Fiorina tells O'Reilly that Democrats trying to besmirch her record as CEO of Hewlett-Packard

[Miles Archer]

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GOP Presidential hopeful joins 'The O'Reilly Factor' to discuss some Democrats trying to besmirch her record as CEO of Hewlett-Packard
09/23/2015

http://www.billoreilly.com/video?chartID=741&vid=561706948173652575

[AllFieldsRequired]

1. Besmirch ? oh lord

Your record at HP would get you run out of most towns.

[MohRokTah]

2. Nobody can besmirch Carly Fiorina's record at HP more than the record itself. eom

[virtualobserver]

12. they loved Carly Fiorina at Dell Computer

[MohRokTah]

13. She was the best CEO they never had!

And they were GLAD for it!

[virtualobserver]

15. It was a sad day at Dell when she was fired by HP

In her defense though, she is perfectly aligned with all of the failed Republican policies.

Her attack on Planned Parenthood in the debates was downright scary.

[Vinca]

3. She wishes. The record is the record and it's not a good one.

[leftofcool]

4. Oh please, stop playing the victim, Carly

You don't look good in martyrdom.

[B Calm]

5. Didn't she outsource american jobs overseas?

She deserves whatever her record shows.

[COLGATE4]

6. Carly has the one attribute absolutely required in order to be

a successful Rethuglican candidate - she is a consummate liar. Case in point: her histrionics at the last 'debate' urging the President and Hillary to go 'look at a video' which she claims to have seen (about newborn babies waiting to be dismembered for their parts) and which fact checkers have all determined doesn't even exist. When pressed about that, she doubles down, insisting that "they have to prove to me that they've seen it". No surprise therefore that she can boldly lie about her horrible record at HP.

[tabasco]

7. She really thinks people are stupid

And she is largely correct. The American people are woefully uninformed or outright brainwashed by the plutocracy's mass media.

[47of74]

8. Carly, on behalf of all the HP workers you laid off

FUCK YOU..

[Rex]

9. You have to just start expecting the GOP to lie their asses off, at some point in your life.

Otherwise you will go crazy.

[NV Whino]

10. This woman is really a piece of work.

[Human101948]

11. Bloomberg News, Business Insider and other left wing media have "smeared" her!

HP became mired in the aftermath of the merger – a deal that board member Walter Hewlett castigated. (The boardroom brawl that broke out over the deal is another story altogether.) Fortune’s Carol Loomis wrote the definitive story about how the deal failed to create value for shareholders and how it left the company in a weakened state.

Loomis' analysis presaged Fiorina’s ouster:

The fundamental and overpowering problem here is that HP’s shareholders paid $24 billion in stock to buy Compaq and in exchange got relatively little value. In fact, so little value was secured that accounting rules could force HP to write off a chunk of the $14.5 billion in goodwill assets it set up on its books after the deal… a write-off of goodwill at HP would say as clearly as anything can that, financially, this merger has been a lemon.

Fiorina's poor assessment of the PC market forced her to eventually preside over so many layoffs at HP that my Bloomberg colleague Peter Burrows said she was dubbed “chainsaw Carly.” (Former employees haven’t forgotten, including one who is using the carlyfiorina.org URL to remind us how many people she laid off while HP’s CEO.) Soon after Fiorina was fired, HP employees and shareholders debated whether or not the company should spin off its PC business, essentially undoing Fiorina's big wager. Current HP CEO Meg Whitman eventually did exactly that.

Fiorina’s failures didn’t stop there. She also misjudged her ability to run HP and manage its board.

http://www.bloombergview.com/articles/2015-05-05/the-carly-fiorina-leadership-file

A plunging stock price. But the biggest problem: During her tenure, HP's stock lost more than half its value.

To be fair, her tenure overlapped with the end of the dot-com bubble, and a lot of tech companies had similar stock price drops during that period as well. But HP's stock performance was worse than other big tech companies, such as Cisco, Intel, Microsoft, and Oracle, during her tenure.

Meanwhile, Fiorina's pay continued to be handsome: All told, she made about $100 million.

After Fiorina's ouster, many articles labeled her among the worst performing CEOs.

http://www.businessinsider.com/carly-fiorina-presidential-ambitions-follow-a-terrible-record-at-hp-2015-3

[Mike Daniels]

14. I would have sworn it was Trump besmirching her record at the last debate

IIRC the next debate will focus on economic issues. Does she really think at least one other candidate isn't going to bring up her history as CEO?

[Johonny]

16. Do good CEOs remain out of work for 10 years?

[Octafish]

17. Democrats go after her record, which is dismal.

Repukes go after her appearance, which is what it is.