Picture Of The Day !!!!!!

[obby]

Just heard the father in the pic interviewed on the Glen Beck Radio Show.

He showed up to the airport w/ his daughter and his son (small blonde kid to his left). He claims everyone was very, very nice until he broke out 2 pro-Bush signs. His son held one and his daughter the other. Then the guy in the green cap tried snatching the sign from her hand, ripping it and throwing it to the ground. Soon after the crowd surrounded them and began calling him irresponsible and terrible father for bringing his children to the airport to show support for Bush. The crowd continued name calling and intimidating him until he left. The little girl cried and asked her dad "why did they start out being so nice, then turn so mean?"

He said there were also cars in the parking lot smashed w/ hammers and keyed (those were the cars w/ Bush-Cheney stickers)....NICE!

http://www.washtimes.com/national/20040917-010155-8041r.htm

[jtk4]

yeah its good when a president causes enough anger for people to make a little girl cry.

you like how i made that bush's fault huh. I should go into politics.

[siceone]

Just like a liberal to try to absolve someone of personal reponsibility.... you like that?

[mursa]

... Im pretty sure infiltrated Kerry supporters in a Bush rally are treated with smores & a smile .

lol oh my .

[jtk4]

Just like a liberal to try to absolve someone of personal reponsibility.... you like that?

wait are you serious? i was just kidding

[kramadas]

Actually I think its a set-up...it was really Bush supporters who sneaked in, and did it to make anti-Bush people look bad.

haha

seriously though thatsmessed up.

[jtk4]

that does kind of look like micheal rappaport on the left

[tres-b]

Kerry supporters may not be treated like kings, but I havent heard about any Republican hooligans assaulting a little girl and her father for holding a Kerry sign.

When is it ever appropriate for someone to grab a sign from a little girl and rip it up?

[kramadas]

No, they just throw everybody in jail for no reason at Bush rallys. Even if you're in your "free specch" zone half a mile away.

[tres-b]

Let me restate the question you avoided---

When is it appropriate to grab a sign from a little girl on her dad'd shoulders when there are not doing anything violent or wrong?

[obby]

[sobeton]

Democrats accused of ripping Bush signs

By Robert Stacy McCain

THE WASHINGTON TIMES

Published September 17, 2004

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A West Virginia man said yesterday that Democrats stole his family's Bush-Cheney campaign signs at an event featuring Democratic vice presidential candidate Sen. John Edwards.

"They just pounced on us," said Phil Parlock, who took his 11-year-old son, Alex, and 3-year-old daughter, Sophia, to the Democratic rally at Tri-State Airport in Huntington, W.Va.

Sophia became briefly famous yesterday when an Associated Press photo showing her in tears after Democrats tore her sign to pieces was posted on Matt Drudge's Web site, www.drudgereport.com.

"She was crying; they were pushing and shoving her," said Mr. Parlock, a Huntington real estate agent. "She was scared."

Sophia is the youngest of 10 children in a proudly patriotic family. The oldest two Parlock children, a 22-year-old daughter and a 21-year-old son, are members of the West Virginia Army National Guard, and a third Parlock -- who recently turned 18 -- will be sworn into the guard tomorrow, Mr. Parlock said.

The Parlocks went to Mr. Edwards' airport rally yesterday "to support the president," Mr. Parlock said, and brought nine Bush-Cheney signs with them.

"We stood there quietly while Senator Edwards went through the receiving line," he said. Then, as the North Carolina Democrat prepared to leave, Mr. Parlock said, "I took out a few Bush-Cheney signs, gave one to Alex, and Sophia and I held up one jointly."

Immediately, he said, the family was set upon by supporters of Mr. Edwards and Democratic presidential nominee Sen. John Kerry -- "mostly the painters union guys" -- who "started stealing my signs." Soon, "old women and college students joined in the fracas," said Mr. Parlock, describing himself as "strictly a volunteer, grass-roots supporter" of the president. Mr. Parlock ran unsuccessfully for his local school board this year.

After the family returned home from the rally yesterday, he said, a friend called to tell him about the AP photo on the Drudge site. "In the picture, you can see one of the painters union guys has a piece of one of my signs in his hand."

A call to the Kerry-Edwards campaign last night was not returned.

Anti-war demonstrators have complained in recent weeks that they have been manhandled by security agents at Bush-Cheney campaign events.

Anti-war demonstrators have complained in recent weeks that they have been manhandled by security agents at Bush-Cheney campaign events.

:spin:

[tres-b]

So you are comparing anti-war demonstrators yelling "Bush lies" to a daughter on the shoulders of her dad w/ a sign in her hand? Interesting....

Regardless, let me ask one more time, since in typical Democrat fashion it is easier to deflect than take a position--

When is it appropriate for a hooligan to take a sign from a little girl and rip it up?

Maybe at an LSU or FSU game, but in the civilized world, that is not ok.

[jtk4]

yankees red sox game, the little girl would get punched.

[kramadas]

So you are comparing anti-war demonstrators yelling "Bush lies" to a daughter on the shoulders of her dad w/ a sign in her hand? Interesting....

Regardless, let me ask one more time, since in typical Democrat fashion it is easier to deflect than take a position--

When is it appropriate for a hooligan to take a sign from a little girl and rip it up?

Maybe at an LSU or FSU game, but in the civilized world, that is not ok.

I really hope this question is not addressed to me, because if that is the case, you did not read my first post.

[jtk4]

hey tresb

[sobeton]

So you are comparing anti-war demonstrators yelling "Bush lies" to a daughter on the shoulders of her dad w/ a sign in her hand? Interesting....

Regardless, let me ask one more time, since in typical Democrat fashion it is easier to deflect than take a position--

When is it appropriate for a hooligan to take a sign from a little girl and rip it up?

Maybe at an LSU or FSU game, but in the civilized world, that is not ok.

can you define "manhandled" ? the comparison is valid, hence the rationale for posting the entire article. not just the part that the feeds the republican fury. .

[chris817]

Kerry supporters may not be treated like kings, but I havent heard about any Republican hooligans assaulting a little girl and her father for holding a Kerry sign.

When is it ever appropriate for someone to grab a sign from a little girl and rip it up?

I guess you missed this last week

A member of the audience pulls a demonstrator's hair as he forces her out of an auditorium where President Bush was addressing a crowd of supporters at Byers Choice in Colmar, Pa. Thursday Sept. 9, 2004.

Compassionate conservatism means that he wasn't pulling that hard.

[jtk4]

hahahaha

that is a funny pic

[italia23]

I don't blame the Kerry supporters for this. The same shit happens at rallies for both candidates. This guy is an idiot for bringing his children to an event like this. What did he expect?

[xpyrate]

Scamming the Media, Parlock Style

By William Rivers Pitt

t r u t h o u t | Perspective

Friday 17 September 2004

Meet Phil Parlock. Parlock is a family man and a staunch Republican. Parlock has a very sad story to tell about how rotten Kerry supporters are. You see, they made his little girl cry.

Parlock, his weeping daughter, and the fiendish union guy holding a piece of the allegedly ripped sign.

Parlock was at a rally on Thursday to greet Vice Presidential candidate John Edwards, who was on a swing through West Virginia and Ohio. Parlock brought his three children and a Bush/Cheney sign to show support for his beloved President. According to him, a Kerry-supporting union guy wearing an IUPAT shirt ripped up the Bush sign his little girl was carrying, making her cry.

Terrible, right? A sign that our national politics have descended into these kind of brutish tactics, right? An embarrassing incident for the Kerry campaign, right? The media certainly thinks so, and has dutifully reported on the incident.

For the third time.

A report from the Charleston Daily Mail, August 27, 1996:

"The Huntington man said he was knocked to the ground by a Clinton supporter when he tried to display a sign that read 'Remember Vince Foster,' the deputy White House counsel who committed suicide in a Washington, D.C., park. His death has become the subject of much debate among Clinton opponents...Parlock said some of the crowd tried to make other anti-Clinton demonstrators feel unwelcome. He estimated that about 150 Dole supporters attended the rally, but their signs couldn't be seen for most of the rally."

A report from the Charleston Daily Mail, October 28, 2000:

"Phil Parlock didn't expect to need all 12 of the Bush-Cheney signs he and his son Louis smuggled in their socks and pockets into the rally for Vice President Al Gore. But each time they raised a sign, someone would grab it out of their hands, the two Huntington residents said. And sometimes it got physical. 'I expected some people to take our signs,' said Louis, 12. 'But I did not expect people to practically attack us.' The two said they didn't go to the Friday morning rally to start trouble."

For the third Presidential election in a row, poor Phil Parlock has been abused by terrible Democrats while trying to support the Republican candidate, and while trying to introduce his children to the art of retail politics. Is this just a string of bad luck for Phil?

I doubt it. It seems a great deal more certain that Mr. Parlock is a serial disruptor who has managed to convince the easily-duped mainstream media on three separate occasions that he was attacked by Democrats. Only a truly hard-core fanatic would pull a stunt like this, and Parlock certainly appears to fit the bill.

Note the fact that he was holding a "Remember Vince Foster" sign at the first incident in 1996. Parlock, it seems, is of that particular fringe school of thought which believes Hillary Clinton had Foster whacked as a part of her grandiose evil scheming. Believers in this particular conspiracy theory are not known for their balanced view of American politics. They see the Clinton family as a pack of remorseless murderers, and therefore feel compelled to do whatever they can to thwart them.

Take a look at the sprightly Parlock family, posing beside a giant military vehicle:

Take a long look at the young man in the gray shirt, and then take another look at the alleged union guy who tore up the sign. Am I the only one who sees a striking resemblance?

It appears we have a clever fellow here who has convinced the same Charleston newspaper three different times that he was victimized by Democrats at rallies. He does not seem to have any problem with involving his own children in the game, and may have even gone so far as to have one of his sons play the role of 'Democrat Attacker.'

This would be funny, in a sad sort of way, but for two things.

First, this is how campaigns get mired in utterly mindless trivialities. Instead of discussing the upswell of catastrophic violence in Iraq, we get to hear about poor Phil and his crying daughter. There are important matters to discuss, matters central to the future of the country, but media tricks like this blow the whole show off-track. That's bad.

The second reason this isn't so funny happened two weeks ago. A gathering of Republicans at the local GOP headquarters got a nasty scare when someone fired a bullet at the building. About two dozen people were there to watch the Republican Convention in New York when a single shot hit the window.

Dee Delancy of WCHS news in Charleston reported on the incident, and interviewed several people who were there. One of them was Phil Parlock, who said, "I think this is definitely, definitely an act that was by an extremist kind of thing."

Parlock was there.

This could all be a series of strange coincidences. Parlock could simply be an unlucky guy who always seems to be around when Democrats do something wretched, who took abuse in 1996, 2000 and 2004 for supporting Republicans, who happened to have the same newspaper on hand to report his story each time, and who also happened to be on the scene of a shooting incident that made Democrats look like frightening would-be assassins.

This could be a series of coincidences, but someone should take a long look at this fellow regardless. Manufacturing a few sign-ripping incidents isn't a terribly big deal. But he appears to be hell-bent on making Democrats look like thugs, and there has been a shooting incident involving him on top of everything else. The media, which may well have been repeatedly scammed by Parlock, might want to do some further checking.

Author's note: The manner in which this story came to light is a lesson in modern journalism. The mainstream fellows simply reported the Parlock perspective, but it was an intrepid band of online newshounds - bloggers Rising Hegemon and Atrios, who picked up on the work of one Rezmutt, member of the forums at DemocraticUnderground.com - who pieced together the strange coincidences surrounding these Parlock incidents. Once upon a time, stories like this would get missed. The internet has created a whole new phenomenon. If the mainstream media wants to avoid being embarrassed, they might want to think about paying attention to this brave new world of investigative journalism.

http://www.truthout.org/docs_04/091804X.shtml