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Furore as NFL star Rashard Mendenhall lashes out at people who celebrated bin Laden's death
UK Daily Mail ^ | 5/4/11 | Daily Mail Reporter

Posted on 05/03/2011 11:02:49 PM PDT by Do Not Make Fun Of His Ears

NFL star Rashard Mendenhall is at the centre of a storm over Twitter posts he made on Monday night about Osama bin Laden's death.

The Pittsburgh Steelers running back criticised people who celebrated the terror mastermind shooting.

It forced the team's president to issue a statement distancing the organisation from Mendenhall's comments.

Mendenhall ranted on Twitter against the general reaction to the Al Qaeda's death and even questions that Bin Laden was responsible for the 9/11 attacks.

He tweeted: 'We'll never know what really happened. 'I just have a hard time believing a plane could take a skyscraper down demolition style.'

The scenes of celebration around the country on Sunday night and Monday annoyed the football star.

(Excerpt) Read more at dailymail.co.uk ...


TOPICS: News/Current Events
KEYWORDS: alqaeda; binladen; osama; terrorism
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To: higgmeister

Given that the msm gives Jesse Ventura a platform to spew his insanity this is no surprise.

Useful idiots are always exploited by the America hating leftist media.


41 posted on 05/04/2011 1:46:54 AM PDT by Carley (We will not tire. We will not falter. We will not fail. W, 9/20/01)
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To: Do Not Make Fun Of His Ears

My reaction: He’s a football player.


42 posted on 05/04/2011 1:59:51 AM PDT by mewykwistmas (Lost your job as a birther under Obama? Become a 'deather'! Where's Bin Laden's death certificate?)
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To: Carley

There was a female guest on the radio tonight who has written a book about the “conspiracy to demolish WTC buildings” on 9/11. She actually stated that there was a hurricane reported at the three NYC airports on that day, Hurricane Erin (I actually thought she said Aaron) I checked for it and it was actually Hurricane Erin, and its path came no where near NYC. Between this one, Jesse Ventura and that shrill, no talent Alex Jones, we are doomed.


43 posted on 05/04/2011 2:48:15 AM PDT by tenthirteen
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To: SWAMPSNIPER

I know this may be a little off the wall: But I worked as a structural designer in concrete and structural steel for over 40 years; and even as I watched the twin towers fall, I could hardly believe my eyes. But given more research it is very feasable.

We should not forget,a Fed-X pilot attemped to hi-jack a Fed-X plane a few years earlier than 9-11-01 and crash it into the Fed-X hub in Memphis.

It’s like a pastor(Ron Dunn)said:”It is easier for me to say no to Satan, than it is to say yes to God.”

And like the cartoon character in B.C. comics said:.... “Man has no trouble at all believing he can become God;.....Yet he cannot bring himself to believe, that God can become man.”


44 posted on 05/04/2011 4:04:01 AM PDT by LetMarch (If a man knows the right way to live, and does not live it, there is no greater coward. (Anonymous)
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To: expatguy

Reahuh making the extra effort to push that link everywhere, huh?


45 posted on 05/04/2011 4:50:00 AM PDT by dmam2011
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To: dmam2011

As long as it is relevant FRiend - btw welcome to FR


46 posted on 05/04/2011 4:51:58 AM PDT by expatguy (Donations Keep The Expat Fueled !)
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To: Carley

I wonder if Ventura will get called out this time thru as the OBL/SEALS talk heats up ....Ventura was never a SEAL ... never saw combat ... was never in Vietnam.


47 posted on 05/04/2011 4:54:46 AM PDT by dmam2011
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To: Do Not Make Fun Of His Ears

I hear a big flushing sound in his future.


48 posted on 05/04/2011 5:13:32 AM PDT by BuffaloJack (Obama did not learn incompetence; he was born to it.)
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To: BuffaloJack

If he runs for 1000+ yards and 30 TDs, he’ll still not make the Pro Bowl.


49 posted on 05/04/2011 5:34:09 AM PDT by Salvavida (The restoration of the U.S.A. starts with filling the pews at every Bible-believing church.)
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To: Salvavida
Once the bread and circuses begin, wins and stats are the only tangible matter and I am speaking as a football viewer who understands the Sports Bar mentality.

With stats like the ones you posted, Mendenhall could be caught, with video and photo evidence mind you, of having a ménage à trois with Osama bin Laden along with a goat and still make it to the Pro Bowl.

50 posted on 05/04/2011 5:45:32 AM PDT by rollo tomasi (Working hard to pay for deadbeats and corrupt politicians)
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To: LetMarch
Think about it, once the verticals bend inward load capacity is drastically reduced and heating the deck beams on even one floor to the point of sagging would start a chain reaction, sagging deck beams, verticals folding inward and floors collapsing. Skyscrapers are geometry dependent, they don't stand by brute strength alone.

I think Oprah and Rosie O'Donnel started all this doubt, as you know they are the great intellectual icons of the left.

51 posted on 05/04/2011 5:48:45 AM PDT by SWAMPSNIPER
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To: rollo tomasi

Point taken. Thanks for the image. Yuck.


52 posted on 05/04/2011 5:49:42 AM PDT by Salvavida (The restoration of the U.S.A. starts with filling the pews at every Bible-believing church.)
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To: Salvavida
This works in the opposite direction too. Say Mendenhall has a bad year or he screws up in enemy territory, like Foxburough or New Meadowlands Stadium, people are going to ride him hard.
53 posted on 05/04/2011 5:56:31 AM PDT by rollo tomasi (Working hard to pay for deadbeats and corrupt politicians)
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To: Do Not Make Fun Of His Ears

I find it hard to believe that Mendenhall could operate a digital device to even tweet this nonsense.


54 posted on 05/04/2011 6:04:07 AM PDT by FreedomGuru (One Big Awful Marxist America)
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To: pepsionice

Well put.

Thank You!


55 posted on 05/04/2011 7:31:54 AM PDT by devistate one four (United states code 10.311 Militia Kimber CDP II .45 OORAH! TET68)
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To: tenthirteen

Hurricane Erin was 507 miles from NYC at 8am on 9/11 with a wind speed of 90mph headed NNE at 5mph. In NYC that morning it was calm and clear.


56 posted on 05/04/2011 7:31:57 AM PDT by mc5cents (Government doesn't solve problems, it subsidizes them. -- Ronald Reagan)
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To: Do Not Make Fun Of His Ears

Boycott the Steelers organization and their advertising partners along with any other corporations that may have endorsement deals with this onion head. Hit this idiot in his pocket book.


57 posted on 05/04/2011 7:47:17 AM PDT by montyspython (This thread needs more cowbell)
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To: expatguy

I hear ya ... back-to-back long nights had me clicking the link several times! lol


58 posted on 05/04/2011 7:52:50 AM PDT by dmam2011
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To: Slump Tester

And Tassel didn’t know they were trading items. Of course my UConn is not perfect either...


59 posted on 05/04/2011 10:13:26 AM PDT by ExCTCitizen (Palin/Bachman 2012 (what will the NAGS say??? :-) ))
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To: Do Not Make Fun Of His Ears

Doofus Hall of Fame Inductee

"I just have a hard time believing a plane could take a skyscraper down demolition style."


Previous Honorees

"World Trade Center one and Two got hit by planes. Miraculously, for the first time in history, steel was melted by fire. It is physically impossible."


60 posted on 05/04/2011 10:22:45 AM PDT by COBOL2Java (Obama is the least qualified guy in whatever room he walks into.)
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