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Related: Editorials & Other Articles, Issue Forums, Alliance Forums, Region ForumsCarly Fiorina Admits She Lied About "92%": "I misspoke on that particular fact."
Republican presidential candidate Carly Fiorina acknowledged that she was incorrect during last weeks primary debate when she claimed 92 percent of the jobs lost during [President] Barack Obamas 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 ABCs 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
CanonRay
(14,106 posts)must have been a real joy to work for her.
tularetom
(23,664 posts)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)On CNBC, Failed business people never lie.
Botany
(70,524 posts)Vulcan mind meld?
CTyankee
(63,912 posts)mild mannered and balanced interviewer. But she was close to losing it to what Carly was saying.
patsimp
(915 posts)what broader argument? to lie.
Fred Sanders
(23,946 posts)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)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.