Wow. How low, as they say, can you go?
This time it appears to be none other than on Phil Parlock, father to three year old Sophia Parlock, who was caught on film crying because somebody apparently ripped up his/her "Bush/Cheney'04" sign at a Kerry/Edwards rally.
We do it peacefully and quietly to show respect. And, we don?t want to get kicked out of anything," Parlock said.
http://www.herald-dispatch.com/2004/.../17/LNtop1.htm
Heartbreaking! What were those monsters that attacked that little girl's sign thinking!?!?!
Well ...
Let's look at the rest of the story.
Amazingly, the same thing happened before to Mr. Parlock. In 1996. 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.
"It must have been a strict Democrat who did this," Parlock said, feeling the red abrasions on his face. "Everyone with the exception of him was real peaceful about our protest.
But hey, it was just one other time, so one of those bizarre and unfortunate coincidences.
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."
Wow. Gotta hand to the freepers. When a lie works, might as well just keep running the same play, huh?