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Steelers Running Back Rashard Mendenhall Defends Osama Bin Laden
NESN ^ | 3 May 2011 | Michael Hurley

Posted on 05/03/2011 7:02:38 AM PDT by LSUfan

The 23-year-old native of Illinois didn't like the way Americans were celebrating the death of Osama bin Laden on Monday, and he let out his frustrations on Twitter.

"What kind of person celebrates death?" Mendenhall, who last made national headlines for fumbling in the Super Bowl and "celebrating" a little too hard with Ben Roethlisberger in the playoffs, wrote. "It's amazing how people can HATE a man they have never even heard speak. We've only heard one side ..."

That wasn't all, though, as Mendenhall expressed doubt that airplanes could have demolished the World Trade Center.

"We'll never know what really happened," Mendenhall wrote. "I just have a hard time believing a plane could take a skyscraper down demolition style."

Obviously, Mendenhall has spent at least 15 minutes watching some of the awesome 9/11 conspiracy videos on YouTube, and he's passing that off as "enlightenment."

"There is not an ignorant bone in my body," he said. "I just encourage you to [think]."

(Excerpt) Read more at nesn.com ...


TOPICS: Foreign Affairs; News/Current Events; US: Pennsylvania; War on Terror
KEYWORDS: alqaeda; binladen; gwot; islam; jihad; obl; osama; osamabinladen
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To: Kakaze
he is either ignorant or a brother in islam.

Oxy moron ping!

41 posted on 05/03/2011 7:24:52 AM PDT by Puppage (You may disagree with what I have to say, but I shall defend to your death my right to say it)
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To: dfwgator

Ironic, this guy is going to the Jets. They will take anyone.


42 posted on 05/03/2011 7:25:16 AM PDT by AGreatPer (Voting for the crazy conservative gave us Ronald Reagan....Ann Coulter)
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To: AGreatPer

“The Steelers don’t put up with kooks. “

Really? And what about their QB?


43 posted on 05/03/2011 7:26:35 AM PDT by brownsfan (I miss the America I grew up in.)
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To: LSUfan

He probably believes Dick Cheney made him fumble that ball.


44 posted on 05/03/2011 7:29:15 AM PDT by cookcounty ("Hey Waiter! 72 STURGEONS? I'm supposed to get 72 VIRGINS!" -- "Bubbles" bin Laden)
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To: brownsfan
"Really? And what about their QB?"

Ben made mistakes as a young man with much success.

He is getting married this summer and settling down.

45 posted on 05/03/2011 7:30:11 AM PDT by AGreatPer (Voting for the crazy conservative gave us Ronald Reagan....Ann Coulter)
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To: ScottinVA

The sign kinda implies the space was once occupied in the first place. I’m not so sure...


46 posted on 05/03/2011 7:31:39 AM PDT by econjack (Some people are as dumb as soup.)
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To: LSUfan

Hey Mendenhall... good luck finding a job after your NFL “career” is over fool.


47 posted on 05/03/2011 7:32:42 AM PDT by Trajan88 (www.bullittclub.com)
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To: LSUfan

.” That wasn’t all, though, as Mendenhall expressed doubt that airplanes could have demolished the World Trade Center. “

Football players have not been known to be the smartest people in the world after the fact.


48 posted on 05/03/2011 7:33:53 AM PDT by chainsaw ("The government cannot give to anyone anything that it does not first take from someone else.")
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To: AGreatPer

“Ben made mistakes as a young man with much success.”

Very serious mistakes. I hope you’re right that he finds a better path. But it sort of diffuses your claim that the Steelers don’t put up with kooks. They don’t put up with kooks... UNLESS the kooks are extraordinarily talented.

Either way, I do not wish good things for Mendenhall.


49 posted on 05/03/2011 7:37:54 AM PDT by brownsfan (I miss the America I grew up in.)
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To: OldDeckHand

“Maybe Brandon doesn’t know how to use the internet.”

He’s one of the lazy people that just spout what some lefty nutcase tells him.


50 posted on 05/03/2011 7:41:03 AM PDT by Marty62 (Marty60)
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To: LSUfan
The 23-year-old native of Illinois didn't like the way Americans were celebrating the death of Osama bin Laden on Monday...

Dear Rashard (or whatever your real name is):

I don't like the way Muslims like yourself celebrated the death of 3000 Americans on 9/11. Go **** yourself.

51 posted on 05/03/2011 7:42:16 AM PDT by Fresh Wind ('People have got to know whether or not their President is a crook.' Richard M. Nixon)
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To: Mr. Wright
Give me a GREAT college game any day!! More scoring, more excitement, more heart in the game!!

I agree, but sometimes I do like watching the NFL talent. Nothing comes easy in those games. In college you might find a wide receiever w/ no one near him. Not in the NFL. That rarely happens. The players have to make plays. But yeah, College has more heart.

52 posted on 05/03/2011 7:45:03 AM PDT by justice14 ("stand up defend or lay down and die")
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To: LSUfan

Like I need another reason to hate the Steelers.


53 posted on 05/03/2011 7:45:14 AM PDT by BigCinBigD (Northern flags in South winds flutter...)
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To: LSUfan

Mendenhall is what is known as a 9/11 ‘truther’. This is someone who thinks 911 was an orchestrated attempt by the govt to curtail civil liberties. There was a Purdue University study that proved that the fire produced by the jet fuel did not have to reach the melting point of steel to cause the steel in the structure to fail. http://www.youtube.com/watch?v=nKAe4n5hGIo Here’s another article by the University of Sydney Engineering Dept. http://sydney.edu.au/engineering/civil/wtc.shtml


54 posted on 05/03/2011 7:47:13 AM PDT by Judges Gone Wild
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To: LSUfan

When did the NFL start allowing players to play without helmets?


55 posted on 05/03/2011 7:48:16 AM PDT by Alberta's Child ("If you touch my junk, I'm gonna have you arrested.")
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To: LSUfan

That is IT! I have been a fan since I was old enough to watch (I am 44). CUT HIM AND CUT HIS SORRY A$$ NOW!

The Steeler Nation will not be associated with this POS!


56 posted on 05/03/2011 7:49:36 AM PDT by PAMadMax (Islam is a disease....)
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To: LSUfan
"What kind of person celebrates death?"

I don't agree with his reasons, but he has a point. OBL dying should ahve been as exciting as seeing a smashed cockroach. Something a little disgusting but necessary and certainly not worth cheering like it's the freakin Super Bowl.

57 posted on 05/03/2011 7:52:02 AM PDT by Centurion2000 (On a long enough timeline the inflation rate for all fiat currencies approaches infinity.)
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To: LSUfan

“Rashard” sounds kinda Muzzie...

What a tool. I always knew the Steelers were evil, but this just proves it.


58 posted on 05/03/2011 7:52:02 AM PDT by RockinRight (Maybe Trump's a stalking horse for Palin...)
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To: Alberta's Child; All

Reactions to his comment can be seen by typing his name into a twitter search. To use Pitt. slang, what a jag-off

http://plus.sites.post-gazette.com/index.php/pro-sports/steelers/109709-ed-rooney-says-mendenhall-comments-hard-to-comprehend

(yes we have freedom of speech but speech has consequences)
>> The problem for Mendenhall – and others who do it – is that you cannot get any deep thoughts across on the brief window permitted by Twitter. So no matter how bright Mendenhall is, he obviously did not understand this. He should have learned it last month with his comments comparing NFL players with slavery. Now he’s in a big jackpot. The PR fallout will be tremendous, it already has. Talk show hosts are sending him thank you gifts today. He will be booed at Heinz Field, any endorsement possibilities will dry up, he might even have some trouble with teammates. While the Pirates were visiting the Navy Seals – responsible for bin Laden’s death – in San Diego, Mendenhall spews inane stuff about whether the towers came down because the planes hit them. If I’m advising Rashard Mendenhall, I have him immediately apology and how he did not get his views across well. And then do away with his Twitter account. Blog, if you must, at least if you have deep thoughts, you can express them better in that forum.


59 posted on 05/03/2011 7:53:59 AM PDT by raccoonradio (..)
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To: Max_850

I heard Scott Van Pelt say this... “Twitter: the great illuminator of stupidity.”


60 posted on 05/03/2011 7:54:41 AM PDT by VA_Gentleman ("Poor Al Gore. Global warming completely debunked via the very internet you invented." -Jon Stewart)
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