Posted on 01/19/2015 8:49:17 AM PST by Star Traveler
What damage? Ventura is a scumbag who trashed his own "reputation" years ago. There was nothing to damage. This was about money, just everything Ventura does, not some imaginary reputation.
What, is that jerk your brother-in-law or something?
The “devil is in the details” ... so I would not be dismissing this ...
just everything Ventura does = just as everything Ventura does
The jury and judge(s) disagree and the judgement, for now, stands.
One could wreck the 9-11 Truther Jesse Ventura's reputation? ..seriously.
I feel it was always a Chris vs Jesse deal and Ventura should have dropped his case against his widow and moved on since Jesse's name is not mentioned in the book.
(I do agree, Chris shouldn't have called out Ventura on the radio.)
No worries, Ventura now has 1.8 million to repair his reputation.
Regardless of what you or I think of Ventura, the jury and judge(s) believe his livelihood was damaged because of what Kyle said.
Personally, I don't give a rip about Ventura. I stand up for him only because, like all Americans, he has the right to life, liberty and the pursuit of happiness. His rights were infringed by what Kyle wrote and said and Ventura has the right to seek redress.
(I do agree, Chris shouldn't have called out Ventura on the radio.)
Not just the radio. He also repeated it during his appearance on Bill O'Reilly.
Kyle had the chance to make right what he made wrong and instead chose not to.
I am not necessarily dismissing this just observing there is an absence of corroborating evidence such as surveillance video. If the shoot went down as described it should be available insomuch as it sounds to be clean. There also should be statements from involved LE. Live Leak would be the most likely place to host the video. They even had post action video taken by the Taliban after Operation Redwing.
I just would not like this to be taken by the left and used to ridicule Conservatives if this is found to be a fabrication. The case of the child who claimed to have visited Heaven then ended up recanting his story is good example.
The story told by Kyle WAS verified. Not only by the author Mooney but mentioned in Marcus Luttrel's book.
Unfortunately the local law enforcement agencies have no record of the event, no record of a video, no media accounts, and most importantly, no family members of the alleged killed thugs coming forward and wondering what happened to their loved ones.........
As a vet, I have the utmost respect for his DOCUMENTED valor while serving in the Armed Forces and he should have left it at that.
Unfortunately he found it necessary to embellish his reputation by printing and saying things about his civilian life that were either proven not true (bar fight) or the unsubstantiated gas station shooting - which in my opinion is a VERY SERIOUS CLAIM!
And I'm not even going to bring up his claims about snipers on the Super Dome shooting 30 civilian looters.....
You do know that “preponderance of the evidence” is the lowest possible legal standard, right? It’s like 50.1% vs. 49.9%.
And like another poster mentioned, given the wacko Minnesota populace that voted him in as governor there, no surprise a similar jury found for their ex governor.
Boils down to who they want to believe more. They wanted to believe him.
And the “witness” who eavesdropped on him in the bar, who is his friend, laughable.
And the appeals judge who found the jury verdict “reasonable”? Appeals judges can only reverse on errors in law or procedure, not on a jury’s opinion.
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