user: Q: Furor over Indiana law what’s wrong with politics: Carly Fiorina

Indiana's "religious freedom" law has been misunderstood and is an example of everything that is wrong in politics, former Hewlett-Packard Chairman and CEO Carly Fiorina told CNBC on Monday.

The legislation, signed last week, has sparked an outcry from critics who say it could give businesses the right to refuse service to gay people.

"I think everybody needs to sort of step back and cool off here and look at the facts, on both sides," said Fiorina, who is considering a run for the Republican presidential nomination.

She told "Closing Bell" the bill, which is based on a national law President Bill Clinton signed, is not about protecting discrimination, but safeguarding religious liberty.

"Basically what this law says is that someone can have a remedy against the federal government for imposing on their religious beliefs."

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Big technology names have jumped into the controversy. Apple CEO Tim Cook has called the law dangerous and bad for business and Salesforce.com's chief executive announced his company would cancel any events that required employees to travel to the state.

Fiorina believes it is incumbent on every CEO to take advantage of all the talent out there, including in Indiana.

"It's not in any company or particularly a technology company's interest to discriminate in any way and that's not what this law does. This law doesn't condone discrimination," she said.

"I guess what I wish is that everyone could cool off and look at the facts before they jump onto Twitter and condemn something that clearly there's a huge amount of misunderstanding about."

A: Indiana’s "religious freedom" law has been misunderstood, says Carly Fiorina, who is mulling a bid for the GOP presidential nomination.


Q: '24-HOUR WOMAN' WORKS AS SATIRE PEREZ PLAYS MOM-TO-BE IN FUN LOOK AT REAL LIFE VS. TV

Friday, January 29th 1999, 2:05AM

THE 24-HOUR WOMAN. Rosie Perez, Patti LuPone, Marianne Jean-Baptiste. Directed by Nancy Savoca. At the Union Square 14th St. Running time: 93 mins. Rated R: Language. 2 1/2 Stars

'The Truman Show" and "Ed TV" welcome another entrant in the Media as Life genre with "The 24-Hour Woman," in which Rosie Perez boosts the ratings of the TV talk show she produces by becoming its daily subject.

Producer Grace Santos (a typically energetic Perez) is a workaholic producer whose breathless lifestyle suits her just fine. Her husband, aspiring actor Eddie Diaz (Diego Serrano), is one of the hosts of the daytime show she works for, so the line between home and office is already blurry when the movie begins with Grace learning she is pregnant.

Eddie gets the news on the air from his co-host (Karen Duffy). The next logical step is to make Grace's pregnancy an ongoing segment of the show, which makes total sense in a medium that has lost all sense of privacy and boundaries and which has become the barometer of all things for so much of its audience.

In Nancy Savoca's female-friendly satire, which premiered at Sundance last week, Grace is subject, object, producer, consumer. But she has no idea how to be a mother, or even a well-rounded person.

Her boss, Joan (Patti LuPone), sees the pregnancy purely as a ratings gambit, and ups the stakes as Grace's due date approaches (fortunately, it falls during sweeps).

As a comment on women trying and failing to have it all, "The 24-Hour Woman" doesn't have much new to say. But it has a refreshing take on the female experience, thanks to director Savoca, who has shown the same empathy for her female characters in such films as "True Love" and "Household Saints."

Grace isn't just a boss to her assistant (Marianne Jean-Baptiste) who, with her own kids and a stay-at-home husband, knows the score. And Grace both loves and endures the older women in her life who have plenty of unsolicited advice about babies.

The movie has a lot of fun with the kind of time-fillers that pass for women's TV programing. The best is a teaser for a segment on the dangers of suffocation from too-tight pantyhose. It is in moments like this that the many 24-hour women in the audience will smile knowingly.

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