Jesse Ventura won't see 'American Sniper,' says Chris Kyle is no hero

[LostInAK 43]

By Steve Karnowsk

MINNEAPOLIS (AP) — American Sniper is tops at the box office but don’t expect to see former Minnesota Gov. Jesse Ventura lining up at a theater for it.

Ventura, a former Navy SEAL, won $1.8 million in a defamation lawsuit last year against the estate of the late Chris Kyle, the SEAL protagonist of the movie, which has sparked debate over whether snipers should be considered heroes. Ventura said Wednesday he won’t see the film partly because Kyle is no hero to him.

"A hero must be honorable, must have honor. And you can’t have honor if you’re a liar. There is no honor in lying," Ventura told The Associated Press from his winter home in Baja California, Mexico. He also noted that the movie isn’t playing there.

Ventura also dismissed the movie as propaganda because it conveys the false idea that Iraq had something to do with the 9/11 attacks. “It’s as authentic as Dirty Harry,” he said, referring to fictional movie series starring Clint Eastwood, the director of American Sniper.

Ventura testified Kyle fabricated a subchapter in his American Sniper book in which Kyle claimed he punched out a man, whom he later identified as Ventura, at a California bar in 2006 for allegedly saying the SEALs “deserve to lose a few” in Iraq. Ventura said it never happened.

The jury gave Ventura the legal vindication he craved. Publisher HarperCollins removed the passage from the best-seller, and it gets no mention in the movie. Kyle’s estate has appealed. Ventura’s separate lawsuit against HarperCollins remains pending.

The former wrestler is now working on the second season of his online-only political talk show Off the Grid at Ora.tv, which he records in Mexico, where he lives in a solar-powered home with a satellite Internet connection.

https://www.yahoo.com/movies/jesse-ventura-wont-see-american-sniper-says-109430042057.html

[eieio 1,594]

And I voted for that wacko. He didn't seem nearly as out of touch with reality then. Maybe the stress from being a governor was just to much?

[I AM NOT THAT GUY 5,715]

GREEN BERET SLAMS JESSE VENTURA: “You’re A Dirtbag Imposter; NEVER F–K With A Fellow Operator’s Family”

[LostInAK 43]

I think when you become a boa wearing fake wrestler, you give up the right to sue anyone for defamation of character from that point forward. There is no character left to defame

Edited January 29, 2015 by LostInAK

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_{Who cares what that steroid-laden moron has to say?}

[decocker 7,198]

so basically, ventura = fonda

[I AM NOT THAT GUY 5,715]

so basically, ventura = fonda

At least Fonda actually made contact with an enemy of the US. Jessie just lied about it.

[Trumplestiltskin 5,791]

It's only a movie. Anyone would think it's a bloody religious text the way some people here carry on about it. Watch it or don't watch it, who cares?

[LostInAK 43]

It's only a movie. Anyone would think it's a bloody religious text the way some people here carry on about it. Watch it or don't watch it, who cares?

At least the movie is based on facts. Religious texts can't make the same claim.

[LibCampFireClub 635]

Yep. It's a movie based on facts that represent American values, American ideology and patriotism rather than that pompus euro socialist, pacifistic, don't piss off the terrorists or they will kill you-----mentality. I'm okay with understanding our slimyASSED enemy so we can better kill them first.

[Operator 1,927]

If anyone knows anything about being a hero it's 'The Body'... what a douche nozzle.

Edited January 29, 2015 by Operator

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I wish I could Throat Punch Ventura......

[decocker 7,198]

At least Fonda actually made contact with an enemy of the US. Jessie just lied about it.

chris kyle has told a fib or two himself.

I wish I could Throat Punch Ventura......

oh you can. you should try it some time.

[Trumplestiltskin 5,791]

Yep. It's a movie based on facts that represent American values, American ideology and patriotism rather than that pompus euro socialist, pacifistic, don't piss off the terrorists or they will kill you-----mentality. I'm okay with understanding our slimyASSED enemy so we can better kill them first.

No. It is a work of fiction, it is not based on 'facts' but rather the opinions of the people who provided the source material.

All that stuff you posted above? That isn't factual either, it's propaganda and proof that you can't tell the difference.

[I AM NOT THAT GUY 5,715]

chris kyle has told a fib or two himself.

oh you can. you should try it some time.

Do I sense a crush going on here?