[NavyCanDo]

“That thing could not have lifted a chihuahua.................much less a boy..............”

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. All about how many square feet you need per pound of lift, and he said that balloon was much too small.

Hannity sort of blew him off, just saying “I hope your right, but...” Where Hannity could of taken that bit of information and scooped the rest of the media, he continued to let the show get caught up in the media frenzy, doing the popular thing. I like Hannity and Fox News, but too often they let drama beat out real investigative journalism..

[Red Badger]

As soon as I saw the thing when I got home, I knew that that boy was never in it.............

[HamiltonJay]

If you haven’t figured it out by now Hannity is not the brightest bulb in the box. He parrots talking points ad nauseum and rarely offers any serious thought to any discussion.

Now with that being said, seeing the balloon in size context from this “launch video”, its hard to believe this thing was going to lift a 6 year old child off the ground, let alone reach several thousand feet with it.

However, had I launched this balloon and then couldn’t find my youngest, I think I’d be a bit panicy and second guess that assumption.

And with that being said, I think this whole thing was a hoax, period.

[MaxMax]

Hannity should have googled it to confirm the information. He could have brought
an impressive insight that nobody else thought of into the story.

[Finny]

This is why Hannity has never impressed me. The guy has been to DisneyWorld a zillion times ... this video shows the scale of the balloon in question, and if it could lift a six-year-old kid high into the heavens, then all those kids working at Disneyworld carting around a few hundred helium-filled balloons to sell to guests would be "neutralizing" at 10 to 20 feet off the ground.

I swear, as far as I'm concerned, the father who pulled this stunt is an American hero for revealing gullability that goes beyond nonsensical. People WANTED to believe that the kid was in that thing. They wanted to indulge in the "real life" drama so badly that they blocked any effort of their own common sense to calmly assess the situation and see the truth -- that the joke was on American media, media watchers, and rescue officials who were as manipulated by the MSM as marionettes by a puppetmaster. This was so obvious that any money wasted on rescue efforts is squarely the responsibility of the doofs who authorized it.