Carly Fiorina admits she was wrong on 92% stat

[brooklynite]

Source: Fortune

For Carly Fiorina, it seems, the facts don’t matter as much as the message.

During the third Republican primary debate last week, Carly Fiorina said that “92 percent of the jobs lost during Barack Obama’s first term belonged to women.” That figure was already debunked three years ago, when Republican presidential candidate Mitt Romney used it as a talking point.

In her Sunday appearance on “This Week with George Stephanopoulos,” Fiorina admitted that the statistic was incorrect, according to ABC News.

“I misspoke on that particular fact,” Fiorina said, backtracking on the claim. “The fact-checkers are correct,” she said. “The 92 percent—it turns out—was the first three and a half years of Barack Obama’s term and in the final six months of his term things improved.”

Read more: http://fortune.com/2015/11/02/carly-fiorina-wrong-92-percent/

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To quote a former Presidential candidate: "oops!"

[Initech]

1. Carly doesn't get to say a fucking word about jobs.

Do people forget that she laid off an entire city's worth of people while she was CEO at Hewlett Packard?

[Scalded Nun]

2. That is out of line with Republican strategy

When confronted with facts you do not like, you attack the facts. You NEVER relent. Breaking with that approach has already cost one person House Speakership.

[Fred Sanders]

3. Took a week of being bashed in the head with a rhetorical fact-cane to get an admission of a

"misspoken" fact?

Now how about your basket of PP lies, Carly? If that is your real name!

[DBoon]

4. She's doomed

No Republican will vote for her now. Admitting you are wrong is an inexcusable sign of weakness. Better to be factually incorrect rather than weak. Who cares about the facts anyway?

[Skittles]

5. she is wrong 92% of the time

[wordpix]

6. Lieorina's at her best when lying and firing people

this time she'll just spend her own money to aggrandize herself and will get nothing out of it but that