Mark Wahlberg "I could have stopped 9/11"

bob · January 18, 2012, 11:06:47 PM

http://popwatch.ew.com/2012/01/18/mark-wahlberg-mens-journal-9-11-comments/

what an ego

Menard · January 18, 2012, 11:24:54 PM

Yeah, it was a stupid thing to say...and?

For one, he made a stupid comment about things going differently if he had been on one of the planes that was hijacked, not that he could have stopped 9/11 as a whole.

It's not necessarily anything that some of us haven't heard any number of a$$holes proclaim when they are a little too comfortable with talking and thinking they could have handled things better.

Of course, Mark Walhberg is a celebrity and was in an interview where he should have been more aware and careful of what he was saying.

But, seriously, I wonder how much difference his remark makes it from some idiot sitting at a bar or in a poker game and making the same comment? Other than not being published in a national magazine (and really, Mens' Health magazine should have stepped on the comment or asked him if he would like to retract it rather than using the controversy to boost sales) and not being a celebrity, it's the same thing I'm certain several of us have heard from someone we know.

Allhallowsday · January 18, 2012, 11:27:47 PM

Oh well we're all guilty of inordinately stupid or overwhelmingly insensitive at least once.

RCMerchant · January 19, 2012, 05:47:46 AM

Quote from: Allhallowsday on January 18, 2012, 11:27:47 PM
Oh well we're all guilty of inordinately stupid or overwhelmingly insensitive at least once.

It makes up about 50% of what comes outta my mouth!

Like now-Mark Wahlberg-he was a Backstreet Boy wasn't he? That shows he was a moron with no class to begin with.

Mr. DS · January 19, 2012, 08:35:38 AM

This from the guy who gave us this...
http://www.youtube.com/watch?v=-eSN8Cwit_s&ob=av3e
I doubt I'll take much of his thoughts seriously

Flangepart · January 19, 2012, 09:46:18 AM

Yep. Needs to stop drinking and discussing.

bob · January 19, 2012, 10:12:02 AM

Quote from: DS on January 19, 2012, 08:35:38 AM
This from the guy who gave us this...
http://www.youtube.com/watch?v=-eSN8Cwit_s&ob=av3e
I doubt I'll take much of his thoughts seriously

wait wait.....Wahlberg was involved with that?

Rev. Powell · January 19, 2012, 10:50:09 AM

Whenever I hear something like this reported it makes me glad I don't have people following me with tape recorders waiting to pounce on any offhand comment I make.

I'll give Wahlberg a pass this time since I don't think he has a record of saying stupid, offensive things.

Allhallowsday · January 19, 2012, 12:34:38 PM

Quote from: RCMerchant on January 19, 2012, 05:47:46 AM
Quote from: Allhallowsday on January 18, 2012, 11:27:47 PM
Oh well we're all guilty of inordinately stupid or overwhelmingly insensitive at least once.
It makes up about 50% of what comes outta my mouth!
Like now-Mark Wahlberg-he was a Backstreet Boy wasn't he? That shows he was a moron with no class to begin with.

No... you're thinking of his brother DONNIE who was a NEW KID ON THE BLOCK.

Quote from: bob on January 19, 2012, 10:12:02 AM
Quote from: DS on January 19, 2012, 08:35:38 AM
This from the guy who gave us this...
http://www.youtube.com/watch?v=-eSN8Cwit_s&ob=av3e
I doubt I'll take much of his thoughts seriously
wait wait.....Wahlberg was involved with that?

Yeh... MARKY MARK... I like that record...

tracy · January 19, 2012, 01:38:37 PM

A bit egotistical,perhaps....I guess a lot of folks have thought that they could have been the difference.

ChaosTheory · January 19, 2012, 01:49:40 PM

Quote from: tracy1963 on January 19, 2012, 01:38:37 PM
A bit egotistical,perhaps....I guess a lot of folks have thought that they could have been the difference.

Yeah, the sentiment isn't so odd, just not very bright to say it out loud.
What is kinda odd is him making this claim 10 years after the fact. He has a new movie that came out last week; makes me wonder if this isn't just a really clumsy bid for media attention. Which, if so, I guess it worked b/c here we are....

JayJayM12 · January 19, 2012, 04:49:52 PM

Come on - you can totally picture him throwing a terrorist out of a plane in midair, then looking down as the terrorist falls and saying "say hello to your mother for me..."

tracy · January 21, 2012, 01:26:06 PM

Quote from: ChaosTheory on January 19, 2012, 01:49:40 PM
Quote from: tracy1963 on January 19, 2012, 01:38:37 PM
A bit egotistical,perhaps....I guess a lot of folks have thought that they could have been the difference.

Yeah, the sentiment isn't so odd, just not very bright to say it out loud.
What is kinda odd is him making this claim 10 years after the fact. He has a new movie that came out last week; makes me wonder if this isn't just a really clumsy bid for media attention. Which, if so, I guess it worked b/c here we are....

I hadn't thought of that but it makes sense.

Flick James · January 22, 2012, 11:00:20 AM

So he made an unfortunate comment. Some of the reactions here are just like the media wants. I'm always indifferent about things like this. That's the problem with the world and why paparazzi exist: not enough stoic indifference in the world. Who gives a s**t?

I've been a big Elvis Costello fan for a long time, so I'm familiar with his big fiasco in the late 70's. He was in a drunken argument at a bar with Stephen Stills and Bonnie Bramlett and referred to James Brown and Ray Charles as "n****rs." He was trying to come up with the most offensive thing he could muster in an effort to bring the conversation to a conclusion, being drunk and not thinking that Bramlett would take his comments to the press. In his press apology he said "it became necessary for me to outrage these people with about the most obnoxious and offensive remarks that I could muster."

A few black celebrities got mildly offended, but most thought little of it. Costello was so consumed with guilt and embarrassment over the incident that he declined to meet Ray Charles some time after, even though Charles had publicly forgiven him at the time, saying "drunken talk isn't meant to be printed in the paper," suggesting he was more offended by Bramlett taking the comments to the press than he was with Costello's comments.

Different times.