Carly Fiorina earned a round of applause at the CNN debate when she responded to Donald Trump’s recent comment about her appearance, but Sen. Barbara Boxer (D-CA), Fiorina’s opponent in 2010, recalled on Wednesday a time when the former Hewlett Packard CEO made fun of her hair.
Before the debate on Wednesday night, Boxer spoke with MSNBC’s Chris Matthews about her Senate race against Fiorina in 2010. Boxer criticized Trump’s comment about Fiorina’s “face,” but the senator also noted Fiorina’s own comments about Boxer in 2010.
“That’s so off base, I can’t even go there,” Boxer said of Trump’s comment before pivoting to Fiorina. “But she should have realized that when she attacked me because my hairstyle was, quote, ‘So yesterday.'”
In 2010, Fiorina was caught on an open mic commenting on Boxer’s hair as she was prepping for an interview with CNN affiliate KXTV. Fiorina told her staff that someone saw Boxer on television and “said what everyone says, ‘God what is that hair?’ So yesterday!”
Having watched Fiorina implode in her Senate campaign, it is fascinating to watch the Village fawn over her now. She’s a mean-spirited ex-CEO who nearly destroyed HP and hasn’t had a job since. If that is “leadership,” I might almost prefer President Trump.
Thank you, Caitlin and TPM. It’s such bullshit that Carly Fiorina is playing the misogyny card when she did the exact same thing to another woman. She had no problem cackling like a high school mean girl while denigrating another woman’s appearance (never made sense to me how a white woman with a grey gheri curl had the stones to clown Boxer on her hair) and yet now we’re supposed to somehow feel some sort of sisterhood with this bitch now that a man had something negative (but true) to say about her appearance? Nope, sorry, sistah. That’s not how it works.
Hey, Plucky! Looks like Josh remembered Fiorina beating up on a candidate’s looks too!
Yep. This was brought up by some of us when Trump first dished Fiorina about her face. And a good reminder about what a posturing fraud Fiorina is.
It’;s not a thing TPM. Fiorina did not make a public statement on Boxer’s hair. She was caught on an open mic…making an innocuous statement about the “style” of Boxer’s hair. She did not say Boxer’s looks were relevant to her duties or limited them,. It was an open mic.