While the rest of America is celebrating the death of one of the most heinous human beings in history, Rashard Mendenhall, running back for the Pittsburgh Steelers, is on twitter questioning whether Osama Bin Laden is really a bad guy and that he's responsible for killing almost 3,000 people and taking down the World Trade Center Towers on 9/11. I was just about to go into a 10 page rant about his intelligence defying tweets but clearly Rashard Mendenhall isn't worth getting carpal tunnel syndrome over so I'll just leave you with the screenshots of his two tweets. The second of which was deleted, no doubt after his publicist saw this, her jaw dropped, refreshed the page 10 straight times because she couldn't believe it was a real tweet, then cleaned the computer screen to make sure someone didn't just write it on the monitor as a practical joke, then googled for 30 minutes to see if this was in fact Mendenhall's real twitter account, then after learning it was a "verified account" she called Biz Stone to make sure they were sure it was a verified account and when Biz confirmed it she finally called Rashard to tell him to delete it.
In 2009 Larry Johnson, the then Kansas City Chiefs running back, was suspended one game for making two anti-gay tweets and eventually released so it will be interesting to see what happens with Rashard Mendenhall. Nothing can happen right now since we are in a lock-out and teams can't even talk to their players but he will definitely face some sort of punishment as soon as it's over.
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