Internet hero talked Edward Scissorhands instead of Edward Snowden on live TV and host didn't notice
Known Internet troll and all-around prankster Jon Hendren, aka @fart, gave an impassioned, convincing defense of a controversial figure on The Daily Share today. “He’s doing the most patriotic possible thing,” Hendren said, adding, “I think to cast him out, to make him invalid, in society simply because he has scissors for hands?”
Hendren spent much of the three-minute HLN segment offering deadpan support to an American hero, Edward Scissorhands. The show’s host, Yasmin Vossoughian, was not asking him about Scissorhands, however. She was talking about Snowden, and she never skipped a beat. Not. One. Beat:
Vossoughian: There is classified information out there… that could have feasibly harmed people. Do you think Snowden’s actions were worth that risk?
Hendren: Well, you know, to say that he couldn’t harm somebody with what he did, like he could, absolutely he could’ve. But I think to cast him out, to make him invalid, in society simply because he has scissors for hands? I mean that’s just strange…. people didn’t get scared until he started sculpting shrubs into dinoaur shapes and whatnot. “
Hendren: Alright well now Snowden’s living in Russia…. listen, some people say it’s hypocritical that Snowden has asylum in Russia. Russia has a lot of human rights violations.
Hendren: Yeah, casting him out is just completely wrong… just because he was created on the top of a mountain by Vincent Price, incomplete, with scissors for hands and no heart. Edward Scissorhands is a complete hero to me.
Vossoughian: But what about the choice that he made to live in a country like Russia?
Hendren: I mean where else is he gonna go? We cast him out… we got scared when he poked a hole in a waterbed with his scissor finger? That was just unreasonable of us.
Vossoughian: Well, John, I appreciate you giving us your opinion. Thank you.
In an interview with Esquire, Hendren said he doesn’t know why HLN reached out to him for segment: