Tuesday, May 3, 2011

Did The Rock Use His Twitter Account To Break The News That Osama Bin Laden Had Been Killed?


Yesterday while driving home, I was listening to Isaac and Suke on Primetime and they (along with the rest of the world) were talking about Bin Laden finally getting caught and killed.  It wasn't an ultra serious conversation or anything, but while talking back and forth, Suke said that he had seen where The Rock broke the news about Bin Laden on Twitter.  I was like, "Huh?"

I made a mental note to go a little research on this (meaning, a quick google search) when I got home.  And sure enough, it looks as though Dwayne "The Rock" Johnson tweeted out the news at the same time as Keith Urbahn, who is Donald Rumsfeld's chief of staff and a Navy Reserve intel officer.  From the article, written by Joe Coscarelli of The Village Voice:

At 10:24 p.m. on May 1, Donald Rumsfeld's Chief of Staff and Navy Reserve intel officer Keith Urbahn tweeted from his BlackBerry, "So I'm told by a reputable person they have killed Osama Bin Laden. Hot damn." He is being credited with breaking the news "long before the networks or any other news source reported it," and clarified in an interview, "I'm not going to reveal the source, but I do feel it is important to make clear that it was not Mr. Rumsfeld or anyone who has access to classified information."

Also at exactly 10:24 p.m. on May 1, Dwayne Johnson, better known as The Rock, tweeted the message pictured above: "Just got word that will shock the world - Land of the free...home of the brave DAMN PROUD TO BE AN AMERICAN!" Though he didn't go as far as Urbahn in revealing the news before it was confirmed, he did tease it at exactly the same moment leaving us to wonder a few things, only half in jest:

1) Did Keith Urbahn and The Rock have the same source? Were they perhaps CCed on the same email or text message?

2) How in the hell is The Rock receiving secret government news way before anyone else in the nation?
So there ya go.  How about that?  Dwayne Johnson is breaking world news now.  Apparently, he's the new Wolf Blitzer or something.  What the hell has happened to the free world.  Actually, I think it's kinda cool.  I bet Ochocinco and his OCNN are pissed.  Because as of right now, DJNN >>> OCNN.