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15-Year-Old Behind Blaze Story on Girl Scouts Speaks Out: 'We Were So Deceived

15-Year-Old Behind Blaze Story on Girl Scouts Speaks Out: 'We Were So Deceived

"clear liberal ideology"

On Tuesday, we broke the story of the Girl Scouts using one of its books to direct young girls to the liberal site Media Matters to combat media misinformation. The story took off, with everyone from Fox News to the Drudge Report covering it. The girl at the center of the story was 15-year-old Sydney Volanski, who first noticed the Media Matters reference last year and left the organization over it. Now, Sydney is speaking out.

Sydney joined the crew of "Fox & Friends" on Thursday morning to explain what she found and also to talk about her website, “Speak Now: Girl Scouts Website,” which she co-edits and that was set up to expose other liberal bias within the Scouts.

"My sister and I started a website to help inform families of the more leftward leanings of Girl Scouts because they promise to be neutral politically and about certain social issues," she explained, "but when you examine the women that they promote and the websites and books that they refer girls to, there is a clear liberal ideology, like with the Media Matters site."

"With Speak Now: Girl Scouts we're just trying to spread awareness to families because we were so deceived," she added. "For eight years we were in Girl Scouts and we didn't realize that Girl Scouts was promoting such a liberal ideology."

Sydney went on to claim the Scouts have promoted Planned Parenthood and abortion advocacy groups in the past, using that as example of more liberal bias in the organization.

On a side note, Girl Scouts spokesperson Michelle Tompkins -- who did not answer any of our follow-up inquiries -- did give a statement to Fox saying that the organization's material is regularly reviewed and updated and that upcoming versions of the book will not include references to Media Matters. That's similar to what we were told. However, there are still plenty more questions we asked, such as how Media Matters came to be placed in the book, who wrote the page that the reference appears on and what group, if any, will replace Media Matters once the new publications are released.

You can watch Sydney's entire interview with Fox, below:

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