Tim Cook Apple CEO hypocrite, Carly Fiorina Cook and other CEOs hypocritical for condemning Indiana new religious freedom law, Apple does business in China and Saudi Arabia where gays and women treated worse

From the Wall Street Journal April 3, 2015.

“Carly Fiorina: Tim Cook Opposition to Indiana Religious Freedom Law Hypocritical”

“Once a Fortune 50 chief executive herself, Carly Fiorina is disgusted with how CEOs rushed to condemn Indiana’s new religious freedom law.

Mrs. Fiorina, who is weighing a bid for the 2016 Republican presidential nomination, called the week’s controversy over the Indiana statute the result of corporations bowing to “narrow special interests” rather than broad public anger.

CEOs like Apple Inc.’s Tim Cook, who publicly objected to the Indiana law, have engaged in “a level of hypocrisy here that really is unfortunate,” said Mrs. Fiorina, who was CEO of Hewlett-Packard from 1999 to 2005.

“When Tim Cook is upset about all the places that he does business because of the way they treat gays and women, he needs to withdraw from 90% of the markets that he’s in, including China and Saudi Arabia,” she said Thursday afternoon during an interview with Wall Street Journal reporters and editors. “But I don’t hear him being upset about that.”

Mrs. Fiorina said there was “nothing objectionable” about the law Indiana Gov. Mike Pence signed last week. The legislation drew an extraordinary backlash from local and national business groups. Lawmakers on Thursday amended the law, adding protections for gays and lesbians.

“I think this is a ginned-up controversy by people who play identity politics that has divided the nation in a way that is really unhelpful,” she said.”

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