Republican senator gives journalist the middle finger (updated)

[ProSense]

Via Think Progress: Refusing to explain his obstruction of unemployment benefits, Bunning shoots reporter the middle finger.



Updated to add:

Republican senator gives journalist the middle finger

Posted: March 1st

Washington (CNN) - An angry Sen. Jim Bunning, R-Kentucky, refused to answer questions from CNN and ABC News Monday afternoon about his decision to block a bill that would extend unemployment benefits to millions of jobless Americans. An ABC News producer who was there says Bunning gave him the middle finger in response to a question.

CNN's Dana Bash and a CNN camera crew tried to get Bunning to comment more extensively on the controversy on Monday. But the senator "got very angry," she said.

"Excuse me," the agitated senator told Bash while entering a Senate elevator. "I need to get to the (Senate) floor."

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CNN reached out to Bunning’s office for comment. A spokesman for the senator said "I don't have any comment," when asked about the obscene gesture.

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1. Well at least it's honest, rather than Rs endlessly pretending what they do is "good for America"

[my2sense]

2. I wish crowds

of unemployed could show up at his house in protest to this nonsense.

[DJ13]

3. CNN reached out to Bunning’s office for comment.

Lol, did they want a staffer to explain what the gesture meant?

[damntexdem]

4. Well, now we have the name for him: Birdie Bunning.

But, then, we won't have him to kick around for much longer.

[rasputin1952]

5. Worthless knuckledragger...

He'll be gone in Nov...but he can do a lot of damage between now and them...:(

Worthless piece of crap.