Oh please. . .Bush supporter uses kid to disrupt Kerry event, gets press

[wndycty]

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)

http://story.news.yahoo.com/news?tmpl=story&u=/040916/480/wvrs10309162250

[boxster]

1. Hey, look, it's the next Ann Coulter!

:)

[mbali]

3. She already weighs more than Ann Coulter . . .

[okieinpain]

2. why would someone use their kid like that

[ComerPerro]

38. Because family doesn't mean shit to rethugs

Neither does citizenship or patriotism.

[eaprez]

4. geeze, the kid can't even read yet so why is she crying? hand her a

kerry sign and she won't even know the difference.

[HarrietBrown]

6. Too bad for her if that really happened...I mean that...

but she'll be crying even harder in 20 years when she's working three jobs to pay off the deficit.

[MissB]

5. There is another thread on this page

That talks about the father. Publicity hound. Seriously.

http://www.democraticunderground.com/discuss/duboard.php?az=view_all&address=132x825183

[eaprez]

8. kerry supporters can't even get into a Bush/Cheney event....yet they

whine when they aren't wanted at a Kerry/Edwards event. Such hypocrites.

[bluestateguy]

7. This is unfortunate

But this guy should not have come into a Kerry rally attaching a Bush sign to his little girl. If he wants to be a hostile disruptor at a political rally that's his business. Kerry rallies, unike Bush rallies, are open to all, with no demands that people sign loyaty oaths. He should have appreciated that he would make people angry. If he wants to face the consequences of that, fine, but leave his little girl at home where she will be safe. He brought this on himself and made his daughter upset in the process. He can bring the girl to a Bush rally where she won't be made to cry by all the scary black people and union thugs.

[buff2]

9. What the hell was he doing at a Kerry/Edwards event anyway?

If they would stay away from places they don't belong,things like this wouldn't happen. Did that creep actually think he would be welcome there holding that stinkin bu$h/cheney sign? Damn dumbass ratwing nut cases. :grr:

[PeaceProgProsp]

21. Why does anyone think it was a Demo who tore up the sign?

It was so obvioulsy another Republican.

[IndianaGreen]

23. The man in the blue union T-shirt has part of the sign in his right hand

That's why!

[Maddy McCall]

34. Just because one wears a union shirt does not mean that

one is a union dem.

[IndianaGreen]

39. Except that there are other union activists there

and members of a union local all know one another. If this guy were not a member of the IUPAT local, he would have been exposed as a phony.

[PeaceProgProsp]

40. I don't see any other IUPAT'ers in that picture.

[PeaceProgProsp]

42. Also, why's dad wearing a suit, unless he KNEW he was going

to be on camera play-acting that he's the victim of a guy who's dressed as a union member (with the backwards cap, and everything).

Is this guy even from WVa? He follows the campaigns arround, right?

He's not going to work. Why wear the suit? It's a costume.

[PeaceProgProsp]

45. Indy, looks like I was right.

[imax2268]

10. the guy

is a political figure in WV I think...just google his name...he's a realator and is running for the school district there...just google his name and you will see...

I feel sorry for the girl...and the only reason is because her daddy used her...used her for a photo op...brought her to a Edwards event with a BushCo sign...he should be ashamed of himself...

[istruthfull]

11. What an ass

What an ass to exploit ones' child in such a fashion. To put ones child at a possible risk, such a loving parent.

[Tandalayo_Scheisskopf]

12. The little girl...

Should not have been used in this manner.

The bonehead should have kept his hands off the sign.

I would like to know more about the bonehead. Things and people are not always what they appear.

[quaoar]

13. I can't believe y'all actually condone this

She's a three-year-old girl for Christ's sake.

If we have to grab signs away from toddlers and make them cry in order to win then we don't deserve to win.

Get a fucking grip.

[PROGRESSIVE1]

14. And there are 3 year olds in Iraq getting their heads blown off.

This future "FReeper" should just do as Bill O'Reilly says,
"SHUT UP"!!!

:grr:

[YellowDawgDemocrat]

15. Real nice, guys

[yardwork]

18. You've posted this all over the board tonight, even started a thread

Who is the "we" that you keep talking about? I haven't ripped up anybody's sign. I don't take candy from children. I haven't condoned anything.

One person does something we don't even see and suddently the entire population of Democrats in the world is abusing children?

[bobbyboucher]

32. Condone?

I think you are forged.

[Kahuna]

37. How do you know it was grabbed from the child? Where does

it state that?

[LTR]

16. Some observations

1. I have only seen two pictures. No physical harm to either the father or her daughter, from what I've seen and heard. And that's good. I'd hate to see any kid hurt, even in a foolish P.R. stunt like this.

2. The father must have mush for brains to bring his young daughter into that crowd just to stir things up. I have no problem with anti-Kerry protestors (at least people can do that at HIS events), but leave the kids at home. Common sense.

3. Why is this even a big deal, anyway?

[LisaL]

17. Cause it's a cute kid crying

because mean and bad Kerry supporter ruined her Bush sign.

[PROGRESSIVE1]

26. Or is it a "cute, blonde hair, blue eyed, white, child'?

Maybe that will make a difference!

:puke:

[Darranar]

24. So people protesting Bush shouldn't bring children, either?

Why not?

[Mayberry Machiavelli]

19. The disruptors are all over the board tonight pimping this. Please don't

encourage them...

[dennis4868]

20. she's crying because....

she just learned that it's her generation that will have higher taxes because of the out of control deficits under Bush and social security wont be around for her....

[Contrary1]

35. For all we know,

Daddy could have just told the little girl that her puppy had died.

[Skip Intro]

22. What a fucking loser of a Dad that girl has

Hiding behind his little daughter. Subjecting her to what he fucking knows will be a hostile situtation.

What a brave, strong, nurturing, undoubtedly super-Christian-like Daddy.

I feel sorry for that girl.

I'd like to meet up with that coward without him holding his little girl in front of himeslf, yelling from behind her what he's afraid to say to your face.

Another shining moment for you lurking freeps, and your right-wing way of life. And oh so typical.

[Darranar]

25. And what about those who tore up the sign?

They were just innocent bystanders, I suppose?

[Skip Intro]

28. My point was that the guy should have had the guts to there without his

daughter's protection, which is clearly, to me anyway, what the hell is going on there.

No body should have taken a sign from a kid and torn it up. Actually sounds like a Rove mini-stunt to me.

But looking at that picture, I see something far more sad, sinister than a group of Kerry supporters (if that's what they were) who crossed the line.

I see a cowardly right wing bushbot using his little girl as a prop, if not as protection. Far beyond what was certainly a bad, inconsiderate, if not mean (I would say viscious, but the little girl is just sad, not harmed) behavior by some Kerry supporters (if that's what they were).

The dad is the villan, imho.

[Darranar]

30. So, again...

if the father is the villain, what were those who tore up the sign? Innocent bystanders?

I doubt the father expected to have the sign torn up. Why should he be blamed for the actions of some of those at the rally?

[Skip Intro]

33. You doubt the father expected a response?

I think I just wrote what I think about those who tore up the sign. Stupid, mean, wrong.

But a dad using his daughter? Why, oh why, would a guy take is little daughter to a Kerry rally, and make her hold a bush/cheney sign? You don't think it was her sign, do you? I mean, it is probably safe to say her dad gave her that sign to hold, right? And its probably safe to say that this guy knew there'd be a negative response to it, right?

Knowing that, and giving the biggest benifit of the doubt, why the hell did the guy take his daughter there and have her hold a sign he knew would get a negative response? Why subject your daughter to that?

The only answer I can think of is that he's a fucking coward. In fact, its pretty dammed obvious to me.

Why would he do that?

[drhilarius]

27. Please, stay away from the bait.

This action was wrong. It was unacceptable. It doesn't matter what the Father's motives were, this sort of thing is just plain wrong.

"This dumb guy shouldn't have brought his kid to the rally!"

I've heard something like that before.

"That dumb chick shouldn't have been walking through the park at night wearing kinda slutty clothes."

[kiahzero]

46. When in doubt, imply your opponents are misogynists.

Always a good bet.

[Guaranteed]

29. WHY are you even talking about this???? nt

[JSJ]

31. bad form, kerryites- it was obviously frightening to the child...

...and I'm agin that. However, the father also demonstrated bad form for not taking her out of the venue and comforting her.

[CityDem]

36. Be ready to rumble

If you are coming to a political event, you better be ready to rumble. The father should have used some common sense and stayed away or left the kids at home. And for the little girl, she learned a lesson in civics today that may better prepare her later in life. If the worst thing that happens to her today was having her sign destroyed, I believe she is living a charmed life. Send her dad to Iraq to see how tough life can really be.

[LiberalBushFan]

41. The purists are here

If what happened to them was anything less than being dragged away and arrested, then they have no right to complain, because that's what would happen (and just happened recently to the gold-star mother) if they snuck a Kerry sign into a Bush event. I not only support the tearing up of the sign, I'd support safely taking the daughter off the man's shoulders and throwing him to the ground, then arresting him. The kid would cry some more, but little kids cry sometimes. If you're stupid enough to think we need to condemn this action at all, especially before even bothering to point out that much worse would happen (and does happen) at a Bush rally, then Nader is for you.

Yes, dumb people will be influenced by this picture and will not want to vote for Kerry. Do you think you're going to win them back by going "awww, we're sorry, you're right this is terrible," or showing the gold-star mother at the Pickles event getting arrested while crying about her dead child?

[Supply Side Jesus]

43. The dad should consider himself lucky.

Most union types I grew up around would have had him tied up to that barricade with his tie, and the sign shoved in his mouth.

[wndycty]

44. Kick

:kick: