Scalia and Cheney - Manly Men

Emerging from mass in Boston on Sunday, U.S. Supreme Court Justice Antonin Scalia flipped a middle finger to the press. A Boston Herald reporter outside the Cathedral of the Holy Cross had asked Scalia, 70, if he faces much questioning over impartiality when it comes to issues separating church and state. "You know what I say to those people?" Scalia replied, making the obscene gesture. He explained, "That's Sicilian." A photographer with The Pilot, the Archdiocese of Boston's newspaper, caught the moment. "Don't publish that," Scalia told the photographer, the Herald said. The Herald today calls it "conduct unbecoming a 20-year veteran of the country’s highest court - and just feet from the Mother Church’s altar. "Noting his "don't publish that" statement, it noted that "one of his sworn duties is to uphold the freedom of the press."