Another shot of the little girl whose dumb dad brought her to the Edwards

[Maddy McCall]

rally:



Caption: Sophia Parlock, 3, cries while seated on the shoulders of her father, Phil Parlock, a supporter of President Bush (news - web sites), after a Bush-Cheney sign she and her father were holding was torn up by another person standing in the crowd that had gathered to greet Democratic vice presidential nominee Sen. John Edwards (news - web sites), D-N.C., Thursday, Sept. 16, 2004, at the Tri-State Airport in Huntington, W.Va. At right, is Alex Parlock, 11, Sophia's brother. (AP Photo/Randy Snyder)

[2Design]

1. well at least they get to be there - Bush SS would have then in

hand cuffs and being dragged away by the hair.

I am sorry IF some kerry person ripped it up, but she might have done it herself.

[shadu]

8. This story is very hard to believe

It fits the republican propaganda
playbook too well.

[A_Possum]

2. Why are we giving this more attention than the arrest of the gold star mom

A mother whose son was killed in Iraq was ARRESTED today at a rally for Laura Bush.

That strikes me as at least as shocking as this.

[cheshire]

14. Good question. There are to many moronic issues that get hot.

[AuntPatsy]

3. That man does not deserve that precious young child..how dare

he continue to pose for more photo ops, is his hate so strong for Kerry Edwards that he cares not that his precious young daughter is still CRYING!

He is a sick individual, I pity the siblings of that poor child..

[LittleClarkie]

10. All 10 of them

That's alot o' kids.

I hope that guy was a plant. I hate to think the puke was on "our" side.

[AuntPatsy]

23. I agree with you but it really makes no difference, this was wrong

and if it werent staged the perp would have already had his or her picture plastered all over the net, welcome to the twenty first century, unless of course it was a plant and they wouldnt want that so publicaly acknowledged..

[cheshire]

4. She could have torn it up and Dad got mad. Geeze. Kids cry over nothing.

[Maddy McCall]

5. Info about Dad:

Five vie for two Cabell BOE seats

By CHRISTINA REDEKOPP - The Herald-Dispatch



Phil Parlock

Age: 47

District: 3

Family: married; 10 children -- two at Marshall University, seven in Cabell County Schools and a 3-year-old at home.

Resides: Address removed

Education: Attended high school in Pennsylvania; received a bachelor’s degree in science from Penn State in 1979.

Political experience: Fourth attempt at Board of Education.

Professional background: real estate salesman; worked in real estate appraisal, state and federal government.

Community service: Volunteer for Boy Scouts, NAACP, Junior Achievement, Huntington City Mission.

Edited to add link: http://www.herald-dispatch.com/2004/April/05/LNtop1.htm

Anyone with the name in the yahoo picture and even a second-grader's ability to google would have found this in four seconds.

[Kimber Scott]

9. Why did you post this?

Are we Freepers now? Maybe, go intimidate the guy a little? I don't get this.

[Maddy McCall]

16. How you interpret my posting this is more "freeperish" than my intention.

How dare you.

[Kimber Scott]

25. How dare I what? Why are you posting this man's address?

It appears you want someone to take some sort of action, or something? Why does anybody need his address? What's your address? Maybe, somebody'd like to pay you a visit - send you some cookies.

[Maddy McCall]

30. His address is ON THE INTERNET because he ran for school board.

Step one: see dad's name in the photo caption
Step two: search google for name
Step three: school board article with candidate bio pops up.

Here's what I meant: HOW DARE YOU accuse me of wanting someone to go intimidate this man in any sort of way.

I am a professional historian...research is what I do...except, usually, finding the facts isn't so easy.

You are viewing me through some vile glasses. Jeez, take a break.

[PeaceProgProsp]

33. It's the guy who ripped it up whose profile I'd like to see.

I bet you he's a Republican.

[Maddy McCall]

35. I'm with you there. However, the guy wasn't named in the caption.

[PeaceProgProsp]

37. I hope the photographer and the editors and reporters had

the sense to address that OBVIOUS possiblity before reporting this story.

But I suspect that they didn't.

[Kimber Scott]

41. Things are getting VERY edgy in this country. Historian, or not,

I'd hate to think you made it EASIER for somebody to find this guy and do something more stupid than what's already been done. The guy is an ass for taking his kid to a cock fight, BUT...

I'm sorry, I live in Phoenix where a man was shot to death shortly after 9/11 for wearing a turban. People are vicious - even some of the people on "our side." Oh, and think of the turmoil if somebody on "their side" could make it LOOK like our side did something bad to this man and/or his family.

Whether you found his address on the Internet, or not, IMOP, I don't think it's very nice to post it here.

[Maddy McCall]

43. Yeah. Ok. Thanks for your concern.

A little over dramatic, methinks, but, whatever.

:eyes:

[Kimber Scott]

46. Why'd you post the address?

Simple question. No drama, except for wondering what your "motivation" is.

[Maddy McCall]

47. Do you see the address in the post?

I deleted it when I realized that the bio included the address.

HOWEVER, if you are so damned concerned, contact the newspaper that carries the bio and tellthem to take the man out of harm's way by removing his bio.

God knows, we don't want some demented person to look him up and harm him, as IF that were my intent.

Do you ALWAYS see the worst in people??? I think your posts are now bordering on obsessive. Let it GO.

[Kimber Scott]

48. Gone.

Thanks.

[quaoar]

17. I agree completely

It's immature and disgraceful.

[Maddy McCall]

20. Oh, and classless.

:eyes:

[AntiCoup2K4]

59. It's a matter of public record, as the guy was running for school board

He's also a "professional" Bush rally attender (links in other threads)

Seems clear he's doing favors for the BushReich hoping they'll bank roll his fifth unsuccessful attempt to make the Book of Moron part of the West Virginia public school system.

[Maddy McCall]

11. Ouch. HE badly lost the school board election:

Member of Cabell County Board of Education
Vote for 2
Updated: 05/11/04 10:01 PM STATISTICS

100.00% Precincts Reporting



RICK DUNCAN 5,316 16.43%


PHIL PARLOCK 4,223 13.05%


TED T. BARR 8,496 26.25%


SUZANNE McGINNIS OXLEY 10,040 31.02%


MARK DONAHUE 4,171 12.89%


WRITE-IN 117 .36%

[JohnKleeb]

13. NAACP I thought the republicans didnt like the NAACP

[vetwife]

19. Educated beyond his intelligence I would say !

[Kimber Scott]

6. Guy thinks a lot about his daughter, eh?

"Here, Baby Girl, get up here and catch some bullets for me, eh?" Why take your kid to a confrontation with strangers? Especially now. This is sad and it'll probably get worse. Leave your kids home when you go to protest - anything.

Remember back in the day when the coal miners went on strike and the management opened fire on their picket line? Nobody knows what's coming down the pike. Leave the kids home.

[amlouden]

7. they just don't give up, do they? n/t

[IndianaGreen]

12. Did a Democrat tear up the little girl's sign? Yes or No?

No one gives a fuck about her dad's bio! That's the sort of defense Freepers put up all the time when they are the ones in the wrong.

All the readers that saw the picture and read the caption will come away with the impression that some asshole of a brute tore a little girl's sign. Why didn't he pick on someone his own size?

[faithfulcitizen]

31. i'd say yes, and also looks as if he's smiling about it (nt)

[The Shadow]

15. It Is Sad That Someone Would Do That , But.

What was this fool thinking taking his children to a John Edwards rally waving a */cheney yourself sign.

He kind of reminds me of those terrorists who hide behind human shields of women and children for protection, cowards that they are.

If the man had a set of balls, he would have shown up in his jeans and favorite beer drinking shirt alone and waved his sign. Ah, but alas he doesn't appear to be a working stiff like those around him.
He looks more like the CEO of one of the local corporations that rape, cheat and steal off the back of the commoners.

Phil Parlock, you gutless fuck, shame on you sir, what did you expect?

[Maddy McCall]

18. AHA! This is this guy's second time to use a child as a prop:

July 4, 2004

The Phil Parlock family of Barboursville -- father, mother and 10 children -- likewise made the trip as a family. Rachel, 13, said it was the second time she had seen Bush.

"It was really good that we got the president on the 4th of July," she said.

Her older sister, Pam, 22, said she has seen Bush so many times she has lost count.

"You hope to get closer each time. Hopefully someday we’ll get a handshake," she said.

Pam Parlock said she be-longs to the Marshall Young Republicans, and she could have sat with them, but she wanted to be with her family, even if it cost her the handshake. She is a member of the West Virginia Army National Guard and was called to duty last year. The 1257th Transportation Co., to which she belongs, spent some time at West Point, but it never went overseas, she said.

Alex Parlock, 11, said he shook Bush’s hand four years ago during a campaign visit at Harris Riverfront Park in Huntington. Alex said he was sitting on his father’s shoulders and wearing a Bush mask when then-candidate Bush saw him and shook his hand.


http://www.herald-dispatch.com/2004/July/05/LNspot.htm


This guy must be a real Bush groupie. Yuck!

[robbedvoter]

21. MOB=Mothers opposing Bush - had a march against RNC in NYC

on August 28. They were all pushing strollers. It's a political statement. It's legitimate. You are vicious, thuggish brutes who lost all their humanity - you are as bad as BFEE. Congratulations!

[IndianaGreen]

22. I totally agree with your disgust!

This is the sort of shit the Freepers do all the time.

What's the difference between us now?

[LisaL]

26. Why in the world would you

generalize it as us? One moron ruined the sign, and all of the sudden it's us making little kids cry? I guess no good Nader supporter would ever do such a thing?
:spank:

[LittleClarkie]

27. Well, it ain't all of us darlin'

That's the difference.

The freepers are pretty uniform. At least some of us have the sense to be outraged.

Plus, I don't like the extreme Republican hate I'm seeing here and there. Some of these folks are on our side. 700 strong in one yahoo newsgroup alone that I know about. We don't want to alienate the Repubs who are voting Kerry, people. Dang, even Michael Moore recognizes "recovering Republicans." Yer scarin' me.

[AuntPatsy]

28. If you think that you are not looking at the whole picture, a father

a loving and caring father would have immediately took his daughter off his shoulders and hold her to comfort her and then take her out of there, he looked far from scared as she continued to weep...

A photo op deluxe and using a small child for such is beyond redemption for both the father and the perp...

[Maddy McCall]

32. Thank you, Aunt Patsy

That is exactly the point. Look at my other post above. This guy put his other child on his shoulders once before in a rubber Bush mask.

This guy sounds just a little off his rocker.

[AuntPatsy]

38. Exactly and I believe you have a valid point...

[NV1962]

24. well BOO EFFING HOO!

Stupid dad ought to be glad she didn't get tossed out of the gathering pulled by her hair. Assuming it was her dad and not some sort of pedophile, you never know with the rabid idiots campaigning for the Dim Son.

That irresponsible twit of a "father" wanted to make a point, well - he succeeded.

He made a total moron of himself, his "parenting" skills and dumb ass bushistas in general.

What a bunch of sensitivity training wannabes, parading this picture while pictures of 1.020 (and counting) coffins streaming out of Iraq are a no-no.

Dumb ass ignoramuses!

[Darranar]

34. It was a CHILD with a SIGN!

Why was it necessary to tear it up?

Even if she hadn't been there, why is it necessary to tear up a sign?

Just because the crowd could have done worse doesn't mean that what they did do was right.

[NV1962]

39. Who says it wasn't a childmolester?

Got proof?

Here's mine: he forced her to carry a "Bush" sign in a well-known adverse crowd, and refused to comfort her, instead exploiting her hurt feelings.

A bushista through and through, and perhaps a criminal one at that.

No pity for the self-obsessed weasel! Let him force innocent kids to attend a properly funded school instead.

Oh, just to rub it in: that's what you get as a rotten parent when you don't believe in choice.

[Darranar]

42. How do you know he refused to comfort her? n/t

[Guaranteed]

49. Because they SHOULDN'T HAVE BEEN THERE.

If a woman whose son DIED IN BUSH'S WAR doesn't belong at HIS rallies, some punk piece of shit and his three year-old snotnosed kid doesn't belong at Edwards'.

[Darranar]

50. That women DID belong at Bush's rallies...

she and anyone else who wanted to protest him should have been able to do so freely. The restriction of her right to freedom of expression is disgusting.

[robbedvoter]

29. Their little bumper sticker looked really threatening - thank god the

muscular union guy tackled the enemy and fragile little Edwards can now be spared the horror of a Bush/Cheney little sign.

[demgrrrll]

36. Have we determined beyond a shadow of a doubt exactly who ripped

up the sign? Has someone come forward or been identified? There is something about this that looks so staged. No one is near the little girl no one is looking at her if this happened a moment before the photograph was taken someone would have been looking in their general direction. The man is looking straight ahead, wouldn't he be looking at the person who ripped up the sign? I need more information.

[Maddy McCall]

40. I thoroughly agree...

but skepticism is being poopoo'd by some at DU. :eyes:

Also, funny that the man who supposedly did the ripping isn't named, but the "victims" were. Hmmmm.....

[Lex]

44. How about THIS PICTURE?

It's of a lady whose son HAS DIED and the Repukes are having her hauled away because she had the temerity to ask some questions ON THE OUTSIDE of the venue where Laura Bush was speaking.



She might now be crying like a little girl, but I'm sure she is dying on the inside because she's lost her son and NOW HER COUNTRY has turned on her.

[Maddy McCall]

45. Amen, Lex.

I saw it on the news. Every station across the US should have carried that.

:cry:

[JSJ]

51. i'd be checking the provenance of the twit in the green baseball cap...

...he doesn't look like the regular kind of Kerry supporter. In fact, he's got a freeper face and style. Could it be he's a Rove 'ripper'?

[drdtroit]

52. Why weren't these people in the "free speech zone"

you know, like a half a mile down the road just like for little caesar.

[frylock]

53. as posted by newsguyatl

http://www.herald-dispatch.com/2004/July/05/LNspot.htm

http://bellinghamherald.gannettonline.com/gns/iraq/20030719-26621.shtml

this Parlock guy gets around.

http://www.democraticunderground.com/discuss/duboard.php?az=view_all&address=132x825183#825517

[Ell09]

54. Everyone seems to be missing the point

Phil used his child as a prop, to go to an Edwards event and promote Dubya. If Phil wanted to go BY HIMSELF to the event and speak his mind that's fine. Why were his children there? TO PROTECT HIM! He thought he could get away with doing whatever he wanted at the Edwards rally as long as he brought his kids with him.

It would be like going to an Oakland Raiders home game and sitting in the "Black Hole" (where the Raidres most rowdy fans sit) and wearing the opposing teams jersey..and bringing your kid along in their jersey. If Phil wanted to make a statement, and look for trouble, he should have had the balls to go by himself.

I don't condone the actions of whoever made the little girl cry, but Phil knowingly took his young children and unnecessarily put them in to a volatile situation. Despicable.

[Maddy McCall]

56. I posted that she was a "shield" about two hours ago. :-)

[VOX]

57. Nail. Head. Hammer. Wham. Right on the money, Ell09.

And welcome to DU. Sorry it had to be in such an emotionally charged thread.

Best to you -- :toast:

[VOX]

55. PARLOCK USED --USED -- HIS DAUGHTER, HE USED HER!!!

What in the hell is a * supporter doing taking his 3-year-old daughter to a Democratic rally????????????? Is this in lieu of a trip to the zoo? He is, in effect, **using her as a shield**.

What is the probability that your * - Cheney sigh is going to get torn up at a Democratic rally? Not that great, to say the least. What chance would a Kerry-Edwards sign have at a GOP rally? (Of course, Republican rallies are so screened and canned that they have been avoiding this kind of stuff.)

Bottom line -- this guy Parlock, with his toddler daughter on his shoulders -- was trolling for trouble. How could it be otherwise? What would he expect would happen? Unfortunately, it appears, or has been made to appear, that someone tore the sign.

Now, this crying little girl is the kind of image that the media eats up, and she'll be a poster-girl for BushCo. Parlock did his job well.

[DaveofCali]

58. This could have been a setup.....

I wouldn't be surprised if this was a coordinated smear effort by the RNC, because the perfect poses were caught by camera. (but I don't see the pro Kerry people around paying attention to them) We all know how the Republicans have abused the openness of Kerry's rallies....

[RevolutionStartsNow]

60. Yes he was stupid to bring her there, but...

some of you people are just MEAN. Just because the guy is for Bush/Cheney doesn't mean he's a bad father or a child abuser or anything of the sort.

If indeed a guy ripped her sign that was uncalled for, and only hurst our cause. I don't want any part of that.