Pusillanimous, soulless, chum-sucking cockroach is suing the widow of Chris Kyle.
Former Minnesota Gov. Jesse Ventura is setting his legal sights on the widow of a former Navy SEAL he had sued for defamation.
Lawyers for Ventura have asked a federal court to continue his lawsuit against Chris Kyle — who was killed in February by a young veteran he was mentoring — by substituting Kyle’s wife, Taya, as the defendant. Ventura last year sued Kyle, a decorated former SEAL and author of “American Sniper,” claiming that the book’s description of a California bar fight defamed him.
“Although Kyle is deceased, his ‘American Sniper’ book continues to sell and it is soon to be made into a movie,” said Ventura’s motion, filed last week by Minneapolis attorney David Bradley Olsen.
Ventura’s lawyers said his claims survive Kyle’s death, and “it would be unjust to permit the estate to continue to profit from Kyle’s wrongful conduct and to leave Governor Ventura without redress for ongoing damage to his reputation.”
How the holy hell can anyone damage a “reputation” that Ventura himself damaged long ago?
What an evil man.
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After, “Conspiracy Theory with Jesse Ventura” on truTV, you can’t go any lower.
And it turns out, according to several commenters on a different site, that Ventura was never a Navy SEAL and never served in Vietnam.
I don’t know what’s true there, but “The Body’s” credibility isn’t ascendant these days…
Yeah, what a chode.
He has to prove actual damages doesn’t he? And prove that the author knew the story to be false?
Yet another person whose name we can put in “What Would [this moron] Do?” and then do exactly the opposite.
Ventura was never a Navy SEAL and never served in Vietnam.
No, he wasn’t. He was a Frogman and he was stationed at Subic Bay in the Philippines. He has a Vietnam certificate of service that anyone who was active duty got.
I used to like Jesse’s weird ways, before he decided that crazy was a good place to be.
The guys who served on the sharp end rarely talk about it. My dad did once, and my older brother did a few months ago.
If someone makes a big deal about doing something great, I am immediately suspect.
me and Jesse Ventura, we’re all good
you wanna come by Mr. Jesse we can go get tasty Armenian pastries and come back to my apartment and heat them up in the toaster oven
then you can tell me stories about your colorful life what you had but we’ll have to stop and get a bottle of J&B cause you don’t get the good scotch
you just don’t
it’s a thing
do you wrestle for the armenian stuff?
no.
but they only take cash
yes a drop kick for the kolach recipe
i thought it was
neat
how when the fertilizer plant blew up in Texas I got so many messages about omg that’s where we got the kolaches
[still no kolache truck here in the city of angels]
tick tock losers
the proggtard broadcasting system here had these folks on to night
The story was that Kyle dropped Ventura for being an asshole at a wake for one of their brothers, so he would know whether it was true or not. God, I hope it is…and that it happens again.
Who Jesse Ventura needs to sue for defaming his character is Jesse Ventura. Sue him for everything he’s got.
Discovery could be an eye-opener.
Mr. Janos was UDT not a BUDs trained SEAL.
Exactly, Gulermo.
I have to agree with cranky, too. The guys who do dangerous duty don’t talk about it all the time, if fact they practically never talk about it.
Kolaches are very easy to make. Buy some jars of jam, some cream cheese and bake your own.
i can’t do that
I learned how to make cinnamon rolls from scratch once
it got out of control
The Infowars loons have been defaming Chris Kyle ever since the wake incident became known. When Kyle was killed, they were fucking celebrating on FB and Twitter. “He got what he deserved” seemed to be the Alex Jones fan club talking points.
They’re thumbprint cookies. How hard can that be? My boys could make them when they were ten.
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Linkified.
This is a longstanding debate that SEALs take both sides of, as far as I can tell.
Saying he was a SEAL is technically a lie. Saying he was part of an organization that became SEALs is more truthful, but harder to explain.
I actually don’t care at all. The guy has some creds. Which of course don’t keep him from being an asshole.
Slarti, he is participating what is called “stolen valor”. He’s claiming to be part of an elite organization within the USN of which he was most definitely NOT a part. He is allowed to claim cred as a frog, not a SEAL. By lying about being a SEAL he is disgracing himself and casting a lesser light on the frogs than they deserve.
He IS lying about being a SEAL?
I thought that was past tense.
It’s a roughly equivalent organization, Leigh. I think it’s a much smaller sin than the folks who never have even been in the military, or (almost worse) had a dishonorable with no combat experience claiming MoH and the like.
But opinions vary, as do yours and mine.
Oh, and if you look around a bit, he was on SEAL Reserve Team One, which I think permits him to stretch things just a bit further than otherwise.
no what I mean to say I can’t be in the business of making my own tasty carb-laden thinger thingers cause of I will go to extremes
it’s a thing
but I’m doing very well now cause of I only have tasty food items on a monthly basis
in the past month all I had was a tasty very for reals chocolate croissant with NG what some surly kid at Belwood Bakery heated up for us
the month before that I had a piece of trader joe’s lemon tart
the month before that me and NG split a really nice chocolate croissant from novo cafe, and it was room temperature, and nobody was surly
Now — but apparently not when he was in. And I’m pretty sure he still claims to have been a SEAL.
The two organizations merged after he mustered out. He was never a SEAL and he claims to have been one. He further claims to have killed enemy combatants in that capacity. Unless he drowned VC in Subic Bay while serving as a Frogman, then that is also blatant bullshit and his disrespect for the SEALs, at a wake no less, got his ass clocked by Chris Kyle.
One could understand some confusion if the SEALS weren’t constituted until shortly after Ventura could claim to have performed a similar function in UDTs. Except, the first SEAL teams were formed in 1962. There doesn’t seem to be any way of reconciling those competing facts.
Is he or isn’t he?
This one‘s for Adam Jones, today’s Mr. 4 Ks.
As I said, leigh, there’s plenty of differing opinion offered by people who are qualified to have an opinion. Do I really need to dig up the contrary stuff for you? I know that you tripped over it while looking for opinions that support your POV.
The link I put up at 2:11 is actually in the ping-back at the very top of the page, Slart. Obviously Jesse has his opinion and everyone else who is in the know has a different one.
I’m pleased to see your bird has regained his footing, sdferr.
This is a longstanding debate that SEALs take both sides of, as far as I can tell.
Yeah, back when working for Uncle Sugar I had a ‘boss’ who was UDT6, and made it a point of showing off his ID card at the slightest provocation. He was also an unmitigated asshole.
Color me unsurprised by Ventura’s antics.
He can rot in Hell as far as I’m concerned.
My bird, b’in’ upside down, lost his giant hat into the dugout today, so Adam Jones grabbed it up an put it on (eschewing to wear his proper Golden Sombrero) and merely kicked off a rally in the bottom of the 7th to put the bird to rights, back on his feet. Thanks, Adam.
John McCain has more cred than Jesse Ventura.
Word.
The hat.
that’s not johneffin’kerry’s hat
and he has the hat
My own response is close to this one:
To me, the fact that he claimed that he saw combat in Vietnam is a far bigger sin. But I have to confess that my threshold for insult is almost certainly different than that of someone who e.g. saw combat in Vietnam.
I read that one somewhere, Slart, and agree that claiming to have served in combat when you were a thousand or more miles away is egregious, indeed. The reasons, for me, that guys like him really chap my hide is that my husband served three tours of duty in Vietnam as a CH-47 pilot. Hubs is very highly decorated (2 DFCs, for starters) and he never, but never talks about combat. Occasionally, he will tell the boys an amusing anecdote about cooking with c-4 or how filthy Saigon was, but that’s it. If they want elaboration on what he did, they can read his citations that accompanied his medals.
Assholes like Ventura who make truly stupid statements such as, “You haven’t truly hunted until you have hunted Man” should set off alarm bells with anyone who has an IQ above room temperature. No one who has been charged with killing the enemy, many times in hand-to-hand combat, would ever say something so revolting and patently false.
I don’t disagree with any of that, leigh.