I don't think she meant anything by what she said. I have been convinced for a very long time that these 'talking heads' are utterly clueless about language as you and I comprehend language. They act out and regurgitate anything that is shoved under their noses and have no idea what they are talking about. The proof of this assertion on my part is that they often, (the frequency of this says as much as anything) mispronounce words or otherwise misspeak in a way that vividly demonstrates that they are all but functional illiterates. You can tell from listening and watching them stumble over words and negotiate around concepts that they are seeing and hearing these things for the first time in their lives. They have no frame of reference for the facts and NO familiarity with even the most basic information. It is obvious that they are not readers and never were. I am certain that they are hired for their appearance and have nothing like academic rigor to back up one single thing that comes out of their mouths. For them, if they have heard of a thing, they understand it. For the rest of the world, if we have heard of a thing-we research the thing till we understand it.
You can tell from listening and watching them stumble over words and negotiate around concepts that they are seeing and hearing these things for the first time in their lives.
They have a lot of trouble with numbers too.
It's all show business. They're just a bunch of actors and actresses playing a role.
It is frightening how many people are taught in college that language is meaningless and can be "deconstructed" into the latest politically correct slogans. Some students like to be told that topics such as language, history and science are useless. It is so easy to accept simple slogans that can give one certitude about everything. One can then feel superior to the un-anointed simpletons who grapple with difficult concepts and who cannot condense all of their thoughts into simple sound bites.
The idiots on the local morning NBC station here in Santa Clara county are the worst readers I have ever seen on tv. The script writers need to dumb down the text per talking head, as all are not equally literate.
The MSM has failed the public.