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Rule -> RE: Hold the true terrorists responsible (2/2/2007 8:12:37 PM)
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FRANKEN: You are a pilot. Tell us what you saw.
Rule: Tell us what you saw - as a pilot.
TIMMERMAN: I was looking out the window;
Rule: The window? Not "my window"? Not the window of my 16th floor corner apartment?
TIMMERMAN: I live on the 16th floor, overlooking the Pentagon, in a corner apartment, so I have quite a panorama.
Rule: Notice that this information is totally disconnected from the looking out of the window statement. It is misdirection meant to implicate that the window he was looking out of was the window of his corner apartment. Why did he have that corner apartment? Presuming that he was part of the crew of that C130 cargo plane, it was to scout his target.
TIMMERMAN: And being next to National Airport, I hear jets all the time, but this jet engine was way too loud.
Rule: Again he is misdirecting. His apartment is next to National Airport and from his room he hears jet engines all the time. He is giving the impression that he was in his apartment when he was looking out the window, but he never testifies that he was actually in his apartment when he heard "this jet engine was way too loud". Notice that he avoids lying as much as possible. He is telling selective truths, but in such a way as to cause the inattentive listener to draw false conclusions.
TIMMERMAN: I looked out to the southwest, and it came right down 395, right over Colombia Pike, and as is went by the Sheraton Hotel, the pilot added power to the engines. I heard it pull up a little bit more, and then I lost it behind a building.
Rule: A building is blocking the view that Timmerman has of the plane and what does the pilot do: the plane is pulled up so as not to inadvertently have something go wrong when the plane is out of sight of Timmerman.
TIMMERMAN: And then it came out, and I saw it hit right in front of -- it didn't appear to crash into the building; most of the energy was dissipated in hitting the ground, but I saw the nose break up, I saw the wings fly forward, and then the conflagration engulfed everything in flames. It was horrible.
Rule: Horrible. Truly. He says it like he loves zombie movies. In any case he had a front row seat as much as he saw.
FRANKEN: What can you tell us about the plane itself?
TIMMERMAN: It was a Boeing 757, American Airlines, no question.
FRANKEN: You say that it was a Boeing, and you say it was a 757 or 767?
TIMMERMAN: 7-5-7.
FRANKEN: 757, which, of course...
TIMMERMAN: American Airlines.
FRANKEN: American Airlines, one of the new generation of jets.
TIMMERMAN: Right.
Rule: All outright lies.
TIMMERMAN: It was so close to me it was like looking out my window and looking at a helicopter. It was just right there.
Rule: Now again he is misdirecting. Suddenly it is not the window, but my window. He is suggesting that he was in his apartment. In the second sentence, however, no mention of being in his apartment and looking out his window is made at all. "It was just right there" - when looking out of the window, as he said earlier.
FRANKEN: We were told that it was flying so low that it clipped off a couple of light poles as it was coming in.
TIMMERMAN: That might have happened behind the apartments that occluded my view.
Rule: So now we know why the plane was pulled up when Timmerman could no longer see it. Now if there had been a pilot in that plane, the light poles would not have been clipped, as they would have been visible to the pilot, but there was no pilot in the plane and the pilot that flew the plane could not see the light poles because there were apartments between him and the plane, and he pulled up to avoid those light poles, that he had scouted before, but he pulled up a bit too little.
TIMMERMAN: And when it reappeared, it was right before impact, and like I said, it was right before impact, and I saw the airplane just disintegrate and blow up into a huge ball of flames.
Rule: What triumph.
FRANKEN: So there was a fireball that you saw?
TIMMERMAN: Absolutely. And the building shook, and it was quite a tremendous explosion.
Rule: He is telling it like he is reporting about a delicious ice cream that he ate.
FRANKEN: What did you see after that?
TIMMERMAN: Nothing but the flames. I sat here, and I took a few pictures out of my window,
Rule: Suddenly it is my window. The job was done and it was time to relax and take a few pictures. The job window changes into my sightseeing window.
TIMMERMAN: and I noticed the fire trucks and the responses was just wonderful.
Rule: Quite.
TIMMERMAN: Fire trucks were there quickly.
Rule: The order is a bit odd. He does not say that fire trucks arrived quickly, but first says that he noticed them.
TIMMERMAN: I saw the area; the building didn't look very damaged initially, but I do see now, looking out my window, there's quite a chunk in it.
Rule: He does not say the area in front of the building, nor the face of the building that was struck, but he makes an unlimited statement. He thus saw the whole area and the whole building - from a bird's eye view.
TIMMERMAN: But I think the blessing here might have been that the airplane hit before it hit the building, it hit the ground, and a lot of energy might have gone that way. That's what it appeared like.
Rule: Proud, isn't he?
TIMMERMAN: As you know, the rings are A, B, C, D, E. It is just across the E ring on the outside, and that's why I felt it didn't look as damaged as it could be. It looked like on the helipad, which is on that side.
Rule: Now he sounds disappointed.
FRANKEN: Did you see any people being removed, any injured being removed, that type of thing?
TIMMERMAN: No, sir. I am up about a quarter a mile -- it may be a little bit closer -- and at that point, I saw nothing like that.
Rule: Well, it is quite a distance, being up that high.
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