Carly Fiorina’s week is, thus far, not so hot: she’s polling between 1 and 3 percent, and both she and Rand Paul learned yesterday they’re being booted down to the kid’s table “undercard” debate. We’ll miss Carly whenever she departs, but happily, we’ll always have this very fun interview in Glamour to remember her by, in which she manages to say only a handful of things that are baldly not true.
Fiorina has had a bit of an issue with exaggeration and/or misrepresentation this campaign season: pretending like she’d seen a nonexistent abortionist de-braining a baby in a Planned Parenthood sting video, for one, and lightly rewriting the history of her time at Hewlett-Packard. On Tuesday, God love her, she wedged a couple more misstatements into an interview with conservative columnist S.E. Cupp, part of the magazine’s expanded online politics coverage:
SEC: Glamour reader Lizzy Montgomery, 26, a field biologist in Los Angeles, wonders: “How do you plan on providing health care services to women after you defund Planned Parenthood?”
CF: Well, let’s talk about Planned Parenthood, and just ask how much they actually do for women’s health care. They do some things. But mostly what they do is refer women to other people.
That’s an absolute baldfaced lie, as Glamour immediately pointed out in a gentle, upbeat, italicized Glamour Fact Check:
According to Planned Parenthood’s 2013 medical services data, it is not true that the organization mostly refers women out; STD testing and treatment and contraceptive services—none of which involve referrals—accounted for 76 percent of the organization’s services. Fiorina’s campaign manager, Sarah Isgur Flores, responded to these facts by saying that, “for mammograms, 100 percent of them are referred out,” which is accurate.
Fiorina didn’t say a word about mammograms in her response, and her campaign retroactively massaging that answer might strike a lot of people as… say… laughable, but okay! Fiorina is consistent, anyway, having incorrectly claimed in December that the “vast majority” of Americans want to defund Planned Parenthood and make abortion illegal after five months. (She also told Cupp that community health centers would make up the difference if PP closed, which, again, nope.)