Washington Post Gives Carly Fiorina's Secretary to CEO Story Three Pinocchios

[erpowers]

When Fiorina uses this phrase, she often pairs it with saying she came from a “modest and middle class family,” or “challenging the status quo,” which frames her story as an unlikely upstart. She also pitches it as an uniquely American experience.

But the description glosses over important details. Her father was dean of Duke Law School when she was at Stanford, meaning Duke would have paid for most of her college tuition. She graduated from Stanford, and her elite degree played a role in the stories of her at Marcus & Millichap (she was the “Stanford student”) and her convincing the business school dean to accept her into the MBA program (“So, can a liberal arts student from Stanford compete with the analytical jocks you have around here?”).

She worked briefly as a secretary in between law school and business school, but she always intended to attend graduate school for her career. She moved up through AT&T with her MBA, and was placed on a fast track to senior management after her company sponsored her to attend one of the most elite mid-career fellowships in the world. Her role as senior executive at Lucent caught the attention of HP recruiters, to become the company’s chief executive.

Fiorina uses a familiar, “mailroom to boardroom” trope of upward mobility that the public is familiar with, yet her story is nothing like that. In telling her only-in-America story, she conveniently glosses over the only-for-Fiorina opportunities and options beyond what the proverbial mailroom worker has. As such, she earns Three Pinocchios.

Three Pinocchios

http://www.washingtonpost.com/blogs/fact-checker/wp/2015/09/25/carly-fiorinas-bogus-secretary-to-ceo-career-trajectory-fact-checker-biography/?tid=pm_politics_pop_b

[madaboutharry]

1. She fabricates her biography.

She also was untruthful when she said that she and her husband buried a child due to drug addiction, giving the impression of a teen or young adult addicted to street drugs. In fact, this was her husband's daughter from his first marriage. The daughter was 35 years old when she died from years of alcohol abuse, prescription drug abuse, and bulimia. That is according to the woman's actual mother.

This is how Fiorina operates. Take one grain of truth and add it to a ten ton lie.

[TexasTowelie]

2. Carly;s father graduated from my alma mater. From the Fort Worth Star-Telegram

Her father, the late U.S. 9th Circuit Court of Appeals Judge Joseph Sneed, came from the cotton-farming side of the family in Calvert. He also cowboyed on another uncle’s ranch before going to Southwestern University in Georgetown and the University of Texas Law School, staying as a professor.

Fiorina carries a family name handed down through late grandmother Cara Carleton Weber Sneed, who lived in Calvert in a five-bedroom, 3,717-square-foot home built in 1900 and marked by historians as the Stricker-Sneed House. It operates as the Pin Oak Bed & Breakfast.

Read more here: http://www.star-telegram.com/opinion/opn-columns-blogs/bud-kennedy/article35834040.html#storylink=cpy

This is where Carly spent her summers:


The former Sneed home in Calvert is now a bed-and-breakfast. Courtesy of Pin Oak B&B

[Gothmog]

3. Carly has issues with the truth