Jon Hendren is funny person on the internet who was, for some reason or another, brought on HLN on Wednesday to be interviewed about his support of Edward Snowden, who joined Twitter this week.

Hendren, whose own Twitter handle is @fart, answered host Yasmin Vossoughian’s questions about Snowden reasonably at first. Then it became clear that Hendren was talking about another Edward S. — Edward Scissorhands.

After Vossoughian showed a John Oliver clip, she asked Hendren if Snowden could have conceivably hurt someone by releasing classified government documents.

“Well, you know, to say that he couldn’t harm somebody with what he did — he could, absolutely, he could. But to cast him out, to make him invalid in society simply because he has scissors for hands — I mean, that’s strange. People didn’t get scared until he started sculpting shrubs into dinosaur shapes and whatnot.”

The interview goes on, gorgeously, from there. Well done, Hendren.

(Thanks to Jezebel for sharing and @BronzeHammer for the video.)