Ventura On Palin: ‘Coming From A Quitter, Do You Think I’m Concerned?’

Former Minnesota Governor and current ORA-TV host Jesse Ventura appeared on my radio show Tuesday night to talk about Ferguson Missouri, his lawsuit against the family of a Navy SEAL, and criticism by Sarah Palin.

On what happened in Ferguson: ” I see the bottom line of this is racism. It’s still underlying. I think we hide it from ourselves as a country. That somehow it doesn’t exist here anymore. But in instances like this what’s going on in Missouri, it’s very very clear in the end, we still have a racism problem. It’s both black against white and white against black.”

On the militarization of police: : You know what I find interesting, Alan? Get this. All the nations of the world have agreed they would not use tear gas against each other in war but we use tear gas on our own people…Now how the Hell, excuse my French, did we allow that? We won’t use it in war, national across the world agreed. Tear gas is illegal in war and yet we use it on our own people domestically, it’s shameful.

Ventura then claimed the government is “thoroughly preparing for martial law.”

I asked him about his war of words with Sarah Palin:

COLMES: Tell me about your war of words between you and Sarah Palin. What is going on there?
VENTURA: There are no war of words, what do you mean war of words, I could care less about her. I don’t watch any of that stuff. So if there’s a war of words I don’t know about it.
COLMES: She called you, uh, I hate to even say the words, well you know what she said, right?
VENTURA: No, what did she say?
COLMES: “Hey tough guy Jesse Ventura, your feeling were hurt because you perceived that your reputation was besmirched by words in a book.” She called you a jackass.
VENTURA: That coming from a quitter. Do you really think I’m concerned? You know somebody who promised the people of Alaska that she wanted to be their Governor and then decided to quit before her term was done so she could get fame and fortune and money? And I’m going to be concerned about someone who has done that?

And I asked him about criticism he was going after the widow of  Navy SEAL to capitalize, to which he said, “I offered to settle that court case with no money if they would just tell the truth and they told me in all the settlements they would not discuss the truth at all, that it was only about money, and I wouldn’t accept the buyout. I took it to court to clear my name. I wouldn’t be bought off. And yet national media ridicules me.”

COLMES: So where has the media been wrong on this?
VENTURA: Where have they been wrong? They’ve been wrong saying I went after a widow and the children.
COLMES: Right.
VENTURA: That is completely wrong and a lie. Everything is paid for by insurance, she’ll pay for nothing. It was me against a big corporate insurance company. And yet the mainstream media’s portrayed me as a villain. I sought the truth.

By: Alan

Alan Colmes is the publisher of Liberaland.