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October 18, 2006

First Harry Reid

Now Hillary is making 'corrections' to her life story:

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.

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."

..."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.

Sir Hillary did not climb Everest until 1953, when Ms. Hillary was 6.

"In point of fact," Hillary Clinton said, "I would like to state clearly for the record that my mother named me for Tenzig Norgay."

Posted by Mr. Bingley at October 18, 2006 06:50 AM

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