Less than 24 hours after joining Twitter, Edward Snowden has gained one million Twitter followers. But none of them is more notable than Jon Hendren -- a well-known Twitter comedian who tweets from the handle @fart -- who just pulled an epic feat of trolling on HLN.
HLN anchor Yasmin Vossoughian welcomed Hendren onto her show Wednesday. Ostensibly, he was there to talk as a supporter of Edward Snowden. Everything is going well until Hendren points out that it’s unfair to cast Snowden aside “simply because he has scissors for hands.”
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Vossoughian is either exceedingly professional or completely unaware of Hendren's trolling. She maintains this magnanimous poise throughout the remainder of the interview.
Hendren goes on this about Edward S.: “Casting him out is completely wrong. We’re treating him like an animal, somebody who should be quarantined and put away. Just because he was created on top of a mountain by Vincent Price, and incomplete, with scissors for hands and no heart ... Edward Scissorhands is a complete hero to me.”
In an email to Mashable, Hendren expounded upon his defense of the character played by Johnny Depp in Tim Burton's 1990 cult film. "I think [Scissorhands] got a bad rep and a lot of people are scared of him," he wrote. "I mean, at face value you look at him and wonder what he's capable of and begin to worry but really, I think people are more scared of what he sees in us, as a society."
Hendren was chosen seemingly at random to participate in the HLN segment, adding that "I called in about 15 minutes before I was on and they did an audio check and told me to stand a little to the left. I had no idea what the specific questions were going to be or even the format." HLN reached out to Hendren last night via email.
