Stupid stuff Mark Wahlberg says

Like this. To Men's Journal. About the fact that he was supposed to have been on one of the 9/11 planes:

“If I was on that plane with my kids, it wouldn’t have went down like it did. There would have been a lot of blood in that first-class cabin and then me saying, ‘OK, we’re going to land somewhere safely, don’t worry.’”

TMZ has this: "Mark Wahlberg's claim that he would've been able to single-handedly over-power the 9/11 terrorists and prevent a plane from crashing is completely "disrespectful" ... so says the widow of one of the REAL heroic victims who RUSHED THE COCKPIT on that fateful day. TMZ spoke with Deena Burnett-Bailey - whose husband Thomas Burnett phoned her from that fateful flight saying, "I know we're going to die. There's three of us who are going to do something about it." Burnett-Bailey tells us, "Does Mark Wahlberg have a pilot's license? Then I think hindsight is 20/20 and it's insignificant to say what you would have done if you weren't there." She adds, "The plan for Flight 93 was foiled by heroes. For him to speculate that his presence on board could have stopped everything is silly and disrespectful.  Sounds like someone is grandstanding." We called Wahlberg for comment - so far, no word back."

In 2007, Mark Wahlberg talked to The Star's Peter Howell: "[Wahlberg] had originally booked to fly from hometown Boston to Los Angeles the following morning, but changed his mind and went with some friends to the Toronto International Film Festival to see movies and party. But for that impulse, he'd have been on one of the two L.A-bound Boston jets crashed by the 9/11 hijackers. "We chartered a plane to Toronto and we had a lot of fun that night drinking Canadian beer, which is much stronger than U.S. beer. I woke up in the morning, in this very hotel (the Four Seasons) and people were calling and beating on my door. It was hard to wake up that morning. But then there was the shock of seeing the television."

Comments

[Leon Arp]

A second-class joke in the first-class cabin. How did that happen?

[Mark]

Actors!!

[Jefferson]

My suspicions are once the hijackers flying heard the passengers come to the door the went nose down full throttle. They weren't getting out of that and Marky Mark saying he'd alone would is pretty arrogant. That just blew what little respect I had for him.

[opinion8ed]

I saw an interview with Mark Wahlberg the other day that caused me to lose any last shred of respect for him that I may have had. He suffers from the same delusion that many Americans have that because he grew up in a big city, he is somehow tougher than other people. These guys would shrivel if they had to live through what people from war-torn countries deal with daily. Add to this he is also a guy who attends church every day and you have another individual who thinks that God is blessing him above all others. Sorry, but I get tired of pretending that "god fearing" is the same as "moral" and that "gun" equals "tougher than you".