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.

Jacquizz Rodgers Is Freaking Beaver Fans Out With His NFL Draft Themed Tweets

The only star that the Oregon State Beavers have on their roster has been freaking everyone out and probably causing widespread panic in Corvallis with a couple of his recent tweets. 

The first tweet said, "Money over Everything."  And the second tweet said, "Opportunity of a lifetime, don't let it pass."  This is definitely not what Beaver fans want Rodgers to be tweeting about.

Paul Buker of the Oregonian has the full story here.  In regards to Quizz's draft stock, Buker notes that NFL scouts don't think it will make much of a difference whether Rodgers stays for his senior season or not.  His draft stock is not expected to improve much at all by doing that.

From Buker's story on OregonLive:

Rob Rang of NFLDraftScout.com emailed Thursday that “nothing has changed in scouts' minds on Rodgers. … there are expected to be several underclassmen running backs declare early.

“Mark Ingram at Alabama, Ryan Williams from Virginia Tech, Mikel LeShoure at Illinois, and potentially Chris Polk from Washington are the four backs that I could see going ahead of Rodgers, which keeps his stock in the mid-second to mid-third  round.

“His stock isn't likely to change this year (or next) due to the fact that the only real question about him is his height, which obviously isn't going to change.’’

It's not making a bold declaration by any means, but our feeling is that Quizz will end up coming back.  Because of the same reasons LaMike James is (really) staying at Oregon.  They're short and small and that sort of thing is an unknown in the NFL and not in high demand at the moment.

[ OregonLive ]