Posted on 08/04/2014 7:28:57 AM PDT by Kaslin
Jesse “The Body”? Who’s that? I’m a Minnesota girl and I only know Jesse the Baby.
In September of 2012, I listened to my home state’s former governor speak at Macalester College in St. Paul, MN. I felt embarrassed for my state. Ventura showed up in jeans, a tie-dyed T-shirt and long, straggly gray hair that looked like it hadn’t been combed or washed in days. No, he wasn’t going for “California casual” with jeans in a blazer. On top of his multi-colored t-shirt he donned, not a classy sport coat, but a 90’s-style color-block windbreaker. He was trying and failing to look young, cool and hipster as he spoke to college students.
Nearly two years later, Ventura has cut and washed his hair and polished his wardrobe. He’s swapped his rummage sale rags for a classy black suit and blue tie. His wardrobe may have changed but Ventura is still embarrassing me. He persists in making Minnesotans look like babies who drool when they draw out their vowels.
Last Friday, Ventura won a lawsuit against the widow of late Navy SEAL Chris Kyle. Jejune Jesse complained that Kyle defamed him and permanently ruined his reputation. The question is whether Ventura had a reputation worth defending to begin with.
Ventura has said: “Organized religion is a sham and a crutch for weak-minded people who need strength in numbers.” On his 50th birthday, Jesse Ventura showed up in with a crown of flowers on his head and a pink hula skirt swishing at his hips. When he was a pro wrestler, he wore a feather boa and apparently never outgrew the accessory. Dan Creed, who once managed the governor’s mansion, attested that Ventura would leave a pink boa strewn across his bed.
Ventura is tough. He’s manly. He’s Teflon. Can’t you tell?
In his book, Kyle describes a 2006 fight in a California bar after the death of Navy SEAL Mike Monsoor. Kyle referred to Ventura only as a “celebrity” in his book, “American Sniper: The Autobiography of the Most Lethal Sniper in U.S. Military History.” Yet, during his book tour, Kyle revealed that the “celebrity” who he punched in the bar for saying that the U.S. Navy SEALs “deserved to lose a few” was indeed Ventura.
Oops. Life Lesson #999: Critique a pubescent man and be prepared to hear him bawl. And can Jesse bawl.
Ventura sued Kyle for defamation shortly after the release of “American Sniper.” About a year later, Kyle tragically died when he and his friend Chad Littlefield were shot in broad daylight at a shooting range in Texas. Their murderer was a young Marine veteran named Eddie Ray Routh who Kyle and Littlefield were trying to help cope with post-traumatic stress disorder. After Kyle’s death, Ventura persisted with his lawsuit by suing the executor of Kyle’s estate, his wife Taya Kyle.
Who sues a SEAL’s widow after her husband tragically dies? Moreover, who says “There are no winners in this trial” after winning $1.8 million as Ventura did last Friday?
No one in America was thinking about Ventura until he sued the Kyles. Ventura’s reputation and earning potential were hardly tarnished for perpetuity; Venture had already tarnished his own name for perpetuity. By 2012, the year he sued, Ventura and his wife reported $190,000 in gross income—down from the $3 million they reported in 2003.
Ventura’s career was at a standstill and now he has gained cash and the limelight while Kyle’s wife will never get her husband back. Ever. If Ventura weren’t so greedy perhaps he could see himself as a winner.
Kyle’s wife and children will get the last laugh. Her husband’s book is currently a number one bestseller on Amazon. Meanwhile Clint Eastwood is directing a movie (out in 2015) about Kyle’s life. If the movie does well, expect Ventura to go crying to his mommy.
Is the lawsuit on appeal? The jury must have been made up of kooks...
Jessie is changing his name to JAZZ( like that 6yr old tranny baby)
I believe it is on appeal and rightly so
He persists in making Minnesotans look like babies who drool when they draw out their vowels.”
I’m not seeing the problem here.
God don’t cotton to mistreatin’ widows.
No shorage of them in MN...
Hope in the movie, he's portrayed by name and image!
Typical Democrat. Mentally ill.
“No shorage of them in MN...”
Nor here in California either, only ours just knock up their maids!
Jesse the Wussy claimed Kyle hurt his income, yet, court records show his income was already in the gutter by the time anyone knew about Kyle’s book referred to him.
The widow Kyle had the stupidest lawyers imaginable, who agreed to a split jury instead of demanding a unanimous verdict. Wonder what online law school they graduated from.
Think I will go by a dozen copies of Kyles book today and given em to friends and coworkers with a note why......
Looking forward to see Jessie the fake experience a new veterans version of the knockout game .....
I just bought a few more copies for friends and drop shipped it to them. Kyle’s widow didn’t deserve the crap Jesse the Wussy gave her. Even in court there were witnesses that claimed he was there and got punched and claimed he said the nasty things, as he has in the past, about veterans.
Jesse is a liar and a coward. He never volunteered to be a SEAL in Vietnam; instead, he kept to easy street humping hookers at Subic Bay, Philippines as a UDT frogman.
> “The widow Kyle had the stupidest lawyers imaginable, who agreed to a split jury instead of demanding a unanimous verdict. Wonder what online law school they graduated from.”
I wondered that myself. I thought about that and could not figure out how agreeing would help their side in any way, shape, or form. There was no upside for allowing that and it is pretty obvious what the downside is.
Concur CT.... Hes living his hell now imho . Life for him sucks yesterday, today , tomorrow .....
I hope those SEALs that welcomed him simply because he was a celebrity learned their lesson about phonies. The fact they welcomed him in the first place with his phony claims to being a Vietnam combat veteran SEAL took that community down a notch in my book.
Agree !00% on that ...... professionals should know better.
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