Whether he’s leveling his verbiage at Occupy protesters or hearkening for the good ol’ days of the Empire, Conrad Black always delivers syllable upon relentless syllable in a manner befitting...well, in a manner befitting a Lord. On his first visit to Britain since his release from a Miami prison, BBC news anchor Jeremy Paxman grilled Lord Black of Crossharbour (the interview begins at the 4:10 mark). Paxman riled up Black, drawing out some of his best material in ages, including insults, implied threats and talk of vomit. We’ve rounded up the most outrageous lines below.
• “Will you stop this bourgeois priggishness?”
• “I put myself in the camp of Henry David Thoreau…”
• “That was a completely fallacious judgment that was, in fact, absolutely defied by the jurors.”
• “You’re a priggish, gullible, British, fool who takes seriously this ghastly American justice system that any sane English person knows is an outrage!”
• “Let me tell you something: I am proud of having gone through the terribly difficult process… and actually being able to endure discussion like this without getting up and smashing your face in!”
• “The whole system is a fraudulent, fascistic conveyor belt to their corrupt prison system.”
• “That is what you’re waxing so sanctimonious about.”
• “Oh God, I’m going to throw up.”
• “I want to disabuse any of your viewers of the idea that I think I’m always right.”
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