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To Barleymash...
Let's look at this from a legal standpoint. If she committed a felony, wouldn't she be prosecuted as an adult? She's old enough to vote and affect public policy. She's certainly old enough to be publicly ridiculed for her assinine statements.
She chose to be on national TV. She's proud of who she is and she's eager to get her message out. And I don't believe she would welcome your condescending and paternalistic attitude towards her.
Look at it this way: Imagine she were a vegetarian and couldn't stop talking about it. Would your response be, "Oh, she's young and doesn't know what she's saying. Someday she'll grow out of this silly vegetarian phase. In the meantime, airing her ignorance is akin to child abuse."