And as a further sign that Allen West was NOT employing "humor" or telling a "small joke", let's go to the man himself...

In an email blast to supporters Friday from his reelection campaign, West says he’s been a target of the political left for good reason:
It’s because he’s “not afraid to speak the truth.”

Read more: Allen West cashes in on communist quip - Darius Dixon - POLITICO.com

Allen West IS NOT claiming he was joking...

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Again the subtlety of the humor won't penetrate your far left, low effort thinking.

It's not a joke if he flat out declares 80 democrats are registered Communists. It is a joke if he responds to a question asking how many Dems are communists, by implying they may not be actual communists, but the Progressive Caucus are like communists.

Here's what you didn't post from the left leaning Politico.

West said...

Notice the subtlety there? Even the left leaning Politico has to walk back the original claim West said 80 Dems are card-carrying, Communists to something more like West said the Progressive Caucus behave like Communists. They have to do this, because now with the unedited video the full genius of his subtle humor has been revealed.

There is no "subtlety" here...
No claim to "humor" other than one of convenience from a group that refuses to admit one of their own acted atrociously.

The really stupid part of your claim?
West DOES NOT CLAIM he was trying to be funny.
As I previously pointed out, he was claiming it was the TRUTH.

So it's not me you are refuting.
Allen West OPENLY STATES he was saying "truth".

Everything else you say afterwards is simply trying to avoid the fact that
Allen West classified his statement as TRUTH...

Let me know when you're willing to honestly adress that...

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I love it...

When the Left jokes, it's a "joke", but when the Right jokes, it's 37 degrees to prove it's not...

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How much clearer can we get?
ALLEN HIMSELF refers to it as "truth".

If you can quote HIM as saying he was joking, that would be one thing...
But instead, what we ACTUALLY have is a bunch of right-wingers trying to EXCUSE his actions and PRETEND it's a joke when obviously ALLEN HIMSELF refuses to go along with it...

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And if a Lefty said "Oil executives are in the conference room every day stripping off their clothes and jumping in piles of dough!!!!", he would NOT be taken literally and everyone in the audience wouldn't laugh either...

And that Lefty could refer to it as "truth" 700 times and everyone would know damn well what he meant...

This is what West did...That is ALL...

Now enough of this "If we take habeas corpus and multiply it by the Illiad and add a pinch of cinnamon and look at the sun through a magnifying glass, it's obvious West is the son of Satan!!!!!!" routine...

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Searching for an excuse for West that just won't come huh?

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Evidently calling it a "joke" didn't work, so next stop?
Let's try calling it satire...

I love how cnredd went from trying to DOCUMENT Congressional democrats as socialist (page 1 of this thread), to trying to pretend it was just satire...
http://www.politicalwrinkles.com/us-...tml#post423744
cnredd: Unless there's some new info we don't know about, I'm guessing this is what West is referring to...

Or perhaps the point is that West chose the wrong insult? It was satire to call them "communist" when he should have called them "socialist" instead?

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At this point I think you're just arguing to hear yourself...

If I said "Greenpeace is a bunch of hippies!!!", would you think I'm saying...

A) Everyone in Greenpeace literally wears tye-dye, doesn't shower, listens to Grateful Dead, take drugs, and owns a Volkswagen minibus?

or would you think I'm saying...

B) Everyone in Greenpeace has the same mindset and attitude as actual hippies irrelevant of what they wear, smoke, listen to, or drive (and a few of them actually DO wear tye-dye, don't shower, etc...)?

If you think anything other than "B", you're just foolin' yourself...

I'm done here...I'm pretty sure you get it, but publicly saying "I get it" doesn't serve your purpose, so you won't...

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Maybe you should realize that the right has spent so much time tossing around labels like "Nazi" and "communist" and "socialist" that other people are simply taking it seriously when they see it ...

You know, if you could quote West in trying to explain West, that could help your side ...
But when I'm the one quoting West and you're the one ignoring that...

But hey!
I guess that's everybody else's fault too, huh...

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