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Flight AA77 on 9/11

Mr. Benshoof,

As predicted, every single aspect of this "gotcha" simply evaporates with AT MOST about 30 minutes of real research.

You are wrong, again and again and again.

And yet, here you are, ten years later, still offering distortions, repeating lies (of others, but nonetheless, you must take responsibility for repeating them), and offering disrespectful, baseless (& provably incorrect) vulgarities about the true victims.

You have proven yourself to be the antithesis of a skeptic. You are doing all of the above, very publicly, because you are foolishly credulous & an incompetent researcher of readily-available information.

You really should be ashamed of yourself. On many levels.

I choose not to spoon feed you the right answers. But I will give you a giant head start on correcting your errors.

I have highlighted in red the statements that you've made that are simply, provably wrong.

I'll give you a chance to look up the conclusive, public-domain corrections to your nonsense, like I would treat a very young student.

After you lazily refuse to put in any real effort at finding those answers, then I'll embarrass you by posting them here (if others have not already) in a couple of days.

I HIGHLY recommend that you go back to primary sources of information, eschew biased quote-mined snippets, and keep things in context.


I totally agree with you that anyone could get confused during such a traumatic set of events.

We do NOT agree.

Mr. Olson was not confused about which phone was used.

The part of Mr. Olson's continuing story that was the real mind bender was when the FBI, in a court of law, provided evidence for the record that Mr. Olson's phone call with his wife (I think her name was Barbara), lasted all of 0.0 seconds. It may very well be just an inconsequential anomaly that is easily explained, but it did pique my curiosity as to what actually occurred.


BTW, I think his name was Ted Olson, and he was some government official, like an Inspector General or Comptroller General or something.

Her phone calls to him lasted ~13 minutes 15 seconds. He was on the phone for this time, less the amount of time it took to put her thru to him.

Solicitor General of the US.

After giving it some thought, I wondered if …

You gave it approximately zero thought.
Your "wonderings" are irrelevant, especially since you follow them up with zero effort at finding out the answers.

… I should conclude that the FBI provided the most valid evidence of whether or not the phone call took place, since that was the only evidence provided under oath.

The FBI provided conclusive evidence to both the 9/11 Commission & to the Moussaoui trial that the phone call did happen. 4 phone calls, actually.

Olson's call was not the only call from AA77.

Your conclusions are irrelevant. Because they are lazy, baseless & wrong.

But, Ted should have known if he was talking to his wife or not, and she did---according to Ted's recounting of the phone call that didn't apparently occur---explain that the plane had been hijacked by terrorists.

He did know.

And wrong.
The 4 phone calls did occur.
Provably.

I suppose it could have been a prank call

And this is just plain stupid.

And provably wrong.

Heck, without that one phone call, we have no way of knowing for sure if there were even hijackers on Flight 77

Wrong.

---it could have been drunken American Airlines pilots ...

And this is just plain despicable.
And stupid.
And wrong.

Total conjecture, of course, but the mind does wonder at the possible implications.

Wrong.
Sensible peoples' minds do not wonder.
YOUR mind wonders.

But can't bother to put in trivial effort to look for answers.
So you spew despicable JAQ-offs.

There are no possible implications.
Because everything that you've offered is simply wrong.

The only implication is that you make bets on nonsense with no intention of paying off.

Of course, a possible explanation would be that she had a failed call from her cell phone, and then phoned him from her seat back phone. I'll have to double check, as I don't think that plane had seat back phones, and I'm pretty sure that the FBI stated that the only call between Ted and Barbara was the one cell phone call of 0.0 seconds. You guys may have already hashed this one out years ago, as it seems like you are pretty well versed in all of the crazy claims of these wacky 'truthers'.

You may not think the plane had seat back phones.
You're wrong about that, too.

You might be pretty sure about the only phone call, too.
You're wrong again.

It is unfortunate that the 9/11 Commission, in their attempt to provide a full accounting of the events of 9/11, wasn't made aware of this by the FBI. Though, maybe the FBI didn't bother checking on this minor detail until after the 9/11 Commission completed their report.

Wrong again.

The 9/11 Commission was explicitly informed of all of the above by the FBI.

If you'd bothered to read the report, you'd know this.

Your research skills are non-existent.
Likewise, your skepticism.
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I note that you've stated (to someone else) that you are a carpenter. In other words, completely unqualified to pass judgment on the report of structural engineers regarding failure mechanisms, thermodynamics or mechanics.

Typical.

The less truthers know about some subject, the more certain they are that the experts are wrong, and that they are right.

What would you think of a 12 year old kid who had never once swung a hammer instructing you that you're doing everything wrong in building that deck?
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I also note that you simply refuse to answer about 90% of the questions put to you. But you appear to think that you can alleviate that rudeness with transparent, insulting faux-civility.

Polite people do not ignore the questions put to them.

In short, you are just a much a polite individual as you are a skeptic.
:rolleyes:
 
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Well it appears that Mr Benshoof is simply the last in a long, long line of Truthers who were going to come here, teach all us debunkers a real lesson, smack us around for a little amusement & then retire to the adoration & accolades of Twooferdom ...

... only to have his plan go terribly awry.

No problem, of course. Simply beat feet & pretend he didn't get his ass handed to him.

Repeatedly.

Some search for twoof these clowns are on.

tk
 
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Well it appears that Mr Benshoof is simply the last in a long, long line of Truthers who were going to come here, teach all us debunkers a real lesson, smack us around for a little amusement & then retire to the adoration & accolades of Twooferdom ...

... only to have his plan go terribly awry.
Well...
As I'm sure you well understand, the more a question or point undermines one's view of reality, the longer it usually takes to assimilate that, and I hope that you will patiently afford me the requisite amount of time.

... let's give him a chance. He has been given information that undermines proves his view of reality is based on lies, and he has now a lot to assimilate. Admitting that you've been betrayed by being fed erroneous information, and that the correct information leads to a wholly different conclusion, is something that requires a lot of courage. Since he describes himself as a coward, it's still to be seen if he will take that step or will simply shield his beliefs against criticism by trying to rationalize the nonsense of the CT side of beliefs, but let's not anticipate the result.

Plus, I'm not clear if he's following this thread at all, as it was split from the CD = Free Fall one where he originally posted and he hasn't posted anything since then here. Nor in the other one.
 
Pg, I am all for giving anyone who behaves with sincerity & honesty an absurd, unreasonable number of chances. And then yet a few more.

I am kind of sick & tired of Truthers pretending to be sincere and purely motivated by a search for truth, only to spend a couple of hours (or far more) finding out that their sincerity was a sham from the start.

I'm willing to give Mr Benshoof a chance. He's had about 30 chances thus far. How many people's questions has he answered to date? By my count: zero.

My BS meter is on overload.

But we'll wait & see. Time always tells. So it will with our latest guest.

I'll put up a post that'll make sure he's not merely lost.

Tom
 
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I think he'll pass the real test of honesty when he pays out those US$ 1000 to the guy who debated him in Seattle.
 

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