Boston Herald: Stuck on Stupid[er] than the Globe

The Media Blog demolishes the next reporter, this time a Polish-American duncette, who explains the meaning of Scalia's gesture without quoting sources or any experts who affirm that his photographed gesture was anything more than a general Mediterranean sign that varies widely, but has NO OBSCENE MEANINGS anywhere from Portugal to Greece. A cameraman named Smith claims to have heard an obscene epithet from Scalia. Mysteriously, no one else heard Scalia say this.

This is pure guttersnipe garbage, worthy of a paper as unread and unesteemed as the BH. The Herald knows it doesn't have a reputation for anything except being a second-rate B-List rag in a city without any media alternative to dreary PC and pious nostrums from the left.

So the Herald practices "gotcha" journalism in a church on a conservative SCOTUS member, just to show the ultra-left their rad cred. Does the Herald count on a spurt of advertising revenues from increased circulation? Ha Ha Ha.

About the only effect this story will have is to mobilize the dormant conservatives who are pious Catholics in the Boston area to further disdain for the local media, if that is possible. Boston was once the Hub, but is now a backwater as far as national significance is concerned. Poor Mitt Romney may discover this during his campaign for the '08 nomination.