Mark Wahlberg

Welcome to this week’s I Call Bullshit column. In a world full of bunkum, it’s often hard to narrow the field down – but today there is a clear winner. Mark Wahlberg and his funky bunch of bollocks.

It ain't over till the fat lady sings, bad guys

The brother of a NKOTB member, actor, producer and all round ripped guy told the Men’s Journal he could have totally sorted out those September 11 terrorists. He was meant to be on one of the planes that crashed into the World Trade Centre. He told the journal:

“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.’”

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  • marley says:

    05:57pm | 20/01/12

    Seriously, you guy, when are you going to wake up?  It’s no longer fashionable anywhere to be ignorant.  All the events of 9/11 were inspired by Osama and scripted and orchestrated by the guys who hijacked the planes.  There was a lot in it for them, not a helluva lot… Read more »

  • Matthew Buckley says:

    04:00pm | 20/01/12

    Sorry, but in my previous comment, the sentence “However, he followed through” should have read “However, he never followed through.” It was a typo. Read more »

 

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