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From our side of the Water................
* The right-wing website the Drudge Report had a nice little scoop, or so it seemed, when it told the story of Phil Parlock of West Virginia, who said supporters of vice presidential candidate John Edwards set upon him and tore up the pro-Bush banner he was carrying at a recent Democratic Party rally.
Mr Parlock's three-year-old daughter was reduced to tears. "They just pounced on us," said Mr Parlock, after the rally in the town of Huntingdon.
It seems that Mr Parlock has had terrible luck at political rallies. Indeed various bloggers have revealed the same fate apparently befell the unfortunate Mr Parlock during both the 1996 and 2000 presidential campaigns.
In August 1996, the Charleston Daily Mail reported how Mr Parlock "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 October 2000, the same paper reported how Mr Parlock said he was roughed up by Democrats at a rally in support of Al Gore. Is Mr Parlock just plain unlucky? Who knows. But your diarist wonders why he keeps going to Democratic rallies with a pro-Republican banner and why he is so willing to take his three-year-old daughter if he is expecting trouble?
Courtesy of the The Independent......
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