I Missed This One
Fortunately, Betsy Newmark didn’t. Jay over at Stop the ACLU has a great roundup of the latest smear job perpetrated by the MSM. Several news outlets (UPI, Boston Herald) have reported that Justice Antonin Scalia made an obscene gesture while answering a reporters question. Note that the original Herald story has now been blatantly altered to "clarify" the "obscene" gesture. How do I know this? Easy, the alteration was made in a completely different typeface and my drag and drop picked it up. (Unfortunately, my blog overrides incoming formatting, so it won’t display the altered text.) I bolded the new words below:
“You know what I say to those people?” Scalia, 70, replied, making an obscene gesture, flicking his hand under his chin when asked by a Herald reporter if he fends off a lot of flak for publicly celebrating his conservative Roman Catholic beliefs.
“That’s Sicilian,” the Italian jurist said, interpreting for the “Sopranos” challenged.
“It’s none of their business,” continued Scalia, who was the keynote speaker at yesterday’s Catholic Lawyers’ Guild luncheon. “This is my spiritual life. I shall lead it the way I like.”
The flicking of the hand gesture is not obscene. It is a gesture of irritation and contempt.
Writing a false charge and then trying to cover it up by altering the story is obscene.
UPDATE: UPI also changed it’s story. Also, I waded into the fever swamps over at Kos and Atrios. I will not link them, but some of the outraged comments are unintentionally funny as hell. The commenters who use extremely obscene language to decry Scalia’s "gesture" are kind of missing the high ground…
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