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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: Anti-Bubba182

Twitter. The Achilles Heel of the stupid.


21 posted on 05/03/2011 7:12:23 AM PDT by Max_850
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To: cblue55

A young man who plays a game for a living...I don’t expect much, especially intellect.


22 posted on 05/03/2011 7:14:08 AM PDT by TheGunny
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To: LSUfan

Is he Rosie O’Donut’s long lost twin brother.


23 posted on 05/03/2011 7:14:47 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: LSUfan

Proof positive that the Steelers need to add padding to their helmets. And tape to their mouths.


24 posted on 05/03/2011 7:14:52 AM PDT by RoadKingSE (How do you know that the light at the end of the tunnel isn't a muzzle flash ?)
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To: LSUfan

This is the problem with Dummies. They are ignorant.

OBL was a civil engineer that probably studied the best way to bring down the towers. Remember the FIRST attempt in 93 FAILED.

Is this brainless jock saying that Clinton tried to bring down the towers in 93.


25 posted on 05/03/2011 7:15:10 AM PDT by Marty62 (Marty60)
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To: LSUfan

Better to shut your mouth and be thought a fool than to open it and remove all doubt.


26 posted on 05/03/2011 7:15:47 AM PDT by WinOne4TheGipper (THERE IS NO EXCUSE ANY LONGER.)
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To: LSUfan

Is Rashad a Muslim?


27 posted on 05/03/2011 7:16:18 AM PDT by rightwingintelligentsia (Be careful of believing something just because you want it to be true.)
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To: dps.inspect

These dick heads believe that those building should have toppled over! They cant understand that, that much mass will come straight down and is the exact reason demos work the way they do.

Of course, when they have no intellect and have done nothing but play a game all their life..


28 posted on 05/03/2011 7:17:40 AM PDT by crz
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To: LSUfan
Rashard sounds like a Muslim apologist.

It doesn't say whether he is a member of that death cult, or just a run-of-the-mill Liberal idiot.

29 posted on 05/03/2011 7:17:48 AM PDT by TheClintons-STILLAnti-American
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To: LSUfan

Undoubtedly would have loved Hitler.


30 posted on 05/03/2011 7:18:29 AM PDT by Jack Hammer
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To: LSUfan

It’s just semantics, really.
There is not *one* ignorant bone in his body; they are ALL ignorant, apparently.


31 posted on 05/03/2011 7:18:35 AM PDT by GnuHere
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To: TheClintons-STILLAnti-American

Rashard does sound a bit Amish.


32 posted on 05/03/2011 7:18:43 AM PDT by dfwgator
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To: justice14
I know what happened..................3000 people were incinerated or terrified to the point they jumped 100 stories to their own death.

Apparently at 13,this man did not understand , what happened and at 23 he is either ignorant or a brother in islam.

33 posted on 05/03/2011 7:21:19 AM PDT by Kakaze (Exterminate Islamofacism and apologize for nothing....except not doing it sooner!)
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To: LSUfan

34 posted on 05/03/2011 7:21:34 AM PDT by ScottinVA (Imagine.... a world without islam.)
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To: LSUfan

As a Steeler fan, I always thought Redman should’ve been getting the ball more than Mendenhall. He averages a yard more per carry and he DOESN’T FUMBLE.


35 posted on 05/03/2011 7:23:02 AM PDT by chopperman
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To: LSUfan

Just another reason to hate the Stillers.

Between Rapistburger, and Osama bin Mendenhall, they’re developing quite a cast.


36 posted on 05/03/2011 7:23:14 AM PDT by brownsfan (I miss the America I grew up in.)
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To: Max_850
"It's amazing how people can HATE a man they have never even heard speak. We've only heard one side ..."

And that's all I NEED to hear


37 posted on 05/03/2011 7:23:23 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
"It's amazing how people can HATE a man they have never even heard speak..."

If we're going to start getting real rational, it's also pretty amazing how grown men can get paid millions of dollars to run with a ball.

Or that millions of people spend money to make a bunch of physical freaks rich playing a game where the whole point is to slam the guy with the ball to the ground.

38 posted on 05/03/2011 7:23:23 AM PDT by TheClintons-STILLAnti-American
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To: Kakaze

bttt


39 posted on 05/03/2011 7:23:49 AM PDT by ConservativeMan55
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To: Marty62
"OBL was a civil engineer that probably studied the best way to bring down the towers."

If Mendenhall was even a little intellecually curious, he could quite quickly find the video of bin Laden from just a months or so after 9/11 where he speaks in great detail about how the plan when "better" than he could have even imagined. In that tape, he talks about his own engineering background and how he even underestimated the power of that fuel fire. He thought that the tops of the towers would actually fall over, leaving the bottom parts intact.

In the transcript from that particular tape, you can read where bin Laden says...

"we calculated in advance the number of casualties from the enemy, who would be killed based on the position of the tower. We calculated that the floors that would be hit would be three or four floors. I was the most optimistic of them all..

Later in that same video, even without speaking Arabic, you can understand his hand signals he makes about the towers leaning over, and then falling - and as he's making these gestures he's literally laughing about it.

Maybe Brandon doesn't know how to use the internet.

40 posted on 05/03/2011 7:24:24 AM PDT by OldDeckHand
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