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Carly for the Win
Here’s the thing about politicians who try to be funny: It’s generally better not to do it at all than to do it badly. The one thing that’s worse than a stiff is a guy awkwardly fumbling his way towards an underwhelming punchline. Now, there are occasional exceptions. Ted Cruz’s recent attempts at Simpsons impersonations for BuzzFeed were dad-after-four-beers bad, but they at least proved that Cruz, who’s burdened by the male equivalent of a syndrome that can’t be described under Ricochet’s Code of Conduct, is capable of lightening up. But Senator Cruz ought to be taking lessons from Carly Fiorina. Check out her effort at BuzzFeed:
Am I the only one who finds Carly harder to resist every day?
Published in Culture, Humor, Politics
The avatar is the punchline.
If my wife calls, tell her I’m there.
Carly has got that iron-fist-in-velvet-glove thing going on. She knows how to eviscerate her opponent while smiling.
But most importantly, she knows how to eviscerate her opponent. That clip with Katie Couric was perfect, because there was absolutely no hesitancy in Fiorina’s answers. She may not have given the answers Couric was fishing for (and boy was she fishing!) but she answered plainly and clearly and never went off-message.
We need more of that.
Chalk up another.
Yes, that’s wonderful.
My favorite Carly ‘bit’ was when she was talking to someone (it might actually have been Corkie Cootie again, I can’t remember, and she was recounting Mrs Clinton’s list of impressive achievements, one of which was having traveled over one million miles as Secretary of State.
Carly (with that smile): Travel isn’t an achievement. Flying one million miles is an activity. It’s not an achievement.”
Boom.
Women don’t have to deal with anything in the workplace other than the fact that men have now become sufficiently intimated by and hostile toward any personal interaction.
Sad. Not good for team morale. Definitely not good for business.
I work for myself now but had a blast dealing with alpha males in corporate America. I feel sorry for all the women today with no sense of humor.
Carly has one.
It would be easier to accept that it was the former if it didn’t come from Buzzfeed. While Buzzfeed isn’t as bad as, say, Gawker, it’s still proven to be a predictably left leaning site.
I like Ms. Fiorina, but when I say my objection to Ted Cruz is his lack of experience, I mean it. It applies to Fiorina as well as Rubio, Paul, and Carson.
She’d make a great VPOTUS however.
Even if these comments actually happen in the workplace? And taking the piss out of them resonates with women voters?
Its not funny in a Seinfeld way, but it is lighthearted in an effective way. She has to sway people who would be bored to tears reading Ricochet. Why can’t we understand that?
I live in the High Speed Rail state, so I already voted for her once. She is my first choice at this point. Not only is she is the only candidate I can stand to listen to, I actually enjoy listening to her. Romney drove me nuts, my TV is lucky to have survived. And everybody else will just drone on and on.
And Scott Walker, too. I can stand to listen to him.
Amen, amen. As others said –I like what she has had to say as a candidate. But perpetuating that women suffer “microagressions” every day stuff is the sort of identity politics game that is hurting our society. If one of my female colleagues came to me to complain about any one of those scenarios, I would advise her to put on her big girl pants and get back in the game.
By big girl pants you mean the ones that make her butt look big?
Retail, that’s exactly what I understand. This video makes an impressive woman look like a dud.
There are no singles and doubles in comedy. Only home runs or nothing. If you can’t hit it out of the park then don’t bother stepping up to the plate.
Correctomundo! Good one.
UPDATE:
And I would also like to say: “Yes, yes they do make your butt look big. Now get back out there and work that booty and stop thinking about yourself all the time.”
You know, there are some workplaces out there dominated by mean girls and the beta-lambda boys that mimic them…
Right. I like her very much and hope she gives them hell. I do have family that worked for Hewlett-Packard at the time she was there, though. I can tell you they are not fans.
Oh there are. And they are such sad places.
Good thing I never said otherwise ….
The whole thing seems designed to appeal to women who work or have worked, in other words, most of them.
She delivered her lines with the air of someone who had seen what she was sending up first hand. It would be a mistake to fall back on this schtick very often, though. A shark has to keep swimming.