Since the DFL and media (pardon the redundancy) are in full promotion mode trying to keep the “Independence” Ventura Party going long enough to try to try to spoil the Emmer campaign, it’s time to remember the madness that Ventura brings to Minnesota
On King’s show the “Tag-Team” of Jesse Ventura and Oliver Stone staged a vicious “Smack-Down” against Florida Republican Congressman Connie Mack, who serves as Ranking Member of the House Subcommittee on the Western Hemisphere. (But what does he know about this stuff?)
He’s become a big supporter of Hugo Chavez (on top of being a 9/11 truther):
Having been honored to see a private screening of Stone’s new film [about tropical socialism], the self-styled “libertarian”, Ventura, declared on camera that Stone’s U.S.–bashing Infomercial for Tropical Stalinism “should be mandatory viewing for every U.S. high school senior.” (That’s “mandatory,” remember.)
When a smirking Congressman Mack heard this proposed mandate for the U.S. school curriculum, he pulled a “Jacknife Flip” on his “libertarian” opponent by pointedly asking Ventura how he could suggest enforcing such a thing. Ventura’s stint in the World Wrestling Federation (as both performer and announcer) sprang to the rescue in the reply: he manufactured an impromptu tantrum. For full effect, Ventura’s performance featured hurtful frowns followed by blood-curdling snarls. Congressman Mack, you see, had not addressed Ventura as “Governor,” and so ignited his ire. Needless to add, Governor Ventura never answered the question, as Congressman Mack stood patiently waiting–and smirking.
Maybe he’ll stay in Venezuela.
What I still don’t get is why anyone even bothers to listen to the clown. At one point he was semi-rational but that went away about half way through his term as govenor. Now he is just a clown with an axe to grind but it is very hard to figure out whose axe and why he needs to grind it.
He must have given up on the guy from Brooklyn with a mouth full of cotton.
Disclaimer 1: Davis showed up at our SD45 nominating convention in the basement of the Crystal City Hall with about 50 copies of his book that he was giving away for free. I grabbed one just out of curiosity. I’m about 2/3 of the way through it. If what he writes is really really true (which it could be since he says he has audio and video recordings, signed affidavits, legal transcripts and other documentation), then HOLY CRAP did the Ventura campaign and their lackeys pull one over on the state of MN. There were LOTS of people with very recognizable names involved who committed questionable, if not outright illegal actions.
Disclaimer 2: IF anyone is really interested, I know there are several copies on ebay for $1-3 + $3.99 shipping – and no, none of them are my auctions.
Jesse (Janos) is in many ways like a child. He will do and say most anything controversial
Jesse (Janos) is in many ways like a child. He will do and say most anything controversial just to get attention. He really wants people to believe he is of high intellect. Very little substance just alot of showmanship (read clown).
Who was this “’libertarian’ opponent” that Connie Mack was talking to? 😉
True story, I went to a John Adams Society Meeting the day after 9/11 in which the resolution was “Is Jesse Ventura good for Minnesota.” I don’t remember the outcome of the vote but I remember one speaker on the affirmative side who went through all of the ways in which Ventura was culturally leftist (e.g. anti-organized religion, hedonist, etc.) with one notable exception – Ventura was not someone who would apologize to our enemies, he was someone who would hit back.
Amazing how much has changed.
Hey, he’s written four books. Which turns out to be one more than he’s read.
Bill C I have seen Leslie Davies in action he always claims to have the evidenece and paperwork. Which usually turns out to be just copies of one public record or another and is meaningless to the discussion at hand. He is a pain to many local goverments and wastes untold amounts of tax dollars because he makes them double dot every “I” and double cross every “T”. If you can run away when he approaches as he is going to be a bigger time suck then Peev.
A few years ago I read a book on the SEAL’s in Vietnam, and one of the profiles was of Mr. Janos. It noted that he wasn’t actually a SEAL, but did go though BUDS, and was UDT, and served with the SEAL team that his brother was in, which was common due the demands of the war. But what I remember most of the story was that the team gave them nicknames, his brother was Clean Janos, and Jesse was Dirty Janos.
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