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Balloon Boy tells CNN: "We did it for the show"
CNN ^ | 10/15/20 | CNN

Posted on 10/15/2009 7:18:44 PM PDT by dragnet2

http://laist.com/2009/10/15/uncomfortable_moment_balloon_boy_te.php

Also on KFI Los Angeles, we just heard it...


TOPICS: News/Current Events
KEYWORDS: balloonboy; falconheene; hoax
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To: familyop
The old witches are on a hunt. The mere sight of a whole, real family other than their own sets them to foaming at their snouts.

THAT'S what it is! We are annoyed at a WHOLE FAMILY!

Not the fact that the nation's rescue machinery was mobilized, needlessly and expensively, by a probable hoax! No no no. It's the fact that they are a WHOLE FAMILY.

It's our horrible, horrible ENVY at play here!

41 posted on 10/15/2009 7:45:50 PM PDT by Lazamataz (DEFINITION: rac-ist (rA'sis't) 1. Anyone who disagrees with a liberal about any topic.)
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To: Doogle

I knew this story didn’t smell right. Like the saying goes, if it smells like BS, it probably is


42 posted on 10/15/2009 7:47:06 PM PDT by Sarah Barracuda
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To: Lazamataz

I know I’m envious of a kid that cusses and farts all the time...


43 posted on 10/15/2009 7:47:15 PM PDT by CAluvdubya (Palin 2012...YOU BETCHA!.)
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To: Lazamataz; familyop

I hate whole families. Fragmented families are OK, but whole families...They suck


44 posted on 10/15/2009 7:48:20 PM PDT by dragnet2
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To: Lazamataz

Laz, you know I love you but this is TOOOO much. My eyes, arrrrrrrhhhhhhhhhhhhhhhhhh.


45 posted on 10/15/2009 7:48:53 PM PDT by Marysecretary (GOD IS STILL IN CONTROL!)
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To: al baby

I remember that one. It was really a great series.


46 posted on 10/15/2009 7:49:35 PM PDT by Marysecretary (GOD IS STILL IN CONTROL!)
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To: tcrlaf
A guy called Hannity during the middle of all this drama and said it was impossible for a balloon that size to carry anything over 8 pounds, and was certain without a doubt that the boy was not carried off. He gave some pretty impressive mathematical calculations that convinced me he knew what he was talking about. Hannity sort of blew him off, just saying “I hope your right, but...”
47 posted on 10/15/2009 7:50:31 PM PDT by NavyCanDo
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To: cmj328

The Duggars are real and they’re whole. They’re a real testimony to what a good family really can be. I also like Little People. Both shows are decent.


48 posted on 10/15/2009 7:50:53 PM PDT by Marysecretary (GOD IS STILL IN CONTROL!)
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To: GeronL

...Those TV stations and cable channels probabaly skipped some commercials for it...

FNC said 2 hrs without commercial breaks. LOTS of lost revenue.


49 posted on 10/15/2009 7:50:58 PM PDT by oldteen
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To: tcrlaf

Well, they should have held off on their evening interviews and rehearsed more.


50 posted on 10/15/2009 7:51:23 PM PDT by dragnet2
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To: dragnet2; familyop
We HATE whole families! We don't mind nationwide hoaxes and people risking their lives to try to rescue kids that aren't there. Heck, we kinda dig the vast expenses and the life-risking situations that the rescue personnel put themselves into. Heck, that was cool!

No, we gnash our teeth and rend our shirts because they are a WHOLE FAMILY.

Gosh, our snout-nosed witches faces HOWL when we see whole families!

51 posted on 10/15/2009 7:51:36 PM PDT by Lazamataz (DEFINITION: rac-ist (rA'sis't) 1. Anyone who disagrees with a liberal about any topic.)
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To: snarks_when_bored

when the balloon landed, I thought at the time the emergency personnel seemed rather lackadaisical for a life and death situation. My guess is that they had already been informed there was no one in the balloon. Meaning that the news media knew also, and was just hyping the drama.


52 posted on 10/15/2009 7:52:39 PM PDT by balch3
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To: dragnet2

If this is the hoax it seems to be, these parents are nuts for putting their kids on the air over and over, and letting them answer questions. Their desire for any and all publicity has possibly fried all their brain cells and they are no longer able to think logically. - The probability that one of the kids would spill the beans was very high as much as they’ve been on TV today.


53 posted on 10/15/2009 7:53:03 PM PDT by Will88
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To: Marysecretary

LOL! Remember, we men must endure Helen Thomas pictures, soooo..... be strong, my Mary. :)


54 posted on 10/15/2009 7:53:21 PM PDT by Lazamataz (DEFINITION: rac-ist (rA'sis't) 1. Anyone who disagrees with a liberal about any topic.)
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To: dragnet2

Beat the kid for spilling the beans


55 posted on 10/15/2009 7:53:52 PM PDT by woofie
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To: Lazamataz; al baby

Hearing Shep Smith saying:

“A First Grader,

Flying Through The Air,

... at 25 MPH!”

I could almost forgive them.

I was laughing so hard watching it live...


56 posted on 10/15/2009 7:55:02 PM PDT by Jet Jaguar (A mob of one.)
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To: Lazamataz
This guy is effing COOKED, baby

I had a hunch these people were media hounds....

57 posted on 10/15/2009 7:55:31 PM PDT by dragnet2
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To: dragnet2

What a pathologically screwed up family. God help those kids...please!


58 posted on 10/15/2009 7:55:41 PM PDT by GBA
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To: dragnet2

The boys have a loud and weird little rap video at the
ABC site:

http://abcnews.go.com/


59 posted on 10/15/2009 7:55:53 PM PDT by Will88
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To: Marysecretary

If you go back to the 40’s and 50’s, there were a lot of “decent” movies and TV shows which were entirely produced, acted, directed and promoted by Communists. They can fake “decent”, okay? Real decent people don’t have the massive vainglory that lusts after millions of other people’s eyes and attention on their private lives.


60 posted on 10/15/2009 7:55:58 PM PDT by cmj328 (Filibuster FOCA--a/k/a ObamaCare--or lose reelection)
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