Eh? I don't think it's a misquote. Here's what I hear Silverstein saying:
I'm certainly not disputing that he said "pull it" first (and it didn't occur to me that the website was doing so either). The next thing he said was "they made that decision to pull". So are you saying he was instructing the firefighters to blow up the building? In this clip, Silverstein is describing his conversation with the "commander of the fire department", correct?
OK - so he said there has already been such a terrible loss of life.... maybe "the smartest thing to do is pull it ... uh
He didn't say - we had lost so many men... the smartest thing to do is to pull those guys out of there... or - pull the unit out... or - pull the firefighters out...
He didn't say - PULL THEM OUT
He didn't say - OUT, BACK, AWAY, CLEAR
And nothing his preceding comments - that there had been such a terrible loss of life already..... DID not include any of those words... and there was no inuendo that MIGHT suggest that he was talking about pulling firefighters out of the building.
The only reference to pulling firefighters out came in his response to questions about his comments.
The man say's PULL IT.
What is IT? That is the question.
When you see IT like this in a sentence.... you must look for IT to be NAMED in a sentence before or after.
You have to look at the context of the sentence.
He said - "the smartest thing to do is pull it ... uh" and then he said, "and they made that decision to pull, and we watched the building collapse."
So when he say's, "they made that decision to pull" - he is STILL talking about IT. The "uh" connects the two "pulls"
Then he say's - "and we watched the building collapse."
So IN THE CONTEXT of the interview... he was absolutely referring to the building when he said "pull it" and "pulll"
So - he either had one hell of a brain fart and said something odd... like when Rumsfield said TWICE that a missile hit the pentagon...
OR
He had a "slip of the tongue"
And what a coincidence it is to have said that by accident....
just like Rumsfield saying that a missile hit the pentagon...
and just like Bush said he saw the first plane crash on TV that morning...
and just like the secret service let Bush sit in that classroom for 7 minutes after the second plane had hit....
it's all just one big coincident.
And the fact that the towers all collapsed into their footprint... which had to piss alot of people off who had been charged lots of money for "experts" to wire their buildings for "controlled demolition".
Jesus!!! Thank you Madsen!!!! I have just had a vision!!
I am going to contact an attorney in the morning and outline a class action suit against the biggest controlled demolition firm I can find. WOO HOO!!!!!!
Turns out - these guys are selling snake oil. Just start a fire with some diesel fuel - hell, pick a floor, and then watch the building fall.
I'll tell you what son - I owe you one.