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Carly Fiorina goes after Donald Trump at Fox News GOP debate.

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Fiorina on Trump v Megyn: ‘Women Understood That Comment, and Yes, It Is Offensive’

Mediaite
Josh Feldman
8/9/2015

Excerpt:

Carly Fiorina said on CNN today that despite Donald Trump‘s protestations, there was no ambiguity in his “blood” comments about Megyn Kelly.

Before Fiorina spoke with Jake Tapper, Trump himself called in and insisted he meant Kelly’s ears and nose, and only a “sick” person would think otherwise.

But Fiorina said that Trump’s “completely inappropriate and offensive” comments where just like when men in her career implied she wasn’t “fit for decision-making because maybe I was having my period.”

“Women understood that comment,” she told Tapper, “and yes, it is offensive.”

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Trump Lashes Out at Fiorina: ‘You Develop a Massive Headache’ Listening to Her

Mediaite
Josh Feldman
8/9/2015

Excerpt:

Arguing that Donald Trump is a sexist leaves out one very important detail: he’s nasty to pretty much everyone.

But it’s his personal attacks on women specifically that have garnered lots of attention over the past few days. Megyn Kelly confronted him during the debate about his personal attacks on women, following which he lamented political correctness and launched several personal attacks on Megyn Kelly.

Carly Fiorina, the sole woman running on the GOP side, called out Trump for his “offensive” remarks, talking about how she had to deal with men saying similarly demeaning things about her in the workplace for a long time.

Trump responded the only way he knows how, with a whiny personal attack:

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A Mythical, Deceptive Tale by Carly Fiorina

The Counter Jihad Report
8/10/2015

Excerpts:

Gates of Vienna, Aug. 9, 2015: - http://gatesofvienna.net/2015/08/a-m...carly-fiorina/

The following article about Carly Fiorina’s speech was originally published in a slightly different form at RenewAmerica. It is reposted here with the author’s permission. - http://www.renewamerica.com/columns/korol/150624

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By Tabitha Korol
June 24, 2015

“There was once a civilization that was the greatest in the world.”

And so began a mythical, deceptive tale by Carly Fiorina, when she spoke in praise of Islam within a mere two weeks of their bombing of the World Trade Center. The concern is not that she was attempting to deceive others, but that she, a person who aspires to the presidency of the United States, was herself deceived regarding the true nature of Islam, and that she has never retracted her statements.

“[Islam’s] armies were made up of many nationalities… [Islam] was able to create a continental super-state… within its dominion lived hundreds of millions of people, of different creeds and ethnic origins,” and “the reach of this civilization’s commerce…”

As a religious leader, Mohammed converted few followers. As political and military leader, he was far more successful — torturing and beheading 700 stalwart Medinan Jews, raping and enslaving women, and conscripting the survivors for jihad (holy war). Thus he dominated different creeds and ethnic origins, replenishing his army with many nationalities, and increasing his wealth with booty.

“Within its dominion” is Fiorina’s euphemism for “living under domination.” All non-Muslims, slaves and women were treated with contempt, unequal under law but economically necessary. Although specific enmity was directed against Jews and Christians, the severe“jizya” tax was imposed on “infidels” as humiliation and punishment for rejecting Mohammed. This tax and many other discriminatory laws extended through the centuries to Nestorians, Syrians, and Romans of newly conquered empires, and further to animists, Buddhists, Hindus, Mongols, Greeks, and Armenians (the Armenian Genocide), who suffered torture and death.

Jews held trades and occupations that Muslims judged inferior — including “this civilization’s commerce,” diplomacy, banking, brokerage, espionage, working in gold and silver, and cleaning cesspools. The inevitable deterioration of relations between Muslims and the outside world meant more restrictions and social segregation for non-Muslims (dhimmis), but the subservient and useful survived.

“… its military protection allowed a degree of peace and prosperity that had never been known.”

“Peace,” as the absence of discord, existed, depending on the beneficence of the ruling caliphate and internal/external changes, but from the twelfth to thirteenth centuries onward, tolerance decreased; intellectual, social and commercial life depreciated, and ever-increasing restrictions and deprivation for dhimmis were imposed.

“And this civilization was driven more than anything, by invention. Its architects designed buildings that defied gravity.”

The inventions and contributions were made by victims of the Muslim jihadists who invaded the “infidel” world over 1400 years, enslaving, slaughtering, and plundering. Islam is antithetical to creativity, but rather based on envious resentment of the accomplishments of others. Their greatest achievement was their ability to expropriate every creative, innovative groundbreaking device of Islam’s victims and to fraudulently claim each as their own.

Fiorina’s reference to “buildings that defied gravity,” as in “air-borne,” surely defies logic, but she doubtless refers to the arches, which were already in use in prehistoric times by ancient Egyptians, Babylonians and Greeks. With the help of concrete made from lime and volcanic sand, Roman arches could support huge weight, and were soon adopted by Byzantine and Romanesque architects, evolving into the groundbreaking inventions of the Gothic arch and flying buttress in northern (Christian) Europe. Meanwhile, the Muslims also adopted the Syrian styles, followed with Greek, Byzantine and Persian, and later Chinese and Indian, architecture, to develop pointed, scalloped and horseshoe arches for mosques and palaces. Even the vaulted and hemispherical (domed) ceilings were invented by the non-Muslim Romans.

“Its mathematicians created the algebra and algorithms that would enable the building of computers, and the creation of encryption.”

The first positional numerical system was developed in second millennium BCE Babylon, over 800 years before Islam; the first true “zero” was developed by mathematicians in the Indian Subcontinent. Persian and Arab mathematicians are believed to have adopted the Hindu-Arabic numerical system in India. The work of the Italian scholar Fibonacci was crucial in bringing them to Europe and the world. Francois Viete, a French lawyer, mathematician and privy councilor to Henry III and Henry IV, provided the step from “new algebra” to modern algebra.

Only an Islamist steeplechaser could leap from working with numbers to creating computersand encryption centuries later. The English polymath Charles Babbage, mathematician, philosopher, inventor, and mechanical engineer conceived the first programmable computer (1830). Alan Turing laid the groundwork for computational science; Konrad Zuse is credited with the invention of “the first freely programmable computer.”

The earliest form of cryptography is on stone in Egypt (190 BCE), long before Islam. Ciphers were used by the Spartan military and in the 2000-year-old Kamasutra of India. It wasn’t until the 9th century that Arab mathematicians and polymath Al-Kindi worked with cryptography.

“Its doctors examined the human body and found new cures for diseases.”

Arabs had no scientific traditions; their scientists were largely Jews who were forcibly converted as a result of Islam’s rampaging throughout the Near East, Egypt, and Libya. As a typical example: Jews and Berbers, who lived together harmoniously in North Africa, were overcome by 60,000 Islamic troops in 694, and the descendants of those who survived the massacre became “Arab” philosophers and scientists.

A great physician, the Egyptian Jew Isaac Israel of Kairouan, immigrated to West Africa. His surviving works on logic, Aristotelian physics, and pharmacology became the standard for medical history, and it was from him that the greatest of “Arab” scientists, Avicenna (980-1037), drew inspiration. Known as the Aristotle of the East, Avicenna wrote in Arabic and became a vizier in Persia, but he was born near Bokhara, then heavily populated by Jews, and was probably of Jewish origin. Even so, physicians who attended lords and kings of Islam and Christendom were largely Jews.

“Its astronomers looked into the heavens, named the stars, and paved the way for space travel and exploration.”

Jewish savants were largely responsible for the invention and development of instruments and astronomical tables that facilitated world-girdling sea voyages. The Jerusalem Talmud (tractate Avodah Zarah, Ch.3, fol.,42c) strongly implies the spherical nature of the earth. Theastrolabe, used by Islamic astronomers as a guide to the sky and to tell time by the position of heavenly bodies, was introduced into the Arab-speaking world by a “remarkable Jewish genius, Mashala of Mosul, the phoenix of his age.” Astronomical tables, compiled by the Jew Joseph ben Wallar at Toledo (1396), and in Aragon by Judaic specialists, including Emanuel ben Jacob (a.k.a. Bonfils de Tarascon), were used with the astrolabe.

The Jews were among the most notable cartographers, the most advanced being a Jew forcibly converted to Christianity. Christopher Columbus’s cartographers and other companions may have been conversos. The most reputable astronomer of the day, Abraham Zacuto (1452-1515), instructed Columbus on using the perfected astrolabe, also used by Vasco de Gama and Amerigo Vespucci.

In all these areas, Fiorina makes the absurd leap from recognizing Muslims as merely a people who used a product to being an innovative people who “paved the way” for the future. She made a similar leap of dissonance when she made corrupt trade agreements with Iran in violation of US trade sanctions, resulting in 30,000 workers laid off at Hewlett-Packard, and jobs shipped to China. We could remark in passing that, at the same time, her salary and perks also leaped — they more than tripled.
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The question is, has she changed her views since 2001?

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What Did Carly Fiorina Really Say About Islam After 9-11?

Gates of Vienna
Baron Bodissey
8/8/2015

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Here’s the official transcript of what Carly Fiorina said about Islam on September 26, 2001:

I’ll end by telling a story.

There was once a civilization that was the greatest in the world.

It was able to create a continental super-state that stretched from ocean to ocean, and from northern climes to tropics and deserts. Within its dominion lived hundreds of millions of people, of different creeds and ethnic origins.

One of its languages became the universal language of much of the world, the bridge between the peoples of a hundred lands. Its armies were made up of people of many nationalities, and its military protection allowed a degree of peace and prosperity that had never been known. The reach of this civilization’s commerce extended from Latin America to China, and everywhere in between.

And this civilization was driven more than anything, by invention. Its architects designed buildings that defied gravity. Its mathematicians created the algebra and algorithms that would enable the building of computers, and the creation of encryption. Its doctors examined the human body, and found new cures for disease. Its astronomers looked into the heavens, named the stars, and paved the way for space travel and exploration.

Its writers created thousands of stories. Stories of courage, romance and magic. Its poets wrote of love, when others before them were too steeped in fear to think of such things.

When other nations were afraid of ideas, this civilization thrived on them, and kept them alive. When censors threatened to wipe out knowledge from past civilizations, this civilization kept the knowledge alive, and passed it on to others.

While modern Western civilization shares many of these traits, the civilization I’m talking about was the Islamic world from the year 800 to 1600, which included the Ottoman Empire and the courts of Baghdad, Damascus and Cairo, and enlightened rulers like Suleiman the Magnificent.

Although we are often unaware of our indebtedness to this other civilization, its gifts are very much a part of our heritage. The technology industry would not exist without the contributions of Arab mathematicians. Sufi poet-philosophers like Rumi challenged our notions of self and truth. Leaders like Suleiman contributed to our notions of tolerance and civic leadership.

And perhaps we can learn a lesson from his example: It was leadership based on meritocracy, not inheritance. It was leadership that harnessed the full capabilities of a very diverse population — that included Christianity, Islamic, and Jewish traditions.

This kind of enlightened leadership — leadership that nurtured culture, sustainability, diversity and courage — led to 800 years of invention and prosperity.

In dark and serious times like this, we must affirm our commitment to building societies and institutions that aspire to this kind of greatness. More than ever, we must focus on the importance of leadership — bold acts of leadership and decidedly personal acts of leadership.

With that, I’d like to open up the conversation and see what we, collectively, believe about the role of leadership.

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Carly Fiorina: I will support Trump if he's our nominee

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Carly Fiorina’s 2001 speech praising Islam: Political bombshell or dud?

Freedom Unyielding
Howard Portnoy
8/10/2015

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For some reason, a speech that then-Hewlett-Packard CEO Carly Fiorina gave on Sept. 26, 2001 — some two weeks after the 9/11 attacks — is in the headlines again. I say again, because the speech, in which Fiorina praises Islam and expresses concern for her “employees who are of Middle Eastern descent or who practice the Muslim religion,” has been in the news before, albeit in the business section.

Or so you would believe if you were to peruse an “analysis” by a relatively obscure website styled Militant Islam Monitor (MIM). In February 2005, shortly after Fiorina was canned by HP over concerns about the company’s future direction, MIM concocted a theory that her post-911 speech precipitated her ouster. Why it would take the company’s board four a half years to react to that speech is never explained.

The speech has reemerged as a would-be smoking gun courtesy of our friends on the left, who are understandably concerned following Fiorina’s commanding performance in the GOP kids table debate last Thursday. It appears here in its entirety. It is mainly a pep talk — an effort to rally and reassure her troops in the wake of a recent national disaster — and runs some 3,700 words. ................................................

Some who like Fiorina will read these sentiments and decide it’s time to move on to another candidate. Others, who are now on the fence, should be reminded that around the same time Fiorina delivered her speech, President George W. Bush addressed a joint session of Congress and said:

I … want to speak tonight directly to Muslims throughout the world. We respect your faith. It’s practiced freely by many millions of Americans and by millions more in countries that America counts as friends. Its teachings are good and peaceful, and those who commit evil in the name of Allah blaspheme the name of Allah.

Put somewhat differently, 9/11 was a long time ago. Much water has poured over the dam since.

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http://libertyunyielding.com/2015/08...bshell-or-dud/

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Carly Fiorina's Judgment Problem

Forbes
Nomi Prins
5/5/2015

Excerpt:

For those of us that live in California, there’s a palpable deja vu in Carly Fiorina’s declaration to run for president on the Republican ticket. Smatterings of those late night TV advertisements are still sloshing around our brains.

Her campaign positions her as the outsider, the embodiment of the American dream. As her website informs us, “Only in the United States of America can a young woman start as a secretary and work to become Chief Executive of one of the largest technology companies in the world.” Implicit in that leap is the kind of power that is a companion to politics.

The words ‘power’ and ‘Fiorina’ were first linked publicly in 1998, when Fortune magazine dubbed her the “most powerful woman in business.” At the time, she ran the largest division of Lucent Technologies. As her site emphasizes a couple of times, she was the first woman to head a Fortune 50, company. In 2001, two years after she was appointed CEO of Hewlett-Packard HPQ -3.04%, Forbes magazine named her as one of America’s Top Businesswomen.In 2004, she placed 10th on the Forbes list of The World’s 100 Most Powerful Women.

No one could accuse Fiorina of not standing her ground. At HP, Fiorina rammed through an infamous $19 billion merger with computer company, Compaq in opposition to the wishes of Walter Hewlett and David Packard. She won that battle, but the company didn’t. Neither did her legacy as much as she tries to spin it otherwise. HP’s stock price dove 65% from August 4, 1999 (at a close of 110.25; HP stock split in October 2000) to February 8, 2005 (at a close of 20.14). The Standard & Poor’s 500 dropped just 15% during that same period.

In February, 2005, she resigned as Chair and CEO of HP rather than agree to diminish her power at the firm, as the board of directors demanded. She went on to pen an autobiography Tough Choices in 2006, joined several corporate boards and served as a consultant to John McCain’s 2008 U.S. Presidential campaign. Though she was listed as one of McCain’s Top Bundlers in 2008 (in the $100-$250k category), she only managed to raise $53,200 in that capacity.

Her website touts her experience leading HP, doubling its revenue and expanding it from the 28th to the 11th largest US Company. It neglects to say that she doubled its debt in tandem. The site meets the unpopularity of the Compaq acquisition and resultant tens of thousands of layoffs head on, but makes no mention of the approximate $21 million golden parachute Fiorina received though HP stock tanked:

“Carly didn’t always make the most popular decisions at HP–but, time and time again, they would prove to be the right ones.”

Her tenacity to switch gears even in the face of opposition is equated with what the country needs right now. Casting herself as a political outsider is one of her core themes. She claims, “Our founders never intended us to have a professional political class. They believed that citizens and leaders needed to step forward.” Some citizens opt for public service at a humbler lever. Others go straight for the top.

In 2010, her website informs us, “Carly took on one of Washington’s most entrenched liberals, Senator Barbara Boxer, from the deep blue state of California…In what she knew to be “an uphill fight.”

She is to be commended for doing so while battling breast cancer, and suffering the tragic loss of her stepdaughter, Lori. Indeed, her ability to fight is not in question. Yet when it comes to the national scale, the battles she chooses to fight and her judgment in doing so, are critical issues.
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Carly Fiorina Points To Her HP CEO Experience On The Campaign Trail

Forbes
Doug Olenick
5/6/2015

Excerpt:

Politics and tech news stories tend to stay in their separate silos, except when politicians make a fool of themselves via social media, but with former Hewlett-Packard CEO Carly Fiorina tossing her hat into the ring to gain the Republican nomination for president there is some serious crossover.

Fiorina’s primary claim to fame is being a former HP CEO where she ruled for almost six very stormy years and her campaign is wasting no time bring out this fact. Fiorina and her handlers believe this prior experience makes her particularly well suited to be president as can be seen on her website. One bit of Fiorina’s past that is not discussed at length on the site is her time at AT&T and Lucent where it can be argued she had an even bigger impact than while leading HP.

While at AT&T Fiorina soared up the ladder going from a management trainee in 1980 to a senior VP heading up one of the company’s primary divisions by 1996. At that time she was put in charge of handling the spin off of Bell Labs and Western Electric from AT&T that resulted in a $3 billion IPO. Fiorina was then handed the job of president of Lucent’s consumer division.

With this success on her resume Fiorina was tapped by HP as CEO on July 19, 1999 making her the first the first female CEO of a company in the Dow Jones Industrial Average.

Fiorina had what can only be described as the horrible luck to start at HP just when the dotcom/tech bubble was about to burst plunging the tech sector into a years long downward spiral.

However, not all of Fiorina’s problems were generated by outside forces.

During Fiorina’s tenure HP’s stock price collapsed from $27.91 to $19.51, partly due to the tumultuous merger with Compaq that she instigated, and she was the person in charge when about 30,000 HP workers were downsized. Many of these people were let go after the Compaq merger when it became obvious their jobs were redundant.

The Compaq trouble started in September 2001 when Fiorina announced the planned merger with corporate rival and computer giant Compaq in an all stock $25 billion deal. A huge brouhaha broke out over the proposed deal between Fiorina and Walter Hewlett, son of HP co-founder William Hewlett who was also a member of the company’s board of directors. HP shareholders did finally approve the deal and then Hewlett lost a follow up lawsuit in which he claimed the shareholders were fed incorrect information by Fiorina concerning the merger. The deal was closed in 2002.

The Compaq deal, and other acquisitions, helped HP double its revenue from $42 billion in 1999 to $86 billion in 2005 during Fiorina’s tenure and it did make HP the world’s leading PC supplier. Albeit at a time when profits in the PC business were slim.
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Carly Fiorina - Wikipedia

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Cara Carleton "Carly" Fiorina (née Sneed; September 6, 1954) is a former business executive, and current Chair of the non-profit philanthropic organization Good360. Starting in 1980, Fiorina rose through the ranks to become an executive at AT&T and its equipment and technology spinoff, Lucent. As chief executive officer of Hewlett-Packard (HP) from 1999 to 2005, she was the first woman to lead one of the top twenty U.S. companies.

In 2002, Fiorina undertook the biggest high-tech merger in history at the time, with rival computer company Compaq, which made HP the world's largest personal computer manufacturer. Following HP's gain in market share as a result of the merger, Fiorina laid off thousands of US employees. As of February 9, 2005 HP stock had lost more than half its value, while the overall NASDAQ index had fallen 26 percent owing to turbulence in the tech sector. On that date, the HP board of directors forced Fiorina to resign as chief executive officer and chairman. After her departure, by the end of 2005, the merged company had more employees worldwide than both companies together had before the merger.

After HP, Fiorina served on the boards of several organizations and as an adviser to Republican John McCain's 2008 presidential campaign. She won a three-person race for the Republican nomination for the United States Senate from California in 2010, but lost the general election to incumbent Democratic Senator Barbara Boxer by 10 points.

On May 4, 2015 Fiorina announced her candidacy for the Republican nomination in the 2016 presidential election.[15]
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Early life and education

Fiorina was born on September 6, 1954 in Austin, Texas, the daughter of Joseph Tyree Sneed III (1920-2008)—a law school professor, dean, and federal judge—and Madelon Montross (née Juergens), a portrait and abstract artist. She is mainly of English and German ancestry,[17][18] and was raised Episcopalian.

Fiorina attended Channing School in London. She later attended five different high schools, including one in Ghana, graduating from Charles E. Jordan High School in Durham, North Carolina. At one time she dreamed of being a classical pianist. She received a Bachelor of Arts in philosophy and medieval history from Stanford University in 1976. During her summers, she worked as a secretary for Kelly Services. She attended the UCLA School of Law in 1976 but dropped out after one semester and worked as a receptionist for six months at a real estate firm Marcus & Millichap, moving up to a broker position before leaving for Italy, where she taught English.

Fiorina received a Master of Business Administration in marketing from the Robert H. Smith School of Business at the University of Maryland, College Park in 1980. She also obtained a Master of Science in management from the MIT Sloan School of Management under the Sloan Fellows program in 1989.
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