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In reply to the discussion: UNBELIEVABLE!!! ALLEN WEST [View all]onenote
(42,700 posts)14. I don't know what is sadder: what it says about West that people believe he said this or the fact
that some DUers have such crappy BS detectors that they would believe he said it.
Its from a satirical website called "News That's Almost Reliable"
Think for a moment people: this supposedly was from an interview in late february on CNN and you're just hearing about it now? Maybe because its a silly bit of satire, not a real story.
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You know, somewhere between aspirin preventing babys, the trees being the right hight..
wandy
Mar 2012
#40
I don't know what is sadder: what it says about West that people believe he said this or the fact
onenote
Mar 2012
#14
What's sad is that, while obviously satire, it's not out of the rhelm of possibility
Old and In the Way
Mar 2012
#25
When Jonathan Swift wrote "A Modest Proposal", suggesting that starving Irish eat their children ...
11 Bravo
Mar 2012
#30
I alerted on this due to the fact it is satire and did not provide a link or disclaimer
Demonaut
Mar 2012
#33
To be honest with you. It's very believable. I've been waiting for him to go full Uncle Ruckus for
Guy Whitey Corngood
Mar 2012
#36