Yung Berg

Reporter Denies Racist Yung Berg Tweet

''The Whole Thing Was So Strange...'' 4:30PM ET July 9th, 2012 Contributor : Martin James A Rocky Williform Company Los Angeles entertainment reporter Sam Rubin has issued a statement addressing the racist anti-Yung Berg tweet that was posted on his account this weekend. The tweet was directed at Berg's account and read, "Fake a** n***a." The KTLA reporter says that his account was hacked while he was attending a screening for The Dark Knight Rises. "Friday night at 7:00 p.m. I attended a screening for the new 'Batman' movie. The movie has a 'social media embargo,'" Rubin says in the statement. "I agreed to go to the screening with the understanding that I simply could not post anything about the movie on Twitter. At about 8:00 pm the movie, during this important screening breaks. Physically breaks. The screening stops and I send out the following tweet; 'OOPS....I will explain later. But the biggest boo boo of the year. For reals.' It is fairly incredible that at a huge press screening for the movie, the movie would breakdown in mid-screening. The whole thing was so strange and yet important, Deadline Hollywood posted an entire article about it." "Sometime after my tweet, timestamp 8:12 pm, my account was hacked, and what can best be deemed as as a derogatory and racist slur was sent from my account about someone named The Real Yung Berg. Two stone facts, I do not, nor have I ever, used racist language in my broadcasts, my writings or my tweets; and I do not know who The Real Yung Berg is. Peitzman could have easily checked any of my earlier tweets, he only seemed to look at the one I sent out before the hacked tweet, and that tweet, help play into his theory of what had happened. As much as I would like to check my twitter account 24/7, I don't; so it was only after I drove home from the screening that I saw several messages expressing shock and more about the offensive tweet. Special thanks to follower Jim Dang @dangjim who tweeted me and told me exactly what to do. Change my password and delete the offensive tweet."