Don Lemon’s suggestion Sunday night that “supernatural” events may have been involved in the disappearance of the Malaysia Airlines left a lot of people with the same reaction: Where did that come from?
A glance at the CNN anchor’s Twitter feed might offer a clue. On Sunday, Lemon received a pointed message from a user under the handle @curryslap, who said he wanted “one of you dam media people” to “discuss the remote possibility of something super natural.”
Lemon soon let @curryslap know that he was in luck.
“Going there,” Lemon replied.
Go there, he did. That day, Lemon wondered on-air if the plane’s disappearance was the result of something “supernatural.” And he made it clear that @curryslap wasn’t the only one pushing him in that direction.
“I have been getting questions from viewers on social media, through email, and even on the streets. Especially today, on a day that we deal with the supernatural, we go to church, the supernatural power of God,” Lemon said.
“People are saying to me, why aren’t you talking about the possibility — and I’m just putting it out there — that something odd happened to this plane, something beyond our understanding?” he added.
But @curryslap didn’t want Lemon to talk about the divine. The clearly conspiratorial Twitter user lamented Monday that “media anchors have been told not to say” anything about aliens or wormholes.
@ReneEHensley2 @donlemon @CNN well you know it’s like these media anchors have been told not to say the word #Aliens #WormHoles
— rk (@curryslap) March 17, 2014
@benshapiro no media anchor will say “aliens” @donlemon @CNN @FoxNews #Flight370 @msnbc
— rk (@curryslap) March 17, 2014
