In this thread I obliquely suggested that Jesse Ventura could whup Arnold Schwarzenegger. Looks like Jesse agrees. Lookee here:
Jesse calls Arnold out.
Anybody want in a pool for how long it’ll take Jesse to knock him out?
I can’t get to your link.
But if you’re gonna starta a pool I’ll take the finve second mark. Jesse was the real thing, a Navy Seal, and I believe he could take Arnold out withouot even breaking a sweat.
I can’t get the link either, but I’ll put $10.00 that Jesse can take Arnold.
Granted, they both were filmed in Running Man. I still think that Jesse’s got enough in him to take the Governator down with a choke hold.
Tripler
But then again, Jesse isn’t a T-101 model. . .
And let’s not forget Predator.
Yes, and in it I believe Jesse is the fist to use the man-portable electric gatling gun, before Arnold ever did IIRC.
I’d bet on Jesse as well.
Arnold is certainly tough for his age, but his muscles were always more for show. Jesse’s were put to use.
And just to be clear in case the title misinforms anyone, Jesse is an ex-governor of Minnesota. (Not only could Jesse easily mop the floor with Minnesota’s current governor, I would gladly pay admission to see such an event.)
Since he’s an ex-governor, I guess he wasn’t too good as one, right?
Well, there’s a bit of a question about that here in Minnesota.
Jesse did claim many times during the campaign & after, to have been a Navy Seal.
After the election, the press finally began to do a bit of research on such claims. It became clear that he had never actually been a Navy “Seal”, since the Seal teams were not created until after he had completed his Navy service.
Then he said that he had served in a unit that was the prototype for the Seal units. He had just said “Navy Seal” because it was easier for people to understand. So the press tried to verify this, and the Naval records department told them that they could not release such documents without the permission of the person. And Jesse refused to give such permission. He said releasing these documents would provide too much private information.
Then some servicemen pointed out that among the standard discharge papers was a form (DD14 or something, I think) that listed just units assigned to & dates, without a lot of private info. So Jesse could just show his copy of that form, or give permission for only that one form to be released. He refused to do so.
So to put it in SMDB terms, Jesse made the claim that he had been a Navy Seal. But when asked to provide a cite, he refused to do so.
So it seems to still be undetermined if Jesse Ventura ever actually was a Navy Seal (or equivalent).
Very interesting. I hadn’t heard that. I’m amazed that it stood up through an entire political campaign if it was bogus.
Well, that’s an interesting story, too.
In fact, Jesse got a free ride – he never really had to face 'an entire political campaign". In the sense of facing opponents and a press who would investigate his statements and expose questionable statements. The opponents generally ignored him and attacked each other. The press used Jesse as the “human interest” component of their election stories, often gleefully quoting the latest outrageous Jesse statement – but never doing any investigative reporting to see if it was actually true. (In my opinion, the press clearly fell down on the job. But that doesn’t surprise me much.)
Once in office, the press started to treat Jesse like any other elected official, and investigated his statements & proposals. He reacted very badly to this, and was quite ‘thin-skinned’ about it. There were constant ‘feuds’ going on between him and the press. And he sometimes retaliated in ways not typical of a Governor. He tried to have press credentials pulled from reporters whom he disliked, and when that couldn’t be done, boycotted them, refusing to speak to them or answer their questions, and even tried to lock them out of press conferences. And he made everyone in the Capitol press wear new ID badges that they said were ‘degrading’ and made them look like prison inmates.
Personally, I think this is part of the reason Jesse didn’t run for a 2nd term – he knew he wouldn’t get the ‘free ride’ he got in his first election campaign. He would be questioned just like any other politician, and would have a record in office he would have to defend. People would have pointed out that he had made a lot of promises to get elected (legalize marijuana & sell it in municipal liquor stores, legalize prostitution and require health inspections, etc.), but once in office, he hadn’t done any of them (didn’t even try to pass most of them). I think he knew what he would face in a real campaign, and he just wasn’t willing to face that much scruitiny. And the possibility of losing, too. That would really have cut into his value on the celebrity lecture tour!
And here I thought you were talking about our new governor. I was trying to figure out if you had some kind of phobia about mullets.
Yep, our new gov has hockey hair. Business up front, party out back.
I miss Jesse. At least when he was being a moron, he was a colorful, sincere moron, instead of an utter tool. With a mullet.
The title was a mistake on my part. It was intended to be a quote in the text. The title was supposed to be something else just as silly, but I forget.
The link thing I don’t get at all. I went to the site (a San Jose Mercury News article) directly from google, them copied the addy from my browser and pasted it here. I tested it in the prewiew. Too bad you can’t see it. Jesse kinda snarls at Arnold. It’s pretty cute, imo.
Anyway, I’m thinking when Kerry’s two terms are up we should run Jesse vs Arnold for president. Cool, huh? 
Yeah, Jesse was sort of the fox that got the spoils after the bear and the lion killed each other fighting over it. (Isn’t that how the fable by Aesop goes?)
Although he did get something of a free pass from much of the press (due to being seen largely as a novelty instead of a real candidate), he helped himself in this regard by being extremely honest. Almost “TMI” level honest. I mean, when a politician just admits, nay, brags that he’s smoked pot, been with prostitutes, thinks religion is a “crutch for the weak-minded”, and wants to be reincarnated as a double-D bra, well … there doesn’t seem to be many skeletons in the closet for the press to dig out.
Actually, I think he opted to not run for re-election.
the State Department and Commerce Department people in China that worked with the Wisconsin Government around Jesse’s trip to China said the man was a uber-professional. His trip was one of the best organized and business driven that they had ever dealt with.
Just a factoid for ya
That just shows how confused Jesse was, 'cause he was the governor of Minnesota.
Could it be that Jesse didn’t make the trip while gonernor?
BTW; I don’t recall him being accused of being confused about anything. Quite the opposite.
(That came out kinda odd. :eek:)
That would be correct.
Not that he was that great, either … no worse that what we have now, though.
Actually, this remark is unlikely to have affected any votes, since it came well after the election was over. I think it was partly thru his second year that he said this.