Carly Fiorina on MTP
I’m sitting here watching Ms. Fiorina on Meet the Press, responding to a question about Phil Gramm’s “inartful” statements on the recession this week. This has to be one of the all time great moments in American political television. (Transcribing as it goes, so this may not be word for word accurate.)
“I don’t think Americans are paying attention to what’s being said by campaign surrogates. They’re paying attention to what’s being said by the candidates themselves.”
Ah, Carly. I’m not sure whether to call you a starry-eyed optimist or delusional. People seem to be paying attention exclusively to what surrogates, even unrelated actors, are saying. Would that we lived in an America where we were actually judging the candidates on what they say themselves. Go ask Barack Obama about that, when not only the words of his campaign aides are being parsed, but his pastor, his dog-walker and now, NSFW comedian Bernie Mac, who showed up to do a comedy routine at a fundraiser, is being treated as if he’s Obama’s staff adviser on gender equality.
The bottom line is that the media (in all forms) have very little to chatter about during the dog days of summer aside from speculating on who the VP picks will be. The 24 hour news beast must be fed daily, and so we will continue to parse, examine and pick apart every word said by every person who is willing to get behind a microphone with an opinion on the election. If Bernie Mac is fair game, so is Phil Gramm, sweetie.
7 Responses to “Carly Fiorina on MTP”
Mr. Brokaw's rich response was to comment that since his and the other shows continue to invite campaign surrogates on their programs, he hopes that someone is paying attention to them.
Ms. Fiorina, SWEETIE?
Oh, Oh. You're in trouble with the feminists now, Jazz.
Yep, sweetie is a new Bernie Mac solecism, since it was used by the Obamanble Showman to a TV reporter a while back—but Phil Gramm should be kept in some sort of kennel for political pit bulls. Carly danced away from the question.
BTW, Chris Dodd isn't on vacation, as the “dog days” suit his TV persona just fine.
When it comes to Carly Fiorina I doubt that hardly anyone outside the tech field, and only those in it who pay some attention to the business end of it for whatever reason is aware of the soap opera that took place during her tenure or have a clue who she is. Personal conflicts, plain old BS and yes, some questionable business decisions are why she's no longer head of HP. While she did some good things while there it's hardly enough to make her some kind of expert on the effect on the country of McCain's economic policies.
Fiorina made a similar statement when Andrea Mitchell pushed her on a statement about taxes that was deceptive. Fiorina said voters did not care about the details. The details would have shown her deceptions (lies).
Fiorina is an elitist looking down her nose at the dumb voters that could not understand the details.
Fiorina has repeatedly made false statements about McCain and Obama's tax and economic plans
She restated false statements:
http://www.factcheck.org/elections-2008/tax_tal…
She stated that Obama will raise taxes on small businesses and made it sound like it would be all small businesses.
http://www.politico.com/news/stories/0708/11611…
Carly Fiorina continued with the pandering about a gas tax holiday, which McCain knows Congress will not pass because it is a bad idea.
Why hasn't anyone ever asked McCain when he is going to propose the bill. Summer is half over.
She continued the bull about McCain balancing the budget without any facts, except using the money saved from stopping the wars without any plan for when the wars stop.
http://www.boston.com/bostonglobe/editorial_opi…
McCain's balancing the budget pitch is so ridiculous, that the media's failure to use their calculators when mentioning it is the latest sign of just how vacuours our 'expert' commentators are.
The truth is, with two wars going on, no one can balance the budget. now, and neither can Obama.
We need some sweeping policy changes and reforms in place before we can even begin talking about it seriously. And I don't think paying with a credit card, like we do with our wars, is a justifiable way to assess economic health.
What we should really be asessing is which candicate has the best plan to bring the country to a point where balancing the budget is possible, again.
That means job creation, with the green indusry playing a significant role) and health care reform, so that we have a healthy populace to help the economy grow, instead of having an underclass draining resources for their medical needs.
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