The Rittenhouse Review

A Philadelphia Journal of Politics, Finance, Ethics, and Culture


Wednesday, May 24, 2006  

BIG BAD NICK
Picking on Girl Scouts Now

Young Clarissa Tanner of Albany, Calif., joins the ranks of the multitudes of New York Times readers offended by the jottings of Nick Kristof. She writes, in a letter published in today's paper and in response to "Killer Girl Scouts":

I am a 9-year-old girl who goes to Girl Scouts, and I was insulted by Nicholas D. Kristof's May 21 column. [. . .]

Girl Scouts is mostly about learning and making friends and having fun. Why not focus on McDonald's? They sell way more fat than we do.

Kristof, though, would be the first to tell Miss Tanner that penning a twice-weekly column is also about "learning and making friends and having fun." And giving away free trips and way more neat stuff like that.

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