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Piers Morgan vs. Jesse Ventura

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Jesse Ventura was interviewed by Piers Morgan on (I think) CNN and it included a heated discussion about 9/11. Apparently Piers got Jesse very riled up and started calling Jesse a loon!

I can't find the whole interview so if anybody knows where it can be viewed could you please tell us.

In the meantime, here's a You Tube clip in which Jesse is having his "thought you have on the stairs" moment. He says his big trump card was, "If Osama bin Laden was guilty of 9/11 then why haven't we indicted him?" :covereyes

http://www.youtube.com/watch?v=PY8LTH68-Gs
 
Jesse kept rocking and shaking, it was hilarious... When he ranted the Afghan War was over lithium, Pierce said sounds like you should be on lithium! That was hysterical.
 
The Platypus said:
Jesse kept rocking and shaking, it was hilarious... When he ranted the Afghan War was over lithium, Pierce said sounds like you should be on lithium! That was hysterical.
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Oh, I really want to watch this now!

Not long ago Piers Morgan got into a fight with another TV presenter called Jeremy Clarkson who ended up punching Morgan in the face. A lot of people were quite happy about it as Morgan can be a bit of a ****. Of course Jesse is a lot bigger and crazier than Clarkson.
 
I honestly didn't watch the interview since it's so predictable what Ventura is going to say (something stupid and/or insane) but I did see a few seconds of it flipping through the channels. Was he wearing a rodeo clown leather jacket?
 
Here is Jesse talking about the War less than a week after 91/11/2001.

VENTURA: Well, I don't know. The word that I got on talk radio here was that a lot of the Vietnam veterans were calling up to see if they can re-enlist. And I believe it's a case for many of the Vietnam veterans -- this will be a war that will have the full backing of our country, which was something of course that didn't happen in Vietnam. So, you have many of those veterans really wanting and want to fell a part of what they did many years ago and be focused on something that the entire country is solemnly behind them at.

I think when push comes to shove, the young people of the United States will react the same as generations before them.

*********** hypocrite
 
I'm watching it on CNN right now. Ventura was asked why he allowed some bozo on his show to claim that Barack Obama was a CIA asset recruited by Brzezinski and was a possible future candidate for president. When asked if he believed that, he tried to wiggle out of it saying it was the other guy who said it. When asked why he didn't express his disbelief on the show, he said because his show was "entertainment" TV and that conspiracy theories were entertainment.

Some people will do anything for a buck.

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Björn Toulouse said:
I'm watching it on CNN right now. Ventura was asked why he allowed some bozo on his show to claim that Barack Obama was a CIA asset recruited by Brzezinski and was a possible future candidate for president. When asked if he believed that, he tried to wiggle out of it saying it was the other guy who said it. When asked why he didn't express his disbelief on the show, he said because his show was "entertainment" TV and that conspiracy theories were entertainment.

Some people will do anything for a buck.

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Ventura exposes his show is entertainment, like wrestling, not real, but then he says reailty. That was good; thanks for the link.
 
beachnut said:
Ventura exposes his show is entertainment, like wrestling, not real, but then he says reailty. That was good; thanks for the link.
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That was a great clip and Jesse did the whole conspiraloon equivocation thing.

One minute he's pleading he doesn't believe X and that only politeness stopped him from laughing the man off his own show and the next he's asking what's so crazy about X anyway and can you prove it isn't true.

He also demonstrates one of the upsides about blurring the lines between parody and craziness. He can claim he is just doing entertainment one minute and then claim that he's raising serious need-to-be-investigated theories about the world the next. Unfortunately it does have the downside of making him look like a complete charlatan.

I think it's a bit sad seeing what's happened to him. He used to be a great comic actor. Now, unfortunately he's just a clown.

Policenaut said:
Was he wearing a rodeo clown leather jacket?
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Alright then, just a rodeo clown.

P.S Does anyone know if he has Parkinson's? That shaking he does when he's watching himself on Conspiracy Theory could simply be a natural reaction to the shame he must feel but he does it a lot and not only when he's being forced to watch his rodeo clown antics. I hope it isn't. I would be a bit sad about that too.
 
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