An adviser to Rep. Alexandria Ocasio-Cortez (D-N.Y.) on Friday night fact-checked Fox News’ Tucker Carlson to his face for peddling falsehoods about the Green New Deal being proposed by left-leaning Democrats. Robert Hockett, a Cornell University law professor, explained how a claim repeated in the conservative media that the deal ― which aims to render fossil fuels obsolete by 2030 ― wanted to completely replace air travel with rail travel was incorrect. Carlson noted that the deal proposes “building out high-speed rail at a scale where air travel would stop becoming necessary.” Hockett replied it was “apparently being misunderstood, right? That’s sort of 1980s-style environmentalism.”Hockett explained how the aim was really to obtain carbon neutrality. “Then I’m glad, it’s nice to have a smart person on the show to explain this,” Carlson replied.

Source: Huffington Post February 09, 2019 11:37 UTC