The Best Media Show of All? A Catfight

Carly Fiorina shows her claws in an "off camera" moment (that is surprisingly on camera) as she discusses Barbara Boxer's hair. Yes, her hair.



For reference, here is a recent photo of Senator Boxer's hair.



Carly then apologized. Sort of.

"I regret this whole situation. I gave people the opportunity to talk about something petty and superficial," she said, during an appearance on "Fox News Sunday." "This is a very serious election year about serious issues."

I don't know if that qualifies as an apology. She then seem to make matters worse, or even more junior-high-school girlish with this:

But during an interview Wednesday night on the Fox News Channel with Greta Van Susteren, Fiorina claimed she was actually quoting a friend. Fiorina added that her own hair has been "talked about by a million people."

So, she is getting back at the million people who talked about her hair by talking about her opponent's hair? She's saying she didn't mean it by saying it came from a friend?

Jamie Stiehm in US News and World Report looks back at Fiorina's history of contempt for women.
And all of this right before Ross Douthat's ridiculous New York Times column called "The New Feminism."

And right after Sarah Palin gave a speech embracing this new "feminism" as she talked about conservative women candidates being "mama grizzlies". Uh, Sarah? Feminists don't typically like being compared to animals.

New feminism? Or same old patriarchy that reduces female candidates to snarking about hair styles?

Another critique of Fiorina and her feminism at The Daily Beast.