When President Obama needed to boost signups for Obamacare, he allowed Buzzfeed to feature him in a video skit. Now Carly Fiorina needs to boost her poll numbers so she can be accepted into the first Republican presidential primary debate, and she's hoping Buzzfeed's viral video and GIF-splicing skills will do the trick.
The former Hewlett Packard CEO starred in the sketch "If Men Were Treated Like Women In The Office," a send-up of sexism that would appear to attract more clicks from Democratic primary voters than Republican.
"How do you walk in the those shoes?" Fiorina condescendingly asks a male underling wearing red sneakers. When a woman in a meeting echoes the same idea a man offers, Fiorina doesn't notice the man: "Yes, great idea, Joanna!"
Talking to a father at the water cooler she implies he won't work as hard as could: "So how do you manage the work-life balance?” and "Is work less of a priority now?" and "Does your wife help... with the kids?"
When assembling a group to work on a project she says to two men, "We shouldn't have too many men on the project. You know how that can be. I'm assuming you two can work together without being catty."
And when a man makes a joke at a meeting, she patronizes, "Look at you being funny. I didn't know men could be funny."
Fiorina is funny. But is she amusing the voters she needs? Some conservatives are balking at her satiric target and political strategy. Legal Insurrection blogger Amy Miller lamented she "threw her own womanhood under the bus in an effort to pander to a base that will never vote for her” and played "into the hands of liberals who work every day to manufacture divides in our society."
But she doesn't have to impress too many people to get into the first debate. As of July 17th, in the Real Clear Politics average of primary polls, she's at one percent, but she only needs to get over 2.0 in order to make the top 10 and qualify. We'll find out if a viral video can pick up an extra percentage point or two.
The former Hewlett Packard CEO starred in the sketch "If Men Were Treated Like Women In The Office," a send-up of sexism that would appear to attract more clicks from Democratic primary voters than Republican.
Carly Fiorina Skewers Workplace Sexism
"How do you walk in the those shoes?" Fiorina condescendingly asks a male underling wearing red sneakers. When a woman in a meeting echoes the same idea a man offers, Fiorina doesn't notice the man: "Yes, great idea, Joanna!"
Talking to a father at the water cooler she implies he won't work as hard as could: "So how do you manage the work-life balance?” and "Is work less of a priority now?" and "Does your wife help... with the kids?"
When assembling a group to work on a project she says to two men, "We shouldn't have too many men on the project. You know how that can be. I'm assuming you two can work together without being catty."
But Will Carly Fiorina's Comedy Make Conservatives Laugh?
And when a man makes a joke at a meeting, she patronizes, "Look at you being funny. I didn't know men could be funny."
Fiorina is funny. But is she amusing the voters she needs? Some conservatives are balking at her satiric target and political strategy. Legal Insurrection blogger Amy Miller lamented she "threw her own womanhood under the bus in an effort to pander to a base that will never vote for her” and played "into the hands of liberals who work every day to manufacture divides in our society."
But she doesn't have to impress too many people to get into the first debate. As of July 17th, in the Real Clear Politics average of primary polls, she's at one percent, but she only needs to get over 2.0 in order to make the top 10 and qualify. We'll find out if a viral video can pick up an extra percentage point or two.