Is Story About Little Girl With Ripped Up Sign Bogus?

A lot of blogs are posting links to this photo which shows a little girl on her father’s back crying while she holds a ripped Bush-Cheney poster. The cutline for the photo reads,

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 (news – web sites) 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)

But the Rising Hegemon blog points out that Parlock has a history of showing up at Democratic events and then claiming he was assaulted by his opponents that goes back to at least 1996.