@Pied_Pfeffer: why does a statement that moronic need to be debunked? The whole reason she said it was that it’s so vague and unjustifiable that it almost can’t be falsified – not without pages and pages of “well, if she’s referring to…,” and “if she means….” There are perfectly legitimate criticisms to level at the environmentalist movement, or at least segments of it – in fact, I think they’re as guilty as anyone in keeping us auto-dependent.
The real problem here is mass media bends over and lets itself be used as a soap box for her to spread her poorly thought out ideas and opinions – without offering any critical review or even basic fact-checking and, in fact, keeping people who hold better thought out opinions out of the mix. It’s the same thing that makes watching Hannity, O’Reilly, or any other TV pundit gallingly futile – any intellectually engaged person knows they’re talking out of their asses. Even if they aren’t lying, and much of the time they are, it’s all jingoistic posturing. The so-called left even appropriated the tactics now, with talking heads like Olbermann.
Actually, this goes a long way to explaining why people who watch a lot of TV are so badly informed.