More of a mental breakdown than a meltdown but thoroughly enjoyable for the acting nonetheless:
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Outstanding
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The loop back to Niall Quinn is genius. He starts off with him and that’s the famous line, but the way he just circles back to the factual “Hold on, you’ve got an idiot like Niall Quinn who…”. Magnificent.
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My favorite is the Rod Liddle bit. I was young enough back then how’d he keep his job?
Alan Dershowitz had a total meltdown on The Last Word with Dunphy on September 11th, 2001. I think he was debating with Robert Fisk at the time.
Not sure if it’s up on the INTERNET anywhere.
He did apologise, but many wouldn’t have been given the chance. He’s box office.
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is that big mick?
NOTAMELTDOWN
http://www.informationclearinghouse.info/article17537.htm
By Robert Fisk
04/14/07 “ICH” – -- On the night of 11 September 2001, Al Dershowitz of Harvard law school exploded in anger. Robert Fisk, he roared over Irish radio, was a dangerous man. I was “pro-terrorist”. I was “anti-American” and that, Dershowitz announced to the people of County Mayo, “is the same as anti-Semitic”.
Of course I had dared to ask the “Why” question; Why had 19 Arabs flown aircraft into the World Trade Center, the Pentagon and Pennsylvania? Take any crime on the streets of London and the first thing Scotland Yard does is look for a motive. But when we had international crimes against humanity on the scale of New York, Washington and Pennsylvania, the first thing we were not allowed to do was look for a motive. How very odd. The 19 murderers came from a place called the Middle East. Was there a problem out there?
But Al would have none of this. And I got the message. To ask the “Why” question made me a Nazi. Which is why I subsequently received a flood of mail, much of it from Denver - what has Denver got against me? - telling me that my mother was Adolf Eichmann’s daughter. Thanks, Al. I’m sure you didn’t dream of the hate mail your silly diatribe will inspire. I guess Irish radio host Eamon Dunphy did. He pulled the plug on Al.
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A very underrated meltdown.
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