Scalia Plays Pot, Kettle

Update on that filthy gesture Justice Antonin Scalia dropped at Church the other day —

Now he's saying it was entirely harmless — a dismissive gesture, not the old F.U.

It's a plausible story, sure. Yet, Scalia's taking it even further — chastising the Boston Herald for misinterpreting him, rushing to judgment, exploiting a situation for political purposes and basically giving him a raw deal.

I know he's thick-headed and conservative to a fault. Still, someone close to him should take him aside and point out the irony here — explaining to him that old maxim about when you point the finger at someone and there's three pointing back at you.

My favorite part is that he accuses the paper of buying into stereotypes of Italians because they've watched "too many episodes of the Sopranos."

I guess we're left to assume he's the way he is because he's caught too many episodes of — what? — Fox News?

Justice Scalia Chastises Boston Newspaper

(AP) Supreme Court Justice Antonin Scalia, in a scathing letter to the editor of the Boston Herald, accused the newspaper's staff of watching "too many episodes of the Sopranos" for interpreting a hand gesture he made at a cathedral as obscene.

…To back his interpretation of the gesture, Scalia in his letter quoted from Luigi Barzini's book, "The Italians:" "The extended fingers of one hand moving slowly back and forth under the raised chin means 'I couldn't care less. It's no business of mine. Count me out.'"