According to the Associated Press: “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 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)”
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Okay guys, this is not cool. Leave teasing little girls, kicking them, pulling their hair, and leading them away in handcuffs to the Republican thugs. We’re better.
As Wonkette and others have noted, this whole thing was probably staged. Democratic Underground found the following from 4 years ago.
Not just 4 years ago – coincidentally, the exact same thing happen to the exact same guy 8 years ago too! This guy seems to get assaulted by democrats with cicada-like reguarity…
whole story here
c’mon its staged.. but it reminds me of my mispsent youth in dallas, circa 1980. We drove around stealing Reagan signs out of people’s yards. We filled up a pickuptruck bed with ’em..we only stopped when a guy pulled a shotgun on me after he’d been following us.
staged shmaged. it’s a funny picture nonetheless. and forget the crying girl, look at how great the dad’s “sad” face is.
I read the same hoax reveal story in several newspapers yesterday. However truthful (and geez that word just sounds so partisan now) the rag linked here may be, other rags are also carrying the same rather incriminating set of facts.
http://atrios.blogspot.com/2004_09_12_atrios_archive.html#109542699935507535
it’s 100% staged. for proof follow the link. the little kid on the right looks like this guys son and the guy in the hat also looks like another older son.
Yeah, Duh. Pharlock has ten kids, there was no room for him in the picture 😉
Phil Pharlock pulled this same stunt back in 2000, girl on shoulders, Union guys picking on him, signs sneeked in, can you say “scripted?”
http://www.democraticunderground.com/discuss/duboard.php?az=view_all&address=132×828458
poor little girl,who brings their child to a political rally anyway??
Even if this wasn’t staged, this guy is an idiot. He gets “attacked” TWICE while doing the same thing, and yet decides to bring his 3 year old daughter along so she can what…get “attacked” along side him? What a terrible father!
Seems the little piece of theater has
been performed 3 times by same guy. The sign-ripper looks suspiciously like the little girls older brother (see family picture in link below)
http://www.truthout.org/docs_04/091804X.shtml