Carly Fiorina Digs in on Claim That General's Retirement Was Due to Obama Dispute

[IDemo]

Source: ABC News

GOP presidential candidate Carly Fiorina said she did not misspeak during Tuesday night’s debate when she said that Gen. Jack Keane retired early because he “told President Obama things that he didn’t want to hear.”

But Keane, who served during the Bush administration, retired before Obama became president.

Keane, now a FOX News contributor, came forward to say that Fiorina got the facts wrong surrounding his retirement.

“No, I have never spoken to the president,” Keane said on FOX News. “That's not accurate, and I never served this administration. I served the previous administration.”

Read more: http://abcnews.go.com/Politics/carly-fiorina-digs-claim-generals-retirement-due-obama/story?id=35808113

[riversedge]

1. She never learns. She doubled and triples down the PP lies and now is doing it again.

[rpannier]

2. Facts?! Ha! To a Republican

Facts are unreliable
Their opinion is all that matters
Truth be damned

[Enrique]

3. even after Keane himself said she was wrong

[George II]

10. That's a GREAT scene from my all-time favorite movie. Classic, thanks for the reminder.

I use that "large sock full of horse manure" line all the time when someone is bullshitting me.

[Laser102]

12. Hahaha. That's great.

[Dyedinthewoolliberal]

15. boy I wish I could do that when discussing

politics with conservatives!

[trumad]

25. This reminds me of this...The Kurt part

[DesertFlower]

4. she also said being a cancer survivor

and burying a child qualifies her.

[George II]

9. This isn't politically correct, sorry, but if she wasn't so freaking obsessed......

.....with her self-serving career maybe she would have noticed that her daughter was on drugs.

[DesertFlower]

17. it was her stop daughter who died

at age 35 in 2009

[Dont call me Shirley]

5. Carly, does your foot taste so good, you must continue to stick it in your mouth?!

[Solly Mack]

6. That's true. She didn't misspeak. She lied.

[AgingAmerican]

7. She is obviously a pathological liar

[PatSeg]

28. She is a classic example of a pathological liar

I've been around people like this and when they are caught in a lie, they refuse to back down and just dig in deeper. She is a very strange woman.

[potone]

29. Yes, she is!

Most normal people, when they make a howler like that, have the decency to be embarrassed by it and would leap at the chance to wiggle out of it gracefully by claiming that they "misspoke" if they didn't have the grace to just admit that they were wrong. But with her and Trump we have now entered a world in which candidates for the most powerful job in the country--and arguably the most powerful job in the world--feel no need to even be informed about the issues, let alone to tell the truth. What is worse is that the media almost never calls them on it.

I find this development terrifying; I don't know how I am going to make it to the next election with my sanity intact.

[PatSeg]

30. Fiorina and Trump

seem to stuck emotionally at age 8 or 9 years old. They behave like willful children who get upset when they get caught being dishonest, but are incapable of admitting they are wrong.

Yes, the media should be jumping all over them when they tell blatant lies. Once those lies are out there, the base will keep repeating them and you'll never convince them that they aren't true. Republican politicians have figured that out and now feel like they can say anything they want and not be held accountable.

I thought the last presidential primaries were totally insane. I never dreamed it could get worse. Does this mean the next one will be even more crazy?

[George II]

8. She also mentioned Petraeus, who resigned rather than get jail time for sharing classified info.

[tishaLA]

11. oh, they blalme Pres Obama for that

because it was his DOJ that prosecuted him. They deem the prosecution as essentially elective--they could have just ignored his transgression and let him go on serving in the administration. He's another conservative victim to them

[CTyankee]

26. I read the tell all book by Petraeus' mistress, unfortuntely titled "All In."

Maybe someone should send Carly a copy of it...

[sarge43]

13. Retiring after 37 years of active duty isn't exactly "early" either

especially after serving as Chief of Staff.

[WestSeattle2]

14. Wow, another pathological liar on the r side. Shocker.

[Scalded Nun]

16. Since when do any of these nasties

let facts get in the way of their bile-spewing.

[Nite Owl]

18. She's too dumb

To even get her lies straight.

[SoapBox]

19. She's full of bullshit...

Another Puke idiot, that can't talk policy and fact...she can only spew lies and bull.

[NBachers]

20. CARLY, Carly, carly lying vicious fool

[gregcrawford]

23. I think lies...

... are the glue that holds Fiorina's fantasy world together. If she got a drop of truth on her, she would scream, "I'M MELTING! I'M MELTING!" She really is a repulsive excuse for a human being.

BTW, I like your avatar! Is that from the Mothers of Invention's "Sheik Yerbouti" album? Zappa was a genius!

[NBachers]

24. Yes, that's Sheik Yerbouti. It's a picture that would poke the right people in the right places.

[drynberg]

21. Carly takes the hard fought prize as the best liar in stiff competition of the Crazies.

[Vinca]

22. What's wrong with this woman?

When the general himself says he didn't even serve in the Obama administration, it's time to throw in the towel and admit it's BS. No wonder HP went to hell so quickly. Carly can't distinguish fact from the fiction she creates in her head.

[Myrina]

27. Sarah Palin with a resume and an even meaner streak ...