Rashard Mendenhall Clarifies Twitter Comments About Osama Bin Laden

Mendenhall, among other things, wondered why we were celebrating bin Laden’s death indicating that we’ve “only heard one side.” Read the whole thing here. While I think there is a place for intelligent debate in what he said, the timing and presentation was horrible. Just awful. It came less than a day after the news of bin Laden’s death had come out and, because he’s a professional athlete, folks reacted swiftly and loudly. It even drew a confused response from Steelers ownership.

Mendenhall has since posted on his blog a response titled “Clarification”.

Read the whole thing for yourself. One part that caught my eye though was this sentence: “I wasn’t questioning Bin Laden’s evil acts.”

It depends how you look at it.

Go to Mendenhall’s Twitter page right now and you won’t see anything about questioning those evil acts (except for the tweet about hearing only one side). But if you went to his Twitter account on Tuesday, you would have seen this tweet: “I just have a hard time believing a plane could take a skyscraper down demolition style.” ...which sounds an awful lot like questioning those evil acts. To me, that’s the part that caught my eye the most and the one that left me with my mouth slightly ajar.

So while I appreciate Mendenhall taking to his blog to further explain his thoughts, there’s a rather large hole in the story.