Burger King is coming out with a 12 Patty burger in honor of the Whoppers told by Carly this election cycle. I mean, here is a woman who held one of the top CEO jobs in America at one point, but is totally dissociated with a single element of truth, or fact. Other than as a Carnival Barker, I’m not sure what job she is qualified for in corporate America anymore. And her meteoric rise? Was it all lies? Somehow the crackpot mail lady scammed her way into the corner office?
I mean unlike most of the other fact free Republicans running to be their Presidential candidate, did Cary not get the memo that their underlings at Faux News were supposed to tell the lies, and the candidates should stick to demonstrable untruths?
A complete and total failure of character.
Carly Fiorina is a liar: And everyone should finally just say it — loudly
There’s really no need to dance around the unquestioned truth that Carly Fiorina lies about stuff
Carly Fiorina is unique among all the candidates in the Republican presidential field for her visceral, aggressive hatred for anything resembling truth. Other candidates lie, of course, but they at least go to the trouble of dressing up their lies with weasel words and other forms of qualifying language that allow them to squirm their way out of fact checks. Fiorina doesn’t care about any of that. She makes firm, declarative statements that are unquestionably inaccurate, and when confronted with inarguable facts that prove her wrong, she insists against all evidence that she is correct and bristles at the very notion that anyone might challenger her. She does not care. She does not pretend to care. As far as Fiorina’s concerned, the fact that she said it is what makes it true.
Up until this week, the prime example of this phenomenon was the Planned Parenthood video she claimed to have seen showing “a fully formed fetus on the table, its heart beating, its legs kicking while someone says, ‘We have to keep it alive to harvest its brain.’” That video doesn’t exist, and when confronted with the truth, she insisted her lie was true and lashed out at her critics with wholly un-righteous umbrage. “I’ve seen the footage. And I find it amazing, actually, that all these supposed fact-checkers in the mainstream media claim this doesn’t exist.”
That already egregious example of gross fibbery has, implausibly, been supplanted by an even larger whopper. At this week’s Republican debate, Fiorina listed off a number of retired generals – “Petraeus, McChrystal, Mattis, Keane, Flynn” – whom she would “bring back” into service. “Every one was retired early because they told President Obama things that he didn’t want to hear,” she said. Citing David Petraeus made absolutely no sense – he retired because Obama nominated him as CIA director, and then he resigned because of a security breach related to the extramarital affair he was having. But invoking Gen. Jack Keane was the real howler of the bunch, given that he retired in 2003, a full five years before Obama was elected president. Keane confirmed to Fox News that he’s never even spoken to President Obama, and that Fiorina’s assessment was “not accurate.”