"This is a Senators-only elevator!" Off-camera: He flipped the bird.

[Amerigo Vespucci]

http://rawstory.com/2010/03/gop-senator-flipped-abc-news-producer/

ABC News producer Zach Wolf said he was given the middle finger by Republican Sen. Jim Bunning (R-KY), when a fellow reporter asked why the senator had put a hold on a federal highway bill that has furloughed more than 2,000 federal workers.

Wolf didn't elaborate, but Tweeted, "Jim Bunning just flipped your trusty Senate producer the bird as we pursued him onto the Senators only elevator."

ABC posted video of the Bunning's exchange with ABC reporter Jonathan Karl online, but it doesn't show the finger. It does, however, display a visibly angry Bunning vexed at the reporter's questions as he gets into a Senators-only elevator in the Capitol building.

"Excuse me," Bunning exclaims.

Karl, the ABC reporter in the video, also alleged that Bunning pitched a middle finger off camera in a follow-up Tweet.

"An Irate Jim Bunning kicks me off the elevator "This is a Senators-only elevator!" Off-camera: He flipped the bird," he wrote.

[CurtEastPoint]

1. No, apparently it was an ASSHOLES-ONLY elevator. Thanks for good reporting, ABC.

That guy is a total douche and dildo.

[KingFlorez]

2. He's crazy and retiring, he's got nothing left to lose

Of course, he hasn't really ever been lucid, but he's stepped it up.

[City Lights]

3. A "senators-only" elevator? How elitist!

Who paid for that elevator, bunning?

[Captain Hilts]

6. All house/senate buildings have 'members only' elevators. nt

[Arkana]

4. Heh heh heh...

Bunning is sandbagging his own party as he goes down.

[Touchdown]

5. More of that classless society. "Senators Only Elevator"

Well, Buning certainly has no class.:eyes: