The Dodge Report

60 Minutes was the venue last night for former H-P chairwoman Patricia Dunn to protest her indictment and for former H-P CEO Carly Fiorino to shill her new book in which she says she was unceremoniously dumped by H-P's male run board. Both women charged that H-P was intolerant of women at the top and that former board members Tom Perkins (a very, very rich guy) and physicist George Keyworth (also a male and alleged information leaker that intially sparked this long-running feud) both waged a vindictive campaign against them. To make Perkins seem even more sinister, they flashed pictures of him on his humongous 286 foot yacht "The Maltese Falcon." The viewer comes away with a picture of two women hung out to dry for challenging the entrenched male culture that has ruled at H-P for decades. Both women admit making mistakes, some probably illegal in the case of Dunn, but the interviews offer yet more intrigue in this durable dispute at H-P. One can only hope Perkins and Keyworth will tell their sides of the story, but they made not need to given how thoroughly they have prevailed in this mess.