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Fact Check: Carly Fiorina's latest defense of her HP track record has holes
Fortune ^ | 9/22/15 | Stephen Gandel

Posted on 09/22/2015 10:06:42 AM PDT by jimbo123

Carly Fiorina said on The Tonight Show that her track record at HP included improving market share. But that’s not true.

Carly Fiorina’s latest defense of her track record at Hewlett Packard doesn’t quite add up.

Monday night, on The Tonight Show with Jimmy Fallon, the GOP Presidential hopeful stepped up her effort to paint her time at the top of one of the nation’s largest technology companies as a success. Fallon remarked that her rise from a secretary at a small real estate company to the head of HP HPQ -2.42% was remarkable, but he also mentioned critics who said she “kind of left the company in disarray.” Clearly Fiorina’s time at the top of HP is complicated, and as she has risen in the polls, so too has the scrutiny of the job she did.

HP’s stock price significantly underperformed rivals during Fiorina’s time as CEO, and she was eventually fired in 2005, because the merger she pushed through with Compaq was considered a failure at the time.

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1 posted on 09/22/2015 10:06:42 AM PDT by jimbo123
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To: jimbo123

I can’t wait to see the media tear Hillary apart the way they are doing Fiorina, Carson and Trump.

/s


2 posted on 09/22/2015 10:11:03 AM PDT by Iron Munro (Proverbs 21:20 - The wise have stores of food and oil but a foolish man devours all he has)
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To: Iron Munro

“I can’t wait to see the media tear Hillary apart the way they are doing Fiorina, Carson and Trump.”.......

That will happen when hell freezes over.

Sorry but I cannot agree with you on Fiorina. I do NOT see the media tearing her apart at all, in fact it appears she is now their GOP’s “darling”, all intended to dump Trump.


3 posted on 09/22/2015 10:19:17 AM PDT by DaveA37
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To: jimbo123

One cannot ‘defend’ something so clearly wrong. Everything she has done in business is wrong.


4 posted on 09/22/2015 10:20:28 AM PDT by Norm Lenhart (LISM)
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To: Iron Munro

They are hardly tearing her apart, but will do if she ever got the nomination. I just hope our voters are smart enough to see through her and her lies.


5 posted on 09/22/2015 10:24:20 AM PDT by manc (Marriage =1 man + 1 woman,when they say marriage equality then they should support polygamy)
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To: DaveA37

“...in fact it appears she is now their GOP’s “darling”, all intended to dump Trump....”

Exactly...they will pump up ANY candidate that is clearly linked to the GOPe. The MSM is scared to death of Trump because his stated agenda takes down the radical, anti-American left. Big Time!!!


6 posted on 09/22/2015 10:24:35 AM PDT by EagleUSA (Liberalism removes the significance of everything.)
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To: Norm Lenhart; jimbo123

” Everything she has done in business is wrong.”

Lucent = fail

HP = Epic fail

California political race = Epic fail

Oh yeah, she’s a biotchy gal too : )


7 posted on 09/22/2015 10:30:09 AM PDT by stephenjohnbanker (My Batting Average( 1,000) (GOPe is that easy to read))
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To: jimbo123

I know about the ups and downs of business - on a smaller scale but still not that much difference. However, I don’t know much at all about the infighting at HP.

What stands out to me regarding Fiorina is that she hasn’t had another CEO job since she left HP. Did she not try because she was too rich or did she try and not get hired?


8 posted on 09/22/2015 10:37:06 AM PDT by Aria
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To: Aria

What stands out to me regarding Fiorina is that she hasn’t had another CEO job since she left HP. Did she not try because she was too rich or did she try and not get hired?


I’ve never heard of a person being too rich...especially a proven CEO.

If FioRINO was worth her salt, some company would’ve made her an offer. No company wanted her. Tells you a lot.


9 posted on 09/22/2015 10:40:15 AM PDT by Jane Long ("And when thou saidst, Seek ye my face; my heart said unto thee, Thy face, LORD, will I seek")
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To: stephenjohnbanker

Meaning of course she will be the GOP nom with lots of libs here continuing to lie openly for her.


10 posted on 09/22/2015 10:46:58 AM PDT by Norm Lenhart (LISM)
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To: jimbo123

Holes?

Her campaign is one big black hole.


11 posted on 09/22/2015 10:47:37 AM PDT by DoughtyOne (It's beginning to look like "Morning in America" again. Comment on YouTube under Trump Free Ride.)
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To: Norm Lenhart

No doubt : )


12 posted on 09/22/2015 10:48:24 AM PDT by stephenjohnbanker (My Batting Average( 1,000) (GOPe is that easy to read))
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To: stephenjohnbanker

31 feet, naked, golden and fanned with palm fronds by scantilly clad elfen virgins.


13 posted on 09/22/2015 10:53:30 AM PDT by Norm Lenhart (LISM)
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To: jimbo123

She also has some strange friends.


14 posted on 09/22/2015 11:14:41 AM PDT by Darroll
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To: Jane Long

If I had her money I’d be out and about on my yacht.

But then I don’t care as much about power as she does so I’d never make the money to buy the yacht in the first place.


15 posted on 09/22/2015 11:19:26 AM PDT by Aria
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To: DoughtyOne

He entire life is a black hole.

Gone in 60 days : )


16 posted on 09/22/2015 11:25:01 AM PDT by stephenjohnbanker (My Batting Average( 1,000) (GOPe is that easy to read))
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To: stephenjohnbanker

I would hope so.

If she catches fire, look out.

From Obama to her?

Wow...


17 posted on 09/22/2015 11:44:15 AM PDT by DoughtyOne (It's beginning to look like "Morning in America" again. Comment on YouTube under Trump Free Ride.)
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To: DaveA37

Carly baby is the media darling until she has served their purpose, e. g. getting rid of Donald Trump and Ben Carson, then they will throw her overboard so fast it will make her head spin.


18 posted on 09/22/2015 2:55:44 PM PDT by kagnew
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To: jimbo123

Carly Fiorina made several false, misleading and unsubstantiated claims in responding to questions about Hewlett-Packard’s involvement with a foreign subsidiary that sold products in Iran.

http://www.msn.com/en-us/news/politics/factcheck-fiorina-misleads-on-hp-and-iran/ar-AAeCZFb?ocid=spartandhp


19 posted on 09/23/2015 10:33:40 AM PDT by Grampa Dave (Either the ruling class gets new people or we the people get a new ruling class. Trump/Cruz 2016)
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