Posted on 09/17/2004 7:39:16 AM PDT by Xaviore
Three-year-old Sophia Parlock cries while seated on the shoulders of her father, Phil Parlock, after having their Bush-Cheney sign torn up by Kerry-Edwards supporters on Thursday, Sept. 16, 2004, at the Tri-State Airport in Huntington, W.Va. Democratic vice presidential candidate John Edwards (news - web sites) made a brief stop at the airport as he concluded his two-day bus tour to locations in West Virginia and Ohio. (AP Photo/Randy Snyder)
Parlock clan is invading FR, hmmm? How many signed in over the last few hours claiming themself a brother or sister of this poor little girl? So I'm John F**ing Kerry, President of the United Socialist Popular Party do Brasil. </sarcasm off>
I've just discussed this matter with my local baseball-cap repairman. He assures me that Michigan baseball caps are available by special order in West Virginia. He sees nothing in that baseball cap that is inconsistent with baseball caps available to genuine union thugs.
Most likely a non-reaction (physically). Frustration, sadness that I'm in a position where I can't do anything about it because the situation will get more violent and ugly for my kids if I escalate the confrontation by fighting back.
Thanks for clarifying things - I heard your Dad on Glenn Beck this morning and he sounded totally sincere, and on closer inspection, I don't think that guy looks like your brother. On the radio, he said he was in the process of trying to leave when the pictures were taken, which explains his facial expression.
I'm glad the Freepers are open-minded enough to explore all of the possibilities, rather than just "drinking the kool-aid," but I believe you and your Dad that this was not a set-up.
Okay, I'll give you that shot. I'm not exactly sure it's me responding like this. I think I've just had it up to here with the "Is it Real or Is It Memorex?" nature of anything to do with the media. I demand truth from my fellow Republicans, not smoke and mirrors. This smacks of something the dems would do, not my party. That's all. Like I said, I will be the first to admit I'm wrong. I won't impugn it any further. I've said what I had to say. It doesn't make me a Dem shill or Dan Rather. Anyone who reads my posts knows where I stand.
According to this blog, this Phil Parlock has done this sort of thing several times before, and has been assaulted in the past, so he can't really claim to be surprised at the crowd reaction. But, most devestatingly, the goon with the reversed baseball cap bears a striking resemblance to his own son.
This may be a set-up from the git-go!
See the new thread: Evidence that the crying girl was staged (a summary) (DU Barf Alert)
I just may know more than you do about this.
I'll check back with you later and we'll see if the union guy is a Parlock or not and who got suckered (by a speculative post on a left-wing blog, no less.)
And Marshall U is in Huntington, West Virginia - The local team.
I posted a duplicate of this one too, which the moderators removed.
The reason I did so is that the earliest post had a headline that the poster made up. And the reason he made it up is that the original AP story on Yahoo didn't have a headline.
After Drudge linked to it, you could use Drudge's headline. But it's hard to search FR for a story that doesn't have any headline. Besides, this one deserves a lot of exposure.
LOL!! You're the one digging yourself a hole here, if it turns out you've been had.
It may very well be just coincidental that Parlock's had run-ins on THREE separate occasions at Democrat rallies, and all THREE times got his name and picture in the paper. But, there's enough smoke here to wait to make a final judgment.
-Eric
I saw the family pics. I don't see the resembalance.
It'll also take a Pefect Storm to set that up. The photographer has to be there. The kid has to be a union member, and possibly a union rep - of the most thuggish ones around (IUPAT). He has to be allowed to get front row as well. They all have to be together. The sign must be snuck in, etc etc.
I don't buy it.
I may be wrong,too, but you have to understand that Huntington is a small city with a small town atmosphere and the Parlocks are a fairly well-known family and Phil Parlock is fairly well-known and the airport in question is a TINY TINY airport and if Phil Parlock thought he was going to let his son impersonate a union thug in WV, in broad daylight, with photographers around, he would be stupider even than you already might think he is.
It MIGHT be true, but it is implausible.
This is not NYC. People know who you are around here.
We've had a (fortunately) few incidents of Democrats and union thugs ganging up and assaulting women and children in D.C. It's ugly. Grown men and women should be ashamed to act that way, but these folks have no shame. Your dad ought to keep the youngsters away from Democrat crowds until they're old enough to defend themselves. It's sad it's like that, but some of the 'Rats have no standards of civilized behavior.
No. It's not Michigan. MARSHALL maybe, and that doesn't mean anything. It's the local team in Huntington. It'd be like U-M in Ann Arbor, MSU in East Lansing, Western MI in Kalamazoo, etc.
It's a free country and all, but the wisdom of taking a three-year old to what would obviously be an opposition political event and especially with the deliberate intent to involve the three-year old should be questioned.
Please give little Sophia big hugs from me.
A picture is only one moment in time, sink! ;^) We do not know that he didn't get emotional or in the guys face.
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