Democrats were outraged by Safire's column when it appeared in early 1996:
How could he call her a "congenital liar" when clearly she was a "pathological liar"
with absolutely no help from her parents?
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Posted on 01/30/2007 5:37:44 AM PST by Ouderkirk
The clues are everywhere!
";^)
Yes, we all know it Takes a Village to cover up a blizzard of lies.
Check the date of the column: 1996 This was Safire's infamous "congenital liar" column that prompted clinton's spokesliar McClarty to proclaim with false bravado that clinton would likely punch safire in the nose if they were to meet. (Of course it's easy to throw a punch if you know that the six Secret Service agents around you will prevent your target from punching back.)
HilLIARy Rodham Clinton
in the Flesh
.
During an April 1995 visit to Tibet, Hillary Clinton met New Zealand's Sir Edmund Hillary, co-first-climber of Mount Everest. Clinton remarked that her mother, Dorothy Emma Howell Rodham, had told her that she was named after the famous climber. "It had two L's, which is how she thought she was supposed to spell Hillary," Clinton said at the Tibet meeting. "So when I was born, she called me Hillary, and she always told me it's because of Sir Edmund Hillary." [31]
However, the Everest climb did not take place until 1953, more than five years after Clinton was born. Snopes.com concluded that Hillary Clinton probably made up the naming story as "a little white lie concocted for a special occasion." [32]
Clinton opponents have used the discrepancy as evidence towards the charge that she is prone to fabrications. [33] In October 2006, a spokeswoman for Senator Clinton's re-election campaign explained that she was not in fact named after the mountain climber, stating rather that "It was a sweet family story her mother shared to inspire greatness in her daughter, to great results I might add." [34]
http://en.wikipedia.org/wiki/Hillary_Rodham_Clinton_controversies
Yes, yes, yes...see #13.
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