Jesse Ventura: definitely speaking his mind

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Ventura Body Slams Bill O'Reilly
By 

Jim Shea

  on October 15, 2010 9:20 AM

Reading Roger Catlin's story this morning you can't deny that former Minnesota Governor Jesse Ventura speaks his mind. Appearing on the Joy Behar show last night he had this to say about Bill O'Reilly and some of his Fox News brethern.

"He's a spineless puke," Ventura said of O'Reilly. "The whole Fox won't have me on. The nighttime guys. I call them the three stooges, and we all know which one's Curly. If Glenn Beck isn't Curly Howard's kid ... I view him and Hannity and them as the Three Stooges, because if they can't intimidate you, they won't have you on."

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TV Junkie: Interview with Governor Jesse Ventura, Host of 'Conspiracy Theory'

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As the interview progressed we quickly got away from the specifics of his show and spoke more about Ventura's perspective on the government and where the United States could be headed and how the cyclical problems of war and loss of freedoms might be addressed. He advocates the abolishment of political parties and a curbing of corporate power, he is not a Tea-Partier/Bagger, and nor was he anything but rational, serious, and pleasant - attributes that should be aspired to by what seems like the majority of political hacks on the scene today.

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LAist: You mean "liberal" MSNBC?

Governor Jesse Ventura: They weren't liberal then, they were Fox Lite. Keith Olbermann might have changed their spots when he went on there. I think they assumed that because I was a Navy SEAL that I would be all gung-ho for the war but I wasn't. I opposed the war from the beginning and they wouldn't let me on the air because of that.

Don't tell me there isn't censorship in this country. Where was the debate on that war? The one thing I'll give Robert Byrd credit for was that passionate speech he gave on the Senate floor was "where is the debate?" Because there wasn't any. The thing you know about me is that I follow Jefferson who said that dissent is the greatest form of patriotism and I believe that and that's why I dissent and that's why I do this show.

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LAist: How are we going to get out of this cycle?

Governor Jesse Ventura: The first thing we have to do is stop voting for Democrats and Republicans. They are the problem, they are not the solution. They are the ones who created all of this. Why would you hire the people who did it to fix it? We have to abolish political parties in this country, that's what I stand for now. I don't stand for a third party anymore. I stand to abolish all political parties because they're the problem not the solution.

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