Carly Fiorina to Interviewer: 'I Don't Accept Your Premise That HP Had Misfortunes'
PoliticsIn an interview with New Hampshire Public Radio Thursday morning, GOP presidential candidate and former Hewlett-Packard CEO Carly Fiorina was asked if she would ever take responsibility for HP’s well-documented struggles. Fiorina responded with a strong counter-pitch: Haha, what struggles?
Exchange host Laura Knoy asked, “You’ve in part blamed the collapse of the tech bubble for HP’s problems. You were the leader there, did you play any role in HP’s troubles at that time?”
“Well actually I don’t blame the dot-com bust,” replied Fiorina, who has, in fact, referenced the dot-com bust many times when explaining why she got fired; a shorter way to say this would be “blamed.” Fiorina continued:
“I was fired in a boardroom brawl that lasted over two weeks, and it was over a matter of principle, that board members shouldn’t be leaking confidential conversations out of the boardroom. The man who led that effort, who was also leaking to the press, is a legendary venture capitalist named Tom Perkins, and about 6 months ago he took out a full-page ad in the New York Times, unbeknownst to me, that said ‘Carly was right, I was wrong, the board was dysfunctional, she was a great CEO, she’ll make a great president, I’m backing her 1000%.”
Fiorina, whose favorite term is “boardroom brawl,” failed to mention that the ad in question was placed by by Carly for America, the super PAC backing her candidacy; another thing Tom Perkins is known for is comparing criticism of his fellow one-percenters to Kristallnacht. He has also suggested that the rich should have more votes in elections, was convicted of involuntary manslaughter, and wrote an erotic novel titled “Sex and the Single Zillionaire.”