Tony and the Clock

Tony (as well as an edited-in radio broadcast) talks about the Pentagon hit ten minutes before it happened.
No 9:40 on that wall clock, and no Pentagon on that TV.

Wooops!

(As an aside, I've been saying I wish we could read that TV clock too, to counter the expected objection that Maybe FDNY Had A Slow Clock. "CNN LIVE 9:30 ET," is what I THINK the TV MIGHT say.
But now I realize, as an alternate to enlarging/sharpening that image, we might get our hands on a tape of that very broadcast segment itself. I recognize that it's CNN anchor Aaron Brown talking. He's saying, 'Officials are saying this is CLEARLY a terrorist act, CLEARLY not an accident.')

Ray Ubinger

UPDATE. More contradictions in this Tony and the Clock clip.

We are TWICE shown a shot with the wall clock beginning at 9:30:06 a.m.
AND, Aaron Brown, the CNN anchor talking on the TV, says something DIFFERENT the SECOND time.

The FIRST time that the wall clock says 9:30:06, Brown uses words like 'CLEARLY not an accident, CLEARLY an attack'.

The SECOND time that the wall clock says 9:30:06, Brown is talking about a "plume of smoke."

Then, that second time, Brown's voice is suddenly drowned out, by the voice (the DISEMBODIED voice, quite possibly EDITED IN) of the rookie, Tony Benetatos.

(The rookie talks about the 9:40 Pentagon hit while the wall clock only says 9:30, as described in the original commentary above.

So, this one short clip from the movie gives us

1
Two men (radio announcer at start of clip, then the rookie fireman Benetatos later) refer to the Pentagon hit before or while we the audience are shown a wall clock saying only 9:30.

2
The wall clock when first shown says 9:30:06, then it runs forward some, but shortly later it is shown back at 9:30:06 again.

3
The TV anchor, Brown, says one thing during the first time that the wall clock says 9:30:06, but says a different thing the second time the wall clock says 9:30:06

4
The rookie Tony's voice is disembodied. When we HEAR him talking, we DON'T SEE him talking.

5
When we do hear Tony talking, Tony's voice DROWNS OUT the TV anchor's anomalously new line of talk:

Tony's line about 'The Pentagon's on fuckin' fire?'
COVERS UP
Aaron Brown's 'plume of smoke' business, the SECOND time the clock says 9:30:06
WHICH IS DIFFERENT FROM
Aaron Brown's 'CLEARLY not an accident' business, the FIRST time the
clock said 9:30:06.

I believe Scott Loughrey contends 'plume' implies WTC rather than Pentagon. Ergo he finds the drown-out relevant to creating the illusion that those burning TOWERS on that TV screen are somehow the Pentagon when they're not. I am not familiar enough with the Pentagon smoke to agree or disagree.I just know that when we finally CAN see the Pentagon on the firehouse
TV screen, the firehouse wall clock has ADVANCED, to 9:42 a.m.:


Ray Ubinger

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bonus psyops-seeming item
Gedeon's narration teaches us that it was okay if we felt like swearing and "freaking out" like we've "never done before," as Tony did (at least according to Gedeon).

Gedeon sounds downright sympathetic to and expecting of headstrong, non-rational feelings on our part. Moral: Become self-blinded by emotionalism?