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Fiorina Open Mic Gaffe On Boxer's Hairstyle: 'So Yesterday!' (VIDEO)
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Whoops! New Senate nominee Carly Fiorina (R-CA) was caught in an unfortunate open mic incident today, mocking her rival Sen. Barbara Boxer's hair, complaining about Fox's Sean Hannity and even talking about cheeseburgers she wished she'd eaten the night before.
Fiorina, who won a 3-way primary last night, was preparing for an interview with CNN affiliate KXTV this morning and chatting with her aides. In a several-minute chat with the camera rolling that CNN posted online, Fiorina mocks Boxer's hairdo. Laughing, Fiorina tells her staff that someone had seen Boxer on television and "said what everyone says, 'God what is that hair?' So yesterday!" But she also questioned a decision by fellow Republican Meg Whitman to appear on Hannity so soon after winning the GOP nomination for governor.
"I find it really surprising that on the first day of the general Meg Whitman is going on Sean Hannity," Fiorina said, while reading her BlackBerry. "I think it's bizarre ... I think it's a very bad choice actually. You know how he is."
Fiorina alluded to Whitman avoiding the press during the primary, saying, "Why after saying no to all these people would you go on Sean Hannity?" Later she added, "Sean Hannity is not an easy interview."
She also talked about the cheeseburgers some campaign folks had been eating on election night, noting, "I didn't eat last night."
In a statement to CNN, Fiorina's campaign dismissed the comments as "early morning small talk." It would seem like sort of a no-no for a Republican to speak ill of Hannity, but Fiorina is trying to win in California, after all. It's hardly the worst thing that's been caught on an open microphone, though not what you want to have happen your first day as the party's standard-bearer. Watch:
Late Update: Fiorina apologized to Sean Hannity last night:
h/t ThinkProgress.
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calchala
June 9, 2010 6:22 PM
Sean Hannity is NOT an easy interview? Good God. She's a goper. He's the easiest interview she'll have.
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It's Pat
June 9, 2010 7:40 PM in reply to calchala
My thoughts exactly.
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Kestrel
June 9, 2010 7:57 PM in reply to It's Pat
Maybe she meant that it's not an easy interview being that you have to sit there and look at and talk to the prick.
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tchamp77
June 9, 2010 9:02 PM in reply to calchala
I think she means you have to sit there and spout right-wing platitudes and swear that you are the second coming of Ronald Reagan. Not where one needs to be right now with the general election ahead.
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AhTrini1
June 10, 2010 11:12 AM in reply to calchala
True dat! Hus nose will be so brown before, while and after the interview, what is she worried about?
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nanorich
June 9, 2010 6:28 PM
Carly's had a bad hair life.
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Allbiz
June 9, 2010 9:33 PM in reply to nanorich
Carly is a cancer survivor who lost all her hair from chemo treatments, you low-life condescending bastard.
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Cal Gal
June 9, 2010 9:37 PM in reply to Allbiz
Even BEFORE, she had bad man-short corporate hair. I (sort of) admired her for letting it grow in gray, but looks like she's gone back to the bad colorist she used before the chemo.
This isn't even the pot calling the kettle black. Boxer's hair is fine ... it's Fiorina's that's "so yesterday."
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Riesz Fischer
June 10, 2010 9:54 AM in reply to Cal Gal
Hello-- her hair looks really pretty in that picture, and in any case she's way better looking than Barbara Boxer.
She's going to mop the floor with Boxer, and you centrists aren't gonna like it. But I would rather have a Republic in office than a Conservadem. At least Carly knows she's a Republic and admits it.
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mezcalero
June 10, 2010 11:49 AM in reply to Riesz Fischer
Boxer a conservadem?
What?
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chameleon
June 10, 2010 10:02 PM in reply to Riesz Fischer
Wow are you stupid? Barbara Boxer is as left as you can get. Fiorina won't even get to first base. Boxer will wipe the floor with her. Fiorina is toast. She already proved she's a lightweight and won't be able to handle the pressure. Your friend McCain had to fire her for her gaffes. She's done.
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larsvanness
June 10, 2010 10:57 PM in reply to Riesz Fischer
Carly Fiorina is better looking than Barbara Boxer? Hey pal, wipe the crap off of your glasses and see where your nose has been all these years. Barbara is 69 and hot. Carly is 55 and not.
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erica
June 10, 2010 12:04 PM in reply to Cal Gal
Especially strange she would say it while wearing something her grandma made her for the community theater musical version of The Crucible.
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CranialRectalLoopback
June 9, 2010 10:12 PM in reply to Allbiz
So what. Many people have survived cancer. And she opened the door herself. Who gives a flying fuck about people's hair? We've had enough of failed business leaders wanting to bring their business "acumen" to public office.
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pmccoy
June 10, 2010 11:28 AM in reply to CranialRectalLoopback
amen
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nanorich
June 9, 2010 10:37 PM in reply to Allbiz
Oh...so cancer survivors are allowed to make catty remarks....
while people like you acts as predatory thugs for political correctness.
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PeninsulaMatt
June 10, 2010 1:26 AM in reply to Allbiz
Um, no! Carly is the one who brought up hair. Just because she is a cancer survivor doesn't make "nanorich" a bastard.
Besides, when Carly was HP's CEO, she had not one but TWO people on HP STAFF! to DO HER HAIR!!!!!
and you know what else????
IT WASN'T THAT GREAT!!!!!
she had them do it on her newly acquired corporate jet
Her predecessor (and every previous HP CEO) flew coach
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attymatty
June 10, 2010 4:10 PM in reply to Allbiz
then she should stfu about hair, eh?
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chameleon
June 10, 2010 10:00 PM in reply to Allbiz
So what!! The person above you didn't say anything about her cancer. Go show your outrage somewhere else. She doesn't get a pass for battling cancer.
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FreemanW
June 10, 2010 1:50 AM in reply to nanorich
Here's a free tip Carly.
When you always look like you've just been in a scuffle with a weed wacker and lost, you need to avoid discussing hair styles.
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jjdjjd
June 10, 2010 1:30 PM in reply to nanorich
catfight in california!!!! both boxer and carly should take a trip to the closest mall beautician and let them have a crack at it.two rich broads withbad hair-dos. they make blago look good.
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cmpnwtr
June 9, 2010 6:29 PM
So, this is her introduction to the General Election voter. Not so uplifting. It's all about hair.
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uweeb
June 9, 2010 8:06 PM in reply to cmpnwtr
I think it's "reer". According to Elaine Benes.
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TJF
June 9, 2010 6:29 PM
Meeooowwww!!!
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KingCool
June 9, 2010 6:46 PM in reply to TJF
Indeed! So catty. I wonder what her opinion on Rod Blagojevich's hair is?
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marcusmarcus
June 9, 2010 6:31 PM
These open mic recordings never disappoint!
I'm sure people will spin this in all sorts of different directions. I wouldn't say it's a sign of anything other than the sorts of concerns these candidates face on a day-to-day basis (due in no small part to the media's proclivity for turning politics into soap opera/reality show gossip).
No matter. You call that a gaffe?
Wait until you hear her try to talk policy.
No thanks, corporate rich lady. You're the problem. Get out of the way.
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bibimimi
June 9, 2010 6:39 PM
Nice goin', Carly. Wayda bang BB on the ISSUES. La Boxer MAYBE has been too g.d. busy to have her stylist in, unlike u.
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PeninsulaMatt
June 9, 2010 6:41 PM
A couple of thoughts on this.
1. it seems odd that CNN would post this. It seems like a complete set-up in a sort of below the belt sucker punch sort of way.
2. I'm sure every politician and quasi-celebrity have to go through this sort of wait all of the time so I'm probably going to read too much into this. But:
- it is interesting that the first thing she does is check her Twitter account (I assume) and when she gets some positive feedback she puts it away.
- the cheeseburger talk seemed like an attempt to relate personally to her staff but it was so awkward that it makes me doubt she has very good personal relationships with them
- her immediate staff seem like fake friends; sort of a high school clique
- I wonder why she spoke so much about Hannity? He would otherwise be a breeze for her. Would she ever go on the PBS Newshour or MSNBC? Doubtful.
- It is sort of early to be taking personal shots at your opponent. Carly is going to "lose it" in public before November
- How come she didn't talk politics? I don't think she is interested in public service. She doesn't care. There was a lot going on in California and politics around the country yesterday and all she can talk about is Meg going on Hannity and Senator Boxer's hair? Give me a break.
I'm glad Carly is the GOP candidate and not Tom Campbell. Boxer has some vulnerability but not by the failed HP CEO who has moved further and further right over the past 3 months. Comparing the two, moderates will join liberals in supporting Boxer.
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GermanyOrFlorida
June 9, 2010 7:41 PM in reply to PeninsulaMatt
"1. it seems odd that CNN would post this. It seems like a complete set-up in a sort of below the belt sucker punch sort of way."
It says "News10.NET" on it. Why wouldn't CNN post it? It wasn't a CNN interview, it was a KXTV interview.
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PeninsulaMatt
June 10, 2010 1:32 AM in reply to GermanyOrFlorida
Even more curious. The reason they wouldn't repost it is because it is sneak attack / gotcha journalism. It doesn't seem OK from an ethical perspective. If CNN wants to be a news leader - and I am not sure they do - they wouldn't do this sort of thing. The fact that they did, makes this more newsworthy for smaller news outlets like TPM. If CNN didn't post it, I doubt that TPM would have.
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Cal Gal
June 9, 2010 9:41 PM in reply to PeninsulaMatt
"I'm glad Carly is the GOP candidate and not Tom Campbell."
Ditto. I think Campbell would have been much harder to beat, hard-core GOOP that he is. At least he has a history of public service.
But you can't underestimate the sheeple. Maybe never voting until it's for yourself to get nominated for a high government position ... maybe that's just the kind of "outsider" the sheeple want to put in charge these days.
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PeninsulaMatt
June 10, 2010 1:29 AM in reply to Cal Gal
"sheeple"
LOL!!
I'm totally stealing that from you!
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PeninsulaMatt
June 10, 2010 1:33 AM in reply to PeninsulaMatt
It's even better given Carly's demon sheep commercial in the primary
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Viva!America!
June 9, 2010 6:41 PM
"Sean Hannity is not an easy interview."
That is the funniest thing I've read all day. She used to run a company, now wants to be senator and thinks Hannity is not an easy interview?
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GBHeron
June 9, 2010 6:42 PM
After bugging her own Board of Directors at HP, you'd think she'd be more savvy about not getting caught on tape.
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mezcalero
June 9, 2010 6:43 PM
Seriously, I understand Fiorina's hair is the way it is because of cancer and chemo, but seriously...
She's making fun of Boxer's hair? Her of all people?
Also, I'm glad that she's joining in the chorus of criticism of eMeg avoiding the media. What's next, she joins Jerry Brown's campaign too?
Just like when she threw McCain and Palin under the bus for saying they couldn't run a firm.
Keep going Carly! You're doing great!
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It's Pat
June 9, 2010 7:47 PM in reply to mezcalero
"She's making fun of Boxer's hair? Her of all people?"
Exactly.
Not only that, with her going through the long and painful act of chemo and her hair loss, you'd think she'd be a little sensitive when talking about someone else's hair.
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eve
June 9, 2010 8:37 PM in reply to It's Pat
Fiorina's hair problems aside, she is hardly someone to pick on anyone's looks. If looks are the issue then Senator Boxer wins hands down.
But damn Fiorina, do we HAVE to bring looks into it? Haven't women had enough of that shit in their professional lives already?
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SqueakyRat
June 10, 2010 4:53 AM in reply to It's Pat
I think Fiorina's hair is pretty cool right now, actually. A couple of months ago it was truly awful. Still don't want her in the Senate, though.
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RobertSeattle
June 9, 2010 6:45 PM
Almost surprised she didn't rag on HP Printers.
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Pugbane
June 9, 2010 6:46 PM
What a wretched human being. What hell it must be to have daily contact with this vile woman.
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KingCool
June 9, 2010 6:48 PM
Hannity a tough interview. That comment alone should make voters question her mental state.
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zuch
June 9, 2010 8:22 PM in reply to KingCool
It's all relative. For your average GOPer, Hannity is a tough interview. Hell, brushing your teeth is a challenge to such as Angle, particularly while chewing gum at the same time....
Cheers,
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FebM
June 9, 2010 6:48 PM
Obama meltdown
http://www.youtube.com/watch?v=CmPd-aTjjxo&feature=player_embedded
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jonez
June 9, 2010 10:50 PM in reply to FebM
but what does this have to do with Fiorina and Boxer.
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Subliminability
June 9, 2010 6:48 PM
Was that part of her golden parachute peeking out from under her dress?
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Cal Gal
June 9, 2010 9:47 PM in reply to Subliminability
LOL
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bibimimi
June 9, 2010 6:48 PM
hand the woman a broomstick 2 ride out on.
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Maritza
June 9, 2010 6:55 PM
Doesn't anybody remember that Carla Fiorina was KICKED OFF the McCain campaign because she is a GAFFE MACHINE. She is WORSE then Biden & Steele combined and lacks their likeability.
She just is NOT likeable at all.
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Subliminability
June 9, 2010 7:04 PM in reply to Maritza
Righto. If I recall correctly, the last straw was when she said she said -- quite accurately, I would note -- that Palin and McCain couldn't run companies (and Fiorina was well placed to know, having herself been unable to run a company).
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chuck DC
June 9, 2010 7:07 PM in reply to Maritza
you do have to be really really dumb if Palin and Grandpa McGrumpy notice you're stupid. Carly is going to be a fun show to watch.....
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bvd
June 9, 2010 7:32 PM in reply to Maritza
Disagree. If she keeps saying stupid shit like this I'm going to like her more and more.
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eve
June 9, 2010 8:39 PM in reply to Maritza
Ha! I did forget. Thanks for the reminder.
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Cal Gal
June 9, 2010 9:48 PM in reply to Maritza
AND she was FIRED by the HP Board of Directors, too. The woman can't keep a job.
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tctundra
June 9, 2010 7:02 PM
"Sean Hannity is NOT an easy interview..." Are you f-ing serious? That guy would like to have sex with Meg Whitman on the air. Where would she find an easier interview??? How is that saying something bad about Hannity? Implying that he'd be tough on a Republican candidate and making fun of Boxer makes me think this whole thing was staged.
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_jonny_5_
June 9, 2010 8:11 PM in reply to tctundra
It NOT an easy interview if you want to still appeal to general elaction voters instead of repub primary voters.
Hannity will complement you to the right and you can't talk about anything moderate. You get roped into agreeing w/ some stupid Hannity statement.
I'm not sure that's what she meant...but.. thats how I see it.
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midnight rambler
June 10, 2010 4:38 AM in reply to tctundra
If you are Meg Whitman, doing an interview with a creepazoid like that is pretty difficult.
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fafner1
June 9, 2010 7:03 PM
She ran HP into the ground, got fired and recieved a golden parachute and now she wants to play Senator? At least my HP stock has been doing well ever since she left.
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Pugbane
June 9, 2010 7:05 PM
What a wretched human being. What hell it must be to have daily contact with this vile woman.
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DaveJ
June 9, 2010 7:05 PM
Sean Hannity is definitely not an easy interview--if you're a GOP candidate, and a woman, he's likely to slobber all over you like an over-eager golden retriever.
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xargaw
June 9, 2010 7:15 PM in reply to DaveJ
Golden Retrievers do not slobber and they are far superior beings to Hannity. They neither lie or pander. You owe them an apology.
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bibimimi
June 9, 2010 7:23 PM in reply to xargaw
Golden retriever, never. A Newfie jowl hound...getting warmer.
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bibimimi
June 9, 2010 7:11 PM
When she was advising the McCain campaign she impressed me as out of touch and full of it.
Suspicions confirmed.
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Quaker in a Basement
June 9, 2010 7:12 PM
Talking about another candidate's hair? Who does she think she is? A press corps reporter?
Ba-bum-tsh!
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roxsteady
June 9, 2010 7:12 PM
I hate to be the one to bring this up but, if I was a cancer patient like Carly is and was losing my hair, the last thing I'd be doing is trashing someone elses hair. By the way, Boxer was on Rachel Maddow last week I believe and her hair looked great. It's typical of GOP women who have to be more concerned with their looks than their ability to govern. They have a recent past of style over substance. (See that idiot Sarah Palin).
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It's Pat
June 9, 2010 7:57 PM in reply to roxsteady
"I hate to be the one to bring this up but, if I was a cancer patient like Carly is and was losing my hair, the last thing I'd be doing is trashing someone elses hair. "
Thank you for posting this. That's similar to what I posted upthread.
Most people that have gone through something like that are more empathetic. Shows how catty Carlyfornia is.
I, too, saw Barbara on Rachel's show and thought her hair looked fine as well.
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acriticalthinker
June 10, 2010 8:54 AM in reply to It's Pat
I don't care if Boxer's hair looks like Farrah Fawcett's at her peak. Boxer's "ability to govern" and her actual performance as a Senator----along with the performance of people like Harry Reid, Chuck U. Schumer, Leaky Leahy, and nearly all other Dems---are what have put the U.S. on the road to where Greece and California are. The liberal dream of a utopian welfare state is just that---a dream. Boxer and as many Dems as possible must be repealed. Is it November yet?
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Msinformed
June 10, 2010 10:50 AM in reply to acriticalthinker
Please note: California is part of US. So US is already where California is? What are you blathering about?
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acriticalthinker
June 10, 2010 5:23 PM in reply to Msinformed
Do you pay ANY attention to the news? California is PART of the U.S., but California is not THE U.S.----any more than North America is the U.S. because the U.S. is part of North America.
Greece is a welfare/entitlement state that is in big debt/financial trouble. Its huge spending could not be paid for and cannot be sustained. Greece had to be bailed out by Europe and the U.S.
California is a welfare/entitlement state that has been dominated by a Democrat legislature. California is in big debt/financial trouble. Its huge spending could not be paid for and cannot be sustained. It will either have to cut spending (it won't), default on its debts (maybe), or seek and get a bailout from Obama and Democrats in Washington (most likely).
The U.S. is a welfare/entitlement state that under Democrats is hellbent on "fundamentally transforming" the U.S. into a European style socialist entitlement state. The U.S. is in big debt/financial trouble---and Obama and Democrats in Congress make Bush deficits seem small. Unless Democrats are "repealed", the U.S. WILL become Greece and California within the next 10 years (maybe sooner). So far, China is financing our huge debt obligations, but at some point they will either demand high interest rates or will stop buying our debt as it becomes more risky to count on repayment.
That's what I was "blathering" about. Jeeeez! GetInformed, not msinformed.
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Marinus van der Lubbe
June 10, 2010 1:42 PM in reply to acriticalthinker
I like you better when you display a little humility when exposed as speaking out of your ass...your snark is in the wrong key, as usual. Stick to windy and dead-end platitudes that have marked your tenure in here.
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acriticalthinker
June 10, 2010 5:34 PM in reply to Marinus van der Lubbe
Marinus
I understand that your main problem is that you just HATE to see ANYTHING that is not 100% in tune with what you "know" and believe. You KNOW you will disagree with whatever I write so why not just ignore my comments since you can't/won't refute or argue with them substantively. Reread your "replies" to me sometime and you will see that they have no educational value to them---to me or anyone else. They are just a chance for you to blow off your anger at and intolerance of a divergent point of view.
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Marinus van der Lubbe
June 10, 2010 7:35 PM in reply to acriticalthinker
Youre right...fuck you.
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chameleon
June 10, 2010 8:13 PM in reply to Marinus van der Lubbe
Co-sign. Doesn't this blowhard ever get tired of bloviating bullshit. Why does he bother coming here trying to make points no one agrees with? GTFOOH!!
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larsvanness
June 10, 2010 8:43 PM in reply to chameleon
LOL...LMAO, you just gotta bitch slap "acrtiticalthinker" down and wait for him to run to his closet to have a few days of peace and quiet to reflect on the important issues of the day. "G'wan now get down in yer hole". "Arf arf arf... That's my other dog impression."
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chameleon
June 10, 2010 9:56 PM in reply to larsvanness
He's so fricking obnoxious.
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acriticalthinker
June 12, 2010 4:24 PM in reply to chameleon
I come here to see how liberals "think"...and to bring some facts and perspectives that are usually outside the liberal protective bubble. I love you guys because you all just INSIST on proving how intolerant and lacking in substance too many liberals are. Just read your comments and ask yourself what you would think if the sum total of my comments and replies were as follows:
"speaking out of your ass...your snark is in the wrong key, as usual. Stick to windy and dead-end platitudes that have marked your tenure in here."
"Co-sign. Doesn't this blowhard ever get tired of bloviating bullshit. Why does he bother coming here trying to make points no one agrees with? GTFOOH!!"
"LOL...LMAO, you just gotta bitch slap "acrtiticalthinker" down ...blah blah blah blah "G'wan now get down in yer hole". "Arf arf arf... That's my other dog impression."
"He's so fricking obnoxious."
See what I mean? Totally vacant, juvenile, and hilarious. I am holding the mirror up to you guys. Do you like what you see? Keeping making fools of yourselves if you must.
By the way, I suppose you think Greece and California are doing just fine and that Obama and Dems are positively on the right track in taking the country to where California and Greece are.
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larsvanness
June 12, 2010 4:47 PM in reply to acriticalthinker
Well in my opinion based on the comments you cited I just have to say that all those folks have you dead to rights--nailed your carcass right to the wall in fact. But what I'm waiting for is an explanation as to how a "former liberal" can be sitting around vacantly wondering how "liberals think". So to conclude you are either full of crap or...you're just full of crap. Any way you're two days late and plenty short. We have moved on from your mindless tirades to more important topics.
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chameleon
June 12, 2010 5:55 PM in reply to acriticalthinker
Give it a frickin break already. How many times do we have to tell you - we don't care about your negative rants. Go somewhere else and tell it to someone who gives a shit.
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acriticalthinker
June 16, 2010 12:10 PM in reply to chameleon
If you don't care about my "negative rants" then don't read them or reply to them-----unless you have something of SUBSTANCE to say....which you NEVER do. For instance, neither you nor Marinus addressed my highly substantive (though "negative") observation about the situations of Greece, California, and the U.S. under "progressive" leadership. DO you believe that the U.S. should continue down the path of Greece and California? No need for you to respond, since you probably don't even know what is going on in Greece, California, and the U.S. and you no doubt do not WANT to know. Here is a further update that you can ignore:
http://www.dailymail.co.uk/news/worldnews/article-1286480/EU-chief-warns-democracy-disappear-Greece-Spain-Portugal.html
Is ignorance bliss?
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larsvanness
June 16, 2010 1:14 PM in reply to acriticalthinker
"Is ignorance bliss?" Apparently for you it is!
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acriticalthinker
June 16, 2010 1:32 PM in reply to larsvanness
You have joined Chameleon and Marinus as official members of the substance free (comment-wise--I am not sure about your collective drug status) "ignorance is bliss" club. Your reply is laughable. It is I who "exposes" myself to diverse points of view, who reads and analyzes current events from multiple sources, and posts comments and replies that address issues on a substantive level. I see none of that with you, Marinus, or Chameleon. I will gain respect for your opinions when I see the next (first) reply from you that has ANY substance to it. You could start by filling in my "ignorance" about Greece, California, and the same path that Democrats/"progressives" have put the U.S. on. As Professor Kingsfield in the Paper Chase used to say to his students: "Fill the room with your brilliance". Your "for you it is" comment has the same level of brilliance as Pee Wee Herman's line "I know you are, but what am I?"
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larsvanness
June 16, 2010 1:45 PM in reply to acriticalthinker
LOL...right and the essance of your critical thinking is to post a "highly substantive...observation" from a British tabloid newspaper "aimed at the newly-literate 'lower-middle class market'" and you really believe that we should take you seriously? In the words of the immortal Silvio Dante, "Git the fuck outta here!"
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larsvanness
June 16, 2010 1:32 PM in reply to acriticalthinker
Mail online is the internet outlet for the publication "The Daily Mail" a British, daily middle market tabloid newspaper. First published in 1896 by Lord Northcliffe, it is the United Kingdom's second biggest-selling daily newspaper after The Sun. Its sister paper, The Mail on Sunday was launched in 1982. Scottish and Irish editions of the paper were launched in 1947 and 2006 respectively. The Daily Mail was Britain's first daily newspaper aimed at the newly-literate "lower-middle class market resulting from mass education, combining a low retail price with plenty of competitions, prizes and promotional gimmicks", and the first British paper to sell a million copies a day. It was, from the outset, a newspaper for women, being the first to provide features especially for them, and is still the only British newspaper whose readership is more than 50% female. You're a fuckin' idiot.
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acriticalthinker
June 17, 2010 11:04 AM in reply to larsvanness
Name calling and attack the messenger are all you have. It is a complete waste of time dialoguing with you, but have you noticed that you NEVER deal with the substance of my comments??
So what if the Daily Mail is blah blah blah? I do not see you dealing in ANY way with the thrust of the story. Try to discredit, dismiss, or ignore the messenger as a means of ignoring the message that you cannot abide. As I said before, I will gain respect for your opinions when I see the next (first) reply from you that has ANY substance to it. I am not holding my breath for that to happen.
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chameleon
June 16, 2010 3:15 PM in reply to acriticalthinker
Old news buddy. That post was days ago. Off to a new subject and don't flatter yoursellf. I stopped reading your shit months ago. I let others do it. I have better things to do
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larsvanness
June 16, 2010 3:39 PM in reply to chameleon
You're too cruel chammy, too cruel! Can't you see that he is just trying to get your attention?
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chameleon
June 16, 2010 4:00 PM in reply to larsvanness
Well if you think that's cruel, let him come back and say something else to me.
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slb
June 9, 2010 8:23 PM in reply to roxsteady
I get the impression that Fiorina is one of those women with a serious superiority complex who gets her kicks out of trashing other women.
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kgb999
June 9, 2010 7:16 PM
Fiorina has the worst female hair in politics.
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DaveJ
June 9, 2010 7:57 PM in reply to kgb999
Whitman is waaaaaay worse. Way worse.
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rufus
June 9, 2010 9:24 PM in reply to DaveJ
She needs a face painted on too.
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Cal Gal
June 9, 2010 9:54 PM in reply to DaveJ
I agree that Whitman's hair is worse, but having died her hair after wearing gray when in came back in after chemo, Carly is making a play for surpassing Meg in the bad-hair category.
Meg's would look OK if she would cut some bangs. But as a wag once said, you can tell a high-tone woman because she wears her hair the same way she did in finishing school. She sent an incredible mailer (it kept unfolding and unfolding) with photos from her life, childhood to present, and aside from it being shorter than it was when she was a teen, there is NO difference.
With that blank blonde hair, including eyebrows, and ultra fair skin, she really needs help from Carmody from What Not to Wear.
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gpleigh
June 10, 2010 9:20 AM in reply to Cal Gal
Besides her horrendous campaign ads, I just watched Meg Whitman speak for the first time yesterday. Wow, she is really too much. Her voice is beyond catty and the way she smiles and tosses her head back when she thinks she's said something ultra clever is just sickening. Watch for it.
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wial
June 9, 2010 7:45 PM
May the best hair win?
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Rich in NJ
June 9, 2010 8:05 PM
When you're as ugly as Fiorina, the last thing you should do is to talk about another person's appearance.
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clemenceau
June 9, 2010 8:11 PM
Cruella + Perry Farrell = Carly F
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jsdc007
June 9, 2010 8:24 PM
The Sean Hannity comments sound completely staged. It's Carly veering back to the center after straying into far right wingnustistan to win the scrobaggers.
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Dave Adams
June 9, 2010 8:30 PM
Thank you Carly Flailorina.
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gumbun
June 9, 2010 8:45 PM
Carly won't get the "treatment" on Fox News because she isn't the sexyish former beauty contestant type with a puffy hairdo.
Senator Boxer has class and she has a beautiful soul. People hate her because she hast compassion and empathy for her constituents and she actually kicks ass for us. Carly's ugliness just showed through, disgusting!
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dustbunny44
June 9, 2010 8:58 PM
Carly Fiorina and Meg Whitman are proof that if you don't sufficiently tax CEOs, they waste everyone's time using their cash looking for something new to do.
Please Please tell your congresscritter to raise taxes on high-income incompetents and keep these idiots on the golf course where they belong.
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Cal Gal
June 9, 2010 9:57 PM in reply to dustbunny44
They AND Steve Poizner have done an incredible job to help employment in the California printing, broadcast, mail house, and public relations industries.
Now if it just all goes for naught, priceless.
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eve
June 9, 2010 8:59 PM
Actually Carly should hope everyone focuses on her hair and not on her record.
"In April 2009, the business magazine web site Condé Nast Portfolio listed Fiorina as one of "The 20 Worst American CEOs of All Time", characterizing the HP-Compaq merger as a widely regarded failure, and citing the halving of HP's stock value under Fiorina's tenure."
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eve
June 9, 2010 9:10 PM
this is great
From a blog on ComputerWorld.
Carly Fiorina, Meg Whitman: could GOP do worse?
So Carly Fiorina and Meg Whitman won their respective GOP primaries last night. I don't intend this post to be a political grandstand, but I have to ask: what on earth are California Republicans thinking?
http://blogs.computerworld.com/16294/carly_fiorina_meg_whitman_could_gop_do_worse_tcot?source=rss_blogs
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rufus
June 9, 2010 9:29 PM in reply to eve
Those that can, do. Those that can't go into politics to eat at the public trough.
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nanorich
June 9, 2010 10:42 PM in reply to eve
Self-candidates are about all the Republicans can come up with....in California, at least.
Of course, Meg and Carly think they can run to the right in California....and saturate the airwaves while driving up their negatives and the voters will forget they ran to the right of fascists, and now are totally reasonable moderates now that they have fed the Republican Beast.
Having Palin in her ads will come back to haunt Carly, as will Meg spending all her Ebay money on buying the election.
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nanorich
June 9, 2010 10:45 PM in reply to nanorich
I meant self funded candidates.
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AJM
June 10, 2010 8:54 AM in reply to nanorich
Right both times.
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GBHeron
June 9, 2010 11:25 PM
I also love it when people use a dated clique to criticize someone for not being hip enough. Whitman is "so yesterday"? Oh, snap. Fiorina's all like "talk to the hand"!... not.
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hrayovac
June 10, 2010 12:26 AM
There may be thousands of people who think this was accidental. After all these years with digital cameras equipped with audio in all our hands and video editing in our computers how can we be so gullible about the use of media? Didn't "reality" TV give us at least a clue as to the future of politics?
Fiorina will get coverage for the "gaffe". Fiorina will get coverage for the "leaning to the middle." Fiorina will get coverage for the "mending of the fences" with Hannity pre-November. Fiorina will get coverage the first time Senator Boxer changes her hairstyle, a certainty. The issues will not be discussed.
Is anyone paying attention?
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Subliminability
June 10, 2010 1:56 AM in reply to hrayovac
No way -- (especially the hair comment) makes her look small and is a costly blunder. And coming from someone with a history of bad gaffes, this is not what she wanted to the stories to be about -- she was getting massive free media today anyway, having just won the primary.
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Verified
June 10, 2010 1:44 AM
This woman is my worst nightmare. My ex-mother in law back from the grave. The woman who would not leave me alone even after I left her son. Someone, please, tell her to get a better brassiere, for heaven's sake. And when she does, to adjust the straps, so when she's hiking up her breasts to a ridiculous position, at least they're even.
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de TOQUEville
June 10, 2010 7:48 AM in reply to Verified
I think you can thank CNN's stretched-out video for that effect you're seeing with the brassiere. Maybe. For some reason all of CNN's online video is distorted.
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chameleon
June 12, 2010 5:57 PM in reply to Verified
Meeoooowwww. Lol. That was funny. Thanks for the laugh
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PeninsulaMatt
June 10, 2010 1:50 AM
I really hope Chris Matthews doesn't pick up on the Boxer v. Fiorina "Hair" issue.
Today (Wednesday) he tried to make a point about how Nikki Haley (SC Gov candidate) dresses "cosmopolitan" while Sarah Palin dresses "western". Michelle Bernard and Joan Walsh cringed but were able to pivot out of trouble quickly.
I don't understand how he stays on the air
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eve
June 10, 2010 9:35 AM in reply to PeninsulaMatt
Glad I missed that. MSNBC needs to tell Matthews to keep his stupid analysis of women to himself. He would never intentionally be sexist and I think he would hate the thought of being sexist, but he says the most ridiculous sexist shit.
Sometimes he takes stands that are excellent and well said. But good grief he can say the looniest stuff other times.
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Jeany
June 10, 2010 2:10 AM
At that last remark, someone should have handed Butch a mirror...
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OhioMan
June 10, 2010 6:44 AM
Of all the people to comment on someone else having strange hair! What a typical republican. Fiorina was worthless at HP, and she's a worthless politician.
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June 10, 2010 9:32 AM
Fiorina has some nerve, given that she's wearing an ugly, badly cut dress that makes her look like an extra on Mad Men.
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jsdc007
June 10, 2010 10:19 AM
Who care's about her hair? What matters is that she's a lying, worthless, Republican hack who's experience in creating jobs entailed firing 26,000 people in one fell swoop back in 2001. She's a corporate elitist who lives in her own bubble, clueless about the travails other people face. Boxer may have the personality of one of a freight train, but she's done everything in her ability to ensure that working class families aren't thrown out on the streets, that back alley abortions are firmly in the past, and that all people regardless of race, gender, sexual orientation are treated with respect. Carly's a hack who's suddenly embraced all the pet issues of the right in order to get through the primary. Now watch her try and squirm out of her prior cro-magnon positions. She'll probably lose, but I hope she loses realllly badly.
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ejg3
June 10, 2010 10:30 AM
"So yesterday":The same words will be said of Carly's candidacy on November 3 it not earlier. The phrase is a great description of the Republican party though.
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more5600
June 10, 2010 11:26 AM
That's a man, baby...
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bwindrip
June 10, 2010 11:52 AM
And like an annoying teen, she has her sour puss stuck in a freakin' "smart phone" for half the conversation.
Real slappable...
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Jim
June 10, 2010 12:02 PM
Oh no, she din't go there. This is coming from a woman that, when you look at her hair, you think "Carly did you feel your weiner?" It just goes to show you, a lot of these people aren't running for office to help everyday people like us, but to get in front of the camera. That's what they really want. CAMERA TIME FOR THEMSELVES!
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dfg65
June 10, 2010 1:46 PM
Hey, so here's the video clip of Carly Fiorina bashing Sen. Barbara Boxer's hair but edited to the exact soundbyte everybody's talking about: http://www.frequency.com/video/carly-fiorina/101889
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Leftflank
June 11, 2010 9:51 AM
What exactly are her qualifications? It ain't her hair or her business skills. It damn sure isn't her political skills. Looks like cash is all she's got & she doesn't mind wasting it.
Boxer will take her out in 10.
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June 12, 2010 2:11 PM
Fiorina's hair problems aside, she is hardly someone to pick on anyone's looks. If looks are the issue then Senator Boxer wins hands down.
But damn Fiorina, do we HAVE to bring looks into it? Haven't women had enough of that shit in their professional lives already?
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March 13, 2011 4:50 AM
Oh no, she din't go there. منتديات تسريحات This is coming from a woman that, when you look at her hair, you think "Carly did you feel your weiner?" It just goes to show you, a lot of these people aren't running for office to help everyday people like us, but to get in front of the camera. That's what they really want. CAMERA TIME FOR THEMSELVES!
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