Don Lemon strikes again.
No, seriously. He did that. And it’s not a bunch of elementary school kids he asked this to, but to the former U.S. Department of Transportation inspector general.
This is a guy who is (allegedly) fighting to get Piers Morgan’s spot. NO.
Via Talking Points Memo:
We already know that CNN anchor Don Lemon leaves no “preposterous” conspiracy theory unexamined.
But when Lemon Twitter-sourced questions about the missing Malaysian Airlines plane again on Wednesday night he went another step beyond Sunday’s “supernatural” event theory: he and his panel discussed the possibility of a “black hole” swallowing the jetliner.
He read out tweets that compared the mystery to “Lost” and “The Twilight Zone” before asking Mary Schiavo, a former U.S. Department of Transportation inspector general, to weigh in on the black hole theory.
“That’s what people are saying,” Lemon said. “I know it’s preposterous — but is it preposterous you think, Mary?”
“Well, it is. A small black hole would suck in our entire universe so we know it’s not that,” Schiavo said. “The Bermuda Triangle is often weather. And ‘Lost’ is a TV show. So I think — I always like things for which there’s data history, crunch the numbers. So for me those aren’t there.”
“But I think it’s wonderful that the whole world is trying to help with their theories and I absolutely love their theories,” she added.
LOL at her trying to smooth things over at the end there. I mean REALLY? Come on, man. “I know it preposterous, but is it preposterous?” Like, what?
Step in, Father. Just step in.
A couple comments under this YouTube video (excuse the language):
Uh, I believe they meant worm-holes, not black-holes. A black-hole does not in any way, shape, form, or fashion fuck around and we’d be split into atoms by now if it existed here.
^^BWAHAHAHAHAHAHA!!!!!
First off, “Lost” was not a movie AND this is a low in television journalism. WTF CNN?
Annnnnd comments under the TPM article:
Yes, because the black hole was lying in wait for the plane to make an unexpected course change, turn off all electronics except to record a few periodic ‘pings’ and climb to 45000 feet to knock out all the passengers. Of COURSE it was a black hole! What other explanation could there be?
Is it me or has Don Lemon really kind of lost it since he came out of the closet? It is like he felt all this new found freedom and decided “hey, maybe throwing all my nutcase ideas out there could be freeing as well”
Lemon sees the writing on the wall at CNN, so he’s auditioning for a spot on Onion TV.
^^He’s totally got my vote on that one.
“A small black hole would suck in our entire universe”
I think she meant to say “our solar system”, but who am I to question the infinite wisdom of a former transportation inspector general?
CNN is a ‘news organization.’ That’s what people are saying. I know, it’s preposterous — but is it preposterous you think?
^^FOR THE WIN!
