A Howard Stern fan lied his way onto MSNBC’s coverage of the Malaysian plane crash, telling “The Cycle” host Krystal Ball by phone that the aircraft was “shot down by a blast of wind from Howard Stern’s ass.”
The crass call came from a prankster under the guise of Staff Sgt. Michael Boyd, who apparently told the cable network’s phone screener he was calling from the U.S. Embassy in Ukraine and had seen the plane crash.
“Well, I was looking out a window and I saw a projectile flying through the sky and it would appear the plane was shot down by a blast of wind from Howard Stern’s ass,” the unidentified caller told Ball on live TV.
Touting the call as an “eyewitness exclusive” on screen, Ball paused briefly, apparently not comprehending what the man had said.
“So it would appear that the plane was shot down – can you tell us anything more from your military training of what sort of missile system that may have been coming from?” she asked the jokester.
“Oh you’re a dumbass, aren’t ya?” the caller retorted before hanging up the phone.
A frequent caller to the shock jock’s show who goes by the name Captain Janks has in the past called in to live TV news coverage to pull pranks like this. It’s unclear if that man, real name Thomas Cipriano, was behind the prank.
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