Fiorina Rips ‘The View’: ‘Nothing More Threatening’ to Them than a Conservative Woman
ROBERTS: “Let's go back to the debate on Wednesday. In your opening statements, you joked in the Ronald Reagan library debate, that you didn't smile enough, and the ladies of ‘The View’ decided to take issue with that. Let’s listen to Michelle Collins said about your performance at the debate.”
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COLLINS: “She kicked off her thing, you know, people tell me I didn't smile enough during the last debate. She looked demented. I mean, she did not -- her mouth did not downturn one time. She was like – “
BEHAR: She’s on Halloween mask. I love that.
COLLINS: “Smiling Fiorina, can you imagine?”
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ROBERTS: “Demented, Halloween mask, is there a double standard here, Ms. Fiorina, for Republican women? I can't imagine they would say things like that about Hillary Clinton?”
FIORINA: “Oh, you think? Yes, I think there’s a double standard. It’s funny, you know, I was on ‘The View’ several months ago. They said none of that to my face. There is nothing more threatening to the liberal media in general and to Hillary Clinton in particular than a conservative woman. So, of course, there's a double standard. Conservative women from Sarah Palin to Michele Bachmann to Carly Fiorina are long used to this. It will not stop me. It will not scare me. Maybe the ladies of ‘The View’, if I come back on again, let's see if they have the guts to say that to my face.”
ROBERTS: “You know, they said something similar about Miss Colorado after the Miss America pageant on stage in a nurse's uniform. I had a chance to meet Kelley Johnson last weekend in Denver. She is a lovely woman, committed to her profession. Are these women out of touch?”
FIORINA: “Well, I think what these women represent is a set of liberal feminists who believe that if you do not agree with them on their liberal orthodoxy that you don't count, that somehow you're not a woman. You see, I know that women represent half the nation, so, of course, our views are going to be as diversion as men's. I also know that unless and until women's potential is fully unlocked in this country and women have been crushed under the Obama economy, that we will not be as good a nation as we can be, and frankly I’m tired of being insulted by liberal feminist who talked about women’s issues when the reality is every issue is a woman's issue, from the economy, to ISIS, to Russia, to health care, to education, to the national debt. Women care about all of it. So I am sorry I don't agree with the women of ‘The View.’ Nevertheless, I’m going to continue to stand up, stand strong, talk about what I believe in, and I am Hillary Clinton's worst nightmare as a result.”
