I Helped Plan Balloon Hoax! - Democratic Underground

tomm2thumbs

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Mon Oct-19-09 08:49 AM
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I Helped Plan Balloon Hoax!

Edited on Mon Oct-19-09 08:51 AM by tomm2thumbs

Exclusive and eye-opening. Probably late-breaking but I refuse to put anything balloon-related in that category. Sorry for anyone who is tired of the story, but I think justice is the issue here and it is being served finally.

Exclusive: I Helped Richard Heene Plan a Balloon Hoax

For the first time, 25-year-old researcher Robert Thomas reveals to Gawker how earlier this year he and Richard Heene drew up a master plan to generate a massive media controversy using a weather balloon. To get famous, of course....

a couple of audio clips are included on the website -

http://gawker.com/5383858/exclusive-i-helped-richard-heene-plan-a-balloon-hoax?skyline=true&s=x

added a bit from the article:

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.

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arcadian

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Mon Oct-19-09 08:55 AM
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1. America

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zippy890

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Mon Oct-19-09 09:02 AM
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2. What a Country.

:party: :crazy: :silly:
:wtf:

they'll probably end up getting their own reality show

:patriot:

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Renew Deal

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Mon Oct-19-09 09:07 AM
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3. They had their own reality show for around 3 hours.

Show's over.

This sort of this was bound to happen sooner or later.

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tomm2thumbs

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Mon Oct-19-09 10:32 AM
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8. yup, all channels, but they burned through their storyline overnight

next show: prison dad meets balloon boy

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liberalmuse

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Mon Oct-19-09 09:09 AM
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4. I'm sure they're in talks with the network as I type.

It's been a bit embarrassing to be an American since Bush and his lapdog, "anything goes" media came to the forefront.

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la_chupa

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Mon Oct-19-09 09:33 AM
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5. ante up

Someone at work told me today that some television station has offered them money for their story. I refuse to check this out because I fear its true.

I shouldn't be shocked anymore when people exploit their kids for financial gain. Hollywood parents have been doing this forever, but thanks to reality tv anyone can do it.

pathetic

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Ruby the Liberal

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Mon Oct-19-09 10:12 AM
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6. The Sheriff announced that in his presser

He declined to name which station.

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peacetalksforall

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Mon Oct-19-09 10:21 AM
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7. The Republican TV network has given us lots of car chases and missing children, including children

in the back seat of a stolen car.

This was just a substitution of a balloon for a car and child who wasn't in the seat.

I'm sure we will have either a tv real life drama, a documentary about airborne child abuse, a book, a chapter, articles, and an anniversary interview with the child to see if he is growing up normal in the opinion of the tv interviewer and their producer.

Isn't the U.S. lucky to have such a sincere and focused 'coverage' to news and comments so that we don't get misdirected to adulthood?

{With all due sarcasm for our Republican tv networks.)

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