The New York Times - breaking stories only 28 months behind the blogosphere!
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.
In May 1953, Sir Edmund and his Sherpa guide, Tenzing Norgay, became the first men to reach the summit of Mount Everest. In 1995, shortly after meeting Sir Edmund, Mrs. Clinton said that her mother, Dorothy Rodham, had long told her she was named for the famous mountaineer.
From Silent Running, June 2004;
The question is why did her parents name her after a little known New Zealand bee keeper who's most notable activities to date had been to hunt crocs while he was serving in the air force in the Pacific during WWII.Of course when little Hillary was six years old Ed became a tad more well known when he got to the top of world.
I was named after an English farm tractor and my brother was named after an American president...VanBuren Brown
Wonder when the blogosphere is going to catch on?
Just goes to show what egalitarian heroes Hillary(the next President) Clinton is sprung from.
Naming her daughter after an obscure beekeeper rather than a famous world leader, Adolf, Winston, Charles, Benito, Franklyn,Indira, Golda, Margaret, Avril Phaedra, shows the Rodhams were truly the epitome of the average American family.
I hope the American people remember this when they go to the polls in'08.
Tells me that she was used to being lied to by people she loved, long before meeting Bill.
Well, it's true, isn't it?
She wasn't named BEFORE Sir Edmund, so she must have been named after him. Right?
It takes a village to pillage a heritage.
well it all Depends on the meaning of "named" then doesn't it?
So, when Hillary became pregnant and as the saying goes had 'a bun in the oven' she decided if it was a girl she would call her "Chelsea."
Good one Rick. Hillory will never be president of the US. Notice how the media if falling all over that Obama guy. Reminds me if iggy, get elected out of nowhere, and think you can run the country.
Sorry, that should read OF iggy.
"I was named after an English farm tractor"
Hey David Brown, that was the first motorised vehicle I got to drive. It had more integrety than than both Clintons put togather.
being named after a beekeeper when you were 6 years old is just part of the democratic fantasy movement.
Kerry had some fantasies that came apart when he announced them to the world.
vikings and beekeepers. an old SCTV skit.
To Hillary, government is one big honey pot. Beeing named after a bee-keeper would bee quite apt I should think.
Wow, this story is so...so...underwhelming.
My question is not "why was it published 28 months after the story was "broke" in the blogosphere?"; my question is "Why was the ink even wasted on it?" This is such a non-story it leaves me bemused by the responses too it. So her mother told a little white lie to inspire her daughter. Big whoop. It's not like she was the only mother to do it.
The drooling Pavlovian response to the name "Clinton" and anything vaguely hinting of wrong doing is very funny. The implication is that the Clintonian legacy so powerful it can break the barriers of space and time to induce Hillary's Mom to tell her daughter a little white lie? To have that kind of power...
You know how it is if you live where it snows a lot, and you have a dog or two. In the winter you let them out to do their duty, and the little piles are hidden from view by the next pristine snow fall. Goes on like that all winter.
But, come spring, and the snow melts, and there all these little piles of poo to be seen everywhere. It's best you pick them up before you attempt to mow the lawn the first time, so that dung isn't flug back at you.
Tis the season of Bill and Hillary's spring. They must now run around with a pooper-scooper(tm)and make all those little piles disappear before the campaign of lawn mowing begins. Otherwise, she might step in some...
Yoop
If Hillary wants to fully flesh out her Everest fantasy, Billy can change his name to Tenzing and be her sherpa guide. If she wins, she'll be moving into the Yak House.
Rememebr when HILLARY CLINTON wrote that book I TAKES A VILLAGE? i mean this was her virtial plan to take kids away from their parents and reeducated or rather brainwash them into thinking like little liberal leftists just like hitler did
This is the least of her many frauds. Edmund "Hillary", "New Yorker", "moderate". You get the idea.
This is the least of her many frauds. Edmund "Hillary", "New Yorker", "moderate". You get the idea.
This is the least of her many frauds. Edmund "Hillary", "New Yorker", "moderate". You get the idea.
And yet, this "fraud" was not perpetrated by her. This "fraud" was perpetrated by her mother.
That's a mighty wide tar brush you have there.
And yet, this "fraud" was not perpetrated by her. This "fraud" was perpetrated by her mother.
That's a mighty wide tar brush you have there.
And yet, this "fraud" was not perpetrated by her. This "fraud" was perpetrated by her mother.
That's a mighty wide tar brush you have there.