Car-Lying: Carly Fiorina Lies Like a Boss
Car-Lying: Carly Fiorina Lies Like a Boss
Ana Marie Cox at the Daily Beast
http://www.thedailybeast.com/articles/2015/09/29/car-lying-carly-fiorina-lies-like-a-boss.html
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The Central Intelligence Agency has some tips for spotting liars. Unfortunately, most of them also sound like stage directions for a GOP primary candidate: Failing to answer. Attacking. Denial. Even, Bringing up religion. One particular hint is unusually relevant these days: Being too specific.
Carly Fiorinas continuing distortions about what she saw, or didnt see, on the Planned Parenthood sting videos would set off alarms all over Langley on all those counts, but its her level of primary-color, pointillist embroidery on the truthin that and other instancesthat truly sets her apart from the rest of the field.
Call it Car-lying. Describing things into reality is a trademark of Fiorinas, a style of mendacity that sets her apart from career politicians. Indeed, the reason she doesnt come off as a politician is shes still in marketing.
At Hewlett-Packard, employees said she embellished the companys future products, strategy and even history, adding a fictitious personal visit from Walt Disney to the true story about Disney Studios being an early client. She was brought into HP to be brash and exciting, to drive a stake through the community-minded and collaborative pocket-protector paradise of cautious expansion that existed before she got there. And she did! The Compaq merger that defined her unsteady tenure was a function of her own salesmanship: The moxie to risk shareholders money on a huge acquisition
exceeds the courage of most mortals, as one more positive assessment put it. Or, put another way: Fiorina had one significant weakness as chief executive: she just wasnt very good at running the business.
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