Posted on 09/23/2015 3:12:25 PM PDT by jimbo123
Republican presidential candidate and former Hewlett-Packard CEO Carly Fiorina told an Iowa radio host Tuesday that saying that she should have known and done something about a European subsidiary of Hewlett-Packard making sales to Iran was like saying the same about the host “if one of your listeners does something wrong out there in your name.”
“We sell products to a customer,” Fiorina said to Iowa radio host Simon Conway. “And that customer was then doing business with another company. Both of those customers were doing something wrong. It would be a little bit like saying if one of your listeners does something wrong out there in your name, you should know about it and you should do something about it.”
The Republican presidential candidate was elaborating on comments she made on Sunday, when she told Fox News that HP had “a larger budget than any one of our 50 states” and that it was “impossible to ensure that nothing wrong ever happens.”
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On Tuesday, Fiorina bristled when Conway said her answer reminded him of President Obama “talking about various issues, saying, ‘Yeah, I found out about it when I saw it in the newspaper just like you.”
“No, no, no, Simon, that is a completely unfair comparison,” Fiorina responded, adding that the subsidiary, which is called Redington Gulf, was “like a customer” and that blaming her for its wrongdoing would be like blaming the host for the wrongdoing of a listener.
She went on to argue that comparing her claims of ignorance to those of President Obama made her “disappointed” in Conway.
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Fiorina bristled when Conway said her answer reminded him of President Obama “talking about various issues, saying, ‘Yeah, I found out about it when I saw it in the newspaper just like you.” She went on to argue that comparing her claims of ignorance to those of President Obama made her “disappointed” in Conway.
Prepare to continue to be disappointed...
I guess the buck didn’t stop with her, the CEO.
It’s really NOT
Not even a remote metaphor.
Where did she go to school? I have to look it up.
I have bad news Snarly, they do blame radio hosts for listeners’ actions.
Your watch, babe.
That’s the way it works.
I was in charge of everything...
Except this...
...and this...
...and that...
...oh and that other thing too.
Come to find out, some of the HP policies seem to have nothing to do with her.
Pray tell Carley, who was the CEO?
From what I hear, they deserve a lot of credit. /Snark
Good analogy but the situations are not analogous. She is an idiot and a liar.
Where did Carly go?
She was here a minute ago.
Stanford B.A
Marlyland MBA
MIT MS
That too.
“I guess the buck didn’t stop with her, the CEO.”
Doesn’t have to. She’s a womyn.
The cracks starting to show. Not in her face.
No, Carly, the host isn’t the CEO and boss of the listeners but You are the BOSS of the company and responsible for your employees’ actions.
Maybe she was absent those days...
LOLOL!!! Perfect :)
She just isn’t very good at these analogy thingies is she?
Well, not quite, Carly. It’s more like claiming you wiped your illegal server with a cloth.
:)
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