A Flagrant Liar For President?
By Jim Hightower
September 29,
2015 "Information
Clearing House"
- We've got a new darling in the
GOP presidential race: Carly Fiorina!
Being the darling du jour, however,
can be dicey – just ask Rick Perry and Scott Walker, two
former darlings who're now out of the race, having
turned into ugly ducklings by saying stupid things. But
Fiorina is smart, sharp witted, and successful. We know
this because she and her PR agents constantly tell us
so. Be careful about believing anything she says,
though, for Darling Fiorina is not only a relentless
self-promoter, but also a remorseless liar.
Take her widely-hailed performance in
the second debate among Republican wannabes, where she
touched many viewers with her impassioned and vivid
attack on Planned Parenthood. With barely-contained
outrage, Fiorina described a video that, she said, shows
the woman's health organization in a depraved act of
peddling body parts of an aborted fetus. "Watch a
fully-formed fetus on the table, its heart beating, its
legs kicking," said a stone-faced Fiorina, looking
straight into the camera, "while someone says, 'we have
to keep it alive to harvest its brain'."
Oh, the horror, the monstrosity of
Planned Parenthood! And how moving it was to see and
feel the fury of this lady candidate for president!
Only… none of it is true. While she
urged the audience to go watch it, there is no such
video – no fetus with kicking legs and beating heart,
and no demonic Planned Parenthood official luridly
preparing to harvest a brain.
So, did Fiorina make up this lie
herself, or did her PR team concoct it as a bit of
show-biz drama to burnish her right-wing credentials and
advance her political ambition? Or, maybe she's just
spreading a malicious lie she was told by some haters of
Planned Parenthood. Either way, there's nothing darling
about it… much less presidential.
James Allen "Jim" Hightower is an
American syndicated columnist, progressive political
activist, and author who served from 1983 to 1991 as the
elected commissioner of the Texas Department of
Agriculture.
http://www.jimhightower.com
© 2015 Jim Hightower