Posted on 07/29/2014 1:10:22 PM PDT by CivilWarBrewing
What reputation? Oh, the loser, lowlife one? It'd take more than that to *repair* this miserable excuse for a human's reputation...and not 1¢ should come from Kyle's estate/family. Not 1¢.
Who the heck was picked for that jury...total idiots? Where is this widow supposed to come up with that kind of money? If Ventura had an ounce of decency he would refuse the award and be a real hero, but I’m certain he will happily leave this widow destitute.
This makes my blood boil. What a subhuman sleazebag.
If he thinks his name was tarnished by Kyle before, this is a far worse PR hit. Suing the family of a dead war hero, really? Doesn’t get any lower than that.
Ventura has always been a self-aggrandizing piece of crap. This only seals it.
Amen this is disgusting. The jerk.
Ventura is trash and should be thrown in a dumpster.
Not sure what media you were reading, but the local press reported that the jury was shown a videotaped deposition Kyle did where he admitted that parts of his story weren’t true and that he tried to remove the story from the book after a friend told him he could be sued it was false. His publisher thought it was a great story, and Kyle agreed to keep it in.
The local media also reported that Kyle’s had plenty of witnesses but there were huge discrepancies between their stories and that in any event only one of them claimed to have seen the whole altercation and he admitted he’d had “15 to 20” drinks that night. In fact, most of Kyle’s witnesses admitted they’ve been drinking.
Oooooh, what a big tough man he is picking on widows and orphans!
Sleaze bag.
He may have won in a court of law, but he lost miserably in the court of public opinion. If any network decides to give him a new show we need to be very vocal about how we won’t watch it or buy from the companies that advertise on it. He thinks he won something today, lets show him how wrong he is.
Jesse’s hard up for money?
I consider trial by jury as the only anchor yet devised by man, by which a government can be held to the principles of its constitution.
— Thomas Jefferson
Ron Paul, Jesse Ventura, Libertarians.
It is all a good fit.
The local media also reported that Kyle’s had plenty of witnesses but there were huge discrepancies between their stories and that in any event only one of them claimed to have seen the whole altercation and he admitted he’d had “15 to 20” drinks that night. In fact, most of Kyle’s witnesses admitted they’ve been drinking.
The parts of the story NOT presented:
1. the drinking witnesses' "huge discrepancies" in their versions of the altercation,
2. the fact that only ONE person claimed to have seen the whole altercation,
3. and that HE, the only witness had consumed 15-20 drinks.
I can't have 15-20 drinks of anything, even water, before I would FLOAT away.
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Well thought out, GrootheWanderer.
Bill Salisbury, an attorney in San Diego and a former Navy SEAL officer, accused Ventura of “pretending” to be a SEAL and wrote that Ventura would be blurring an important distinction by claiming to be a SEAL when he was actually a frogman with the UDT. Compared to SEAL teams, UDTs saw less combat and took fewer casualties.[6][7][8] Following that, Governor Ventura’s office confirmed that Ventura was never a member of the SEALs. His spokesman stated that Ventura has never tried to convince people otherwise.[6] Ventura stated: “Today we refer to all of us as SEALs; that’s all it is.”[8]
Jackass Ventura was Never Ever a Navy Seal.
The jury should award him 1 cent.
Jesse Ventura who? You can thank the voters of Minnesota. Some would vote for him again.
I wonder how Ventura claims he was “damaged”.
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