What a strange day. News breaks out that a 6-year old boy named Falcon Heene is trapped in a helium balloon high over the skies of Colorado. Hours go by with cable news going nuts, following every twist & turn of the balloon. But then some other twists & turns occur, as some curious information about the parents of the Balloon Boy begins to dribble out. Turns out they've been on a reality TV show that has the creepy title 'Wife Swap'. The balloon lands, and, guess what! No boy in the balloon! Cable news shifts on a dime and begins to cover the more depressing search for a boy who may have fell out of a balloon, anywhere along the balloon's flightpath.
Finally, the mystery is solved when the 6-year old wakes up from a nap in the attic of his family's garage. From the start, the whole affair seemed a bit dodgy. Their appearance on tonight's Larry King revealed there was something very dodgy going on. In the following clips you'll first see Falcon saying to his dad "we did this for the show" when asked why he had been hiding in the attic. Unfortunately Wolf Blitzer was filling in for King -- he's a lousy interviewer, not even knowing how to give a follow-up question. He finally follows up in the second clip--some 40 minutes after his original question! Then, after the shady dad goes after Blitzer for simply asking the follow up question, Blitzer backtracks & gets all apologetic! An embarrassment all around!!
