This is Meg Whitman, former eBay CEO and Republican candidate for governor of California:
While this is a perfectly rational cover for a powerful CEO on the cover of Fortune, in these times where the rest of us are feeling pissed on by the elite business class – especially in California – I wonder if Ms. Whitman is exercising the same kind of brilliant judgement that she showed at eBay? That is, when they wasted $3 billion Skype?
Ask her about the elephants. Until last year Ebay was allowing elephant ivory to be autioned on their site.
If you know anything about ivory, you know that not only are elephants poached when it is traded but that many people die also.
Of course those who die because of Ms. Whitman’s former company are neither rich nor powerful so I guess they don’t matter to Republicans .
Not anywhere near as bad as it could have been. She’s in jeans. If she’d been in an evening gown it’d have been a disaster. The only “rich” thing is the horse. I know friends who are in debt up to their ears who own horses, so I’m willing to give it a pass.
The democrats and state employee unions have controlled the legislature in California for 15 years and the place is a steaming pile of excrement slowly circling the drain. If I was Ms. Whitman, I’d stay away from that mess.
How is that anymore elitist than this? To be honest, I’m a little surprised noone’s gone the “fake rancher” route folks used to take about a certain resident of Crawford.
William sez: The democrats and state employee unions have controlled the legislature in California for 15 years and the place is a steaming pile of excrement slowly circling the drain.
Although I do not agree with your premise, since the GOP has exercised its veto power in California to prevent a Democratic budget, to be fair you could have said the same thing about Mr. Obama’s desire to take the presidency away from the three year old with a gun after the kid shot holes in everything that used to work.
OT: Did something happen to “preview?”
After the photo-shoot she went wind-surfing.
She looks like she’s shooting a Stetson cologne ad
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She looks like she’s shooting a Stetson cologne ad. jr
She looks like she’s about to host a dinner party and serve everyone in attendance wagyu steak.
In other words, apparently, she’s like us.
Wow, elephant ivory. Pretty disgusting.
I wonder if Ms. Whitman is exercising the same kind of brilliant judgement that she showed at eBay?
You mean the kind of judgment that she had when she successfully steered the company through the dot.com boom (and subsequent bust) and oversaw an 88-times increase in revenues and a 1300 percent return in stock since their IPO? She also had the foresight to step down as CEO when she knew the changing landscape would be better suited for new leadership. Is that the judgment you’re questioning?
Oh and if you feel “pissed on” by the “elite business class”, that’s of your own choosing. Don’t project your inequities on to everybody else.
Meg Whitman save California?? Nobody can save California!
California has been a petri-dish for all that is Liberal and the mess is right there in front of you.
How is that anymore elitist than this?
Elitist? What? Wearing a shirt? Being outdoors? Farris, it’s like you just picked a random photo and tacked on, “See! This is JUST as BAD!!1!1!!”
Look, I know the game has been going against your side lately. But if you’re not even willing to try, maybe you should sit out for a bit.
California has been a petri-dish for all that is Liberal and the mess is right there in front of you.
Oh, my! The joint has been run by Republican governors for 22 of the last 26 years, a determined rump of Republican legislators holds state government hostage, and it’s the home of the seminal tax revolt legislation, Proposition 13.
Liberal petri dish? What were you thinking of?
How is that anymore elitist than this?
Not at all.
C’mon, you guys. It’s the cover of Fortune. They’re appealing to their demo.
Liberal petri dish? What were you thinking of?
San Francisco. Teh Ghay menace.
Quaker, after reading your post, my advise to you is to get out of the basement and take a look at the real world.
joaquin says: “Quaker, after reading your post, my advise to you is to get out of the basement and take a look at the real world.”
I noticed you didn’t say one damn think to contradict his point.
Why is that?
Quaker, after reading your post, my advise to you is to get out of the basement and take a look at the real world.
No answer? Very well. Dismissed.
California has been a petri-dish for all that is Liberal and the mess is right there in front of you.
Nixon.
Reagan.
The Southern Strategy Meets the Know-Nothing Religious Right Experiment. Nope, no mess there.
Without checking, I’m going to go ahead and guess that Elitist Fuckhead David Brooks* lurves Meg Whitman.
*well, he is
“California has been a petri-dish for all that is Liberal and the mess is right there in front of you.”
California has a Republican gov named Schwarzenegger. Has for a while now.
Quaker beat me to it.
Southern Strategy Meets the Know-Nothing Religious Right Experiment. Nope, no mess there. Mister ed
Southern Strategy hasn’t said anything about the Religious Right on this thread, Mister ed. He just asked a stupid question of joaquin is all.
What are you talking about???
Oh and if you feel “pissed on” by the “elite business class”, that’s of your own choosing. Don’t project your inequities on to everybody else.
Yes, the America people are so in love with Wall Street right now. How more out of touch can you be? Still think we’re afraid of Sarah Palin?
Dennis: He just asked a stupid question of joaquin is all.
Asking ANY question of joaquin is stupid, because there is no chance it’s actually going to get any kind of even slightly considered answer.
Yes, the America people are so in love with Wall Street right now. How more out of touch can you be?
I’m out of touch because I don’t feel “pissed on”? Yeah, that makes sense.
Southern Strategy hasn’t said anything about the Religious Right on this thread, Mister ed. He just asked a stupid question of joaquin is all.
He was talkign about the ACTUAL Southern Strategy, not your cute little pet name.
Awareness. It’s what’s for dinner.
Dennis the Bigot: “Southern Strategy hasn’t said anything about the Religious Right on this thread, Mister ed.”
God, I hope that was a joke.
“He just asked a stupid question of joaquin is all.”
Really? Asking why it ignored a persons point is a stupid question?
I guess it is stupid to expect Joaquin would answer that question.
Arnold is as much a Republican as Arlen Specter.
Please you’re making me laugh!!
If you kids want to argue that California hasn’t been a Liberal bastion for the last 20 years, GO AHEAD HAVE AT IT, but you’re on your own.
I refuse to engage in idiocy!
Oliver, in California a horse doesn’t mean what a horse means in, say, Virginia.
joaquin: I refuse to engage in idiocy!
Can I get a “Heh. Indeed.”?
So anyway, lay off ol’ Megs. So she had her picture taken with a horse. At least she’s not afraid of the beasts like a certain “rancher” we know.
Joking writes “Arnold is as much a Republican as Arlen Specter.
Please you’re making me laugh!!”
Wut?
CA is definitely a liberal state (and one that brings in more revenue than any “red” one, by far). A Republican governor said he was going to fix it and make it all convservative and stuff.
He failed. Hard. Just like you and your party.
How is that anymore elitist than this? To be honest, I’m a little surprised noone’s gone the “fake rancher” route folks used to take about a certain resident of Crawford.
Because he doesn’t have a fucking horse? “Fake” would be (poorly) arguable, but elitist is definitely not the word you’re looking for.
Liberal petri dish? What were you thinking of?
*psst*He’s talking about the “gays”.
Oliver, in California a horse doesn’t mean what a horse means in, say, Virginia.
And it means something else entirely in West Virginia. HAY-OH!
Sorry, but what? Horses are expensive wherever you go.
And it means something else entirely in West Virginia. HAY-OH!
Zython, you so bad! I’m telling on you to John Cole.
Can I get a “Heh. Indeed.”?
Word.
Oh dear. I thought it would be pretty clear but there’s one in every crowd.
Oliver lives in Maryland (in suburban DC). In this area – Md and Virginia – a horse means the horsey set. Middleburg. Big white houses on long green lawns, gracious living, fox hunts, show jumping. White britches and red riding coats.
In California, horses mean cowboy hats and jeans. Riding the range. The big sky.
The class image is entirely different.