By: Cary Briel, Skaneateles Design

Three memorable “misspeaks” of Democratic presidential candidate Hillary Clinton, probably just the tip of the iceberg?

Clinton misspeak #1:

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.”

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. 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. Obviously not possible. The tale was also stated as fact in an Oct. 10 Times story – about Sen. Clinton’s mother moving in to the family’s house in Washington – which stated “her mother named her for the mountaineer Sir Edmund Hillary.” The Clinton campaign ultimately issued a correction to the tall tale.

Clinton misspeak #2:

Commenting about a trip to Bosinia in 1996:

“I remember landing under sniper fire. There was supposed to be some kind of a greeting ceremony at the airport, but instead we just ran with our heads down to get into the vehicles to get to our base.”

Asked later about the issue during a meeting with the Philadelphia Daily News’ editorial board, Clinton said she “misspoke.” Actual video footage of the landing and reception shows how bad the misspeak really was.

Clinton misspeak #3:

“I’ve hunted. My father taught me how to hunt. I went duck hunting in Arkansas. I remember standing in that cold water, so cold, at first light. I was with a bunch of my friends, all men. The sun’s up, the ducks are flying and they are playing a trick on me. They said, ‘we’re not going to shoot, you shoot.’ They wanted to embarrass me. The pressure was on. So I shot, and I shot a banded duck and they were surprised as I was,” Clinton said drawing laughter from the crowd. . .

Commenting that Clinton’s hunting stories didn’t pass the ’smell test’, Dick Cheney challenged her to a shooting match. Clinton was forced to admit that she had “misspoke” about her gun exploits as a child, stating “I fired a gun once, and didn’t like it.”

Also, watch Bill Clinton misspeak about wife’s misspeaking.