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Jesse Ventura: Don’t feel sorry for Chris Kyle’s widow, I’m the victim here
Hot Air ^ | July 30, 2014 | Noah Rothman

Posted on 07/30/2014 10:29:19 PM PDT by 2ndDivisionVet

Jesse Ventura, Minnesota’s former governor, won his lawsuit against the late Navy SEAL and American Sniper author Chris Kyle on Tuesday. He claimed he was defamed in that book and, while a jury agreed, the vainglorious former wrestler-turned-politician-turned-conspiracy-buff has not exactly comported himself in a fashion that elicits much sympathy.

After having been awarded nearly $2 million to be paid by the late serviceman’s widow, one might assume that Ventura would simply slip away and enjoy his victory. It seems, however, Ventura’s narcissism prevented him from taking the tasteful approach here.

In an appearance on CBS News’ This Morning on Wednesday, Ventura engaged in an amateurish attempt to manipulate your emotions by simply insisting rather forcefully that you should not feel sorry for the women who lost her husband to an assassin’s bullet who now has to pay millions to a professional self-promoter with a tenuous grasp on reality. Instead, Ventura insisted that he is the victim here.

“Taya Kyle had all her attorney fees paid by insurance,” Ventura noted. “I did not.”

“I’m already damaged,” Ventura said when asked if he had hurt his reputation by seeking restitution even after Kyle’s death. “I can’t go to a SEAL reunion anymore. That was the one place where I always felt safe. I can’t go there anymore without looking over my shoulder now wondering who is going to come after me next.”

After seeking sympathy for the consequences of his own actions, Ventura reassured the audience that he has not emerged from this episode “unscathed.”

Lacking any empathy or courtesy, Ventura was asked what he planned to do with the winnings after noting that they come at the expense of a widow with two children. “Pay my lawyers,” Ventura said. His response was met with a shocked pause. “I didn’t have an insurance company paying the freight for me. I had to pay my own.”

Finally, Ventura promised the CBS hosts that his crusade to further damage his already shoddy reputation would not end here. Asked if he planned any future legal action around this defamation issue, Ventura promised to “visit” HarperCollins – the publisher of American Sniper – presumably to seek further damages over what he alleged and a jury agreed was an unfounded claim.

(VIDEO-AT-LINK)

What a small man.


TOPICS: Books/Literature; Military/Veterans; Society; TV/Movies
KEYWORDS: chriskyle; jesseventura; navy; seals; ventura
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To: Usagi_yo

I really don’t care if he had “the right” to sue. Heck I could sue anybody if my feelings are hurt. And probably get a judgment. You and I both know that a good lawyer is the key to a winning verdict.

But was it the right thing to do? Was it honorable or was it about the $$$?


21 posted on 07/30/2014 11:35:21 PM PDT by berdie
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To: Usagi_yo
NO ONE is LESS qualified to opine here than I!

But I do know that it's next to impossible to win this kind of case in the USA, so Ventura must've had a good case.

This guy basically sucker punched an older fellow SEAL and went around the country getting laughs about it. Correct me if I'm wrong, but from what I've read, that ruffled some feathers even if (or especially if) Jesse is crazy.

22 posted on 07/30/2014 11:39:14 PM PDT by Forgotten Amendments (Peace On Earth! Purity of Essence! McCain/Ripper 2016)
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To: Forgotten Amendments

It is not about the punch though. It’s about what was claimed Jesse said that instigated the so-called punch.


23 posted on 07/30/2014 11:43:04 PM PDT by Usagi_yo
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To: 2ndDivisionVet

The first law of holes or Law of holes refers to a proverb which states,. “If you find yourself in a hole, stop digging.”


24 posted on 07/30/2014 11:49:51 PM PDT by McGruff (I don't trust the Russians but I don't trust the Ukrainians either.)
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To: berdie

“But was it the right thing to do? Was it honorable or was it about the $$$?”

From what I can tell, somebody slandered Jesse Ventura under the pretext to profit from book sales that resulted in increased book sales and rendering Jesse a pariah among’st his peers.

What else is relevant?


25 posted on 07/30/2014 11:51:59 PM PDT by Usagi_yo
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To: NonValueAdded

He has one son that I know of. The kid is a filmmaker.


26 posted on 07/30/2014 11:52:36 PM PDT by Cheapskate
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To: 2ndDivisionVet

What a worthless piece of feces.


27 posted on 07/30/2014 11:54:58 PM PDT by piytar (The predator-class is furious that their prey are shooting back.)
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To: Usagi_yo; darkwing104

Snif


28 posted on 07/30/2014 11:56:24 PM PDT by piytar (The predator-class is furious that their prey are shooting back.)
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To: Forgotten Amendments

Jesse ..if you have been keeping up has become a left wing moonbat...(mostly because he’s a big mouth opportunist and saw that was where the winds were drifting so he could make a better buck)....and he run his mouth a lot ..
.and was running his mouth when he got popped....Jesse is as real as wrestling is


29 posted on 07/31/2014 12:03:37 AM PDT by tophat9000 (An Eye for an Eye, a Word for a Word...nothing more)
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To: Usagi_yo

Do you really think this veiled reference to Ventura in the book had anything to do with book sales?

Your original post said you like Jesse. Why?


30 posted on 07/31/2014 12:07:31 AM PDT by berdie
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To: Usagi_yo

You’re comparing Chris Kyle to OJ Simpson? Incredible.


31 posted on 07/31/2014 12:09:59 AM PDT by tumblindice (America's founding fathers: all armed conservatives.)
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To: 2ndDivisionVet

Jesse might have won in this court, but just bringing this slimy action — against a man’s widow, fer Godsake! — has doomed him forever in the court of public opinion. As somebody said earlier on the thread, what a small man. Jerk.


32 posted on 07/31/2014 12:40:11 AM PDT by JennysCool (My hypocrisy goes only so far)
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To: Usagi_yo

None of your post 19 gives any explanation whatsoever why you like Jesse Ventura. As for “the Body” supposedly being hurt by thing saids about him, seems he can dish it out but he can’t take it. Ha has slandered just about everybody from George Bush to the entire country he calls “The Fascist States of America.” The guy’s a self promoting dirt bag and the lawsuit has nothing to do with that.


33 posted on 07/31/2014 12:44:05 AM PDT by SoCal Pubbie
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To: SoCal Pubbie

Thumbs up!


34 posted on 07/31/2014 12:49:29 AM PDT by antceecee (Bless us Lord, forgive us our sins and bring us to everlasting life.)
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To: 2ndDivisionVet

How would he pay his Lawyers if he lost the Case?

Color me curious.


35 posted on 07/31/2014 12:49:36 AM PDT by Kickass Conservative (Things can always be worse and the Democrat Party is here to prove it.)
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To: Kickass Conservative

Declare bankruptcy?


36 posted on 07/31/2014 1:01:29 AM PDT by 2ndDivisionVet (The most dangerous man to any government is the man who is able to think things out for himself.)
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To: 2ndDivisionVet

Yep, declaring Bankruptcy and stiffing his Lawyers would really help Jesse’s credibility. LOL

Off to bed. Take care my FRiend.


37 posted on 07/31/2014 1:24:25 AM PDT by Kickass Conservative (Things can always be worse and the Democrat Party is here to prove it.)
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To: TigersEye

Yep. I have held that opinion of him for a while now.


38 posted on 07/31/2014 2:13:25 AM PDT by jospehm20
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To: Usagi_yo
A jury decided. That’s the system.

So we're supposed to applaud every verdict a jury decides because "that's the system"?

39 posted on 07/31/2014 2:29:58 AM PDT by Ethan Clive Osgoode (<<== Click here to learn about Evolution!)
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To: 2ndDivisionVet

Jesse was shown whining on tv last night complaining he can’t go to Seal
Reunions any more as he would most surely get his ass beaten.
I can hope and pray can’t I.
Hopefully a real serious ass whoopin.


40 posted on 07/31/2014 2:42:20 AM PDT by Joe Boucher ((FUBO) obammy lied and lied and lied)
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