Source: Boston Herald
A freelance photographer has come forward with the picture showing Supreme Court Justice Antonin Scalia giving a nasty gesture in the Cathedral of the Holy Cross Sunday.
Amid a growing national controversy about the gesture U.S. Supreme Court Justice Antonin Scalia made Sunday at the Cathedral of the Holy Cross, the freelance photographer who captured the moment has come forward with the picture.
Despite Scalia's insistence that the Sicilian gesture was not offensive and had been incorrectly characterized by the Herald as obscene, the photographer said the newspaper "got the story right."
The GOP loyalist Scalia had denied in the press the vulgarity of the moment in a scathing letter reputing the Boston Herald.
Spin and lies, lack of the truth or morals in 3, 2, 1....
But then he said the following, minutes after the gesture shot was taken.
Smith said the jurist "immediately knew he'd made a mistake, and said, 'You're not going to print that, are you?'"
When you combine that inappropriate gesture with the Italian phrase, "Vaffanculo," you get the gist of this conversation by now.
"The judge paused for a second, then looked directly into my lens and said, 'To my critics, I say, 'Vaffanculo,'" punctuating the comment by flicking his right hand out from under his chin, Smith said.
The Italian phrase means "(expletive) you."
Vaffanculo means, "Go get fucked up your ass."
I find it interesting that a standing powerful Supreme Court judge would make statements like this. Especially when it's a simple question from a freelance photographer on how he responds to critics who might question his impartiality as a judge given his public worship.
Don't citizens have the right to question the judges or politicians whom they elected as to how they stand on certain issues? Why is being a good, active citizen being spinned into something villainous by those who prefer people stay quiet (mainly the GOP)?
Caught doing the deed red-handed yet he doesn't have the ethics to be a bigger man. I guess it's a stretch to take some accountability to own up to a mistake and a short moment in lack of judgment.
I'm quite disappointed at the lack of morals and character from a member of our country's Supreme Court.
I'm not shocked though, knowing Justice Scalia is in Dick Cheney's inner circle and a long time GOP supporter.
Another fine example of GOP "high moral values".
Scalia also told reporter to "go get fucked up the ass" in Italian as he was leaving.
Nice.
I can only laugh about this story and the hypocrisy of the GOP faithful.
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