mid seventies to comfirm their lie is another question altogether.

    Their cleverness is diabolical in its scope and foresight.

  8. #8
    On June 24th, 2004 at 10:52 am, James Rose said:

    wait a clinton lie, surely you jest! not with such an immaculate track record as his!

  9. #9
    On June 24th, 2004 at 12:28 pm, William Meisheid said:

    The casualness of this type of lying is what is so disturbing, as if they themselves can’t distinguish the truth any more. The sad result is that calls into question everything that they say on any subject. Afterall, how is one to know what is [pun intended] and what isn’t?

  10. #10
    On June 24th, 2004 at 12:34 pm, Ralph Gizzip said:

    Wasn’tthe original title of Bubba’s book supposed to by “My Lie”?

  11. #11
    On June 24th, 2004 at 12:44 pm, Paleo said:

    Obviously, Kenneth Starr sneaked into his room and doctored his manuscript. It’s the only possible explanation.

  12. #12
    On June 24th, 2004 at 1:20 pm, Miss Beca said:

    the VRWC strikes again!
    MUAHAHAHAHA

    b

  13. #13
    On June 24th, 2004 at 2:26 pm, Carolus said:

    Lord Hee-Haw and his wife are Nacissistic psychopaths. They have an absolute need that attention be focused upon themselves at all times. When this is not possible, as during the funeral of President Reagan, they enter this semi-unconscious state. Several who observed this said it was the first time they slept together in years. The habitual lying, even when there is no rationale, is consistent with the psychopathic personality.

  14. #14
    On June 24th, 2004 at 2:27 pm, Skerdog said:

    And here, I thought you were named after “Michelle” on the TV show “Full House”… O:)

  15. #15
    On June 24th, 2004 at 3:03 pm, Michelle M. said:

    Skerdog,

    No, she was named after me. ;)

  16. #16
    On June 24th, 2004 at 4:36 pm, murdoc said:

    This is just plain bizarre. The fact that Hillary summited Everest years before Bill’s wife was born is not new news. They’ve been called on it for (at least) several years.

    What would possess him to include that in his book. He has to know that it’s not true. If you’re going to lie, at least lie about things that aren’t so easy to disprove…

  17. #17
    On June 24th, 2004 at 4:45 pm, StarBanker said:

    No doubt as we speak, there is some liberal historian out there rewriting the ascent of Mt. Everest to fit the Senator’s “facts.”

  18. #18
    On June 24th, 2004 at 5:39 pm, Ann Weller said:

    What I find most interesting in the few (as few as possible) excerpts I’ve read in my local liberal newspaper is how bad he makes himself look when he is trying to make himself look good.

    In the story on Waco, he apparently says that when Janet Reno came to him for approval to go in, he disagreed with her but finally said she could go ahead if she thought it was the right thing to do!

    Mow there’s the decisiveness we like to see in our leaders!

  19. #19
    On June 24th, 2004 at 6:08 pm, Pat Curley said:

    Clinton’s pathological; he’d lie even if the truth would serve him better.

  20. #20
    On June 25th, 2004 at 1:53 am, Mamamontezz said:

    Must have run throughout that dynasty, er, presidency. I mean, who can forget the Eric Segal wrote Love Story about Tipper and Algore.

    So much fame, so little mental real estate.

  21. #21
    On June 25th, 2004 at 11:15 am, Bishop said:

    Well, obviously, she was named for him after she was named for somone else.

    Where have I heard that?

  22. #22
    On June 25th, 2004 at 3:05 pm, Dressage Rider said:

    Documenting the lies, thefts, complicity in every crime known to man, not to mention psychiatric disorders and their profound love of communism would take out every single tree on earth. And these are what we KNOW about. Something wicked this way comes. Hillary. Be scared, be very very scared.

  23. #23
    On June 25th, 2004 at 10:24 pm, Eric Pobirs said:

    You know, this is just like that controversy when that guy Shakespeare shoplifted one of his plots from ‘West Side Story.’ And his version didn’t even have any good songs in it!

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