Wrong link, indeed.
Pentagon press secretary Rear Adm. John Kirby meant to share a link to Secretary of Defense Hagel’s statement about Wednesday’s shooting at Fort Hood. An apparent copy/paste snafu resulted in an unfortunate link to Duffel Blog, a military satire site.
My last tweet included an erroneous link. Not sure what I did wrong. Read Secdef's statement at http://t.co/ZV3TyaXJyi.
— Alyssa Farah (@PentagonPresSec) April 3, 2014
It happens to the best of us. But perhaps not as the details of a deadly shooting are unfolding. Eek!
Before Kirby could delete the tweet and issue that correction, Twitter followers spotted the link to a post titled “Captain Being Photographed Unaware It’ll Be On Cover Of Navy Times When He’s Fired Next Month.”
@MiaFarrow @PentagonPresSec yeah that's not about the shooting. ?_?
— Pink Portrait misses Mimi (@PinkPortrait) April 3, 2014
Heh heh. Fantastic link! #oops RT @PentagonPresSec: Secdef issues statement on today's shooting. http://t.co/GmtCOsHlCp
— Toby Harnden (@tobyharnden) April 3, 2014
https://twitter.com/fmanjoo/status/451562836536197120
https://twitter.com/FPWellman/status/451561335827230720
https://twitter.com/Bridget_PJM/status/451559970098921472
https://twitter.com/cd_hooks/status/451560564150370305
Real Adm. Kirby tweeting @DuffelBlog links. That's my job! RT @PentagonPresSec Secdef statement on today's shooting http://t.co/vvjZ3C0gsM …
— Fake Civilian Kirby (@zorching) April 3, 2014
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