Brave Catherine Vogt

From the Emails For Friday 111408

Hey folks,

I was all about to talk about another I told you so, don't worry SG, I'll get to that on the Big Sunday Edition, but that was until I saw THIS. THANK YOU RM for pointing this out. I love this article.

This comes to us from right here in sunny South Florida, Via the Sun Sentinel - Tolerance fails T-shirt test.

As the media keeps gushing on about how America has finally adopted tolerance as the great virtue, and that we're all united now, let's consider the Brave Catherine Vogt Experiment.

Catherine Vogt, 14, is an Illinois 8th grader, the daughter of a liberal mom and a conservative dad. She wanted to conduct an experiment in political tolerance and diversity of opinion at her school in the liberal suburb of Oak Park.

Liberal Mom and Conservative Dad? Boy she must be screwed up. {Laughing}

She noticed that fellow students at Gwendolyn Brooks Middle School overwhelmingly supported Barack Obama for president. His campaign kept preaching "inclusion," and she decided to see how included she could be.

So just before the election, Catherine consulted with her history teacher, then bravely wore a unique T-shirt to school and recorded the comments of teachers and students in her journal. The T-shirt bore the simple yet quite subversive words drawn with a red marker:

"McCain Girl."

"I was just really curious how they'd react to something that different, because a lot of people at my school wore Obama shirts and they are big Obama supporters," Catherine told us. "I just really wanted to see what their reaction would be."

Immediately, Catherine learned she was stupid for wearing a shirt with Republican John McCain's name. Not merely stupid. Very stupid.

{Laughing}

"People were upset. But they started saying things, calling me very stupid, telling me my shirt was stupid and I shouldn't be wearing it," Catherine said.

Then it got worse.

"One person told me to go die. It was a lot of dying. A lot of comments about how I should be killed," Catherine said, of the tolerance in Oak Park.

Folks. MAKE NO MISTAKE ABOUT IT. THIS IS THE LIBERAL PARTY OF TODAY. It took this brave little red head girl to PROVE it. This is too good.

But students weren't the only ones surprised that she wore a shirt supporting McCain.

"In one class, I had one teacher say she will not judge me for my choice, but that she was surprised that I supported McCain," Catherine said.

If Catherine was shocked by such passive-aggressive threats from instructors, just wait until she goes to college.

Who wrote this? Oh here it is. John Kass who is a Chicago Tribune Columnist. I will admit that I know nothing about him, but he seems right on here. "If Catherine was shocked by such passive-aggressive threats from instructors, just wait until she goes to college." It's true.

"Later, that teacher found out about the experiment and said she was embarrassed because she knew I was writing down what she said," Catherine said.

One student suggested that she be put up on a cross for her political beliefs.

"He said, 'You should be crucifixed.' It was kind of funny because, I was like, don't you mean 'crucified?' " Catherine said.

I really love this girl.

Other entries in her notebook involved suggestions by classmates that she be "burned with her shirt on" for "being a filthy-rich Republican."

You see folks. This is how Liberals have brainwashed their young into thinking this garbage. Seriously. Kids only know what they are told. Republicans are Rich, Hate Filled, War Mongering, Racist, Chauvinistic, Homophobes, that apparently should be killed. Ah yes, kumbaya. This NEW Liberalism is the kinder, more gentle alternative. {Smile}

Some said that because she supported McCain, by extension she supported a plan by deranged skinheads to kill Obama before the election. And I thought such politicized logic was confined to American newsrooms. Yet Catherine refused to argue with her peers. She didn't want to jeopardize her experiment.

"I couldn't show people really what it was for. I really kind of wanted to laugh because they had no idea what I was doing," she said.

Only a few times did anyone say anything remotely positive about her McCain shirt. One girl pulled her aside in a corner, out of earshot of other students, and whispered, "I really like your shirt."

That's when you know America is truly supportive of diversity of opinion, when children must whisper for fear of being ostracized, heckled and crucifixed.

Just DAMN! Yeah another bulls eye.

The next day, in part 2 of The Brave Catherine Vogt Experiment, she wore another T-shirt, this one with "Obama Girl" written in blue. And an amazing thing happened.

Catherine wasn't very stupid anymore. She grew brains.

"People liked my shirt. They said things like my brain had come back, and I had put the right shirt on today," Catherine said.

Some students accused her of playing both sides.

"A lot of people liked it. But some people told me I was a flip-flopper," she said. "They said, 'You can't make up your mind. You can't wear a McCain shirt one day and an Obama shirt the next day.' "

Yup. You are either with the Liberal Loons or you are forever their enemy. Ask Lieberman. They eat their own.

But she sure did, and she turned her journal into a report for her history teacher, earning Catherine extra credit. We asked the teacher, Norma Cassin-Pountney, whether it was ironic that Catherine would be subject to such intolerance from pro-Obama supporters in a community that prides itself on its liberal outlook.

"That's what we discussed," Cassin-Pountney said about the debate in the classroom when the experiment was revealed. "I said, here you are, promoting this person [Obama] that believes we are all equal and included, and look what you've done? The students were kind of like, 'Oh, yeah.' I think they got it."

I hope so. Remember what I keep telling you. He that controls the youth, controls the future. Why do you think the Loons want free and EARLY MANDATED Education?

Catherine never told us which candidate she would have voted for if she weren't an 8th grader. But she said she learned what it was like to be in the minority.

"Just being on the outside, how it felt, it was not fun at all," she said.

Don't ever feel as if you must conform, Catherine. Being on the outside isn't so bad. Trust me.

For the years of getting it from both sides. I second that one. WAY TO GO Brave little Cathrine Vogt. Way to go John Kass for reporting it. It really is pretty sad when someone like me, sits at a keyboard, talks to people, and even puts up VIDEOS of these RADICALS, Socialists, and wannabe Dictators, in there OWN words, for YEARS. One who points out that it TRULY is them that are the hate filled loony ones. Then a little 14 year old Red Head girl PROVES my point in just one day.

I would LOVE an update on young Ms. Vogt when she hits 18. I would LOVE to know which side of the fence she decides to make hers. Or could this little exper,,, wait! There was nothing little about this. This was BRILLIANT. Maybe this will teach Ms Vogt, to stand up for WHATEVER she believes. Regardless of "Popular Opinion." I hope that she learned the truth. Hate filled words, wishes of death, and slanderous name calling, compassion and inclusiveness, does not one make. {Smile}

Oh as for the Girl that whispered. That is one of the BIGGEST problems that Conservatives and Conservative Republicans need to over come. STAND UP for what you believe in. If CONSERVATIVES and Conservative Republicans were HALF as brave as Ms. Vogt, McCain would be the President Elect right now. Barring all the election fraud. Obama would have been LAUGHED OFF the Political Stage and told to take his Socialistic views back to the obscurity of which he came.
Peter

Sources:
Sun Sentinel - Tolerance fails T-shirt test

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