say it ain't so
Antonin Scalia gestures inside the Cathedral of the Holy Cross. (Herald exclusive photo by Peter A. Smith)
Photographer: Herald got it right
By Marie SzaniszloThursday, March 30, 2006 - Updated: 09:39 AM EST 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.
“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?’ ” .........
i'm NOT bas-italia (sicilian) but i AM of italian heritage. one doesn't make that gesture unless one means bid-nez. at least he has a cute lil' smile on his face
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actually, the photograph is deceptive in that he appears to have a sense of humor and some humanity ... what a fw ... but it's an awesome one ... I think he's summarizing his feeling about most of the bill of rights with that gesture, though
OH shit! I posted the same picture! I SWEAR I did not know!!!!
He knew what he was doing. I have it today at the boot- sorry to unwittingly be a thieving boot bitch..ah, I'm always doing soemthing wrong.
agreed mr shock!
and lily see my posting today with the SAME picture again...........
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