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I Was Becoming a Carly Fiorina Fan Until I Saw This
Misadventures in Diversity ^ | 7/24/15 | Donald Joy

Posted on 07/24/2015 2:50:58 PM PDT by IChing

In Carly Fiorina’s interview with Katie Couric from May, Fiorina went on and on about how if you don’t have a room full of “diversity” when making an important decision, you will not get the decision right. For Fiorina, it’s all about hiring women (and of course anyone else who isn’t a straight white male), and she goes on at length insisting that women in top positions absolutely and necessarily equates to merit; guarantees merit — the same thing Hillary Clinton just said, by the way.

I had been inclined very favorably toward Fiorina, especially because of her ability to otherwise handle left-biased media encounters like this with supreme skill, until I saw the politically correct total b.s in this interview.

The remarks to which I refer begin at the 9:43 mark, and continue to 13:00:

https://www.youtube.com/watch?v=8yhl509cp98

Fiorina emphasizes, adamantly, that she believes a “true meritocracy” can only result when you have women hired in at least equal numbers as men, and when you have just piles and piles of diversity everywhere, and so on. Pu-leeze.

She’s completely stellar in the rest of the long interview, on other important topics. But I’m done with her.


TOPICS: Business/Economy; Government; Politics; Society
KEYWORDS: accomplishments; affirmativeaction; brilliant; carlyfiorina; diversity; feminazis; hillary; interview; merit; meritocracy; outstanding; titles
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1 posted on 07/24/2015 2:50:58 PM PDT by IChing
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To: IChing

You are just finding this out? You obviously never worked for Hewlett Packard


2 posted on 07/24/2015 2:54:23 PM PDT by Cowboy Bob (Isn't it funny that Socialists never want to share their own money?)
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To: IChing

Corporate America’s CEOs have all drunk the diversity Kool-Aid.


3 posted on 07/24/2015 2:54:25 PM PDT by BubbaBasher ("Liberty will not long survive the total extinction of morals" - Sam Adams)
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To: IChing

WOW, I am stunned to hear this claptrap from her own mouth.Thanks for the heads-up. I would normally have a root canal before watching anything Couric


4 posted on 07/24/2015 2:55:53 PM PDT by Cyman (We have to pass it to see what's in it= definition of stool sample)
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To: IChing
I went to CPAC and heard Carly speak. She thinks that it is the president's job to make things better for all us by doing stuff for us.

Whereas, both Ronald Reagan and Ted cruz are of the opinion that the best way to be as president is to get the hell out of our way.

We don't need any more nannies.

5 posted on 07/24/2015 2:57:44 PM PDT by Slyfox (If I'm ever accused of being a Christian, I'd like there to be enough evidence to convict me)
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To: Cowboy Bob
You are just finding this out? You obviously never worked for Hewlett Packard

Oh yeah. I would ask the guys that brought out our replacement parts what they thought of her and every one of them I talked to hated her and thought she was destroying the company. I knew a couple ex HP engineers who thought the same.

It's scary that such an incompetent can get accolades.

6 posted on 07/24/2015 2:58:20 PM PDT by Lx (Do you like it? Do you like it, Scott? I call it, "Mr. & Mrs. Tenorman Chili.")
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To: Cowboy Bob

I knew all major corporations are heavy on this insanity, have experienced it myself, but I’d think that as a GOP candidate she’d at least try not to be so completely aligned with the democrat leftist b.s. ! BARF


7 posted on 07/24/2015 2:59:10 PM PDT by IChing
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To: IChing

Yeah. She is good in some key areas. But she is not conservative enough for me to give her my vote.


8 posted on 07/24/2015 3:07:17 PM PDT by The Ghost of FReepers Past (Woe unto them that call evil good, and good evil; that put darkness for light..... Isaiah 5:20)
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To: IChing

I have never been a fan because of this an other positions.


9 posted on 07/24/2015 3:07:17 PM PDT by Sequoyah101 (I don't see how we have kept going this long)
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To: IChing

>>but I’d think that as a GOP candidate she’d at least try not to be so completely aligned with the democrat leftist b.s. !

Oh my... Let me tell you a story.

Once upon a time, there were two political parties who were on opposite sides of the political spectrum.

Then Wall St started contributing heavily to both to create a Nanny State so that they could pay workers less and the government would pick up the slack and the cost of this would be funded by productive people.

The two parties kept their old names, but merged into one ideology which was called Progressive, not because it was progress but because it was a Giant Leap Forward towards a state where capitalism exists for a select few and collective misery is for the rest.

Most of the GOP candidates are of this UniParty.

And the people did not live happily ever after.


10 posted on 07/24/2015 3:07:47 PM PDT by Bryanw92 (Sic semper tyrannis)
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To: Lx

Whether or not she’s a competent executive isn’t important, it’s the fact that she has internal genitalia that’s important.


11 posted on 07/24/2015 3:13:19 PM PDT by EEGator
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To: IChing

HP is in the business of screwing customers by selling them cheap printers and ink that’s more expensive than gold.

Rapacious business model. Hate HP. Therefore, Hate CARLY.


12 posted on 07/24/2015 3:16:13 PM PDT by Uncle Miltie (WSJs approval of law-breaking and disdain for the Bill of Rights reveals anti-American principles)
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To: Lx

My husband is a systems specialist running several systems at his plant (BTW responsible for that whole New Horizons hoohah last week). He said she practically ran HP into the ground. Not a great leader, I guess.


13 posted on 07/24/2015 3:18:23 PM PDT by the OlLine Rebel (Common sense is an uncommon virtue./Federal-run medical care is as good as state-run DMVs.)
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To: Bryanw92

Retch heave gack


14 posted on 07/24/2015 3:18:27 PM PDT by IChing
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To: EEGator

Whether or not she’s a competent executive isn’t important, it’s the fact that she has internal genitalia that’s important.


Exactly, if Shrillary wasn’t (allegedly) female, Fiorina would be known as the name of a brand of pet food.


15 posted on 07/24/2015 3:21:57 PM PDT by Bluewater2015 (There are no coincidences)
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To: IChing

If you’ve ever worked in corporate America, you’d know that you must at least pretend you like the taste of the KoolAid if you’re going to make it anywhere. I’m not management, but I’m high up enough the food chain in IT to have to eat the shit sandwiches leadership feeds us while telling them how much I like it.

They pay the bills, and I am always reminded that while they drink up the sickening garbage of their bosses, I can laugh all the way to the bank when the realities of capitalism bite them in their collective asses when departments underperform due to “diversity hiring” and other BS.


16 posted on 07/24/2015 3:25:55 PM PDT by rarestia (It's time to water the Tree of Liberty.)
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To: Uncle Miltie

“HP is in the business of screwing customers by selling them cheap printers and ink that’s more expensive than gold.”

In the middle of the “dot.Com” bubble bust, Carly set HP on a new course by buying Compact/CompuServe thereby setting them up for long term success that they enjoy now. She did “P” off the old guard on the Board of Directors which led to a lot of infighting and her eventual demise as CEO. Time has shown Carly made the right move at the right time.
Accolades.

Credit where it is due,,,,,

She’s well down on my list of favored candidates, but well ahead of a lot of well known “me too, it’s my turn” candidates.


17 posted on 07/24/2015 3:35:12 PM PDT by Forty-Niner (The barely bare berry bear formerly known as Ursus Arctos Horribilis.)
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To: rarestia

I have, and I can’t get myself to play the game for long. It literally sickens me.


18 posted on 07/24/2015 3:36:15 PM PDT by IChing
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To: IChing

For marketing yes, for company function maybe not.


19 posted on 07/24/2015 3:36:24 PM PDT by A CA Guy ( God Bless America, God Bless and keep safe our fighting men and women.)
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To: Bluewater2015

Outstanding.


20 posted on 07/24/2015 3:40:23 PM PDT by RedHeeler
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