Posted on 02/25/2014 6:19:35 AM PST by Morgana
There is now little doubt that the Girl Scout cookie boycott is having an effect on cookie sales this year.
Girl Scout spokesman Kelly Parisi went on The O’Reilly Factor this week to try and defuse the mounting controversy, and Girl Scout executives have sent threatening letters to their critics.
Girl Scout CEO Anna Marie Chavez took to YouTube on Thursday to deny all charges leveled by the boycotters and to deny at least one charge they haven’t even made.
“Recently, various individuals and organizations announced their intention to boycott GS cookies this year, based on mistaken beliefs about our movement," Chavez said. "These same individuals also believe the Girl Scouts has become too political.”
“We do not now, nor have we ever, had a relationship with Planned Parenthood," she claimed. "Girl Scouts of the USA believes that reproductive issues are deeply private issues best left to families. I find it unsettling that anyone would use the Girl Scout brand to have very adult conversations. A box of Girl Scout cookies is not a political statement.”
“We are committed to serving God and our country," she said. “I hope I have cleared up any misconceptions out there about the nature of the Girl Scout movement and what it means to buy Girl Scout cookies.”
Girl Scout watchdog groups say Chavez has cleared up nothing and responded with a flurry of fact checks provided to Breitbart News.
When Chavez insists the Girl Scouts have never had a relationship with Planned Parenthood, Girl Scout critics point to the 2004 admission made by Chavez’s predecessor, Kathy Cloninger, on The Today Show: “We have relationships with our church communities, with YWCAs, and with Planned Parenthood organizations across the country.”
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It's like a version of the Brezhnev Doctrine.
A pathetic, filthy lie. Not only that, but there are claims that up to 85% of their D.C. headquarters are headed by homosexuals. For our housewives to stick their heads in the sand so blatantly and to listen to this crap is so very sad for our little girls.
I have no sympathy for this person.
Sexual deviancy involving children cannot and must not be supported. Both the GSA and the BSA have stated policies counter to a healthy approach for children.
BS also?
I like that --
I used to see girl scouts swarm the neighborhood for cookie buyers -- but haven't seen any in two years now.
Just tuck a few dollars into their can and tell them to put it toward a tent; the local will get that money and not the National. I always let them no I’ve support them locally.
Did GSUSA champion Sarah Palin when she ran as a VP nominee a few years back?
Or do they only save their praise for lying liberals like Wendy Davis and Sillybus/Sebelius?
Yes.
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I love, love, love boycotts!
Even if they are done in opposition to something I believe in, they are the best form of free speech we have. Nothing gets a message across better.
LONG LIVE FREE SPEECH !!!
Good catch. I had missed that.
It is very telling.
There is now little doubt that the Girl Scout cookie boycott is having an effect on cookie sales this year.
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Woohoo! Good news!
BS and GS are dead to me.
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Same here.
GFY, girl scouts.
...the Left will give them the same treatment as they gave the Susan G. Komen folks.
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Recently, I received a mailer from Kohl’s offering a discount on my purchase and promising to donate some percentage to Komen. I sent them an email explaining that I would not be participating in this sale because of the Komen association with Planned unParenthood.
I think the way I'm going to handle it is to say that "I won't buy the cookies, but here's a few dollars to use for your troop's activities". The girls will be happy and the parents will get the message.
“Can’t take it, huh? Maybe the unborn and newly born babies being slaughtered with your support aren’t too happy either.”
You have it all wrong. There would be more to buy their over priced cookies and more girls to sell them had they not all been ABORTED!
Me too. Check my tag line.
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