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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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This is the same moron who compared the NFL to "slavery." (Video at link).
1 posted on 05/03/2011 11:02:55 PM PDT by Do Not Make Fun Of His Ears
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2 posted on 05/03/2011 11:03:37 PM PDT by Do Not Make Fun Of His Ears ("We must have universal healthcare...I'm a liberal on this one." - D. Trump, "America We Deserve")
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To: Do Not Make Fun Of His Ears

“It’s a ‘burgh thing.”


3 posted on 05/03/2011 11:04:17 PM PDT by BenLurkin (This post is not a statement of fact. It is merely a personal opinion -- or humor -- or both)
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To: Do Not Make Fun Of His Ears

Correction, it was Adrian Peterson who made the slavery remark. Mea culpa.


4 posted on 05/03/2011 11:05:23 PM PDT by Do Not Make Fun Of His Ears ("We must have universal healthcare...I'm a liberal on this one." - D. Trump, "America We Deserve")
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To: Do Not Make Fun Of His Ears

No, it isn’t. That was Minnesota’s Adrian Peterson.


5 posted on 05/03/2011 11:05:24 PM PDT by BADROTOFINGER (Life sucks. Get a helmet.)
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To: Do Not Make Fun Of His Ears

Got me by one second...:-)


6 posted on 05/03/2011 11:05:57 PM PDT by BADROTOFINGER (Life sucks. Get a helmet.)
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To: BADROTOFINGER

Corrected and acknowledged. Man am I gonna get an earful on this! lol


7 posted on 05/03/2011 11:06:03 PM PDT by Do Not Make Fun Of His Ears ("We must have universal healthcare...I'm a liberal on this one." - D. Trump, "America We Deserve")
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To: BenLurkin
“It’s a ‘burgh thing.”

Mendenhall learned well from Dan Rooney's classless shout out to O'Bambi after the Super Bowl.

8 posted on 05/03/2011 11:06:53 PM PDT by re_nortex (DP...that's what I like about Texas.)
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To: Do Not Make Fun Of His Ears

What a complete putz!!


9 posted on 05/03/2011 11:12:52 PM PDT by SoldierDad (Proud dad of an Army Soldier currently deployed in the Valley of Death, Afghanistan)
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To: SoldierDad

Is he a muslim?


10 posted on 05/03/2011 11:15:08 PM PDT by Frank_2001
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To: Do Not Make Fun Of His Ears
'I just have a hard time believing a plane could take a skyscraper down demolition style.'

I just have a hard time believing an individual can receive bone quaking hits to the head over-and-over, year-after-year on the gridiron without causing permanent and progressive dainbramage.

12 posted on 05/03/2011 11:20:23 PM PDT by higgmeister ( In the Shadow of The Big Chicken!)
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To: Frank_2001

I don’t know. I wasn’t able to find any information on his religious affiliation.


13 posted on 05/03/2011 11:21:14 PM PDT by SoldierDad (Proud dad of an Army Soldier currently deployed in the Valley of Death, Afghanistan)
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To: Do Not Make Fun Of His Ears

Another lame brained celebrity.


14 posted on 05/03/2011 11:21:29 PM PDT by devistate one four (United states code 10.311 Militia Kimber CDP II .45 OORAH! TET68)
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To: Do Not Make Fun Of His Ears

Either terminally stupid or has taken too many head shots. In either case, he’s an irrelevant ahole.


15 posted on 05/03/2011 11:27:51 PM PDT by MadMax, the Grinning Reaper
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To: Do Not Make Fun Of His Ears; JoeProBono; Slings and Arrows; Markos33; Salamander
"The scenes of celebration around the country on Sunday night and Monday annoyed the football star."

Well, as they say in the old barroom dice game, "That's a horse apiece."

You see, Rashard-baby, scenes of celebration in end zones around the country on Sunday afternoons and Monday nights which are carried out by illiterate morons who couldn't pass a sixth grade civics test annoy the hell out of a lot of the people who pay their wages.

In short, Rashard (is that ~really~ your name?) the visibility of your opinion does not constitute its value
16 posted on 05/03/2011 11:34:58 PM PDT by shibumi (Vampire Outlaw of the Milky Way)
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To: Do Not Make Fun Of His Ears

I guess this Truther thug never heard any of OBL taped rants on the Hip Hop/Rap station he listens to. When a terrorist and all his friends take credit for and there is evidence of them planning both attacks on the WTC, it seems likely they is guilty.

17 posted on 05/03/2011 11:39:38 PM PDT by Lazlo in PA (Now living in a newly minted Red State.)
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To: Do Not Make Fun Of His Ears

Lash out all you want. I downed a glass of bourbon upon the news. And, in response to Mr Mendenhall, I think that I shall consume another. The world is a better place with the coward bin Laden dead. Learn it, live it, love it.


18 posted on 05/03/2011 11:41:52 PM PDT by fhayek
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To: TwoSwords

As an Ohio State fan, I can relate. We’ve got some real doozies on our football team. Trading memorabilia and autographs for cheap TATOOS! What idiots.


19 posted on 05/03/2011 11:43:11 PM PDT by Slump Tester (What if I'm pregnant Teddy? Errr-ahh -Calm down Mary Jo, we'll cross that bridge when we come to it)
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To: Do Not Make Fun Of His Ears
You must be kidding...

An American Expat in Southeast Asia

20 posted on 05/03/2011 11:44:20 PM PDT by expatguy (Donations Keep The Expat Fueled !)
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