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.
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What a small man.
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 $$$?
But I do know that it's next to impossible to win this kind of case in the USA, so Ventura must've had a good case.
This guy basically sucker punched an older fellow SEAL and went around the country getting laughs about it. Correct me if I'm wrong, but from what I've read, that ruffled some feathers even if (or especially if) Jesse is crazy.
It is not about the punch though. It’s about what was claimed Jesse said that instigated the so-called punch.
The first law of holes or Law of holes refers to a proverb which states,. “If you find yourself in a hole, stop digging.”
“But was it the right thing to do? Was it honorable or was it about the $$$?”
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?
He has one son that I know of. The kid is a filmmaker.
What a worthless piece of feces.
Snif
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
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?
You’re comparing Chris Kyle to OJ Simpson? Incredible.
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.
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.
Thumbs up!
How would he pay his Lawyers if he lost the Case?
Color me curious.
Declare bankruptcy?
Yep, declaring Bankruptcy and stiffing his Lawyers would really help Jesse’s credibility. LOL
Off to bed. Take care my FRiend.
Yep. I have held that opinion of him for a while now.
So we're supposed to applaud every verdict a jury decides because "that's the system"?
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.
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