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09/18/2004: "Special Saturday Edition - Meet The Parlocks And Their Pals"
If you opened a newspaper, or dropped by The Drudge Report, yesterday you probably saw
the following picture:
That little girl is 3-year-old Sophia Parlock from West Virginia and,
according to her father, Phil, she's crying because Democrats stole her
family's Bush-Cheney campaign signs and ripped them up.
Parlock, who identified himself as "strictly a volunteer, grass-roots
supporter" of President Bush, took his daughter and his 11-year-old son to
a Democratic rally in Huntington, West Virginia which featured vice
presidential candidate John Edwards.
"We stood there quietly while Senator Edwards went through the receiving
line," said Parlock. "I took out a few Bush-Cheney signs, gave one to Alex,
and Sophia and I held up one jointly." And that's when, according to
Parlock, the family was attacked by angry Democrats - "mostly the painters'
union guys" who began to swipe the Parlock clan's signs.
"They just pounced on us," said Parlock, who ran unsuccessfully for his
local school board this year. The next thing he knew "old women and college
students joined in the fracas."
Parlock has three children, ages 22, 21, and 18 in the West Virginia Army
National Guard. When asked about the photo, Parlock commented, "In the
picture, you can see one of the painters' union guys has a piece of one
of my signs in his hand."
Shocking! Those Union guys are animals who should be …oh, wait a minute…
William Rivers Pitt over at Truthout has found out a few interesting facts
about Mr. Parlock's string of bad luck at Democratic rallies.
The following is 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."
"Remember Vince Foster" ??? Damn, I'm kinda glad Phil lost that school
board election, although part of me would love to see what kind of
curriculum a conspiracy theorist would devise.
And this is from 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."
Damn, Phil, you should really think about steering clear of those rallies.
It seems that every time you show up someone takes your signs. Just
like in that now famous picture where "you can see one of the painters'
union guys has a piece of one of my signs in his hand."
Yes, that Painters' Union guy, the one who bears a striking resemblance to
Phil's West Virginia Army National Guard serving son, seen below in the
gray shirt.
Please note that neither I, nor the folks at Truthout are saying that they're
definitely the same person. We're just saying that they look a lot
alike. And I think that Phil's haircut makes him look kinda Gay.
By the way, two weeks ago someone shot a bullet into a local GOP
headquarters. WCHS news out of Charleston covered the story and interviewed
one of the victims who said, "I think this is definitely, definitely an
act that was by an extremist kind of thing." The man who provided that
quote was none other than Phil Parlock, whose bad luck seems to have
extended beyond rallies.
For about the one millionth time, I should point out that I am not
a Democrat. What I am is pissed off at the supposedly liberal media for
failing to look into Mr. Parlock's past. If the media is an arm of the
Communist Party, as Bill O'Reilly would have you believe, than why did
little Sophia Parlock end up all over the news, while almost nobody
covered this:
That's a picture of a Bush supporter pulling a demonstrator's hair before
forcing her out of an auditorium in Colmar, Pa where the President was
speaking. Big, brave man - pulled a woman's hair. Probably because his own
haircut makes him look kinda Gay.
And where's the coverage on this fellow?
According to many accounts, this dude kicked a female protester at the
Republican National Convention. Check out his Ninja fighting technique
here. Thanks to Reason for the investigation. And yes, I think that
haircut makes him look kinda Gay.
