Watch an Edward Snowden supporter troll an HLN interviewer in the most bizarre way possible

Famous Twitter troll and comedian Jon Hendren has done it again — this time on television. In an interview on HLN tied to the recent launch of NSA whistleblower Edward Snowden's Twitter account, Hendren, a Snowden supporter, defended Snowden as "doing the most patriotic possible thing" — and scorned America for casting him out.

The interview started out innocently enough. After the interviewer showed Hendren a clip of John Oliver questioning Snowden about leaking classified and potentially harmful information, she asked him: "Do you think those actions were worth that risk?"

Hendren responded: "You know, to say the he couldn't harm somebody with what he did, like he could've, he absolutely could've."

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Then he switched gears. "But I think to cast him out and to make him invalid in society, simply because he has scissors for hands... I mean, that's kind of strange, because I mean people didn't get scared until he started sculpting shrubs into dinosaur shapes and whatnot."

Somehow remaining completely calm, the interviewer continued without acknowledging that Hendren had pivoted from discussing Edward Snowden to Edward Scissorhands. Watch the full clip below. Becca Stanek