Guest Asked About Edward Snowden, Defends Edward Scissorhands

This is hilarious.

During HLN’s segment on Edward Snowden and his new Twitter account, guest Snowden supporter, Jon Hendren, went off the rails and started defending Edward Scissorhands.

The conversation seemed pretty normal at first, but as it progressed, things got weird.

“He’s been isolated for so long,” Hendren said. “We should listen to what he says.”

But after cutting to a clip of John Oliver talking about the possible harm Snowden’s release of NSA documents could have caused, it becomes clear Hendren is not referring to the whistleblower.

“There is classified information out there that John Oliver was referring to, that was released, that could have feasibly harmed people,” Vossoughian said.

“Well, you know, to say that he couldn’t harm somebody with what he did — like, he could, absolutely, he could have,” Hendren said. “But I think to cast him out, to make him invalid in society simply because he has scissors for hands? I mean, that’s just strange. People didn’t get scared until he started sculpting shrubs into dinosaur shapes and whatnot.”