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kpete

(71,997 posts)
Sun Nov 1, 2015, 12:33 PM Nov 2015

Carly Fiorina Admits She Lied About "92%": "I misspoke on that particular fact."

Republican presidential candidate Carly Fiorina acknowledged that she was incorrect during last week’s primary debate when she claimed “92 percent of the jobs lost during [President] Barack Obama’s first term belonged to women.”

After the debate, fact checkers pointed out Fiorina had recycled the statistic from former Republican presidential nominee Mitt Romney, who first made the claim in the 2012 election. It rated “Mostly False” by Politifact four years ago.

"I misspoke on that particular fact," Fiorina said on ABC’s “This Week.”

Fiorina then criticized the “liberal media” for picking apart the statistic rather than her broader argument, which was that liberal polices are bad for women economically.

https://gma.yahoo.com/carly-fiorina-says-she-wrong-92-claim-153359201.html

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tularetom

(23,664 posts)
2. The word "misspoke" should be stricken from the English language
Sun Nov 1, 2015, 12:41 PM
Nov 2015

As you point out, she didn't misspoke, she fucking lied. And she did it repeatedly in that debate. And the moderators let her get away with it.

emulatorloo

(44,133 posts)
5. Well as you know, "The Liberal Media" is a "Democratic Super-PAC"
Sun Nov 1, 2015, 12:44 PM
Nov 2015

On CNBC, Failed business people never lie.

Botany

(70,524 posts)
3. Now how exactly does the “liberal media” make republicans say stupid shit or just flat out lie?
Sun Nov 1, 2015, 12:42 PM
Nov 2015

Vulcan mind meld?

CTyankee

(63,912 posts)
8. Martha Raddatz looked like she really wanted to strangle her...and Martha is a pretty
Sun Nov 1, 2015, 05:13 PM
Nov 2015

mild mannered and balanced interviewer. But she was close to losing it to what Carly was saying.

Fred Sanders

(23,946 posts)
6. Whereas her bald-faced lies about PP are still on the record as believable? When you lie on
Sun Nov 1, 2015, 12:58 PM
Nov 2015

purpose once, how many times in the future will you also lie on purpose or have you in the past?

Credibility is not a saleable commodity, you have to earn it.

gratuitous

(82,849 posts)
7. That wasn't her first reaction when called on it
Sun Nov 1, 2015, 01:08 PM
Nov 2015

Originally, Fiorina stuck with her position and claimed that her bullshit "fact" was really, actually true. Except, of course, it isn't, and hasn't been either when she blurted it out or at any time since. So now she "misspoke" on that particular fact. Now she falls back to the usual sophistry of "Okay, even if I wasn't 100% literally, factually right, my point still stands in the absence of any evidence in support of it."

Sorry, Fiorina; you're not the CEO anymore. People don't have to pretend to believe every stupid thing you say or risk losing their jobs.

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