Think twice before buying Girl Scout cookies next year. Fox and Friends discussed how the Girl Scouts of America is now promoting Media Matters, in addition to its affiliation with Planned Parenthood (more).
Check out the brochure they are distributing:
Get ‘em while they’re young, I guess? The Girl Scouts believe that an organization which took money from SEIU right about the time it began attacking black conservatives in the wake of the Gladney beating, a website which refuses to correct its errors and has been called a “core institution” of the Democrat party due to its hostile stance against Israel-supporters, this site “gets the word out about media misinformation?” A website which runs interference to blatantly protect Democrats? A website which makes false claims (and then plays “ignore” when proof of such claims is requested) against journalists? A website that attacked critics of a government program that used public funds to arm Mexican drug cartels so they could shoot Mexicans and Americans? The same Media Matters which worked with the DOJ to cover up the voter intimidation scandal?
By promoting Media Matters for America as a credible website, the Girl Scouts are endorsing the site’s unethical practices and stances.
The ongoing moral decline of the Girl Scouts has caused an exodus within its ranks and a decline in its formerly popular cookie sales. The absence of such a group has sparked the creation of others to take its place, most notable among them: the American Heritage Girls and the Frontier Girls.
Next year, when the green sashes come by your home and ask you to buy cookies to help support their organization, know why your answer will be “no, thanks.”
*UPDATE: Girl Scouts says it will stop linking to Media Matters:
In a statement to The Daily Caller, Girl Scouts of the USA confirmed on Wednesday that its literature will no longer refer scouts to Media Matters For America as a source of information to balance bias in news reporting.
“Girl Scouts constantly reviews our materials based on feedback and suggestions we receive from our members and we update our materials on a regular basis,” said the statement. “As a result of this process, upcoming reprints of journeys materials will not include links to Media Matters.”
That’s great, except the mindset that caused the organization to affiliate itself with such a left-leaning group with which to begin still, unfortunately, remains.
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When I found out that Planned Baby Killer Inc. was digging their evil hooks into the Girl Scouts – that was my last box of Thin Mints.
The under-reported story of the year or decade may be how the subversive left attempts to indoctrinate the young and impressionable through "stealth activism".
Obviously, someone at Girl Scouts with power wanted to promote George Soros – in order to indoctrinate these girls.
At my university, the Social Justice Center and left-wing "stealth activitsts" have forced the student body to all pay for a subscription to the New York Times. Each and every day, hundreds upon hundreds of NYTs are placed in all the buildings on campus.
I'm sure there are hundreds of examples of leftists who manage to use the "system" to push communist ideals in this way.
so, the Girl Scouts will go where the Boy Scouts will not…
The question that begs an answer is this: Is there any pressure on them to allow gay (lesbian) scout leaders? You, know, open, proud gays mentoring young girls? Like the INTENSE pressure brought on Boy Scouts?
We haven't heard of any. Curious.
Perhaps the 'cooperation' with the Progressive plan gives them a pass on this. They're too useful a fund raising tool to risk marginalization. Certainly seems to fit, don't you think?…
…..The Girl Scouts and their cookies have been kidnapped by Leftist crumbs…….
Wow. And this is the same organization that promotes healthy eating and living uses the most unhealthy products on the market to fund itself. The schizophrenia of the left is not necessarily surprising.
I wonder why M. Obama hasn't gone after the GS and order them to sell organic, broccoli based cookies.
The education system has become a delivery system for left wing, communist, and anti-American progoganda to our youth. Until right-thinking Americans demand this stops the corruption of our young people will continue unabated until our very country is destroyed.
Eh, we'd have to go back to the feminist movement that got women out of their homes and out of their involvement in their children's education. Too many women ceded their most important job to the State while they went out to find their "true calling and career. " It's a bit too easy to blame it all on the Left.
Meanwhile, two generations of entitlement moms stayed home with their subsidized kids and taught them everything they knew. And now those children are voters. Heck, England is at least three generations down that road. No wonder they're broke.
The hand that rocks the cradle still rules the world. It's ruling ours, it seems.
My God the liberals have no shame!!!!
They havinfecteded the Girls Scouts.
No more support from me for the girls scouts. ZERO!!!!!!!!!!!!!!!!!!!!!!!!!!!!!!!
They can get rid of Trans Fats (or claim to) , but Soros kind of sticks to your gut. They will get called out when I see them. These little ladies will get an education and so will the mom, if she is in earshot. What a teachable moment this presents.
WOW! This just re-enforces the need to vet anything that we willingly bring into our lives and those of our children. I would have thought that that lesson was learned in 2008…..
Saddly, you ARE right.
Thank God Keebler now makes Samoas.
I haven't bought Girl Scout cookies the past 3-4 years. Nabisco's Keebler cookies are exactly the same, at least the mint ones and this past year they came out with the coconut-caramel ones, both cheaper at full price than what the Girls Scouts sell them for. If you get them on sale then your set.
They don't even get to the porch any more.
Did anyone notice the major spelling errors throughout the brochure? It looks like a 3rd grader typed and printed it. Good to see the Girl Scouts are on top of things and making sure that these young girls don't learn improper spelling along with their indoctrination.
You're a sick sad young women who has managed libel and estrange the Girl Scouts. You've hit rock bottom
My god you people are pathetic – leave innocent children out of your twisted politics – you all disgust me
Stay in left field…..where you belong.
Judging by your comment, you have no clue about civil discourse. Leave.
http://dailycaller.com/2011/12/28/girls-scouts-to...
Just an update.
I can add to your point a story I have posted in these threads several times.
A couple of years ago there was a letter to the editor of the local paper by a student in the EcoQuest program, a program which encompasses grades 6 to 8 or so.
This student said that the drive thru lanes at Tim Horton's coffee shops must be banned for the sake of the planet, that 'we' need to adopt more progressive environmental policies like those in Europe.
This is precisely the kind of student to turns into the high school students who protested outside a local MP's office on the eve of the Copenhagen meetings demanding that the Harper gov't Do Something about climate change.
These are precisely the kinds of kids who turn into the university students who protested Ann Coulter's speech at an Ontario university.
A short while later, the next batch of EcoQuest students appeared on a local radio program with much to say on the issue of Canada's immigration policies as they relate to third world doctors not being immediately allowed to practice medicine here (they knew, somehow, that doctors had to drive cab instead of practice medicine) and also were full of their thoughts on media bias. When an adult phoned in and asked them about ClimateGate, they were utterly speechless; 'uh, we haven't gotten to that part of the course yet.' In other words, the teachers hadn't told them what to think.
Satisfied, or will you continue to punish little girls?
"That’s great, except the mindset that caused the organization to affiliate itself with such a left-leaning group with which to begin still, unfortunately, remains."
So your reply is, "Yes, we will continue to punish little girls for our petty personal politics"
That would be your reply. Not surprisingly, I see it a bit differently. I believe the "petty personal politics" lays squarely in the laps of the adults who tried to pass off Media Matters as a credible source of non biased information to impressionable young girls.
Call me a pig, but I suspect that the Girl Scouts have already been impressing that idea on girls for quite a while now.
On the other hand, does anybody know the rules & procedures for the Girl Scouts if an openly heterosexual male wished to become a Girl Scout leader?
Would there be any outrage…or even a little bit of controversy…if the openly straight man was in any way scrutinized?
Seriously…I'd like to know.
Fighting evil influences on little girls is not punishing them, it is helping them, idiot.
The Lesbians (as opposed to lesbians) made that big push back in the 90"s, as I recall. It caused a grand kerfluffle and resulted in a large drop in membership because they were not kept out as in the Boy Scouts. After attending a couple of ceremonies with my boys in their troops, I immediately understood why the Left fears them so. They teach individual responsibility and a higher power, patriotism and self-reliance. Poor little Girl Scouts. Their protector parents didn't think it felt nice to say no to the nice Lesbians who only want to help.
Too bad their Thin Mints suck anyway, and their cookies can be bought in many variations throughout supermarkets.
As far as I'm concerned, I wrote off the Girl Scouts years ago when they never stood shoulder-to-shoulder with the Boy Scouts after the SCOTUS ruled in their favor regarding B.S. of A. vs. Dale in 2000.
The silence of the Girl Scouts, in the face of such pro-gay/leftist-progressive/PC backlash against the Boy Scouts, was deafening…and telling.
(Admittedly I have a biased view regarding that ruling; after an Asst. Scout Leader kept "hitting on" a fellow scout & friend of mine when I was with Troop 506…to the point where it escalated to forced sexual contact…I can no longer look at this subject objectively.**)
Anyhoo, I will never again waste a dime of my money to buy another Girl Scout cookie.
It's a sacrifice I'm willing to make for a more worthwhile cause.
**P.S. – Spare me the "gays & pedophiles aren't the same" crap…my friend was almost 14 at the time (but looked older); gay advocates wish to have the age of consent lowered to the age of 12-13.
Ergo, the Asst. Scout Leader wasn't motivated by pedophilia.
Go tell Media Matters that exact statement, you incoherent boob.
dadinleftfield said: "My god you people are pathetic – leave innocent children out of your twisted politics – you all disgust me"
Funny, we were saying the exact same thing to you & your co-conspirators on the left!
Leave your PC-addled, left-wing, pseudo-Progressive crap out of the Girl Scouts.
I'm not punishing little girls. If their dopey leaders want to endorse Media Matters (although they have since stopped) that is their prerogative. I didn't buy their crappy cookies anyway as I was always indifferent to fundraising, but this lovely little media misinformation brochure makes me really glad I didn't buy them.
So now it's not out in the open and back behind closed doors again?
Females are the ones that give birth, creating a future generation of "the masses"…. they will be targeted wherever they group together to "socially engineer" them and the younger the social engineering begins the better, after all, it's all part of social justice. This is only the beginning, just wait till "social justice healthcare" gets fully implemented, then the full push for social justice, aka self-imposed holocaust of the masses, can begin.
Girl Scouts looks to take advantage of good old fashioned entrepreneurial capitalism while supporting a socialist think tank. Nice jobs, Scouts. A box of macaroons – not!
That's just sad, but then how often have we been taking in by, "It's for the children".
The last time I got Girl Scout cookies, they sure didn't taste as good as I remember them.
"re-hypothecation creates significant counterparty risk and its off-balance sheet treatment contains many hidden nasties."
As the Hungarian Holocaust Hawker rapes the purity of the girl scouts his money managers are raping world markets. I was going to wait for the New Year to present the ugliness of 2012. But time doesn't wait.
I don't want to frazzle Larry but the devil lurks under the radar. How did the MMFA get into the Girl Scout book? WELL!? How does OFF BALANCE SHEET accounting get into the norm? (Heads exploding?)
Of course I'm just an idiot for connecting those dots. And such dialogue is unworthy for the irrespective.
Mock it at your peril. And get ready to go long TBT. But if we can't trust Interactive Brokers or a MF Global WTF is left in the USA?
That answer is far too dangerous for the ears of the girl scouts.
As far as I know, lesbians are welcome as Girl Scout leaders. I used to be a leader but I and my daughter didn't enjoy it. My memories did not match up to the present day experience. We quit. C'est la vie.
You should be disgusted. With your own hypocrisy. The point of the article was that the Girl Scouts of America were foisting political indoctrination upon immature girls and claiming to be unbiased while doing so. I suppose such simple ideas are beyond your comprehension.
If you are a Dad, I feel sorry for your children. You are a poor example of adulthood for them to emulate.
I see it as a long-overdue push-back to the massively successful PR campaign started by homosexual advocates since the late 1980's.
Read "After The Ball" by Marshall Kirk & Hunter Madsen.
I read it with the hope of better understanding homosexuality & homosexuals. Instead I learned just how insidious and manipulative the gay right movement (and their supporters in the media) have essentially promoted homosexuality itself and swayed society into believing that being pro-gay is more moral than following the teachings of the Bible or the Torah.
They claimed that homosexuals are born that way…they claim that homosexuality isn't a choice…they claim that homosexuality is as harmless and as incongruous as being left-handed…and they did it without a single piece of medical or scientific fact to bolster their claims.
Not one.
If I'm mistaken about that last statement, I welcome anybody to prove me wrong…and I mean PROVE me wrong; don't just call me an intolerant bigot and merely claim that I'm wrong.
So let me get this straight: The Girl Scouts promote a Soros-funded, far-left propaganda organization, whose purpose is to spread disinformation, and WE'RE the ones who involve "innocent children?"
You may be disgusted with us, but you're an idiot.
I wondered why Thin Mints gave me indigestion. Now I know.
Several years ago, the PTO at my daughter's school had to decide whether it would continue to support the school's charter of the local Boy Scout chapter. This was a bi-annual thing, which was a no-brainer–except that an uber-lib parent showed up to protest it on the grounds that the Boy Scouts don't allow gays. My response was something along the lines of, "Is it right to deprive our students of the Boy Scouts chapter because you disagree with the Boy Scouts' rules?" Needless to say, the PTO voted unanimously to retain the Boy Scout chapter.
The Girl Scouts is seeing the results of its uber-lib posturing with the development of competing girls' groups. More power to them!
Dana, great job. The most disgusting thing about the Girl Scouts national leadership, however, is that they are still partnered with PP. Media Matters is bad, the lesbians are probably molesting, also very bad. PP is truely evil, they promote and provide abortion a.k.a. killing children. No one is picking on the scouts, it is the national leadership that people find disturbing. I am not a single issue voter; I do, on the other hand, recognize that values are hierarchical. If life is not at the top of the list, the rest will fade as well. lostinleftfielddad is missing the point. Should we have left the leaders of the Hitler Youth alone and not have bothered them with counter arguements? I think that is largely what happened and the results were not good. There are other organizations for young girls to join.
http://www.illinoisrighttolife.org/GirlsScouts_Pl...
Girl Scouts USA (and their international affiliates) are the ones in the wrong, dear dadinleftfield. I've listed some further information in a separate comment.
Here are a few of many sites trying to fight back against the 21st century GSUSA nightmare: http://www.honestgirlscouts.com http://speaknowgirlscouts.com/ (a former Girl Scout) http://www.girlscoutswhynot.com/
And in case you are wondering if I have any personal experience with the 21st century GSUSA… our Juniors troop leader was told via letter from the regional director that "saying grace" was not permitted in troop meetings. That's in direct contradiction to the ages-old Girl Scout Promise:
On my honor, I will try:
To serve God and my country,
To help people at all times,
And to live by the Girl Scout Law.
I was a Girl Scout in my youth. I love Girl Scout cookies. The "mmfa" link is stupidity personified, but there are MANY more issues with GSUSA that are much more serious.
Thank you for proving that leftism is a mental illness. You're like the kid who kills his parents and then complains about being an orphan
And how exactly did she libel them? Is that photo fake? Otherwise STFU.
I'll be satisfied when welfare deadbeats like you are swinging from a tree
A great quip!
I hear their doing marvelous things with tofu now……ummm …. tofu broccoli Samoas substituted for the old evil one, yeah that'll sell in Berkeley and and I hear they might be served at the next White House Egg Roll. Delivered by Chevy Volts.
There seems to be a pattern in the misspellings I saw on the "Consider the Source" page; I wonder if the page was just slightly wrinkled when it was scanned.
If I'm wrong, and these are typos…then I completely agree.
LOL!
Oh isn't that nice?
One of the girl scouts from Media Matters decided to pay us a visit….
dadinleftfield: Ignorance is a choice, and I believe you have made yours. The proof is in your double speak.
Absolutely right!
If it were true that the "Girl Scouts constantly reviews our materials based on feedback and suggestions we receive from our members…", they would have severed their ties to Planned Parenthood long ago.
They were taken over years ago in the marxist/progressive march through the institutions, and exist now solely as a humanist/femmunist organization. If you enroll your daughter in the Girl Scouts, be assured that you are signing her up for re-education camp. If you are a conservative, your daughter will be taught to pity and perhaps despise you.
That said, their disavowal of MMfA without a fight is evidence of just how thin is MMfA's veneer of legitimacy. Republicans fear taking a legal – or even rhetorical – stand against them, because of the First Amendment implications, while our First Amendment rights are trampled upon every day, with MMfA leading the charge.
But as I mentioned, the veneer is thin. If this does not encourage the Right to take after MMfA more vigorously, then nothing will.
I say let those scout leaders go back to get their fund raising money from Media Matters and George Soros. They can solicit all of his marxist organizations, should be plenty of money there. As for punishing little girls. Anyone leaving their little girls in this organization is punishing them with propaganda for a lifetime.
Get them out while they still love you mommy or daddy, soon you will not know them.
You must be really bad at typing to accidentally type "mediamatters" instead of "snopes"
I mean, clearly that's what they MEANT, since they were talking about an actual myth debunking site, right?
One thing about women, temporarily but never permanently duped. Once the former girl scout/cookie entrepreneur/socialist dupes realize that all of their efforts have gone into all of them looking alike, wearing Chairman Mao garb and they can't shop for those wonderful clothes at Saks and Niemans, it's all over and the Cookie Girls turn into Mean Girls in a New York minute.
While we're at it, are you going to teach little girls to use loaded questions like you do?
Yes as a matter of fact I would. Get used to it!
Speaking as an Eagle Scout and the father of two girl scouts, Girl and Boy Scout troops are kind of like churches, in the that the goals/focus of a given group may not have much to do with the goals/focus of the national leadership.
I was in a Boy Scout Troop which was light on religion (I don't know if any of us were atheist per se but most of us were probably no more serious about religion than the average teenage male) but heavy on camping and hiking (our scoutmaster was an ex-Marine, our assistant Scoutmaster a lumberjack and we went camping and hiking twice a month). I'm sure a troop headed by a pastor would have had a different focus.
My daughters' troops focus on arts and crafts (painting silk scarves and suchlike) and only go 'camping' (in cabins) a couple times a year, but I understand that is the norm for girl scouts. They meet in a church and end every meeting with a prayer (which is more than my troop could say).
Where the h*ll is your disgust for Media Matters?? Apparently you're only disgusted because people found you and your kind out. I guess indoctrination is ok with you as long as it is a Leftist point of view, huh?? What a friggin tool!
It won't because it doesn't have a problem with Media Matters indoctrinating the young.
To be a Girl Scout volunteer: "Membership is open to women and men 18 and over who accept the Girl Scout Promise and Law." There's no need to be a parent or relative of a girl in the troop. Background checks are completed; there's training, and there are supposed to be two or more adults at all times.
I guess the policy is written vaguely enough that ANYONE can be a volunteer.
The Boy Scouts, in case y'all may not remember, have been under siege by the same type of propoganda as the Girl Scouts.
With the GSA it has been covert while the BSA was overt.
It's too bad it took so long for just one girl in the GSA to blow the whistle.
Capture the minds of the young and you have won the battle for control of a society. Ever since the elitist, progressive socialists/communists captured public schools in the sixties and seventies, both the quality of education has dropped along with an increase in the drop out rate.
Our parish sponsors a Boy Scout troop, but ended sponsorship of the Girl Scout troop over 8 years ago because of its avowed anti-life stance.
My Knights of Columbus council has also ending any events and fundraising activities with the Boys and Girls Club since they distribute materials from and support Planned Parenthood.
Please lobby your parish and council to do the same thing.
We can not and must not cooperate with any organization that supports the killing of children.
what?
"My God the liberals have no shame!!!! "
This is NOT a news flash. No prog, demRAT, Unionist nor Kommie has any shame. They will do and say ANYTHING to achieve their goal, corrupting the U S of A.
"as I was always indifferent to fundraising" – -(aka Im cheap) you sound like every Republican I know
well then do you part and start lynching, killer!
Dana swims in the murk at the bottom of a very deep barrel.
So, tell us Xian, at what age did you decide you were going to be a heterosexual? I mean, since it is a choice, when did you make yours?
sadly you are what you said: an intolerant bigot – - you were born 100 years too late
straight bonkers crazy, you are
And? What's your opinion? Are they "evil" organization? Here is what my boy is learning:
"On my honor, I will do my best
To do my duty to God and my country and to obey the Scout Law;
To help other people at all times;
To keep myself physically strong, mentally awake and morally straight.:
Isn't it awful? evil? terrible? Clearly Communist right? – - – - -
On my honor, I will do my best
To do my duty to God and my country and to obey the Scout Law;
To help other people at all times;
To keep myself physically strong, mentally awake and morally straight.
nasty stuff huh
Does Anyone out there want to place a bet that Obama is getting re-elected? I will place up to $500 in an escrow account if someone cares to put their money where their mouth is
BTW – his 2nd term will be a counter reaction to you scary, scary people. Seriously – - you will have yourselves to thank for the next 5 years of Obama.. Way to go!
Not that they make a point of it. However, recently. They accepted a seven year old, cross dressing boy with gender identity issues because he felt like a little girl.
This whole discussion is talking about the GIRL Scouts. That organization has taken a very different path from the BOY Scouts who have had to fight court battles and boycotts for their traditions.
I assume your boy is in the BSUSA and not the GSUSA, but who knows anything for certain with the looney way you've been posting on this subject.
I've got it! You didn't read the article, did you?
Remember, every time Marxists take over an organization, their first goal is to brainwash the young.
Marxists contracept, homosexualize, abort and euthanize themselves out of existence, so they must get a steady supply of non-Marxists to join their side. And our children are the targets of these predators.
Lynching? Inefficient. Death camps are the way to go.
They're just about as bad as UNICEF these days.
And you will continue to lie to little girls for your petty personal politics.
Not a slur mind you by any stretch. But if you don't understand what I've written, no further explanation is possible.
lovely.
Well, at least we know why they aren't in the progressive target sights.
They have already been neutralized…
Not at all. It's great. What is nasty stuff is the ACLU's constant attempt to shut down the BSA.
you all disgust me——No mirrors in the house either I suppose!
A socialist pedophile like you says that?
You are a Leftist, you want to punish all children, born and unborn. You must be a racist bigot to boot! Nice.
"…at what age did you decide you were going to be a heterosexual?…"
Ah yes…don't defend your own viewpoint: make the skeptic defend theirs. Respond to questions with questions of your own. Demand they answer an unanswerable question; that way you can silence your detractors.
- After The Ball, Chapter 3 … "Keep The Message Focused".
Nicely done, dadinleftfield.
Kirk & Madsen would be proud.
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"…you are what you said: an intolerant bigot …"
Just as I said someone like you would try to do. Thanks for proving my point yet again!
In the 1990s I was a "male heterosexual" girl scout leader because no mother was available to form a troop for my daughter and several girls who wanted to be Girl Scouts. The Girl Scouts had and have no problem with lesbian leaders and I encountered several during the time that I was a Brownie troop leader. These leaders, especially obviously lesbian paid staff members who seemed to dominate the local Council, were quite hostile to my participation in the program. I think that there is a not-so-subtle pressure from these lesbians to present homosexuality as an "alternative" for the girls. Are these lesbians "recruiting?" I don't know, but as presently administered I would not recommend to parents that they enroll their daughters in what has become a leftist, gay activist propaganda group. If you buy the cookies, you are supporting the Girl Scout's left wing agenda.
I would be happy to do so, if the Girl scouts would "leave innocent children out of (their) twisted politics."
I would very much like to know who created this link to Media Matters and are they still affiliated with the Girl Scouts? These kids should NOT be indoctrinated in any political situation, be it Democrat or Republican! I will refuse to buy Girl Scout Cookies until I know that person or persons responsible for the Media Matters fiasco is GONE! Media Matters deals in lies and propaganda and should have no part in counselling impressionable young girls without the consent of their parents.
Once the lezbos infiltrated and infected the once great Girl Scouts, it was all over.
Just what is that cream in those cookies anyway?
That's kinda what I thought.
Whether the hostility towards you was because you were a heterosexual male (which meant they feared you might encroach on their territory of potential "opportunities")…
…or because you simply were a male…period (I guess you were a representation of their hated "oppressive partiarcial society" or whatever)….
…it seems clear that the concerns and subsequent actions the Boy Scouts were villified for…opposing the degredation of a once-noble organization into a leftist-progressive, pro-homosexual enclave…aren't exactly frowned upon in the Girl Scouts.
dadinleftfield- saying people are scary is a way of avoiding talking about the issues they raise when one cannot, or will not, address those issues. Ad hominem attacks are used to shutter debate. If you do not like discussion, fine, do not engage in it. If the only contribution you can make is to declare people "scary", "nuts", or other attacks, you might want to consider your local grammar school playground as a venue for your epithets.
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