Democratic New York Rep. Alexandria Ocasio-Cortez tweeted a Raw Story headline to mock a column by a conservative writer who supposedly made the case for a “cookie boycott because AOC used to be a Girl Scout.”
“Boycotting cookies that teach little girls leadership skills to own the libs,” she wrote. “Nice job. I’ll take 10.”
Except the actual column, written by conservative writer and former sportscaster Jane Chastain and published on WorldNetDaily, not Raw Story, didn’t call on readers to pass on the cookies simply because of the New York congresswoman’s prior membership. Instead, it was because of what she considers the group’s slide into leftism.
“For the uninformed, March 8 is officially International Women’s Day, but it is the catalyst for week-long events held throughout this country and around the world,” Chastain wrote. “Sounds harmless, if not downright inspiring to many unsuspecting women and girls who want to celebrate the right to be all that they can be. Unfortunately, it comes with a lot of baggage you may not want for your daughter or yourself.”
Chastain delves into the socialist and communist roots of the event, then lamented how it has wrapped “itself in a cloak of righteousness, virtue and morality,” in part “by partnering with WAGGS, the World Association of Girl Guides and Girl Scouts.”
Thus, Chastain writes, “It is no small coincidence that the Girl Scouts are out in force this month selling cookies on street corners, in front of grocery stores and other places of business.”
Today’s Girl Scouts are a far cry from those of my youth, which trained us to put God and country before everything else. Today, God in the Girl Scout promise has an asterisk, meaning the great I AM and His moral absolutes can be replaced by anything, including oneself.
The WND writer laments the group’s “sharp left turn” and the fact that country “has taken a backseat” to “global citizenship” with values “at odds with our own.” The first mention of Ocasio-Cortez occurs six paragraphs from the bottom:
In fact, the Girl Scouts are celebrating the victory won by their alums in the 2018 midterms on its website, beginning with their star, Alexandria Ocasio-Cortez, who attributes much of her success to what she learned as part of this organization. Now Girl Scout alums make up 72 percent of female senators and 60 percent of the women in the 116th Congress.
The second mention is at the end:
So before you decide to embrace an International Women’s Day celebration or buy the cookies, ask yourself, “Will the country be better off with more representatives like the young socialist Alexandra Ocasio-Cortez?”
If not, it’s a good time to start your diet.
Several conservatives were quick to call Ocasio-Cortez out on Twitter for being disingenuous.
FWIW and IMO only, it isn’t “leadership skills” that young girls are being taught in the Girl Scouts.
Should have left Donkey Chompers out of the story. Make her come up with her own bullshit stories of persecution. Keep the focus on her criminal and unethical behavior.
Were her lips moving?
Actually AOC, it’s to teach the parents that their children, will pay in some way for mommy’s liberal entitlement idiocy. All things are political now, made so by socialists. I will give directly to the children of conservatives, and conservative charities, and make sure no donation of mine can get to AOC’s or Ilhan Omar’s constituents.
It’s all I can legally do to protest these evil bitches.
…simpler version…
OCASIO-CORTEZ IS PROBABLY BULLSH*T
…like “Obama”, there is no truth to this person. None. Just assume that EVERYTHING you are told is a lie, it just saves time…
How about International Boy’s and Men’s Day?
As long as we’re on the topic of bullsh*t, what about AOC’s economics degree from a prestigious university (Boston U) which “informed” her Green Deal Economic scheme which, in my time, would have been laughed out of a Second Grade Civics class
Instead of buying cookies from the PP affiliate make a donation to prostate cancer research instead!
How is international Women’s Day celebrated in Muslim countries? Do they stop the beatings and clitorectomies for 24 hours?
The GSA is too cozy with Planned Parenthood who is too cozy with infanticide.
Cookies? No thanks.
I will buy BSA caramel corn instead.
I didn’t even know Women’s Day was a thing up until about 8 years ago when a friend who at the time was a recent immigrant from a former Soviet Satellite State asked on 8 March why there was nothing in the news about Women’s Day. I guess it had been kind of a big deal back in her home country even after the fall of the Soviet Union.
TonyR — it’s genital mutilation in girls. Don’t use their own made-up, pseudo-clinical language. It’s intended to legitimize.
You might be concerned with the direction of the BSA today as well.
Mexican word of the day….Bishop…
“can somebody please shut this bishop?”
Hit’em about everything. Hell if they can accuse our President of “groping the flag,” everything they do is fair game. Eff’em.
girl scouts are also partners with planned parenthood…
there’s a real reason to ignore them forever.
@AbigailAdams…
Like “pedophile”.
They’re child molesters.
I’d like to see International Day of the Unborn. Alas, not in my lifetime.
The IWD is indeed a communist thing….I remember it well from my own leftist, radical days.