Profits from Thin Mint Sales pay for Abortions!!# Dramitization and Incivility

http://www.wane.com/dpp/news/fort-wayne-lawmaker-wont-honor-girl-scouts?hpt=po_bn6

Poking around the politics section CNN.com I stumbled upon this pretty funny story from Fort Wayne Indiana. The story reports how a local lawman will not celebrate the girl scouts 100 year anniversary because the organization supports abortion and homosexuality, which the Girl Scout head quarters claims to be false. Now this blog post won’t be about whether this law maker is right or wrong, quite frankly those are his beliefs, this blog post is about whether this article should be given so much attention that it is on the politics section of CNN.com and if the Media in this instance is publishing incivility.

 Now obviously this story has no real impact on anybody except maybe a few girl scouts trying to sell their cookies in parking lots across Indiana and a law maker who has obviously never had a delicious thin mint cookie. So why the story here, this article is is what Bennett would call dramatization its making a mountain out of a mole hill. This may be an entertaining story but it can really be seen as a distraction from more important things that affect a lot more people. Now to see if this article is presenting incivility it kind of is, showing this law makers disdain to an organization by making these claims and even going as far as calling for parents to really reevaluate their children’s participation in this organization is a form of incivility especially since it is a standoff and a slight attack on a group of little girls. Its stories like these that can cause people to think wow look at that mean old, homophobic, little girl and cookie hating republican guy or look at those baby killing and gay loving girl scouts causing disunity in our system. We really don’t need more disunity come on CNN if anything you should just move this story under local news. To end this post I will quote Jim Carey “and that’s the way the cookie crumbles”