[lbo-talk] "Liberals made my little girl cry"

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http://www.truthout.org/docs_04/091804X.shtml

Scamming the Media, Parlock Style
By William Rivers Pitt

Friday 17 September 2004

Meet Phil Parlock. Parlock is a family man and a
staunch Republican. Parlock has a very sad story to
tell about how rotten Kerry supporters are. You see,
they made his little girl cry.
 
Parlock, his weeping daughter, and the fiendish union
guy holding a piece of the allegedly ripped sign.
Parlock was at a rally on Thursday to greet Vice
Presidential candidate John Edwards, who was on a
swing through West Virginia and Ohio. Parlock brought
his three children and a Bush/Cheney sign to show
support for his beloved President. According to him, a
Kerry-supporting union guy wearing an IUPAT shirt
ripped up the Bush sign his little girl was carrying,
making her cry.

Terrible, right? A sign that our national politics
have descended into these kind of brutish tactics,
right? An embarrassing incident for the Kerry
campaign, right? The media certainly thinks so, and
has dutifully reported on the incident.

For the third time.

A report 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...Parlock said some of
the crowd tried to make other anti-Clinton
demonstrators feel unwelcome. He estimated that about
150 Dole supporters attended the rally, but their
signs couldn't be seen for most of the rally."

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