Balloon boy family plans 'big announcement'

Drudge ^ | 10-17-2009 | Drudge

[Brown Deer]

In an exclusive interview, the Gawker states that Robert Thomas spent several months earlier this year working on developing a reality science TV show to pitch to networks — the "show," Thomas says, that Falcon was referring to when he told CNN "We did it for the show." Among the ideas that Heene, Thomas and two others came up with for their reality TV proposal — and one that he says most intrigued Heene — involved a weather balloon modified to look like a UFO which they would launch in an attempt to drum up media interest in both the Heene family and the series he was desperate to get on the air. Still, Thomas never imagined that Heene would involve his six-year-old son in what he is certain was a "global media hoax" to further Richard Heene's own celebrity.

[Brown Deer]

They're Coming to Take Me Away - Heene Family

[Do Not Make Fun Of His Ears]

Also think of this: the kid says “You said it was for a show.”

 The normal thing woulb be for the father to say, “what are you talking about, son? Did you misunderstand the man’s question?”

Instead the dad says, “Yeah.”

And the mom  would have also asked, “What do you mean?” Instead she says “No” to the boy. Very telling.

This seems to be correcting the boy to stick to the story. 

Then the dad asks a bizarre question, apparently reeling from the boy’s answer.

“You didn’t come out?” what????!!! Everyone KNOWS he didn’t come out. The question the interviewer asked was WHY he didn’t come out. The father there seems to be very much disoriented and scrambling for thoughts.

The problem with these publicity hounds is that they didn’t prepare for the boy to be asked that question. And it backfired in a huge way.

[Do Not Make Fun Of His Ears]

EXCELLENT observation!!!

This scam is crumbling on FR as fast as Dan Rather did!!!

[Do Not Make Fun Of His Ears]

I’m no lawyer, but making a false 9/11 call is very serious business.

Compound that with allowing the FAA to be called in because of that 9/11 call, this guy is in deep doo-doo.

Maybe his trial will be televised, as some consolation.

[dragnet2]

Thanks, but that should have been obvious to the army of media that ascended on this story.

[jilliane]

Right...I couldn’t believe my ears - I watched it as it happened and thought I must have misunderstood because no one followed up on the “show” comment. The dad looked dumbstruck at first (wheels spinning a new lie appranetly) - then with 2 minutes left in the show Wolf Blitzer comes back to it and asks, “what did he mean we did it for the show.”... and the dad has a meltdown (”appalled” by the question) - his behavior was off from the start.

[dhs12345]

He should have to pay for the “advertisement.”