Local man makes news

Phil Parlock of Huntington did do this before – stage or at least encourage sign-ripping behavior. This week’s flap over the AP photo of Parlock and daughter with a torn Bush poster made Wonkette, too! Here’s the link from the Charleston Daily Mail in 2000: SIGNS FOR BUSH TAKEN AT RALLY, FATHER, SON SAY . Note: you must pay for this article, so I merely quote the headline/link. This site has the text of the article, though: Democratic Underground. And here’s the Herald-Dispatch article from earlier this week: Edwards greets supporters at airport. And finally, here’s a link to an un-scientific attempt to identify the man Parlock calls a “union thug”: The Gamut More from another blogger, including mention of the 1996 incident: Rising Hegemon

My take: the use of the word thug made me very suspicious. Surely someone from Huntington knows the Parlock family. Is the “thug” his son or what? Not that they’re mutually exclusive descriptions or anything. Local message boards haven’t answered this question. But WTF? Sign-incited violence has been inflicted on him twice before–why does he take a child of 3 to a campaign event with him again? Makes him either wacky or scheming, in my opinion. I’m just curious about where he and his “union thug” were the night of the Republican Party headquarters shooting last month. Could this be the same type of event–not committed by Parlock, I’m sure, but, you know, self-inflicted, so to speak? Committed by a violent thug who would like to make the other side look like violent thugs? No leads in shooting at GOP headquarters Makes you wonder.