Posted on 11/30/2009 4:44:32 PM PST by ButThreeLeftsDo
Conspiracy theorists awaiting Wednesday night's premiere of "Conspiracy Theory with Jesse Ventura" might take interest in a curious comment Ventura made in the Los Angeles Times this weekend.
Ventura, who has been doing the media rounds promoting his new venture on TruTV, told the paper that MSNBC cancelled his show "Jesse Ventura's America" in 2003 because he did not support the Iraq War. He said the network "in essence" paid him to be silent, which allowed him to purchase a house in Mexico.
This is not your first venture into TV hosting since leaving the governorship. What happened to "Jesse Ventura's America," which ran briefly on MSNBC in 2003?
It was awful. I was basically silenced. When I came out of office, I was the hottest commodity out there. There was a bidding war between CNN, Fox and MSNBC to get my services. MSNBC ultimately won. I was being groomed for a five day-a-week TV show by them. Then, all of a sudden, weird phone calls started happening: "Is it true Jesse doesn't support the war in Iraq?"
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Whatever.....
can’t stand the dudes voice...seems like a perfect fit for BSNBC
The guy must be lovin his roids.....he is a turd in the liberal sewer......
Governor who?
We were dancing in he streets of Minny when he announced he didn’t have the guts to run on his record for a second term.
That idiot was on Monday Night Raw last week, normally I enjoy a good fake wrestling match but I changed the channel as soon as I saw him go on his rant about how Cheney was the devil.
Tim Cavenaugh had a song at the time Jesse was elected titled “My Governor is not a Wrestler”...it was pretty funny.
Ventura is a grade A moron.
I heard him explain that he knows global warming is real because it gets hot in his car when he sits in traffic at the border. (Going to his place in mexico because mexico is a better country than America)
I wouldn’t watch for 2 seconds. The guys a no good liberal politician, and I can’t stand his arrogance.
he’s crazier than Olbermann. I guess the NBC execs can only take one idiot liberal in Olbey..
Yes, we were....
Voice?
What about the hair???
Too stoopid to run the A/C knobs.....
More like an aberration.
Sure they did Jesse.
I heard Ventura’s rant about global warming and his love for mexico while listening to self described conspiracy theorist Rolleye James.
He was over the line even for her and she said she wouldn’t have him back on. Said he was a bully and just plain loopy.
didn’t Bob Arnot get let go by MSNBC/NBC in 2003 for reporting stories that were too positive (reagrding the war in Iraq)?
Loopy, indeed.
It broke my heart when Warren Zevon played at the inaugural....
You may be correct...
I’m not sure.
Some resourceful FReeper will fill us in.....
From the comment section.......
“I was the hottest commodity out there. “
Yeah, right. But now he is lagging behind Octomom, the Balloon Boy and the couple that crashed the White House party. Fame is fleeting when there are so many talented wannabes out there, Jesse....”
LMAO!!!
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