{"id":6726,"date":"2009-10-18T17:30:47","date_gmt":"2009-10-18T17:30:47","guid":{"rendered":"http:\/\/blog.beliefnet.com\/reformedchicksblabbing\/2009\/10\/snl-mocks-balloon-boy-story.html"},"modified":"2009-10-18T17:30:47","modified_gmt":"2009-10-18T17:30:47","slug":"snl-mocks-balloon-boy-story","status":"publish","type":"post","link":"https:\/\/www.beliefnet.com\/columnists\/reformedchicksblabbing\/2009\/10\/snl-mocks-balloon-boy-story.html","title":{"rendered":"SNL mocks balloon boy story"},"content":{"rendered":"<p>Mildly amusing:<object type=\"application\/x-shockwave-flash\" data=\"http:\/\/widgets.nbc.com\/o\/4727a250e66f9723\/4adb4c5bc38bbbb2\/4741e3c5156499a7\/910ed1ba\/-cpid\/23c5ac4bbcc2eba5\" id=\"W4727a250e66f97234adb4c5bc38bbbb2\" width=\"384\" height=\"283\"><param name=\"movie\" value=\"http:\/\/widgets.nbc.com\/o\/4727a250e66f9723\/4adb4c5bc38bbbb2\/4741e3c5156499a7\/910ed1ba\/-cpid\/23c5ac4bbcc2eba5\" \/><param name=\"wmode\" value=\"transparent\" \/><param name=\"allowNetworking\" value=\"all\" \/><param name=\"allowScriptAccess\" value=\"always\" \/><param name=\"allowFullScreen\" value=\"true\" \/><\/object><a href=\"http:\/\/www.therightscoop.com\/hilarious-glenn-beck-mocks-the-medias-coverage-of-balloon-boy\/\">Glenn Beck also mocked the media coverage<\/a>.To make it even more of a circus the <a href=\"http:\/\/www.nytimes.com\/reuters\/2009\/10\/18\/news\/news-us-usa-aircraft.html\">sheriff says that he was playing the media<\/a> so that he could gain the trust of the media manipulators:<\/p>\n<blockquote><p>The sheriff, who on Friday had largely dismissed suggestions from reporters that the balloon flight might be a hoax, said that he had, to some extent, manipulated the media in order to gain the trust of the Heenes.&#8221;I bumped against the line of misleading the media,&#8221; he said. &#8220;I hope I didn&#8217;t cross that line. I bumped up against it by perhaps overstating our assurance or belief that there was nothing behind this.&#8221;<\/p><\/blockquote>\n<p>And <a href=\"http:\/\/www.cbsnews.com\/stories\/2009\/10\/18\/national\/main5394371.shtml\">he&#8217;s looking into whether the media may have been involved<\/a>:<\/p>\n<blockquote><p>We certainly know there&#8217;s a conspiracy between the husband and wife. You&#8217;ve probably seen some of the e-mails and things on the internet suggesting that there may be other conspirators. We&#8217;re certainly examining that possibility, including the possibility that even some of the media outlets may have had some knowledge about this.<\/p><\/blockquote>\n<p>I&#8217;d be shocked if the media were involved. Dupes, yes but willing accomplices to fraud, don&#8217;t think so.<\/p>\n","protected":false},"excerpt":{"rendered":"<p>Mildly amusing:Glenn Beck also mocked the media coverage.To make it even more of a circus the sheriff says that he was playing the media so that he could gain the trust of the media manipulators: The sheriff, who on Friday had largely dismissed suggestions from reporters that the balloon flight might be a hoax, said&hellip;<\/p>\n","protected":false},"author":119,"featured_media":0,"comment_status":"closed","ping_status":"closed","sticky":false,"template":"","format":"standard","meta":{"footnotes":""},"categories":[413,411,409],"tags":[],"class_list":["post-6726","post","type-post","status-publish","format-standard","hentry","category-crime-2","category-human-interest","category-media"],"yoast_head":"<!-- This site is optimized with the Yoast SEO plugin v23.9 - https:\/\/yoast.com\/wordpress\/plugins\/seo\/ -->\n<title>SNL mocks balloon boy story - Reformed Chicks Blabbing<\/title>\n<meta name=\"robots\" content=\"index, follow, max-snippet:-1, max-image-preview:large, max-video-preview:-1\" \/>\n<link rel=\"canonical\" href=\"https:\/\/www.beliefnet.com\/columnists\/reformedchicksblabbing\/2009\/10\/snl-mocks-balloon-boy-story.html\" \/>\n<meta property=\"og:locale\" content=\"en_US\" \/>\n<meta property=\"og:type\" content=\"article\" \/>\n<meta property=\"og:title\" content=\"SNL mocks balloon boy story - 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