U.S. presidential candidate Fiorina spins web around interviewer

Reuters.com ^ | May 10, 2015 | Reuters

[E. Pluribus Unum]

Republican presidential candidate Carly Fiorina apparently has learned something about registering website domain names.

Shortly after the former Hewlett-Packard chief executive announced her campaign last week, she found out that a cybersquatter had bought the rights to carlyfiorina.org and was using it to criticize her record.

Chuck Todd of NBC News brought up the issue while interviewing Fiorina on "Meet the Press" and showed the website, which features row after row of frowny-face emoticons representing 30,000 people laid off during her Hewlett-Packard tenure from 1999 to 2005.

[NormsRevenge]

Did she Red Eye stare him down?

[Cowboy Bob]

Is there a difference between “frowny face” and “frowning?”

“Frowny face” seems a bit more childish.

[SamAdams76]

I believe that whitehouse.com still takes you to a pornsite.

The whole controversy is rather silly. Nobody going to tedcruz.com is going to suddenly vote for Shrillary as a result.

[JOHN ADAMS]

My favorite part of the article: “The site hillaryclinton.org is not the work of Democratic candidate Hillary Clinton’s campaign and cyber security experts say it contains malicious software.”

I don’t know about you, but in my view the fact that it contains malicious software makes me think it really IS Hillary!’s website.

[VanShuyten]

Can anyone post on chuck told.org?

[ClearCase_guy]

Note that evil Republicans “spin webs”.

Those bastards and their evil tricks!

[Eddie01]

I think you’re refering to frowny wowny face.

[Eddie01]

She's just like Aragon the giant spider in the dark forest , only worse. lol

[Colonel_Flagg]

Get ready, she’s going to be the GOP-E’s choice for Vice-President.

[Dr. Sivana]

Note that evil Republicans “spin webs”.

It was a pun on the use of webwites. Usually the New York Post or Boston Herald's style, not Reuters, but I've seen worse.

[ClearCase_guy]

Roger that. But imagine some scenario where the obvious pun let to a complimentary phrase -- "Fiorina performs miracles during interview" ...

I'm thinking that Reuters would pass that one up and not actually print such a thing. But the "spins web" pun? That jumped right out and seemed irresistible to the prestitute.

[jwalsh07]

She is my choice for VP and there re no R’s at the end of my name. She has more balls, smarts and wits than 99.9% of Republicans, conservatives and libertarians. And that most definitely includes you and your fellow travelers.

[Yo-Yo]

She’ll do for America what she did for H-P.

[Taliesan]

Just because somebody is employed doesn’t mean they ought to be employed there. CEO’s need to shrink their workforces at times. A corporation is not a jobs program.

If she’ll promise to clean extraneous employees from the Federal agencies she has my vote.

[ClearCase_guy]

Preach it. So many people don't actually work for a living. They just show up and get paychecks. And the Feds are huge examples of this. I'm convinced that the Federal Government is above all else a Jobs Program -- a Welfare Program -- the government doesn't have all that much work that needs to be done, and they don't expect the workers to make an effort. But they don't want EVERYONE to be on food stamps, so they stick 'em in a cubicle and say they're employed.

Cut 50%. For starters.

[Colonel_Flagg]

That was indelicate.

By the way, shove that “fellow traveler” BS where the sun don’t shine, pal.

[Intolerant in NJ]

U.S. presidential candidate Fiorina spins web around interviewer...surprisingly, the actual Reuters headline.......