Jesse Ventura – Sellout or Moron?
Posted on | December 16, 2009 | 2 Comments
Let me just start by saying that, until recently, I really liked Jesse Ventura. I liked the character he played in Predator, I liked his independent-party / can’t-be-bought term as Minnesota’s governor, and I really liked his courageous publicly-stated opinions against organized religion and for the legalization of prostitution.
But what the hell happened recently? Now he is hosting a new TV show called Conspiracy Theory in which he all but states that he believes the government – i.e. the Bush administration – planned the 9/11 horror by a controlled demolition of the Twin Towers and a missile (not an airplane) into the Pentagon, solely to justify their later actions of invading Iraq and Afghanistan and passing the freedom-crushing Patriot Act.
Huh? Does he – or anyone of sane mind – think that George W. Bush, who could barely manage to speak at a high-school level, could mastermind a huge conspiracy against his own nation and actually pull it off? This defies both probability and logic. As the old saying goes, “Two people can keep a secret as long as one of them is dead.” In a day and age where the smallest transgression or misstep is eagerly discovered and reported by the press, Jesse Ventura will have you believe that hundreds of U.S. military and civilian employees conspired to murder their own citizens and then stayed absolutely quiet about it. Ya, right. That’s as preposterous as it gets. Not to mention that President Bush and his putative co-conspirators risked, if they were caught, being labeled as some of the most villainous monsters in human history, spoken in the same breath as Hitler or Stalin.
Which leaves me to wonder: does Jesse really believe this nonsense? Or is he just paying the rent by feeding baloney to the reason-impaired American public?
Either way, I no longer respect the man.
Tags: 9/11 conspiracy > conspiracy theory > controlled demolition > george w. bush > jesse ventura
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January 5th, 2010 @ 9:44 pm
I was surprised to see him go crazy as well with 9/11 shit. Unfortunately, I think he does actually believe what he says.
January 5th, 2010 @ 10:13 pm
Unsurprisingly, I have received several vitriolic comments about what a “jackass” I am for questioning Ventura’s motives or intellect. Those did not get posted here because, as I have made clear, this blog is not a democracy.
Thanks for the “voice of reason” comment. By the way, why is it that all the venom-filled, critical comments I receive are chock-full of misspellings and grammatical errors but the level-headed comments seem to be well-written? Just saying…