When most women want a makeover, they spend a few hours at the beauty salon. If it’s for their prom, or their wedding, maybe they spend the better part of a day there.

In the case of Sen. Hillary Clinton, the media must figure it’s going to take at least 30 months to makeover the lifetime, power-seeking politician into just a regular, apple pie-lovin' gal from Illinois that the average American can identify with.

For its part, New York’s Newsday put some lipstick on this…former first lady in a May 1 article entitled “Politics Wasn't First on List of NY Sen. Clinton's Career Picks” (hat tip to Drudge).  

Done laughing yet? Well, that’s just the headline: “‘I wanted desperately to be an Olympic athlete,’ Clinton said Monday at a Purchase College symposium on Title IX, the 1972 law outlawing sex discrimination in educational programs that receive federal funding.”

That was just the facial. Next came the foundation:

“After determining she'd never be an athlete, she set her sights on becoming an astronaut.

"‘So I wrote to NASA and said, 'How do I sign up to be an astronaut?' she said. ‘And they wrote back very politely and said, 'We don't take girls."'

Some eyeliner now: “Next went the dream of a career in medicine. ‘I volunteered at the hospital but kept getting lightheaded and woozy when I saw anyone in any kind of distress,’ she said.”

Finally, some false eyelashes: “She also abandoned hopes of becoming a scientist or mathematician because she didn't have the best grades in those subjects.”

Yet, the article conveniently chose not to inform the reader that Hillary was the president of her high school student class, a member of the debate team, a member of the student council, and that she figuratively entered politics at the age of 16 when she supported the presidential bid of Barry Goldwater.

So, she’s been involved in politics for at least 42 years. Certainly, a few years dreaming about being an athlete and an astronaut trumps all that making her a political outsider…in a pig’s eye.

—Noel Sheppard is the Associate Editor of NewsBusters. Follow him at Facebook and Twitter.