Certainly everyone's familiar with the basic concept of cable news: have a bunch of experts/pundits just blabber on for hours on end. They'll look for anyone to make noise on these issues, which is where Jon Hendren comes in. Hendren (best known by his Twitter handle, @fart), managed to convince CNN's HLN producers he was an expert and supporter of Edward Snowden, whose recent Twitter launch was for some reason national news.