Antonin Scalia: Conservative Jurist Par-Excellence

Can you believe that this clown is even sitting on our nation’s highest court? That gesture, that gesture is not a simple waving of the hand to say hello. No, that’s Supreme Court Justice Antonin Scalia, as he left mass on Sunday, responding to a journalist that asked him if he would recuse himself from an upcoming case before the Supreme Court. The judge made it plainly clear that he couldn’t care less about his critics; moreover, judge Scalia,
more or less, told the journalists to go blow herself.

Since judge Scalia so ably communicated his displeasure of his critics, the Boston Herald went to press with the story and subsequently published the image that you see on this page — by the way, Peter Smith, a freelance photographer and an assistant professor of photojournalism at Boston University, whom captured judge Scalia blowing off critics, was fired by the church for releasing the image. Here’s how Peter Smith describes what he saw:

Smith was working as a freelance photographer for the Boston archdiocese’s weekly newspaper at a special Mass for lawyers Sunday when a Herald reporter asked the justice how he responds to critics who might question his impartiality as a judge given his public worship.

“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.” [ Boston Herald, March 30, 2006 ]

That’s right, one of the nine judges of the Supreme Court, the conservative bulwark, in fact, is telling his critics to go screw themselves. All right, all right, granted, so it’s hard to get all worked up about a hand gesture, even when accompanied with a well delivered vaffanculo by judge Scalia; after all, our vice-president “I-shot-a-man-in-the-face”-“go-fuck-yourself”-Cheney has set the bar kinda low.

Does any body still remember Bush’s campaign pledge back in 2000:

The ability to restore honor and integrity to the White House - The moment that usually draws the greatest applause in Mr Bush’s campaign speeches comes when the Republican nominee talks about bringing dignity and character back to the White House.

What a joke the Bush Administration and the entire culture it ushered in has turned out to be.