Tuesday, October 17, 2006

Mrs. Clinton clarifies

From WorldNetDaily:

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.


Senator Clinton still maintains that she spent several years traveling with Dr. Who in the early 1980's. Ms. Clinton was asked how that could be possible since she was working for the Rose Law Firm in Little Rock during the entire decade of the 1980's, a period in which she made regular appearances in court and at business meetings with clients as well as appearing at state functions with her husband who was attorney general and then governor.

A spokesman from Sen. Clinton's office pointed out that since the TARDIS travels through both time and space the Doctor was able to pick her up on a Saturday morning and take her on a five year long journey then bring her back on the same day, in time to bake a batch of cookies for her daughter.