“I’ve been called a bimbo from the time I was a secretary to the time I was a CEO”, she added, seeming to equate the daytime talk show co-hosts with the misogynist men she has encountered throughout her career. She kicked off her thing saying, ‘You know, people tell me that I didn’t smile enough during the last debate.’ She looked demented! “You believe a feminist is a woman who lives the life she chooses…yet it seems to me that you are against programs that let women make choices for their lives”, Behar said, pointing to Fiorina’s opposition to Roe v. Wade, universal paid maternity leave, and raising the minimum wage. “I guess you misinterpreted Donald Trump’s comments about my face and thought those weren’t humorous”. “I’m not going to stop that”, Fiorina retorted.
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Fiorina responded, “You know what, Joy? I think there are real issues in this nation that we ought to able to discuss in a fact-based [conversation]”.
Co-host Michelle Collins imitated Fiorina’s smile in a debate recap episode of The View.
And to Collins, Fiorina said that she does not have coaches telling her how to act, and she loves to smile and laugh. And I think “The View” garnered a lot of publicity over the feud as well. I think that’s why you’re having me on the show at the top of the hour for a couple of segments.
But Fiorina’s years at HP demonstrate she’s not afraid to make unpopular decisions. You talk about complaining about not talking about the issues instead of talking about the issues.
Sometimes, for Fiorina, that has meant literally whatever people throw her. In September, Planned Parenthood protesters threw condoms at Fiorina and her staff.
“May I finish the answer to the question?”
“How will you get a thicker skin to accept a few of the humorous things that will be said about you?” Fiorina explains her firing as a boardroom brawl and points out that she steered the company during the dot-com bust, when the technology industry as a whole was struggling.
Fiorina repeatedly called the points the women were making “the litany of the left”.
“Feminism began as a rallying cry to empower women – to vote, to get an education, to enter the workplace”.
The interview ended on a lighter note when Fiorina said she’s a “big fan” of Whoopie Goldberg’s movies. Fiorina and the group continued to spar as the 2016 hopeful argued that the show was using their back-and-forth as a good PR to boost her campaign.
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On Monday, Whoopi Goldberg – who said she wasn’t planning to be at the faceoff on Friday but then attended anyway -charged that Fiorina needed to learn “the difference between when somebody’s coming for you, when somebody is paying you a compliment and when somebody is saying, ‘here’s my observation'”.
