Jesse Ventura: Coleman A "Hypocrite," I Would Waterboard Cheney (VIDEO)

Former Minnesota Governor and one-time professional wrestler Jesse Ventura went public on Larry King Live yesterday with some harsh criticisms of the Bush administration, as well as Senator Norm Coleman.

...Coleman's always been a hypocrite. He never does what he says. He said election night, when he won, that [Al] Franken should drop out, and he should be the senator. Well, then the same should hold true after the recount.

Ventura, who beat out Coleman in the 1998 Minnesota gubernatorial race, said that any federal appeal by the senator should be thrown out.

Ventura also came out against the Bush administration, calling George Bush the "worst president in my lifetime" and saying he has "no respect for Dick Cheney."

Claiming that he was water-boarded as part of Navy Seal training he received during the Vietnam War era, Ventura says:

[Water-boarding] is torture... It's drowning. It gives you the complete sensation that you are drowning. It is no good, because you -- I'll put it to you this way, you give me a water board, Dick Cheney and one hour, and I'll have him confess to the Sharon Tate murders.

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[wtf idnk izzle]

07:03 PM on 05/24/2009

We need to waterboard Cheney to find out about the PNAC Pearl Harbor 9/11 link:

http://en.­wikipedia.­org/wiki/P­roject_for­_the_New_A­merican_Ce­ntury#.22N­ew_Pearl_H­arbor.22

[wtf idnk izzle]

06:52 PM on 05/24/2009

I agree we need to waterboard Cheney. We need to find out if the PNAC group conspired to allow 9/11 to happen. One year before 9/11, the PNAC think tank, including Bill Kristol, Wolfowitz, Cheney, and others published a paper that US had no will to start a war with Iraq--unle­ss we experience­d a Pearl Harbor attack. We need to see what they knew when and why they did not protect us from 9/11. Let's waterboard Cheney 483 times to see if that's the way it went down. It's the only way to get to the bottom of this. If we waterboard Cheney and ask questions like: Was it Dick Cheney's idea? Was Wolfowitz a key player? Did Rumsfeld take unequivoca­l steps to allow an attack on the US? Did Blackwater pay Tenet to manufactur­e a case for war? Did you use Christiani­ty to manipulate Bush? Then we could turn that evidence over to the Hague and let them prosecute the war criminals. What's good for Hussein, is good for Cheney.

[unami]

04:05 PM on 05/20/2009

If I stuck my nose up to a raw chicken and took a whiff, I would throw up regardless of the smell! LOL

[HLL]

01:27 PM on 05/20/2009

Go Jesse! Right on.

[cheferic]

10:51 AM on 05/18/2009

The headline of this article implies that the author of the article ,not it's subject would water board Dick Cheney,Not­ice the quotation marks appear on the word "hypocrite­" Which Mr.Ventura correctly said.-The ' I would waterboard ...'sectio­n of the title was never said by Mr Ventura .So is Susan Crile the by line recipient making a statement here that she would torture?

[snellock]

12:04 PM on 05/15/2009

I had a post here rejected some time back for suggesting Cheney be waterboard­ed to find out the truth about 9/11.

Too bad he doesn't want to be president. Truly a populist, I don't think he would cave to the profit motive or to the fear of appearing 'socialist­'. I think he would laugh at the idea of including the insurance industry in "reforming­" the health care system. I doubt he would close Quantanamo and still find a way to render the "evil doer's" elsewhere for "enhanced" questionin­g. Nor would he be afraid to prosecute Cheney and the rest of his administra­tion for the smorgasboa­rd of crimes they committed. Poetry jams?! Come on!

[wtf idnk izzle]

06:54 PM on 05/24/2009

Let's see what they do with mine.

I agree we need to waterboard Cheney. We need to find out if the PNAC group conspired to allow 9/11 to happen. One year before 9/11, the PNAC think tank, including Bill Kristol, Wolfowitz, Cheney, and others published a paper that US had no will to start a war with Iraq--unle­ss we experience­d a Pearl Harbor attack. We need to see what they knew when and why they did not protect us from 9/11. Let's waterboard Cheney 483 times to see if that's the way it went down. It's the only way to get to the bottom of this. If we waterboard Cheney and ask questions like: Was it Dick Cheney's idea? Was Wolfowitz a key player? Did Rumsfeld take unequivoca­l steps to allow an attack on the US? Did Blackwater pay Tenet to manufactur­e a case for war? Did you use Christiani­ty to manipulate Bush? Then we could turn that evidence over to the Hague and let them prosecute the war criminals. What's good for Hussein, is good for Cheney.

[ThisisSparta]

11:56 AM on 05/15/2009

I always loved Ventura.

My favorite quote was when he was approached when announcing the state budget by someone asking why there wasn't more money in the budget for unwed mothers to return to college. He responded "Let me make sure I understand you, these are people who got pregnant, out of wedlock, had kids, and now want to go to college? Look, I feel for them, and what they want to do is incredibly admirable, but why is this the government­'s problem?"

[Fritziscool]

11:19 AM on 05/15/2009

He rides high in the saddle and speaks the truth. One Jesse ventura is worth all those stupid talking head/pundi­ts on the cable networks. I had Professors in college who spoke honestly like that about politics, but it seems honesty just doesn't seem to make it on Cable news.

[hegdehog]

11:17 AM on 05/15/2009

I absolutely agree with Jesse on the issue of gay marriage. I've been saying the same thing for years: the government should NOT be involved in marriage. Period. ALL unions should be civil unions. If the church wants to marry someone, that's in the private sector, and the government should have nothing to do with it. But there should be no such thing as a legal marriage.

[zeotrope]

10:27 AM on 05/15/2009

I never thought much of Ventura, but after seeing this I find that I was wrong. Refreshing to hear the unvarnishe­d truth.

[hegdehog]

11:22 AM on 05/15/2009

What's great about this is that Jesse is the kind of guy who can appeal to Republican­s. They see a former Navy SEAL, former pro wrestler, hard-*ss, and they have to respect him. Because Republican­s like to think of themselves that way. Even though they're now defending a cowardly draft-dodg­er who only THINKS he knows what the word torture means. Cheney should take the SERE course. Let him be strapped to a waterboard­. He wouldn't last two seconds. But at least then he'd have a right to his stupid opinion.

Jesse Ventura served his country. Dick Cheney corrupted it.

[RedXIV]

07:16 PM on 05/22/2009

Cheney wouldn't have the balls to go through SERE, any more than he had the balls to serve his country when he was called on to do so.

[leeman79]

10:11 AM on 05/15/2009

I'm on the ventura highway. Kick@ss Jesse.

[bismillah001]

09:00 AM on 05/15/2009

I need to do some push-ups now.

btw who do you think would win in a fight - Ventura or the Governator­?

[javagirl322]

09:08 AM on 05/15/2009

Ventura, of course.

[Progress08]

09:29 AM on 05/15/2009

Ventura has actually served in combat and was trained to fight, the governator was trained to pose in front of a mirror.

[CabaretArtist]

08:55 AM on 05/15/2009

What an event that would be. Cheney should be in jail along with Rove et al.

[foxbat]

08:27 AM on 05/15/2009

I'll tell you, that would be one way to get the nation out of debt. Have a pay-per-vi­ew special with Ventura waterboard­ing Cheney. I'd pay to see that and I suspect that several other millions/b­illions worldwide would too, but you know, instead of getting him to confess to the Tate murders, I'd just be happy hearing him admit that the torture orders can out of his office. If he's so confident in what was done, then man up and say "I'm the one that authorized it" instead of hiding behind "non disclosure meetings."

[ash711]

05:50 AM on 05/15/2009

I never understood how Jesse Ventura got elected in Minnasota but after watching him on Larry King I now understand­. As a lifelong democrat until Wall Street stole 50% of my life savings and then got bailed out by Nancy Pelosi and Congressio­nal Democrats, I said goodbye to the democratic party.
If Jesse ran for President I know there about be no bailouts for the thieves of Wall Street. Until we have a REAL THIRD PARTY that represents the 80% of Americans who don't have a voice and are having their life saving STOLEN FROM THEM we are headed toward THIRD WORLD STATUS.

[weatherwaxx]

01:35 AM on 05/27/2009

Ah, another attack on Pelosi I really wonder how many of you 'i usedta be a democrat' folks are anything but dittotroII­s...

We need campaign reform. Period. We need to get the corporate feedbags off Congress and stop giving corporatio­ns more civil rights than US citizens have.