Talk:Jesse Ventura: Difference between revisions

Mr. Ventura said that he had considered appointing whoever won today's election. But he said that he abruptly changed his mind when James Moore, the Independence Party's Senate candidate, was excluded from yesterday's debate. [1]

It wasn't just the memorial service that motivated his Barkley appointment. --Ed Poor

Would be nice if we could have some more history: graduation, military service, life in WWF, acting, when/where he was mayor, etc. &mdashMulad

Is there a website we could link the text of his proclaimation instead of in the article it takes up a lot of room in his bio for a rather small event in his life.Smith03 23:04, 17 Oct 2003 (UTC)

The problem with that is if the website goes away, so does the text. -Fernkes 12:00, Oct 18, 2003 (UTC)

The order of events, and the reason he was booed, at the memorial service isn't made clear by the article. It _sounds_ like he was booed (for no apparent reason), then there were 3 hours of encomium, then the "lets win" speech, and then (some time later) Ventura changed his mind on the appointment. Could someone clarify? -- Finlay McWalter 01:19, 21 Dec 2003 (UTC)

I don't actually remember Ventura being booed there at all. - Hephaestos 05:52, 21 Dec 2003 (UTC)

A paragraph on that was just removed.. I think Ventura was booed (though I can't remember how loudly), but I'm having trouble finding good video of the event. I'm curious of the copyright status of the main video feed, too—it may be public domain, but Internet sources of it seem to be disappearing, and I've never gotten any to work. There's a link here on Star-Tribune, but it's not working with my version of RealPlayer (shock of shocks…) I would guess that some people definitely did boo him, since he was a little unpopular at the time. Certainly some well-known Republicans who popped up on the video screens were booed loudly, so maybe memories are just confused. —Mulad 09:00, 2 Feb 2004 (UTC)

Keep in mind that the memorial service was held at Williams Arena on the University of Minnesota - Twin Cities campus. The crowd undoubtedly contained many students who disliked his stance on funding at the U of M. If I remember correctly, he attended the memorial service but left when 'it started to become a rally.' — wheresmysocks 07:40, Dec 27, 2004 (UTC)

I have a very difficult time believing Jesse is a Christian, much less a Lutheran...Terry,,, yes... Jesse... ?

I have read in some Navy Seal's websites (by former Seals) questioning whether Jesse Ventura was a Seal. He did graduate Buds/UDT but he did not take part in further training or fought with or joined any Seal Team. The distinction seems to be pretty major among former and current Seals. Here are some links that might prove useful. http://www.cursor.org/venturawatch/dangerous_game.htm http://www.leoterrell.com/bbs/messages/225.html http://www.cursor.org/stories/seal_or_udt.htm Edgar Kavanagh 11:47, 15 November 2005 (UTC)Edgar Kavanagh[reply]

I don't know if this is easily verifiable but I remember that back in the 1980s the then WWF billed Ventura as 270 pounds and more like 6'5" - considerably bigger than the figures given here. Are the figures here the legitimate ones, as opposed to what he was billed as? I do realise that it is a common practice to bill professional wrestlers as significantly bigger than their legitimate size. He looks considerably bigger than Arnold Schwarzenegger in their fight scene in The Running Man, but that might be camera angles, etc, I suppose. Metamagician3000 06:08, 24 December 2005 (UTC)[reply]