Chin flick threepeat

Congratulations to the Boston archdiocese's house organ, the Pilot, for giving the Herald a new reason to put The Flick on the front page. That's three front-page flickfests in a row; four out of the past five front pages (damn you, Tom Reilly!).

Statement from the now ex-Pilot photographer.

Jay Fitzgerald points to this excellent brief on the whole affair, for those of you who just cannot get enough.

Roberto Scalese, who once worked for a Herald-owned paper, says enough already:

What really bothers me about the Herald's wall-to-wall coverage of the Scalia hand gesture isn't that they totally screwed up and called the gesture obscene (It's absolutely, 100% is not). It's that they manufactured this controversy by missing a mistake by a reporter, and then claimed the mistake was actually part of a larger national conversation over whether the gesture was obscene.

In effect, they screwed up and put in on Scalia so they could sell more papers. It's slimy and unethical. ...

Carpundit, though, sees today's story as proof that the Catholic Church is manipulative and deceitful.

My gazillionpeat disclosure.