Since you are making comments without getting all the facts, your viewpoint lacks veracity because it is not fully informed.
Please read this link here:
http://www.loyola.edu/communication/cagliweb/2003/people_stories/kfhandgestures.html Ted Kennedy certainly knows that those hand signals are viewed by many as insulting.
If you can't see that, even after looking at the still photos, then I don;t know what to tell you.
Show me a picture where he gave the finger like your ORIGINAL TITLE said before it was changed .......