{"id":932,"date":"2012-03-04T03:58:00","date_gmt":"2012-03-04T03:58:00","guid":{"rendered":"https:\/\/www.novonon.com\/blog\/2012\/03\/04\/bizarre-tv-interview-with-senate-candidate-and-his-5-year-son\/"},"modified":"2012-03-04T03:58:00","modified_gmt":"2012-03-04T03:58:00","slug":"bizarre-tv-interview-with-senate-candidate-and-his-5-year-son","status":"publish","type":"post","link":"https:\/\/www.novonon.com\/blog\/2012\/03\/04\/bizarre-tv-interview-with-senate-candidate-and-his-5-year-son\/","title":{"rendered":"Bizarre TV interview with Senate candidate and his 5-year-son"},"content":{"rendered":"<p>[Creeporama -egg]<\/p>\n<div>\n<a href=\"http:\/\/feedproxy.google.com\/~r\/boingboing\/iBag\/~3\/o61r-qsJV8E\/bizarre-tv-interview-with-sena.html\">Bizarre TV interview with Senate candidate and his 5-year-son<\/a>: <\/p>\n<p>Watch the father&#8217;s lips when his kid talks. I don&#8217;t know what is going on here, but Mediaite offers three explanations:<\/p>\n<blockquote><p>1. That the boy has a earphone in and his dad is telling what to say and, for some reason, thinks he\u2019s a much better ventriloquist than he actually is.<\/p>\n<p>2. That Hudson\u2019s responses were all scripted and Hinckley can\u2019t help but mouth his brilliant dialogue.<\/p>\n<p>3. Hudson is actually some kind of AI-style android that is being controlled by its \u201cfather.\u201d<br \/>Either way, this video is absolutely insane <\/p><\/blockquote>\n<p>A fourth possibility is that the dad is nervous about what his son is going to say, and he is echoing the kid&#8217;s replies, in a sort of <a href=\"http:\/\/en.wikipedia.org\/wiki\/Clever_Hans\">Clever Hans<\/a> kind way. Please offer up other possibilities in the comments.<\/p>\n<p><a href=\"http:\/\/www.mediaite.com\/tv\/holy-sht-interview-with-senate-candidate-and-5-year-old-son-from-ad-is-creepiest-thing-ever\/\">Interview With Senate Candidate And 5 Year-Old Son From Ad Is Creepiest Thing Ever<\/a><\/p>\n<p><a href=\"http:\/\/ads.pheedo.com\/click.phdo?s=105d95f0fdaee4721a48271a5218c9d8&#038;p=1\"><img decoding=\"async\" alt=\"\" border=\"0\" src=\"http:\/\/ads.pheedo.com\/img.phdo?s=105d95f0fdaee4721a48271a5218c9d8&#038;p=1\"><\/a><br \/><img loading=\"lazy\" decoding=\"async\" alt=\"\" height=\"0\" width=\"0\" border=\"0\" src=\"http:\/\/tags.bluekai.com\/site\/5148\"><img loading=\"lazy\" decoding=\"async\" alt=\"\" height=\"0\" width=\"0\" border=\"0\" src=\"http:\/\/insight.adsrvr.org\/track\/evnt\/?ct=0:dupdmqp&#038;adv=wouzn4v&#038;fmt=3\"><img loading=\"lazy\" decoding=\"async\" src=\"http:\/\/feeds.feedburner.com\/~r\/boingboing\/iBag\/~4\/o61r-qsJV8E\" height=\"1\" width=\"1\">\n<\/div>\n","protected":false},"excerpt":{"rendered":"<p>[Creeporama -egg] Bizarre TV interview with Senate candidate and his 5-year-son: Watch the father&#8217;s lips when his kid talks. I don&#8217;t know what is going on here, but Mediaite offers three explanations: 1. That the boy has a earphone in and his dad is telling what to say and, for some reason, thinks he\u2019s a [&hellip;]<\/p>\n","protected":false},"author":1,"featured_media":0,"comment_status":"open","ping_status":"open","sticky":false,"template":"","format":"standard","meta":{"jetpack_post_was_ever_published":false,"_jetpack_newsletter_access":"","_jetpack_dont_email_post_to_subs":false,"_jetpack_newsletter_tier_id":0,"_jetpack_memberships_contains_paywalled_content":false,"_jetpack_memberships_contains_paid_content":false,"footnotes":"","jetpack_publicize_message":"","jetpack_publicize_feature_enabled":true,"jetpack_social_post_already_shared":true,"jetpack_social_options":{"image_generator_settings":{"template":"highway","enabled":false},"version":2}},"categories":[1],"tags":[],"class_list":["post-932","post","type-post","status-publish","format-standard","hentry","category-uncategorized"],"jetpack_publicize_connections":[],"jetpack_featured_media_url":"","jetpack_shortlink":"https:\/\/wp.me\/p3pfIY-f2","jetpack_sharing_enabled":true,"jetpack-related-posts":[],"_links":{"self":[{"href":"https:\/\/www.novonon.com\/blog\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/posts\/932","targetHints":{"allow":["GET"]}}],"collection":[{"href":"https:\/\/www.novonon.com\/blog\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/posts"}],"about":[{"href":"https:\/\/www.novonon.com\/blog\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/types\/post"}],"author":[{"embeddable":true,"href":"https:\/\/www.novonon.com\/blog\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/users\/1"}],"replies":[{"embeddable":true,"href":"https:\/\/www.novonon.com\/blog\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/comments?post=932"}],"version-history":[{"count":0,"href":"https:\/\/www.novonon.com\/blog\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/posts\/932\/revisions"}],"wp:attachment":[{"href":"https:\/\/www.novonon.com\/blog\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/media?parent=932"}],"wp:term":[{"taxonomy":"category","embeddable":true,"href":"https:\/\/www.novonon.com\/blog\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/categories?post=932"},{"taxonomy":"post_tag","embeddable":true,"href":"https:\/\/www.novonon.com\/blog\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/tags?post=932"}],"curies":[{"name":"wp","href":"https:\/\/api.w.org\/{rel}","templated":true}]}}