Posted on 09/17/2004 11:41:31 AM PDT by Jeff Blogworthy
Bush Sign Ripping Staged Posted by Josh Rhoderick 10:35 AM, Politics & Government
The story, according to Phil Parlock, goes like this:
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.
"She was crying; they were pushing and shoving her," said Mr. Parlock, a Huntington real estate agent. "She was scared."
But there's more to it than that. Is it coincidental that this show of Democratic brutality happened in a swing state?
I'm no journalist, but through a trusted friend in West Virginia (whom we'll call Daisy), I've learned that Phil Parlock, in an attempt to aid Bush in the state, had the incident staged. As far as I know, Parlock's family knew nothing of it. It's also unclear whether or not the Bush campaign or any of its allied 527 groups were involved. It's possible that Parlock was acting of his own accord.
Daisy, who also lives in Huntington, knows Phil Parlock and his family and she made it clear that they were "very nice people." I asked her why she thought Parlock would do such a thing, she mentioned that Parlock is "very very Christian," "incredibly anti-gay," and a strong Bush supporter.
She also mentioned that Parlock, a real estate agent in West Virginia, has attempted to run for a seat on the Cabel County Board of Education on four separate occasions. She didn't elaborate. I'm guessing that she was trying to say that Parlock was hoping to get media attention as a Pro-Bush guy so his fifth and final run would be successful.
Apparently, Parlock planned to blame the attack on a local branch of the International Union of Painters and Allied Trades (IUPAT). IUPAT had staged anti-war demonstrations outside of West Virginia Bush rallies in which Parlock and his family had been in attendance, and it was those demonstrations that inspired Parlock to stage an attack upon his daughter.
Daisy said, "I'm pretty sure he had two men at the airport, and both were from the Mission." She's referring to the Huntington City Mission, a local Christian charity group of which Parlock is a member.
Daisy refused to tell me how she knew this and she also refused to tell me how she knew Parlock (or how well). So it's possible that she's speaking on nothing but speculation.
It wouldn't surprise me if Parlock staged the attack on his own, but a few of the details don't quite add up, so I'm not ready to say that I believe Daisy (which will undoubtedly piss her off).
UPDATE:
A reader tipped me off to this. I'd say it's starting to add up now. Sorry I didn't believe you Daisy!
Daisy's obviously been wearing her tinfoil a little too tight.
Sure he is. He just needs to get over to Kinko's to have his story validated.
This is a story worthy of seeBS. Someone call Dan Rather!
In the face of overwhelming evidence contradicting their story, they continue to lie. Sounds strangely familiar...
Oh right-- Like any father is going to purposely try to get someone to rough up his 3-year-old daughter!! What BS.
If it was fake the union would not of offered it's appoligy. It would of back-fired on him. This is just an attempted diversion by pro-liberal thug huggers.
Quick, someone get this to Dan Blather!
http://rising-hegemon.blogspot.com/2004/09/bogus-assault-father-freeper-of-year.htmlMore likely THEY have been DUped. :o)
Looks like we may have been Rathered.
See also, from www.michellemalkin.com:
THE LEFT IS DESPERATE FOR A HOAXBy Michelle Malkin · September 17, 2004 01:14 PMJust got off the phone with Phil Parlock, who is amused by desperate liberal rumor-mongering (endorsed here) that the man wearing an IUPAT t-shirt and holding a piece of his little girl's Bush/Cheney sign is his own son.
"That's ridiculous. This is a small town," Parlock told me from his home in Huntington, W. Virginia. "Everyone would recognize him."
Parlock and his daughter were surrounded by a group of about five or six nasty pro-Kerry folks, two or three of whom wore IUPAT shirts. He received a voice mail from the president of the IUPAT, whose apology (as noted below) is here. Am waiting for a call back from IUPAT president James Williams.
IUPAT members, by the way, were involved in a previous sign-tearing incident involving Parlock and his family, according to Parlock.
Meanwhile, Parlock's toddler is fine.
It's pathetic that lefty bloggers would smear Parlock and his children so quickly without bothering to check. Rathergate must be really getting to them.
And it is awful convenient that they found somebody who happens to know this guy so personally as this "daisy" this has falsehood written all over it. I doubt "daisy" even exists, and if she does she doesnt know parlock from the split in her butt.
First Dan Rather, and now this nitwit?
Daisy? Who the hell is Daisy and why should I believe her?
It's just like a DUmmy to take a fact and apply it to mean the absolute opposite. Christians do not believe the ends justify the means, and we are not into scaring kids and making them cry for political gain either. They only thought of the staging thing because that's what THEY would do.
He will, however, be signed by the Texas Rangers as a relief pitcher.
Union thugs and assorted democrat thugs are always spewing hatred and intolerance when anyone demonstrates against their leftists agenda. Several FReepers have experienced such attacks and I have witnessed them here in Austin.
Question for Miss Daisy - "Where did he get the union shirt?" They don't exactly sell them at the local Wal-Mart, you know.
what a crock! this kinda thing happens all the time - only, just like CBS & Dan Rather - this time they were caught!
It could have been staged. He sure does get into the newspaper a lot for going to opposition rallies. There is speculation that the guy in the union shirt in the picture is his 21 year old son.
I think this story is done though. It wasn't reported on enough to get a big backlash even if it were staged. At this point, it is still speculation, so I doubt we will see much of it in the press one way or another.
This is filthy lie. There are pictures of a union thug (please tell me how to get a "IUPAT for Kerry" t-shirt) with the ripped up sign. This person who wrote this article should be sued for libel.
ditto to that read the statment of the president of the union.
Liberals blogs are so desperate for anyone to pay attention to them LOL!
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