WHAT ARE THEY DOING?

Just goes to show that the general media will never let CLM live it down. it will follow him around, like a dark cloud, forever. It was colossal ignorance, especially when Verne himself realized it in real-time. It's not like Verne waited a week later to say, "Well, if it had been me, I'd have...." No, in real-time he was shocked at CLM's stupidity. I was too.