![]() By doing it you are offering someone a phallic gesture.” Ethnologist Desmond Morris explains its force as an obscenity: “The middle finger is the penis and the curled fingers on either side are the testicles. The bird has been used ever since the time of the ancient Greeks. Her very strict father saw her upturned finger reflected in the glass. When we were in high school, my friend Sandra Osorio Stoner flipped the bird behind her father’s back when he was telling her off, but she forgot she was in front of the TV set. I admit I did that from time to time when I felt powerless as a teenager. They flip the bird behind a closed door or anywhere they think their parents can’t see them. Secret bird-slinging is what kids do when they are mad at their parents. 1 is never flip the bird sneakily like Kent did as she smirked and lurked behind the backs of Sens. Instead of talking about what Kent did wrong, I think it is infinitely more helpful to talk about how to fling the bird the right way. Kent embarrassed herself, because her finger flipping lacked boldness. It takes more than a clueless malihini raising her middle finger to embarrass proud Hawaii. She said Kent’s bird flip shamed the entire state. Star-Advertiser columnist Lee Cataluna got prissy on this issue. My only regret is that I could not put up both hands.” ![]() “I decided to act on my feelings rather than pretend. She says in Civil Beat that she was forced to protest because of the DNC’s unfair favoritism of Hillary Clinton over Sanders. C-SPAN screenshotīut the Bernie Sanders delegate is back, still without remorse, to re-emphasize that she flipped the bird at the convention because she felt “cheated, helpless and bullied.” During a national TV broadcast of the Democratic National Convention presidential nomination roll call, Hawaii delegate Chelsea Lyons Kent sneaks in her bird-flip. If I were Kent, I would be lying low, hoping people would forget about my goofiness at the convention. Just when we were about to forget Fingergate, Kent put herself back in the news, this time in a Civil Beat Community Voices piece and in an op-ed she wrote for the Honolulu Star-Advertiser, defending what she calls her “pithy gesture.” House rules dictate that once such a vote begins, no absent members may enter the chamber.There are ways to flip the bird with power and style.Ĭhelsea Lyons Kent’s middle finger-raising at the Democratic Convention lacked such courage. Last Wednesday, Government House Leader Brian Mason apologized after he and other NDP members broke the rules to enter the chamber, barging past the pages, to vote for a new deputy chair of committees. ![]() It's the second apology from the NDP side of the house in less than week in the new session of the legislature. He studied history and political science at the University of Ottawa before interning in the office of Manitoba NDP MP Niki Ashton. The 22-year-old Connolly has some previous political experience. "I was not thinking clearly at the moment," he said.ĭeliberately misleading the house is considered a serious breach as it affects the ability of the legislature to carry out its work effectively.Ĭonnolly is one of the many newcomers voted in when Premier Rachel Notley's NDP defeated the Progressive Conservatives in the May 2015 general election. However he told reporters he did not intentionally mislead the house. "I leaned back and I threw up a gesture out of frustration and immediately regretted it because I had realized what I had done," he said. Outside the house, Connolly told reporters he made the gesture out of frustration because he felt the Wildrose was refusing to answer questions on social policy. "To be clear, my actions were not acceptable, and my apology and explanation were not good enough." "When this matter was raised at the time I sought to minimize the matter instead of taking full responsibility," Connolly told the house Tuesday. It was last Thursday during heated debate over the government's jobs policy that the Wildrose Opposition said Connolly "flipped the bird" in their direction.Ĭonnolly initially denied it at the time, saying he was just waving his hand.īut he admitted to it Tuesday after a table officer in the house later reported he saw Connolly make the gesture. "My actions were not befitting of this chamber and the dignity herein." "I made an inappropriate gesture to members opposite, which I regret and for which I apologize," Michael Connolly, the member for Calgary Hawkwood, said Tuesday morning in the chamber. ![]() EDMONTON - A backbench NDP member has apologized to the Alberta legislature for making an obscene gesture at an opposition member and then for misleading the house when he was caught.
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