{"id":50969,"date":"2015-01-29T05:52:32","date_gmt":"2015-01-29T11:52:32","guid":{"rendered":"http:\/\/www.shotinthedark.info\/wp\/?p=50969"},"modified":"2015-01-29T05:52:32","modified_gmt":"2015-01-29T11:52:32","slug":"theres-a-reason-they-called-bobby-heenan-the-brain","status":"publish","type":"post","link":"http:\/\/www.shotinthedark.info\/wp\/?p=50969","title":{"rendered":"There&#8217;s A Reason They Called Bobby Heenan &#8220;The Brain&#8221;"},"content":{"rendered":"<p>Over the last year, former Gov. Jesse Ventura went to court against the estate of the late Navy SEAL sniper Chris Kyle, claiming \u2013 successfully, in court \u2013 that Kyle&#8217;s statements about him defamed him in the eyes of veterans. Especially SEALs, of which Ventura is a former member.<\/p>\n<p>And <a href=\"http:\/\/minnesota.cbslocal.com\/2015\/01\/28\/ventura-wont-see-american-sniper-says-kyle-is-no-hero\/\">then Ventura, rose to fame pretending to throw people around a  ring, said <\/a> (emphasis added)?:<\/p>\n<blockquote><p>\u201c<strong>A hero must be honorable, must have honor<\/strong>. And <strong>you can\u2019t have honor if you\u2019re a liar<\/strong>. There is no honor in lying,\u201d Ventura told The Associated Press from his winter home in Baja California, Mexico. He also noted that the movie isn\u2019t playing there.<\/p>\n<p>Ventura also dismissed the movie as propaganda because it conveys the false idea that Iraq had something to do with the 9\/11 attacks. \u201c<strong>It\u2019s as authentic as \u2018Dirty Harry<\/strong>,&#8217;\u201d he said, referring to fictional movie series starring Clint Eastwood, the director of \u201cAmerican Sniper&#8221;<\/p><\/blockquote>\n<p> or perhaps it&#8217;s as authentic as professional wrestling.<\/p>\n<p>So Ventura just spent $1 million trying to rebuild his reputation among veterans &#8211; and then he says <em>this<\/em>?<\/p>\n<p>Who&#8217;s he going to sue now?<\/p>\n","protected":false},"excerpt":{"rendered":"<p>Over the last year, former Gov. Jesse Ventura went to court against the estate of the late Navy SEAL sniper Chris Kyle, claiming \u2013 successfully, in court \u2013 that Kyle&#8217;s statements about him defamed him in the eyes of veterans. Especially SEALs, of which Ventura is a former member. And then Ventura, rose to fame [&hellip;]<\/p>\n","protected":false},"author":1,"featured_media":0,"comment_status":"open","ping_status":"open","sticky":false,"template":"","format":"standard","meta":{"footnotes":""},"categories":[8,44],"tags":[],"class_list":["post-50969","post","type-post","status-publish","format-standard","hentry","category-a-n-e","category-stupid"],"_links":{"self":[{"href":"http:\/\/www.shotinthedark.info\/wp\/index.php?rest_route=\/wp\/v2\/posts\/50969","targetHints":{"allow":["GET"]}}],"collection":[{"href":"http:\/\/www.shotinthedark.info\/wp\/index.php?rest_route=\/wp\/v2\/posts"}],"about":[{"href":"http:\/\/www.shotinthedark.info\/wp\/index.php?rest_route=\/wp\/v2\/types\/post"}],"author":[{"embeddable":true,"href":"http:\/\/www.shotinthedark.info\/wp\/index.php?rest_route=\/wp\/v2\/users\/1"}],"replies":[{"embeddable":true,"href":"http:\/\/www.shotinthedark.info\/wp\/index.php?rest_route=%2Fwp%2Fv2%2Fcomments&post=50969"}],"version-history":[{"count":1,"href":"http:\/\/www.shotinthedark.info\/wp\/index.php?rest_route=\/wp\/v2\/posts\/50969\/revisions"}],"predecessor-version":[{"id":50970,"href":"http:\/\/www.shotinthedark.info\/wp\/index.php?rest_route=\/wp\/v2\/posts\/50969\/revisions\/50970"}],"wp:attachment":[{"href":"http:\/\/www.shotinthedark.info\/wp\/index.php?rest_route=%2Fwp%2Fv2%2Fmedia&parent=50969"}],"wp:term":[{"taxonomy":"category","embeddable":true,"href":"http:\/\/www.shotinthedark.info\/wp\/index.php?rest_route=%2Fwp%2Fv2%2Fcategories&post=50969"},{"taxonomy":"post_tag","embeddable":true,"href":"http:\/\/www.shotinthedark.info\/wp\/index.php?rest_route=%2Fwp%2Fv2%2Ftags&post=50969"}],"curies":[{"name":"wp","href":"https:\/\/api.w.org\/{rel}","templated":true}]}}