Jesse Ventura on Chris Kyle’s hero label: ‘Nazis have heroes,’ too

Posted 2015-02-05 00:25 by with 41 comments

Jesse Ventura on Chris Kyle’s hero label: ‘Nazis have heroes,’ too

Former Minnesota Gov. Jesse Ventura ratcheted up his rhetoric against Chris Kyle, the subject of the widely cheered “American Sniper” movie, suggesting that the now-deceased U.S. Navy SEAL was hardly the hero that he’s painted — that if you think about it, even the Nazis had heroes.

“A hero should have honor,” Mr. Ventura said during an interview on Fox News Radio with Alan Colmes. “A hero is not how many people you’ve killed. You know he’s obviously a great sniper. He’s obviously a great shot. He obviously did his job correctly. Alan, let me fire this one at you: Do you think the Nazis have heroes?”

Mr. Colmes said the Nazis fought for a cause “we can’t condone,” the transcript of the interview stated.

And Mr. Ventura’s reply: “Wait. Wait. Wait. When they invaded a country, when they invaded Poland, when they invaded France and if a Nazi soldier killed a hundred people that had lived there, would he be classified a hero in Germany?”

Mr. Colmes then asked is he was comparing the Nazi conquests with the U.S. missions in war.

“Well what I’m stating is we invaded Iraq, we were not asked in. We invaded a country, we overthrew its government, and then we killed people that lived there,” Mr. Ventura said.

Mr. Colmes: “Are we analogous to the Nazis?”

Mr. Ventura: “Well, and the communists, yeah.”

This isn’t the first time Mr. Ventura has taken public shots at Kyle. He called the sniper a “liar” and not a “hero” in recent weeks, sparking widespread backlash from military supporters, movie watchers and others.

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41 responses to Jesse Ventura on Chris Kyle’s hero label: ‘Nazis have heroes,’ too

  1. Rhino February 5th, 2015 at 02:16

    Jesse Ventura is a coward that waits to sue someone until after they have passed on to the afterlife…he just runs his mouth so that his name will make headlines. Let’s stop reporting his stupidity and maybe he will stop talking…

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  2. David Sifford February 5th, 2015 at 03:03

    cant believe the courts sided with his ass.

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  3. Ray February 5th, 2015 at 04:01

    Yes the American public was misguided going too Iraq with the agenda Busch & Chaney / Haleburten had. But as Soldiers doing there job afterwords is what They did & went through hell for Their Fellow Brothers & Us the American People . So yes HE IS BY ALL MEANS A TRUE HERO. He saves 1000’s of Armed Forces lives, who now due to Busch was his job. Busch & his sidekicks should be called the COWARDS. And just in my opinion the world was better off with Sadam in power, because he had the terriosts in fear . He was an evil man , but their are 100’s of his kind doing the same things. Problem is Busch & the $$$$$ people who controlled all parts of this & than scaring the American people with the media and the need for the party in office to finish. Now they sit back & reap the rewards of the $$ that’s still generated for private contractors. That war did nothing better for the world in security aspects only the parties of differant companies whichever country they are is selfish greed. And Ventura is another $$ driven media whore.

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  4. chuck February 5th, 2015 at 04:12

    Wait difnt he sue chris and taya for defamation of character? What is the difference from between what chris said and what he is doing? He sued them for a good amount of money for defamation yet goes around talking lies about chris? Fuck that lardass piece of shit!!

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  5. chuck February 5th, 2015 at 04:21

    Yea your argument and grammar made absolutely zero sense. I literally had to go grab my 5 year old to read that to me….BUSH** by the way, we went to iraq based entirely on CIA intel collected about saddams WMD’s. Which were not nukes by the way….they were thousands and thousands of mustard gas bombs, buried Sarine gas missles and chemical weapons buried along the ufraties. So misguided? Hardly!! Do some research and grammar classes before chiming in with your two sense bud. Bush was twice the man that king obama is!

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  6. chuck February 5th, 2015 at 04:24

    Oh and by the way pal, i have friends who were over there taking care of said weapons…..so they did exist, just not the “nuclear stockpile” the mainstream media made it out to be. You sound like a conspiracy crazed nut case.

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  7. Rin February 5th, 2015 at 04:27

    Jesse Ventura is a cowar

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  8. brad February 5th, 2015 at 06:34

    And to think he would smear the name of a fellow Navy SEAL. BUT THEN WANTS TO SUE SOMEONE FIR SMEARING HIS NAME???!!!!!!!! He needs his TRIDENT revoked.

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  9. John February 5th, 2015 at 07:50

    BTW it’s two cents not two sense… Check your grammar.

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  10. Big Al February 5th, 2015 at 08:33

    Someone just kill this clown already.

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  11. Jack Davis February 5th, 2015 at 11:30

    Ventura is a waist of skin and should pray he never finds himself in some ones cross hairs

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  12. Julian February 5th, 2015 at 12:50

    Believe it. Kyle lost every case brought against his “true story.”

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  13. Julian February 5th, 2015 at 12:57

    Weather someone is a hero or not is a matter of opinion, whether someone got punched in the face or not is a matter of fact. If Kyle claimed to punch Ventura in a moment of righteousness and that turns out to be a compleat lie, is he still blameless in this shit throwing contest? Basically when you start throwing shit be prepared to get some on ya, no one forced Kyle to write that book.

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  14. Julian February 5th, 2015 at 13:32

    More often then not the truth hurts and is hard to accept. What’s easer for you to accept? That America is fighting a war of aggression that only begets more violence and has been a total waist of lives and treasure. Or that Kyle is a Hero who fought and sacrificed so that we can all be free.

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  15. Julian February 5th, 2015 at 13:47

    What do you think the average German believed in the 1930’s? They likely thought that their sons were bravely putting their lives on the line for the greater good of their country. The memorials to the fallen in every German town and hamlet is testimony to the fact that the term “hero” is subjective.

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  16. Dr Tom February 5th, 2015 at 15:08

    All I know is that a fellow Brother never attacks another Brother. Jesse why in God’s name would you attack a fallen Brother. When he was alive you had a right to confront him personally. Jesse, you need to let it go.

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  17. dee February 5th, 2015 at 15:18

    Also it’s Sarin

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  18. NotBuyingIt February 5th, 2015 at 15:20

    Kyle was a self promoting glory hound. Think about the ego a person has to have to write a book on how great the are. No one questions anything the SEALs write about themselves, because they are ingrained in the public’s collective hearts thanks to Hollywood. How many other Spec Ops Soldiers, Marines and Airmen have operated overseas? How many combat grunts?

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  19. Dee February 5th, 2015 at 15:20

    Because Chris would have beaten his fat ass to a pulp if he said it to him personally

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  20. another veteran February 5th, 2015 at 16:01

    F you Ventura. Compare MY country to the fallen Nazi state? I hope someone punches you in the face with a baseball bat.

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  21. Kuba February 5th, 2015 at 16:10

    Any body know who gave the WMD to Iraq to fight Iran?

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  22. Nobody February 5th, 2015 at 16:48

    Ventura was not a SEAL.

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  23. Rambo February 5th, 2015 at 19:31

    Yes, he was. Regardless of how shitty of a human being he is, he was still a Seal. So get your shit straight.

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  24. Rambo February 5th, 2015 at 19:38

    Lol I love how people who obviously either failed, or paid little attention in high school like to go on a tangent about topics they know little about while butchering the English language in the course of.

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  25. Stech February 5th, 2015 at 19:59

    He was not a Seal. He was UDT. You get your shit straight.

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  26. brewster101 February 5th, 2015 at 20:16

    The SEAL community answered this years ago when Ventura’s campaign for governor brought the question to the public eye. Yes, he can call himself a SEAL, according to the Navy SEALs. He graduated from BUD/S, served as a Navy Special Warfare UDT operator, and later received his TRIDENT when UDT were folded into SEALs. So whom should we believe, the entire community of Navy SEALs or little old nobody like you?

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  27. Thomas Reidenbach February 5th, 2015 at 20:18

    Ventura is a class 1 POS. He needs to admit that Chris Kyle knocked him on his ass and hurt his feelings. Big man sueing someone after they are dead.

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  28. Stech February 5th, 2015 at 20:29

    Yes, he completed the UDT training, but he did not complete the additional SEAL qualification training. Technically, he can call himself a SEAL, but ask any real SEAL and they will tell you he is not a SEAL

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  29. Chance February 5th, 2015 at 20:37

    I’m not saying I support the Nazis, because I definitely don’t. But I would like to point out that what you consider to be a hero depends on your beliefs. To the American people, Chris Kyle was a hero. But what about someone in Al Qaeda? Bin Laden was probably their hero. Not that that’s a good thing. Just trying to show a different perspective.

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  30. brewster101 February 5th, 2015 at 20:43

    Uhhh, no, real SEALs have already weighed in on this matter in the past. They consider those guys SEALs, period.

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  31. Stech February 5th, 2015 at 20:54

    Where is your proof? Several SEALs have said he was not. Including CDR Salisbury, who was a SEAL during Vietnam. So whom should we believe, the OIC of SEAL team One and XO of SEAL team Two, or a nobody like you?

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  32. Jolly Boy February 5th, 2015 at 22:17

    Don Shipley explains this very well. A former SEAL senior chief and Naval Special Warfare historian. He says Jesse was UDT, but he can say SEAL. They earned the same trident. SEAL is easier for civvies to grasp quickly.
    Check out Don’s Youtube channel BUDS131 and search Jesse Ventura, has a quick explanation video.

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  33. LV Don BuffaloBill Cody February 5th, 2015 at 22:40

    I used to like Ventura….but now he’s just another ASS!!!!

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  34. Julian February 6th, 2015 at 14:14

    Weather someone is a hero or not is a matter of opinion, whether someone got punched in the face or not is a matter of fact. If Kyle claimed to punch Ventura in a moment of righteousness and that turns out to be a compleat lie, is he still blameless in this shit throwing contest? Basically when you start throwing shit be prepared to get some on ya, no one forced Kyle to write that book.

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  35. Julian February 6th, 2015 at 14:22

    I’m sure that’s the point Ventura was making, probably hoping it would take the edge off some of our own groupthink and jingoism. Reason is not received well by this crowd, understandably so if they have sacrificed for a Fucked up mission, I hope they realize eventually that these wars benefit no one but the tyrants in our own government.

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  36. Amy Mawdsley February 6th, 2015 at 18:38

    Blah, blah, blah…. If we stop paying attention, the circus has no audience.

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  37. David February 6th, 2015 at 22:37

    Seal or no Seal, if you served this country during war time and put your life on the line, you’re a hero. We can also say the same about police and firemen. What surprises me is why anyone would find it necessary to destroy a dead soldiers name??? I guess I don’t get that. I’m guessing a large percent of critics have never seen war or have fought side by side your fellow soldiers and watched some of them die. It’s easy to sit back and talk about shit, but I myself won’t, I wasn’t there. I say honor to all our veterans who served during peace and war. Thank you for suiting up and showing up.

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  38. Stephen Demarco February 9th, 2015 at 14:52

    you cannot to say of nothing with ronald regain and obams on same team of lepreconns. and not to end with word of

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  39. Miguel De Cádiz February 21st, 2015 at 08:20

    There is only one of us. We are all the same person. I am you and I am Winston Churchill and Hitler and Gandhi and everybody. There is no problem of injustice because your sufferings are also mine. There will be no problem of war as soon as you understand that in killing me you are only killing yourself.

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  40. Miguel De Cádiz February 21st, 2015 at 08:22

    Operation Paperclip was the Office of Strategic Services (OSS) program in which over 1,500 German scientists, technicians, and engineers from Nazi Germany and other foreign countries were brought to the United States for employment in the aftermath ofWorld War II. It was conducted by the Joint Intelligence Objectives Agency (JIOA), and in the context of the burgeoning Cold War. One purpose of Operation Paperclip was to deny German scientific expertise and knowledge to the Soviet Union and the United Kingdom, as well as inhibiting post-war Germany from redeveloping its military research capabilities. Although the JIOA’s recruitment of German scientists began after the Allied victory in Europe on May 8, 1945, U.S. President Harry Truman did not formally order the execution of Operation Paperclip until August 1945. Truman’s order expressly excluded anyone found “to have been a member of the Nazi Party, and more than a nominal participant in its activities, or an active supporter of Nazi militarism”. However, those restrictions would have rendered ineligible most of the leading scientists the JIOA had identified for recruitment, among them rocket scientists Wernher von Braun, Kurt H. Debus and Arthur Rudolph, and the physician Hubertus Strughold, each earlier classified as a “menace to the security of the Allied Forces”. To circumvent President Truman’s anti-Nazi order and the Allied Potsdam and Yalta agreements, the JIOA worked independently to create false employment and political biographies for the scientists. The JIOA also expunged from the public record the scientists’ Nazi Party memberships and régime affiliations. Once “bleached” of their Nazism, the scientists were granted security clearances by the U.S. government to work in the United States. Paperclip, the project’s operational name, derived from the paperclips used to attach the scientists’ new political personae to their “US Government Scientist” JIOA personnel files.
    “Every gun that is made, every warship launched, every rocket fired signifies in the final sense, a theft from those who hunger and are not fed, those who are cold and are not clothed. This world in arms is not spending money alone. It is spending the sweat of its laborers, the genius of its scientists, the hopes of its children. This is not a way of life at all in any true sense. Under the clouds of war, it is humanity hanging on a cross of iron.”
    – Dwight D. Eisenhower –
    Not only do I hate violence, but I firmly believe that the fight against it is not hopeless. I realize that the task is difficult. I realize that, only too often in the course of history, it has happened that what appeared at first to be a great success in the fight against violence was followed by a defeat. I do not overlook the fact that the new age of violence which was opened by the two World wars is by no means at an end. Nazism and Fascism are thoroughly beaten, but I must admit that their defeat does not mean that barbarism and brutality have been defeated. On the contrary, it is no use closing our eyes to the fact that these hateful ideas achieved something like a victory in defeat. I have to admit that Hitler succeeded in degrading the moral standards of our Western world, and that in the world of today there is more violence and brutal force than would have been tolerated even in the decade after the first World war. And we must face the possibility that our civilization may ultimately be destroyed by those new weapons which Hitlerism wished upon us, perhaps even within the first decade after the second World war; for no doubt the spirit of Hitlerism won its greatest victory over us when, after its defeat, we used the weapons which the threat of Nazism had induced us to develop.

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  41. Miguel De Cádiz February 21st, 2015 at 08:25

    “AT ANOTHER LOCATION, WE FOUND BARRELS OF CHEMICAL material that was intended for use as biochemical weapons. Everyone talks about there being no weapons of mass destruction in Iraq, but they seem to be referring to completed nuclear bombs, not the many deadly chemical weapons or precursors that Saddam had stockpiled. Maybe the reason is that the writing on the barrels showed that the chemicals came from France and Germany, our supposed Western allies.”
    ― Chris Kyle, American Sniper: Memorial Edition

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