Larry Silverstein explaining what he meant by 'pull it'

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Hello there

I've been told by a 'debunker' that Larry Silverstein was interviewed on film in 2005 and in that interview he elaborated on what he meant by 'pull it'.

Apparently this video was at one time on youtube. But I am unable to find it anywhere.

Has anyone seen it ? Does anyone have a copy?

As far as I was aware the only single response regarding this comment was a written one by Dara Mcquillan on Silverstein's behalf.
 
timmyg said:
Hello there

I've been told by a 'debunker' that Larry Silverstein was interviewed on film in 2005 and in that interview he elaborated on what he meant by 'pull it'.

Apparently this video was at one time on youtube. But I am unable to find it anywhere.

Has anyone seen it ? Does anyone have a copy?

As far as I was aware the only single response regarding this comment was a written one by Dara Mcquillan on Silverstein's behalf.
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Why would it need to be explained? What he meant was obvious from the context.

"There's been such a terrible loss of life already, so the best thing to do is pull it."

He either meant:

Too many people have already died, so let's minimize further casualties by pulling firefighters out of the area,

or

Too many people have already died, so let's BLOW THIS PUPPY UP!!!
 
aggle-rithm said:
Why would it need to be explained? What he meant was obvious from the context.

"There's been such a terrible loss of life already, so the best thing to do is pull it."

He either meant:

Too many people have already died, so let's minimize further casualties by pulling firefighters out of the area,

or

Too many people have already died, so let's BLOW THIS PUPPY UP!!!
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"pull it" obviously meaning "pulling firefighters" since the first thing to come to Larry Silverstein's mind in that interview was to refer to the firefighters as it.

Yeah right.

MM
 
Miragememories said:
"pull it" obviously meaning "pulling firefighters" since the first thing to come to Larry Silverstein's mind in that interview was to refer to the firefighters as it.

Yeah right.

MM
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A small bit of editing, and volla; The smartest thing you've ever written on this forum. I'll admit it does make me chuckle to think that conspiracy theorist actually see logic in a belief that one of the alleged main perpetrators and financial beneficiary of 9/11 would go on public television months after the attack and reveal his deep dark cover-up to the world..

As for the explanation, I'm not entirely sure where, I only know it happened in June 2005. To be honest I think you'd probably find it somewhere like infowars or some conspiracy site where they jumped all over it.
 
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Miragememories said:
"pull it" obviously meaning "pulling firefighters" since the first thing to come to Larry Silverstein's mind in that interview was to refer to the firefighters as it.

Yeah right.

MM
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"IT" refers to the firefighting effort, not the firefighters, MM. I don't remember; are you one of those who still believe in the delightfully idiotic notion that Silverstein blew his cover and admitted to destroying his building with CD? How quaint.
 
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Miragememories said:
"pull it" obviously meaning "pulling firefighters" since the first thing to come to Larry Silverstein's mind in that interview was to refer to the firefighters as it.

Yeah right.

MM
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"Pull it" as in the effort to save the building as in "Pull the plug on it".

Jeez.
:rolleyes:
 
Miragememories said:
"pull it" obviously meaning "pulling firefighters" since the first thing to come to Larry Silverstein's mind in that interview was to refer to the firefighters as it.

Yeah right.

MM
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It appears that MM skipped yet another class in school. English 101

"It" is singular and clearly he is not referring to a single firefighter as there were many. However it could (and does in this case) refer to a Organization or Process such as, for example, the firefighting efforts around WTC7.
 
Miragememories said:
"pull it" obviously meaning "pulling firefighters" since the first thing to come to Larry Silverstein's mind in that interview was to refer to the firefighters as it.

Yeah right.

MM
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'Cuz we all know a Real Estate tycoon is the person in charge at the worst terrorist attack ever.

Do you ever bore of being wrong?
 
Miragememories said:
"pull it" obviously meaning "pulling firefighters" since the first thing to come to Larry Silverstein's mind in that interview was to refer to the firefighters as it.

Yeah right.

MM
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Wow, did you type that knowing that Chief Nigro was interviewed about this very subject and categorically rejected any suggestion put forth by the truthers that WTC7 was demolished by the FDNY?
 
16.5 said:
Wow, did you type that knowing that Chief Nigro was interviewed about this very subject and categorically rejected any suggestion put forth by the truthers that WTC7 was demolished by the FDNY?
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You seem to forget that Chief Nigro and the entire FDNY was in on it.

:boxedin:
 
This is probably one of the most misquoted points of 9/11. There are two instances of "pull" in the Silverstein PBS interview. The first is the "pull it" comment that is in contention. The second one is this: "so they made the decision to pull". Notice he didn't say "pull it". And, unlike how Truthers like to allege, he didn't say "we", because he had no part in the decision. That choice was that of Fire Chief Daniel Nigro and his team (the man Silverstein had that phone call with quoted in the "Rebuilding America" show).

But noone talks about the second instance of "pull", least of all Truthers, because they can't make it look nefarious.
 
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Miragememories said:
"pull it" obviously meaning "pulling firefighters" since the first thing to come to Larry Silverstein's mind in that interview was to refer to the firefighters as it.

Yeah right.

MM
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Well, considering he was talking to a firefighter, and was talking about LOSS OF LIFE, yeah, makes perfect sense to anyone with enough brains cells to wipe their own ass.

Sorry bout your continued failure.
 
Anyone who tries to defend the notion that Silverstein's "pull it" quote meant intentional destruction of the towers is arguing that he went on national TV and confessed to having a role in an intentional coverup of a crime.

If someone seriously thinks that argument makes sense, then there's really no help for them. Logic escapes them, and they're too committed to their fantasy world to be swayed by reason. They have to have their own epiphanies to restore them to sanity.
 
miragememories said:
"pull it" obviously meaning "pulling firefighters" since the first thing to come to larry silverstein's mind in that interview was to refer to the firefighters as it.

Yeah right.

Mm
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= nuh uh!

Of course...after all we know the term "pull" is so well established as referring to explosives. Truthers readily present numerous sources on the subject.
 
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Yea, 9-11 was the best thing that ever happened to Larry Silverstein. Didn't he take his huge profits and retire to Tahiti or something like that?
 
Miragememories said:
"pull it" obviously meaning "pulling firefighters" since the first thing to come to Larry Silverstein's mind in that interview was to refer to the firefighters as it.

Yeah right.

MM
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Thats how other firefighters describe it. Because "it" can refer to contingents of firefighters or the firefighter effect as someone else said. Btw, if Larry is in on it so its the entire FDNY. We know how you ignore that.
 
twinstead said:
Yea, 9-11 was the best thing that ever happened to Larry Silverstein. Didn't he take his huge profits and retire to Tahiti or something like that?
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I've heard from VERY knowledgeable sources that he received a windfall and made out like a bandit.

Right Red?
 
Edx said:
Thats how other firefighters describe it. Because "it" can refer to contingents of firefighters or the firefighter effect as someone else said. Btw, if Larry is in on it so its the entire FDNY. We know how you ignore that.
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Sorry.

You can bs all you want (lie would be more accurate), but where I come from, when people use the word "it". they are not referring to a person or persons.

By not conceding this small point, you are only revealing how disimgenuous your argument is.

MM
 
Has MM regressed 4 years to the bad old "pull it" days?

Say it ain't so.
 
Miragememories said:
Sorry.

You can bs all you want (lie would be more accurate), but where I come from, when people use the word "it". they are not referring to a person or persons.

By not conceding this small point, you are only revealing how disimgenuous your argument is.

MM
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:boggled:


You know damn well what he meant. You're not fooling ANYBODY.
 
Miragememories said:
Sorry.

You can bs all you want (lie would be more accurate), but where I come from, when people use the word "it". they are not referring to a person or persons.
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And neither was Larry.

So do you think Silverstein was talking about blowing up the building?
 
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Unreal.

MM goes back to ignore. This time for proven, clinical lunacy.
 
Miragememories said:
Sorry.

You can bs all you want (lie would be more accurate), but where I come from, when people use the word "it". they are not referring to a person or persons.

By not conceding this small point, you are only revealing how disimgenuous your argument is.

MM
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That is how other firefighters describe it as well, so it makes sense that he was describing the firefighting effort. Sorry if that reality makes you annoyed.

Its not a small point, because if you are right then he admitted complicity with mass murder and insurance fraud on recorded TV and that the FDNY helped blow up his own building. It also means that all the FDNY that said that it was going to collapse hours earlier are in on it as is everyone else in the FDNY lying as well because theres not a hint of a dissenting voice from any of them about this in over a decade. Agreeing that "pull it" means "blow up my own building" is not a small point.
 
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Miragememories said:
Sorry.

You can bs all you want (lie would be more accurate), but where I come from, when people use the word "it". they are not referring to a person or persons.

By not conceding this small point, you are only revealing how disimgenuous your argument is.

MM
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Which was why he was referring to the fire fighting effort, which you'd have known if listened to Chief Nigro's interview rather than wallowing in *********** ignorance.
 
timmyg said:
Hello there

I've been told by a 'debunker' that Larry Silverstein was interviewed on film in 2005 and in that interview he elaborated on what he meant by 'pull it'.

Apparently this video was at one time on youtube. But I am unable to find it anywhere.

Has anyone seen it ? Does anyone have a copy?

As far as I was aware the only single response regarding this comment was a written one by Dara Mcquillan on Silverstein's behalf.
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It wasn't a video. It was a statement made by a spokesman for Silverstein Properties.


On September 9, 2005, Mr. Dara McQuillan, a spokesman for Silverstein Properties, issued the following statement [on the issue of Larry Silverstein's "pull it" comment]:
Seven World Trade Center collapsed at 5:20 p.m. on September 11, 2001, after burning for seven hours. There were no casualties, thanks to the heroism of the Fire Department and the work of Silverstein Properties employees who evacuated tenants from the building. ...

In the afternoon of September 11, Mr. Silverstein spoke to the Fire Department Commander on site at Seven World Trade Center. The Commander told Mr. Silverstein that there were several firefighters in the building working to contain the fires. Mr. Silverstein expressed his view that the most important thing was to protect the safety of those firefighters, including, if necessary, to have them withdraw from the building.

Later in the day, the Fire Commander ordered his firefighters out of the building and at 5:20 p.m. the building collapsed. No lives were lost at Seven World Trade Center on September 11, 2001.

As noted above, when Mr. Silverstein was recounting these events for a television documentary he stated, “I said, you know, we've had such terrible loss of life. Maybe the smartest thing to do is to pull it.” Mr. McQuillan has stated that by “it,” Mr. Silverstein meant the contingent of firefighters remaining in the building.
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Miragememories said:
Yeah like I care what puppets think.

Too funny.

MM
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Just one question MM. Lets say that 9/11 happened like your narrative of events, and Silverstein ordered the demolition of his building.

1) Did he decide in that moment to take it down with demolitions, therefore requiring people over the next 2 hours to take explosives into the building and wire it?

2) Why would he then go on national television and tell everyone he did it?
 
Miragememories said:
Sorry.

You can bs all you want (lie would be more accurate), but where I come from, when people use the word "it". they are not referring to a person or persons.

By not conceding this small point, you are only revealing how disimgenuous your argument is.

MM
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Sorry, a firefighting operation does indeed qualify as an it.
 
Miragememories said:
Sorry.

You can bs all you want (lie would be more accurate), but where I come from, when people use the word "it". they are not referring to a person or persons.

By not conceding this small point, you are only revealing how disimgenuous your argument is.

MM
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Pull it, the fire support is it. You could ask him, but then your fantasy would end.

But then you have no clue what happen on 911, you will not be able to figure out pull it. Way too complicated, you need math.

911 truth has failed to make a valid point for over 10 years; they never will.

Stop it.
 
"pull it"...
Are our conspiracy theorists suggesting there were cables tied to building 7 so it could be "pulled" down? It takes 2 seconds to pull up word definitions from a dictionary and they've gotten it wrong for years already.

Old topic, based on grammar/context incomprehension.
If the OP is as I'm hoping, asking for any clarification that's one thing; for the rest, this is an old topic expressing the same baseless accusations of pseudo-skeptics that have been addressed the world over already.
 
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MM thinks its so unlikely that Silverstein would mean "pull the firefighting operation", even though you can find firefighters using the word "pull" in exactly this way, but he'd rather believe that he used the word "pull" to mean the FDNY put explosives (and nano thermite) in his building to blow it up, even though "pull" is not a demolition term to blow up buildings and the only way it is used is literally to mean pull it down with cables. Not to mention of course that it means he admitted all this on TV. I chuckle when I read these things, but its so amazing to see how some people think. The way he can justify to himself what is more likely just blows my mind! :D
 
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Miragememories said:
Sorry.

You can bs all you want (lie would be more accurate), but where I come from, when people use the word "it". they are not referring to a person or persons.

By not conceding this small point, you are only revealing how disimgenuous your argument is.

MM
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If your going to be that picky then why overlook that controlled demolition of a building is not referred to as Pulling. Unless you think that they actually used large heavy cables to pull WTC7 down.
 
It's so funny how conspiracy theorists try to say that Silverstein meant "it" as the building.

1.) He said THEY made the decision to pull; so already, you're admitting that FDNY Chief Daniel Nigro, who made the decision, is in on the conspiracy.

2.) "Pull it" is NOT a controlled-demolition term when it comes to high rise buildings. Yet, not ONE controlled-demolition expert says to the contrary to support the conspiracy theorist claims.

It's just another case of conspiracy theorist thinking they know more than experts and "scholars" like Fetzer and Jones thinking because they have PhDs in one field, that tose degrees make them experts in everything.

Don't forget how the great Alex Jones also accuses the FDNY of manslaughter in regards to WTC7! What a leader! What a guy!
 
Miragememories said:
"pull it" obviously meaning "pulling firefighters" since the first thing to come to Larry Silverstein's mind in that interview was to refer to the firefighters as it.

Yeah right.

MM
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For every 9/11 fact showing proof that 9/11 was an inside job there is a nonsense lie spewed by those with their backs against the wall.

The end is near for neocon gang.
 
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