From the mouths of babes, as caught by the CNN cameras during the Heene family’s 15 minutes of fame, Balloon Boy himself lets slip the truth.  The runaway balloon, the missing child story, everything… it was all a hoax.  No matter how the family tries to spin things, that whole situation was completely phony.  At no time was Balloon Boy in any danger, because he was never on the balloon.

The worst part of this video clip, where the kid lets the beans slip about his fake adventure, is that the CNN interviewer just let it go.  He heard it, he acknowledges that he heard it, but he doesn’t jump on the fact that the kid said, “You guys said we did this for the show.” See for yourself!

This is why people don’t trust the media.  Even when confronted with the truth, it gets ignored for the better story.  Balloon Boy being a hoax doesn’t draw as many eyeballs as legitimate danger, or even a boy misbehaving and worrying his family.  This was all a ploy.

Tags: CNN, unusual news, science gone wrong, Balloon Boy, Falcon Heene, hoaxes, publicity stunts, Richard Heene

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