Ryan Clark On Rashard Mendenhall's Tweets: 'Social Media Is Ruining The World'

Pittsburgh Steelers safety Ryan Clark weighed in on the controversial comments that his teammate Rashard Mendenhall posted on his twitter account after President Obama announced that Osama bin Laden has been killed.

"My first reaction to it really is that social media is ruining the world," Clark told Jason Horowitz and Steve Phillips of SiriusXM's Mad Dog Radio on Wednesday. "Social media is ruining the world. Facebook and Twitter are probably going to be responsible for more divorces than infidelity coming up here soon."

After Obama's announcement on Sunday night, Mendenhall tweeted, "We'll never know what really happened. I just have a hard time believing a plane could take a skyscraper down demolition style."

Clark said that he knew there would be "a lot of backlash toward those comments," but Mendenhall should know that controversial remarks like that are "going to make news."

The 23-year-old running back clarified his comments in a blog entry on Tuesday, apologizing and claiming that his comments were "only meant to encourage anyone reading it to think."

Comments

[DeeDaw]

04:32 PM on 05/06/2011

I agreed with Medenhall except for his Rosie O'Donnell inspired 9/11 conspiracy theory.

[rjhuntington]

06:55 AM on 05/07/2011

Read Judy Wood's book then. Real science, not spin.

[sho-nuff]

01:18 PM on 05/06/2011

...at the end of the day nobody wants to look into your ugli souls...just st*u

[leftbehind2000]

11:41 AM on 05/06/2011

More like, social media is revealing a ruined world.

[Calculator]

11:02 AM on 05/06/2011

No matter how good ones intentions are. Encouraging people to think objectively will usually end badly.

[MissMel10]

08:16 AM on 05/06/2011

Social media isn't ruining the world. Idiots not using common sense is ruining the world.

Personally, I don't see a problem with this guy's tweets. It's his OPINION and whether we agree or not, it's his to have. We encourage people to think freely, think outside the box, speak their minds and embrace free speech in this country but the minute someone does, we basically force them to apologize for it. That's the part that's most offensive to me.

I prefer if folks say what they think because at least then, we know where they really stand.

[tanya11111]

07:30 AM on 05/06/2011

I love how all these people who believe everything they are told, and know almost nothing about science want to judge this man as an idiot. First rule: what they tell you on TV, that is usually a lie. Yellow cake anybody?

[Seafarer61]

08:00 AM on 05/06/2011

You mean like Osama is dead, no really...he is....because your government said so.

While I most certainly believe he is, I am using the above as an example. Some people just don't flat out trust their government anymore.

[tanya11111]

08:37 AM on 05/06/2011

http://www.drjudywood.com/articles/a/bio/Wood_Bio.html

oh I believe he dead, I also believe he was a highly prized CIA asset.

[patrickjkiger]

10:56 AM on 05/06/2011

Actually, it is Mendenhall who is sadly misinformed. The consensus of credible experts is that the collapse of the towers was caused by the fire, not by the impact. There is substantial metallurgical and engineering data to support that conclusion. It's all in the NIST report. http://wtc.nist.gov/pubs/factsheets/faqs_8_2006.htm Of course, Truthers don't want to believe anything that is put out by an official, accredited organization, so they automatically dismiss those findings as part of the cover-up.

[William Munny]

11:16 AM on 05/06/2011

Is this a government organization or an independent organization that did this report?

[tommy b]

07:24 AM on 05/06/2011

Kill the messinger not the message

[tanya11111]

07:22 AM on 05/06/2011

poor kid, thinking you can say what you think freely in this country. Live and learn.

[floodmfx]

09:07 AM on 05/06/2011

He can speak his mind freely. No one stopped him. No one arrested him.

But after he expresses an asinine opinion, I have the right to speak my mind about that opinion. And companies have the right to end endorsement deals with him.

Don't make this into a free speech thing - because it is not.
He is free to say whatever he wants.

And the rest of us a free to respond.

[woody7]

09:49 AM on 05/06/2011

"But after he expresses an opinion, I have the right to speak my mind about that opinion. And companies have the right to end endorsemen­t deals with him."

There I fixed it for you. You understand the "asinine" part is just your opinion.And yes you have the right to your opinion as as well as he. Oh wait, I am entering my opinion.

bottom line it is only an opinion such as this.........................

[XzibitX]

12:29 PM on 05/06/2011

You speak from complete, insolent ignorance. And you wear it like a badge of honor.

That's psychotic.

[Motorgoon]

01:53 AM on 05/06/2011

That's what happens when college professors give away grades because people are athletes. They're helping the idiotic generation right along.

[tanya11111]

07:22 AM on 05/06/2011

yeah soon people will think you can melt UL listed steel with jet fuel.

[Dr Confuso]

08:32 AM on 05/06/2011

And there are several highly persuasive documentaries to back up your point.

[William Munny]

11:19 AM on 05/06/2011

They may also start to think It makes sense that you can find people's DNA but can't find the black boxes to the air planes.

[Pembrokelib]

01:17 AM on 05/06/2011

I am afraid he doesn't know how to think. Didn't he see pictures of 9/11? Didn't someone tell him that the planes were full of gasoline. He should keep to throwing a ball and not talking, at all!

[XzibitX]

03:19 AM on 05/06/2011

Jet fuel doesn't heat up hot enough to weaken steel. Just like a car fire doesn't melt the body of the car. Do you have the ability to objectively analyze highly technical information? If you do, Google Dr. Judy Wood. Google Tesla. Then Google how long particle beam weaponry has been available and what is it capable of. Are you really interested in the truth, or do you just like to bark at people from ignorance? Those buildings evaporated. How? Then, there's tower 7, which no jets ever touched.

[Pembrokelib]

09:42 AM on 05/06/2011

You seem to disagree with every expert in the world except the person you quote. The designer of the building predicted the collapse before it happened and tried to warn tbe fireman but could not get through. The jets hit in precisely the right spot.

[XzibitX]

03:37 AM on 05/06/2011

Google Dr. Judy Wood. Read her bio first, then study her work on this subject. Are you interested in truth, or deflecting from it?

[tanya11111]

07:35 AM on 05/06/2011

Why did they post all of your replies and ZERO of mine? FRUSTRATION.

[ExcellentObservation]

12:28 AM on 05/06/2011

If I were him I'd be encouraging the guy writing it to think.

[mrk65]

12:12 AM on 05/06/2011

This is news worthy? It's definitely not "sponge" worthy. :-)

[Red Ohio]

11:48 PM on 05/05/2011

Obama is a citizen and planes took downt the trade center. End of story.

[Ipadroid nterface]

01:46 PM on 05/06/2011

Actually, there were bombs in the buildings. Just as all the initial reports speculated. I know it's scary, but get a hold of yourself.

[Red Ohio]

05:46 PM on 05/06/2011

And why would bombs have been in the building?

[AdmireBucs]

11:33 PM on 05/05/2011

Why was it controvercial?

[tanya11111]

07:35 AM on 05/06/2011

because people are attached to beliefs they have held for a long time.

[patches12]

11:30 PM on 05/05/2011

encouraging people to think??? what a lame an excuse for being ignorant of history

get educated.. start with the attack on the Marine Barracks in Lebanon, then the USS Cole, and then failed attempt in 1993 to take out the twin towers with a truck bomb followed by bin laden swearing he would try again and succeed the next time!

HEY TRY SOMETHING DIFFERENT...RASHAD.. READ ... READ THE 9/11 COMMISSION REPORT...

YOUR COMMENTS WERE OFFENSIVE TO THOSE WHO DIED AND TO OUR SERVIE MEN AND WOMAN

[tanya11111]

07:36 AM on 05/06/2011

such arrogance for somebody who clearly doesn't get that they found THERMITE at the site.

[Ipadroid nterface]

01:48 PM on 05/06/2011

Obviously, you have not done any research for yourself. I served this country and I know what happened. It's public knowledge that the 1993 bomb was constructed by an agent...look it up and then take some time to get over the fear in your heart.

[Red Ohio]

05:48 PM on 05/06/2011

Lunatics don't count as a source.