Mean Girl Carly Fiorina joins the Fox and Friends crew on the couch to do a little "failure bragging" over her hawkish foreign policy ideas.

May 6, 2015

Carly Fiorina admits that during her six year tenure, Hewlett-Packard didn't exactly create jobs.

"In the course of my time there, we laid off over 30,000 people. That's why I understand where the anger came from."

In February 2005, the HP board fired Fiorina. The next day, the company's stock rose by 6.9 percent, and The Wall Street Journal reported that some employees reacted to the news of her dismissal by holding champagne toasts.

Carly Fiorina engages in 'failure bragging,' where her "accomplishments" speak for themselves.

At Hewlett-Packard, she nearly ran the company into Middle Earth, bragged about outsourcing jobs when she did it, and was generally so incompetent a manager that the company paid her millions of dollars to never darken its towels again. This is the record on which she is running for president.

Fox and Friends asked her to explain her national security positions since she has no national security credentials, and ISIS claims to already be on American soil. Au contraire mon frere, she thinks rather highly of her international experience.

"Actually, I think I have extensive national security credentials, I have met more more world leaders on the world stage than anyone who is running, with the exception of Hillary Clinton and I didn't do photo ops."

She listed the people she's sat as close to as the people on the couch, such as Bibi Netanyahu, Vladimir Putin and King Abdullah, all admired by the minions of Fox News. Technically, she does have more experience, but it is much like her experience at HP, such that she can engage in even more failure bragging. She was helpful in escalating the culture of surveillance for the NSA following that stunning failure of national security: 9-11.

Then-Secretary of State Colin Powell called on her to offer guidance on how the U.S. government could better share data and information between agencies, and she then went on to offer similar service to the Department of Defense and the National Security Agency. During the Bush administration, Fiorina sat on the Defense Business Board and the Advisory Group on Transformational Diplomacy for the State Department, which drafted reports for the government agencies from a private-sector perspective.

She accuses President Obama only wanting to divide the country, whereas her political party would like nothing more than to bring back segregation.

In the realm of foreign policy, Fiorina said that one of the things she'd do if she were president would be to arm the Kurds, because we aren't already?

The Obama administration has announced it will arm the militia forces of Iraqi Kurdistan, to prevent the fall of the final bastion of pro-US territory in Iraq.

She complains that we are not arming Ukraine amidst the protest of our European allies when the reality is a stark contrast. Her myopic view of world diplomacy where we simply arm our allies to the teeth is problematic. The P5+1 nations are not in favor of us arming Ukraine because Putin could easily retaliate and arm Iran, and increase tensions, not mitigate them.

Fiorina suggests that there are so many people (cough, Netanyahu) who 'want us to STOP talking to Iran.' She kisses the ring of AIPAC, like all dutiful Republicans who love Jesus' homeland. She believes China is an imminent threat to Australia, which is based on their incompetent, gaffe-making, far right PM, Tony Abbott. Like the GOP, he doesn't "believe" in man-made climate change and fear mongers about foreign countries while being woefully misinformed on Australia's policies regarding China.

In addition to her completely disastrous ideas about international dealings, she has another failure to add to her list of political accomplishments. Her first major foray onto the political stage came in 2008 when she worked for the McCain campaign as an adviser. This was followed by her spectacular loss to Senator Boxer in 2010.

The final topic of the interview, Hasselbeck mentions her current 1% standing against other GOP candidates and the gaffe of the CarlyFiorina.org domain name. She claims she's not a professional politician, and she's 'used to being under-estimated.' She again bragged about her tenure at HP and with that convoluted lie, Doocy and the Fox pals bid her adieu and good luck.

In 2010, she certainly showed how she's a true "mean girl' in her open mic moment (45 sec. in).

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