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Thursday, March 30, 2006

Scalia says, "fuck off!" With pic!

So, the Boston Herald finally Published the shot There is little question that it was indeed, the Italian gesture for fuck off.

"It's inaccurate and deceptive of him to say there was no vulgarity in the moment," said Peter Smith, the Boston University assistant photojournalism professor who made the shot.
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."
Smith said the jurist "immediately knew he'd made a mistake, and said, 'You're not going to print that, are you?' "
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"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."

And here is the picture of fuck-off goodness.

3 Comments:

minimalist said...

Need any more proof that Scalia is an unprincipled scumbag? I sure don't!

He's smart as fuck though, and that's a dangerous combination.

Both these facts cast his pro-creationist rulings (among others) in a disturbing light. Wouldn't surprise me in the slightest if he was a Catholic version of the Reconstructionists -- Opus Dei, only even worse.

5:06 PM, March 30, 2006

Rev. Dr. said...

I simply can't believe he didn't recuse himself from Hamdi. What a jackass! Just weeks before the case he's giving talks saying he would never allow "enemy combatants" access to US courts, then he refuses to recuse himself.

And he can't claim he didn't know it would come before the court, it was already scheduled when he made the damn remarks.

Scalia just thinks that the law should be "whatever I say goes." No need to recuse himself, ever, no need to have a consistent legal approach, nothing. Just Scalia the philosopher-king of the United States.

6:05 PM, March 30, 2006

minimalist said...

He has a legal excuse for not recusing himself, which is that Hamdi's lawyers (for whatever reason) never asked him to. Almost makes me want to crack out the tinfoil, but I'm inclined to give the lawyers the benefit of the doubt.

Maybe they expected him to be a decent fellow and recuse himself without being asked. We know better by now.

A lot of people, even so-called libertarians, do believe he has a consistent judicial philosophy, but I would have thought that was put to rest after the 2000 election. He's just very, very intelligent and very, very good about couching his biases in ironclad legal language.

11:32 AM, March 31, 2006