D.C. Apartment Building Doubles as Giant Middle Finger Pointed at the White House

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Kennedy | 6.10.2013 9:20 AM

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D.C. Apartment Building Doubles as Giant Middle Finger Pointed at the White House

Over on V and 11th Street NW in Washington, D.C., a residential building under construction looks exactly like a giant middle finger pointed straight at the White House.

"A lot of people take pictures, they watch, they laugh," said the resident of a building down the block. "They keep looking at this building."

DCist, a local blog, dug up some details on the structure.

Reason TV correspondent Kennedy went out to take a look for herself.

About 1:30.

Shot and edited by Jim Epstein.

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Hyperion 11 years ago

Der Fuhrer will not be amused. If Kennedy disappears, we’ll know what happened.
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  1. Astorix 11 years ago
    
    piss off, spammer and take your clickbait with you.
sarcasmic 11 years ago

I see a building permit being revoked in the near future.
AlmightyJB 11 years ago

That building is racist!
1. Live Free or Diet 11 years ago
  
  But the White House is… you know… white. And the finger is plywood, which makes it a Finger of Color. Doesn’t that put the onus on the White House?
  1. AlmightyJB 11 years ago
    
    You’ll never get a job at MSNBC using logic.
    1. Live Free or Diet 11 years ago
      
      A job at MSNBC? Why would I purposely go to work for a failing company?
AlmightyJB 11 years ago

Will this be the basis for a new Dan Brown book?
Agammamon 11 years ago

Methinks someone is trying to hard to find something controversial.
As evidenced by the very first person she asked who clearly didn’t think of it that way until Kennedy mentioned it.
1. Tamfang 11 years ago
  
  I agree with Agammamon. Ho-hum.
sarcasmic 11 years ago

They flew her in from L.A. just for that?
1. JW 11 years ago
  
  They really need to alert us when she’s coming to DC, so I can get my stalk on.
sarcasmic 11 years ago

And will someone buy the poor woman some new clothes? It’s like she’s only got three outfits or something.
1. Wind Rider 11 years ago
  
  So, if she can’t find something new to wear, she should wear . . . nothing? Well, I’d be fine with more of that.
2. dinkster 11 years ago
  
  I thought Reason only pays in monocles.
  1. AlmightyJB 11 years ago
    
    They hand out orphans for the Christmas bonus.
3. AlmightyJB 11 years ago
  
  I’m at work so can’t watch the video so I’ll just assume she’s in a corsett and leg stockings.
  1. sarcasmic 11 years ago
    
    One of her frumpy long-sleeved dresses.
  2. JW 11 years ago
    
    It’s a peek-a-boo boudoir corset and there’s a spiked collar involved as well.
    1. AlmightyJB 11 years ago
      
      Please tell me there’s a garter belt
      1. JW 11 years ago
        
        Not since she slowly rolled it down her leg and shot it at the camera.
Juice 11 years ago

Huh, I drive by that thing every day.
livertarian 11 years ago

I think this brings balance. The Washington Monument flips the bird in the classical liberal way – middle finger only, other fingers held close to the palm by the thumb. Neo-flippers curl their non-essential fingers in a sort of half-mast flip; i.e. the neighbor buildings look like the knuckles.
There is no disagreement regarding the target of the flips, of course.
XM 11 years ago

That black who said he’s down with the middle finger building must be a Republican. A rarity.
1. Bill 11 years ago
  
  Black Republicans must always be referred to as self-hating Uncle Toms. (That makes them racists, ya see)
  Cue what’s his name to remind us of the truth about Uncle Tom from the novel.
Warren 11 years ago

I’m so glad the global economic crisis is over and the Mid East has settled down so we can enjoy headlines like this one.
The question here is why is this building so tall and narrow? I bet it’s a zoning thing or maybe a permit thing. There was probably a story worth reporting here. But instead we go Kennedy and her 12 year old intellect.
1. Tamfang 11 years ago
  
  Maybe it’s narrow because it’s between two other buildings. Nah.
Astorix 11 years ago

Actually that’s pushing it to say this is a middle finger. It’s the power of suggestion at work here.
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