Posting the name would have been irresponsible last night; I was pretty sure it was just a couple YouTube trolls making it up, and it turns out I was right. If there had been any confirmation or confirmed independent sourcing I may have posted it, but in this case handling the “information” responsibly was more important than your curiosity.
Playing "I've got a secret" in a public discussion forum where people earnestly look for news updates is childish and irresponsible. It would have been more mature to keep completely quiet about unsubstantiated rumors, or to honestly inquire whether anyone knew whether Cheney or GHW Bush (both names were floated last night) were spectators on that date. FReepers have an amazing ability to determine who is where and when very quickly.
It is beyond irresponsible to chatter about secrets obtained from YouTube comments. If you want to gossip about secrets, take it off the discussion board to personal FRmail.
In this time of lightning fast internet, it would take an impossibly grand conspiracy to prevent news organizations and attendees from announcing the names of celebrities who were present at the event. The persistent secretive discussions in the forum last night were nothing more than foolish attention seeking, most likely peppered with substantial alcohol consumption.
NTSB Briefing:
9 total fatalities
1 Pilot
6 spectators on the field
2 died in hospital
No your look at me post was just that. It should have been kept Quite !!! take it to freep mail you upset a lot of people last night you owe them an apology for you stupid antics