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I know we talked about this briefly in class the other day, but I wanted to call this to your attention. Carly Fiorina was on FoxNews Sunday this morning. The FIRST question Chris Wallace asks her is about her comment on Barbara Boxer's hair. He began by saying that she has been called "catty" and "a mean girl", and then asked her if she was going to apologize. Seriously, Chris? I think she had an excellent response- she said that she wants to apologize to the voters of California for allowing this to become such a distraction. Btw- her short haircut is the result of chemo that she had for breast cancer, so no wonder Boxer didn't retort. No good could have come from that.
This needs to end. To be clear, I am not defending Fiorina's comment- she was careless, and it was an unnecessary thing for her to say, but it should NOT be the first question out of Chris Wallace's mouth on a prominent national Sunday morning talk show. Really, I think there are more important things to talk about.
I think the gaffe taught Fiorina (and likely many other candidates) a valuable lesson. She is going to be extremely cautious when choosing her words going forward. It was clear that she was very on-message for the remainder of the interview, and she made some excellent points. Hopefully this will be the last that we hear about it.
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I agree. What's also striking about this though is it happened to Barack Obama (but of course related to race, not gender) when Jesse Jackson criticized Obama: http://www.cnn.com/2007/POLITICS/09/20/jackson.jena6/index.html
Obviously a different situation - not two candidates running against each other and Jackson's remarks were much more offensive - but still has some similarities. Is this such a big media story because of the minority and the minorities sticking together aspect? Just a thought
Agreed. It should not be front and center. While the comment was unnecessary (and it seems that Fiorina realized that in her apology), it shouldn't have bearing on her candidacy. I think that the networks saw it as an opportunity create a news buzz - and if it weren't for the 24/7 news coverage and their continuous need for exposing politicians, this matter would not have become "headline news."
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