"Mad As Hell" Is Now a Bit Passe? Meltdown from Meltdown (Live on Fox) 
Tuesday, April 14, 2009 at 12:13AM
Stickman ED

Was the Infamous Fox Faint Feigned?

David Buckner Couldn't Handle His Own On-Air Analysis Of Financial Crisis

Passing Out or Just Passing Gas?


New Financial Anthem : "I'm As Sick as Hell and I'm Passin' Out!"


Fox's Glenn Beck Interview Pushes Santelli's "Rant of the Year" into Second Place; Howard Beale's Network (it's fiction to begin with) moves to third place

 


The new and undisputed #1 video rant of the financial crisis (at least to date) belongs squarely to David Buckner who is about to become really famous!!!!!!



 

Howard Beale eat your heart out. You've been eclipsed! I never like to traffic in someone else's tragedy but this Fox Network clip frames the econolypse perfectly . Egged on by Glen Beck, "financial expert" David Buckner whips himself into a such a an apocalyptic frenzy he faints live on TV (seems to have recovered at least physically) and passes out in slo-mo.

 

 

Here is the orginal Howard Beale rant "I'm mad as hell..." that now drops  to third place.

 

 

Here is the Rick  Santelli "Rant of the Year" now bumped down to second place:

 

 

Don't miss Saturday Night Live this weekend. They'll be having a field day. Set your Tivo's now!!!!!

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