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Sorry.

In the future, I'll only share information regarding rain fall and hummingbird numbers.

Sorry.

In the future, I'll only share information regarding rain fall and hummingbird numbers.

I hope people like that never serve on a jury either. I don't care who you like better Jessie or Kyle. What matters is the facts of the case. A man who is a former WWF wrestling star, movie star, and governor of Minnesota gets decked in a crowded bar full of Navy seals and no one sees it? No one besides Kyle remembers it? The cops have no record of it despite claims that they did come? Photos of Ventura immediately following the supposed event do not show him with any marks on his face. No black eye. No swelling. No bruise. No split lip. Nothing.

I also think some of the folks claiming they wouldn't have sued are being disingenuous. I bet if some celebrity was going on national radio shows falsely claiming to have stomped a mudhole in their ass they would be singing a different tune. And it's not just about the false claim of the punch. It is also about the pretty despicable things Kyle claimed Ventura was saying about some Navy seals. Ventura was a member of a group that was a precursor to the Navy seals. For that reason members of those units have always been accepted as brethren in the seal community. Those claimed comments if believed would cause irreparable damage to Ventura within those circles.

Every interview I have watched or listened too that contained Jesse Ventura......left me with the same conclusion.


Jeebus that Ventura guy is a knob!


Nothing against him.......he is just a bit of a knob is all.

I don’t know why you’d be disgusted by an interview of Ventura.

Absolutely.

But knobs can be heard too.

I’m disgusted that it’s brought back up years after it’s done in an attempt to discredit a man I called my friend. If you can’t understand that then go [bleep] yourself

Chris and talked about a lot of stuff but I’m going to take those conversations with me

What I can tell you, as a point of fact, was that Chris couldn’t wait to testify against Ventura. I spent a week and a half with him in November of 2012, a couple months before he was killed, and he told me a bit about what he was saving for the trial. He had a lot of information to share and was looking forward to the opportunity to do so

My personal thoughts on it are this. I believe they had words. I believe the story may have been embellished a bit on both sides but I do believe there was an altercation of some sort. There’s Chris’s side, Ventura’s side and somewhere in the middle is the truth

Chris was a great man. A great man with demons. He saw and did things that we cannot even imagine. He would have stayed up and talked all night to avoid going to sleep. I can remember in the mornings hearing him in tortured sleep and I’d throw an apple or an orange against the door to get him to wake up in case a bullet came through the door. He was a great friend, a great father and an American hero

This thread disgusts me. What’s the point? Chris is dead and isn’t here to defend himself and it’s years in the past.

Not to drag this out, but by way of reasonable discussion, anything Chris would have had for court would have to be given to Jesse. If he really had a magic bullet to win his case his lawyers would also have had it. If it was a game-changer it had to be a lot more than just something he was going to say on the stand.

I hope that POS Coward that murdered Chris is suffering like no other in prison. 😡

I listened to the whole podcast this morning. Ventura is an interesting guy. Whacked out on some things, other things not.

Only thing I'll add to this quickly spiraling conversation, is if a guy comes home and quietly goes about his life he should absolutely be left alone to do that. If on the other hand he writes a book, and there is a movie, etc. then at that point he becomes a public figure. It's a double edged sword, you can't on one hand parlay exploits into fame and $$$, then not be called back up to the podium to clarify. Damned shame he's not here to answer for himself, and I won't slander him because even if some of the things are embellished he's still in my mind an American hero.

That's where I'm at on this topic.
Cripes, we're all flawed.
I find dragging a dead man's reputation, a former service man who many times was in the thick of battle and saved a lot of fellow servicemen through the mud to be repulsive and non productive.