From Bill O’Reilly to Sue Simmons, on-air meltdowns by television personalities is now the rage on the Internet, so Gawker put together the collection below.
A few of these gems are already shown in full here and here
Turley: “People have no idea how significant this is. Really a time of shame this is for the American system.—The strange thing is that we have become sort of constitutional couch potatoes. The Congress just gave the President despotic powers and you could hear the yawn across the country as people turned to Dancing With the Stars. It’s otherworldly..People clearly don’t realize what a fundamental change it is about who we are as a country. What happened today changed us. And I’m not too sure we’re gonna change back anytime soon.”
Who could ever forget this famous meltdown?
Turley: “People have no idea how significant this is. Really a time of shame this is for the American system.—The strange thing is that we have become sort of constitutional couch potatoes. The Congress just gave the President despotic powers and you could hear the yawn across the country as people turned to Dancing With the Stars. It’s otherworldly..People clearly don’t realize what a fundamental change it is about who we are as a country. What happened today changed us. And I’m not too sure we’re gonna change back anytime soon.”
http://www.crooksandliars.com/2006/10/17/olbermann-the-day-habeas-corpus-died/
What the video missed:
Turley’s Brain: “You can stay, but I’m leaving.”
(Turley’s brain floats away; Turley’ lifeless (and hopeless) body collapses in a heap of futility & disgust)
Efforts to revive Professor Turley during the commercial break were successful; evidenced by the existence of this Blog.