Video: Minnesota governor turned Truther superpatriot walks off radio show in huff
posted at 8:10 pm on December 2, 2009 by Allahpundit
From this morning’s Opie & Anthony show, your viral video of the day. The little guy is comedian Jim Norton. The big guy is a bully who used to wrestle in a feather boa, likes to throw around the chickenhawk smear when discussing foreign policy, and, oh yes, is a full-blown mouthbreathing 9/11 conspiracy theorist who retreats into the “just asking questions” cop-out when challenged. In four-plus minutes here, I don’t think he engages a single point Norton makes, choosing instead to insult him, walk out, and then stare him down as if promising an imminent ass-kicking. Behold America’s highest profile Truther in all his glory. He and the movement deserve each other. Strong content warning.
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I hate this dude and his 9/11 conspiracy theory nonsense. He makes these reckless charges but can’t back any of it up. Shameful.
echosyst on December 2, 2009 at 8:14 PM
He’s a moron.
azkenreid on December 2, 2009 at 8:14 PM
God…what a beautiful mullet he has!
Yes, it’s Jessee ‘The Mind’ Ventura…Minnesota’s biggest embarrassment before they elected Al Franken. What a crap-head…and, BTW…this DB never served in the SEALS…he was a member of the UIC…which as absorbed into the SEALS after he left the service. What a steaming pile he is.
AUINSC on December 2, 2009 at 8:14 PM
He’s a boob. And old saggy one at that.
GT on December 2, 2009 at 8:14 PM
Minnesota gets profiled again.
*locks bunker door, hunkers down*
Bishop on December 2, 2009 at 8:15 PM
I’m sorry, but both Charlie Sheen and Rosie O’Donnell are both higher profile than this guy.
alexwest on December 2, 2009 at 8:15 PM
Sorry…not UIC, but UDT…still not the SEALS.
AUINSC on December 2, 2009 at 8:15 PM
Oh god I am listening to the show on replay right now and they are almost about to invite him in. Can’t wait.
thphilli on December 2, 2009 at 8:15 PM
Jim Norton is so great. He’s a regular on FoxNews’ Red Eye and never holds back. He has fought with truthers before on the radio show and he always leaves them speechless.
Complete7 on December 2, 2009 at 8:15 PM
I heard he and Arnold are making a new movie together “Brokeback Commando Mountain”
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via Iamnotanalcoholic
Indian Outlaw on December 2, 2009 at 8:17 PM
Those Minnesota winters must be brutal on the brain for voters. It’s the only explanation.
SouthernGent on December 2, 2009 at 8:17 PM
That was enjoyable.
BadgerHawk on December 2, 2009 at 8:18 PM
The last refuge of the scoundrel is to shout “chickenhawk!!”
Jesse is a buffoon — a man who lived his life making make-believe.
Richard Romano on December 2, 2009 at 8:18 PM
Norton has some stones. Ventura is a waste.
July 10 on December 2, 2009 at 8:19 PM
Love Jim Norton, especially on ‘Red Eye’. That was an awesome takedown.
cubachi on December 2, 2009 at 8:20 PM
Jesse is so 9/10. So the we had a collective brain fart in’98; no harm, no foul.
Just don’t get me started on Franken…
Bruno Strozek on December 2, 2009 at 8:20 PM
NO need for me to watch this video. already knows that he is an idiot.
hawkman on December 2, 2009 at 8:21 PM
It’s funny. You should watch it.
BadgerHawk on December 2, 2009 at 8:22 PM
Stevie Wonder named UN Messenger of Peace
The blind leading the blind
/hope I dont burn in hell for that
faraway on December 2, 2009 at 8:22 PM
Jesse Ventura isnt just a 8/11 conspiracy nut, he has eleventy billion other conspiracy theories, which he has somehow gotten some imbecile to give him a National TV show to rant and rave about…
doriangrey on December 2, 2009 at 8:22 PM
They were yelling over each other so no one was allowed to make a point.
terryannonline on December 2, 2009 at 8:22 PM
OT shocker:
Newt Gingrich praises Obama on Afghanistan
faraway on December 2, 2009 at 8:23 PM
No wonder Minnesotans voted him in as governor!
Captain Kirock on December 2, 2009 at 8:23 PM
Rocky Horror hair do. Lmfao
mcg0125 on December 2, 2009 at 8:24 PM
There was a point when ‘The Body’ didn’t really bug me too much. When he was Governor he drove the resident touchy-feeley LibSpaz door knobs nuts. One of the local radio station morning show dudes had his voice down pat and there was much fodder for making fun…..
He has completely gone off the rails now. He comes off as an angry old hippie more than anything else. And the whole ‘I served and you didn’t so I’m right’ canard is just wrong. Jack Murtha served and he is the biggest self serving prik in congress.
And another thing that annoys me about Jesse. He’s back to wearing his service on his sleeve along with his SEAL garb. He wasn’t a SEAL. He was UDT. There is a difference. I’m not saying one’s better than the other, just more well known.
BigWyo on December 2, 2009 at 8:24 PM
Is he high? Does he need an intervention?
Dr Evil on December 2, 2009 at 8:25 PM
I used to think Ventura played a great part in the WWE, come to find out, he’s really that stupid.
Big Orange on December 2, 2009 at 8:26 PM
Whoa! I’ve got to hand it to both of them. First to Norton for telling that guy off, second to Ventura for not spiking Norton neck deep into the floor.
ted c on December 2, 2009 at 8:26 PM
But he was such a fine Governor (not!)
Skipper50 on December 2, 2009 at 8:28 PM
Dude is more punchy than Robert Byrd. He got beat down by a guy half his size, the most unlikely beating since Tiger got his ass kicked by the Swedish babe Thanksgiving night.
JammieWearingFool on December 2, 2009 at 8:28 PM
The clip is loading like a conversation with Mel Tillis.
thomasaur on December 2, 2009 at 8:30 PM
Major props to Norton. Love him on Red Eye.
darii on December 2, 2009 at 8:31 PM
Hey, uh, this is BadgerHawk. Is there a way you could maybe just have your blog display the isp, and not the name across the top? My wife went through my internet history and I’m afraid she might find out my political leanings. Quicker would be better. K thanks.
BadgerHawk on December 2, 2009 at 8:32 PM
EX EX EX Minnesota governor thank you!
Good Lord – is this beat up on Minnesota day – first Al Franken now this idiot.
Have some mercy on us Minnesotans please.
gophergirl on December 2, 2009 at 8:33 PM
I think I disagree with what Ventura was trying to say, but I don’t know for sure what he said. What I did get is that he said the government lied to us. I didn’t hear him say they did it or had a hand in it but then I couldn’t hear him for the “little guy” that kept talking over him. I would have been out of there long before Ventura.
CC
CapedConservative on December 2, 2009 at 8:36 PM
He was great in
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John the Libertarian on December 2, 2009 at 8:37 PM
oops
John the Libertarian on December 2, 2009 at 8:37 PM
The difference between 9/11 and the Gulf of Ton Kin was that 9/11 was televised live as it happened, and it came out that the FBI had been warned by a field office in my hometown that some arab guy wanted to learn to fly airplanes, but not to take off or land.
So yeah, it’s a bit hard to compare the two when we know what we know about 9/11. In typical fashion when challenged a truther runs away and whines about their patriotism being questioned when its the government that should be questioned…. blah blah blah. Go away Jesse, no one cares what you think.
Neo on December 2, 2009 at 8:40 PM
Jesse is unhinged. I’m surprised he didn’t try and attack him.
Narutoboy on December 2, 2009 at 8:41 PM
Jesse is sort of like Charles Johnson to me. I used to like the guy but then he went crazy. The straw that broke the camel’s back was when he starting screaming at Brian Kilmeade on Fox and Friends one morning about Iraq I think. Brian liked Jesse and Jesse tried to humiliate him because he never served in the military.
What a jerk.
I can overlook leftie-ness at times but gratuitous beligerence is beyond my limit.
NeoKong on December 2, 2009 at 8:42 PM
Norton/Palin or Palin/Norton?
Buddahpundit on December 2, 2009 at 8:43 PM
All of the quibbling about whether or not he was a SEAL is stupid. Yes he was UDT, and UDT was the precursor to the SEAL program. So what?
Just because he served with UDT/SEALs doesn’t taint the service of others nor does it make him less of an idiot.
darclon on December 2, 2009 at 8:43 PM
What’s the deal with the Grandpa Al Lewis hairdo? And does he have early Parkinsons or is that shaking from steroid abuse?
JammieWearingFool on December 2, 2009 at 8:44 PM
Good one.
JammieWearingFool on December 2, 2009 at 8:46 PM
Jesse Ventura is a real life bobblehead doll.
Mark1971 on December 2, 2009 at 8:46 PM
I knew it. The Navy records the names of all SeALs, and his is nowhere to be found. They also ask that you report everyone claiming to be a SeAL that isn’t found in public record. I have a friend that was UDT, and when they were absorbed, he went to school and actually graduated, serving AS a SeAL for several years thereafter.
Unlike Riff-Raff.
That was a well earned ass kicking, and like the cowardly lying punk he is, he quickly high-tailed it out of there, claiming he has so much to do. Like anybody’d pay $2 to see that flabby hippie…
Virus-X on December 2, 2009 at 8:46 PM
JWF: I think you diagnosed it–it’s Parkinsonian in appearance with the head/neck movements.
ted c on December 2, 2009 at 8:46 PM
Wow, Jesse Ventura really beclowned himself. He’s always pulling that “did you serve?” BS, when he’s been lying about being a SEAL in Vietnam for years. What a disgusting phony.
WarEagle01 on December 2, 2009 at 8:46 PM
Jesse ventura loves to talk a lot of BS, Even hulk hogan who’s wrestled him hundreds of times in the late 70′s says “Jesse knows very little about a whole lot of things”.
jaboba on December 2, 2009 at 8:47 PM
How the *%*%#&@*@*$($*#$$*+%#(@#*#@(@*@ was he governor of an American state?
What the *$%*#*$$&*#*#*%(#*##*@(@* is wrong with Minnesotans?
nickj116 on December 2, 2009 at 8:49 PM
He’s been hit in the head one too many times by folding chairs from various auditoriums and convention centers.
Mark1971 on December 2, 2009 at 8:50 PM
I’m a regular O and A listener and I think the clip is a bit confusing if you don’t know the back story.
They’ve had him in before and they’ve been making fun of his “The government painted planes with thermite paint” theory for a long time, so he’s stated his case with them before.
MatthiasReynolds on December 2, 2009 at 8:52 PM
Do you know what irks me? Little babies whining “the government lied to me”, as if they were on some grade school play ground.
One of the biggest cop out statements…the government lied…of course they lied, everyone lies. I have never met anyone that has never told a lie…the question is, are they lying about what you are talking about? For every “lie” there are a million truths. Your mother lied, maybe that’s why she raised a bleating brat…see how that works?
You guys and your “the government lied” makes my ears bleed with your whining and sniveling.
right2bright on December 2, 2009 at 8:52 PM
His real name is Jim Jonas, and he was not in any SEAL team. UDT were not part of SEALs at the time.
firepilot on December 2, 2009 at 8:52 PM
As soon as you have some on yourselves and quit electing the likes of Jesse and Al…
doriangrey on December 2, 2009 at 8:53 PM
Time for a new thread AP. You’ve tried the gays and the former jackass governor that ranks slightly below the governator both in talent and political skill.
wasssup, give us something to bite on.
ted c on December 2, 2009 at 8:53 PM
Not exactly true. SEAL times did exist while he was a UDT.
firepilot on December 2, 2009 at 8:55 PM
Nice fanny pack.
The Ugly American on December 2, 2009 at 8:55 PM
The Underwater Demolition Team was not the “precursor” to the Sea/Air/Land Special Mission Unit. At least read a book before making such uneducated comments. UDT was just that: underwater demolitions. The Navy still has guys doing it. They were a combination of EOD and combat engineer. They could come under fire, but your statement is as asinine as saying an Army combat engineer isn’t much different from a Special Forces engineering NCO.
Virus-X on December 2, 2009 at 8:57 PM
Ventura is total squirrel-bait. I have always liked him though for some reason.
Southernblogger on December 2, 2009 at 8:58 PM
Jim Norton has brass stones.
barrythrowslikeagirl on December 2, 2009 at 8:59 PM
McGovern, Ventura, Franken …
Don’t worry Minnesota. We’re not laughing at you. We’re laughing with you.
/s
BowHuntingTexas on December 2, 2009 at 9:01 PM
This boob’s name isn’t Jesse Venture. I’ve got a son (and a grandfather) who share the name Jesse. His name is James Janos. He was so stinkin’ drunk the morning of his daughter’s confirmation that he couldn’t drag his worthless behind to church. That tells me one hell of a lot about the character of a person. A man would be there for his daughter. Call me when Mr. Janos relocates his gonads.
Scribbler on December 2, 2009 at 9:01 PM
¡FRED!¡NORTON!
mad saint jack on December 2, 2009 at 9:03 PM
Almost forgot: George McGovern is from South Dakota.
Minnesota’s got enough to answer for. Anyway, you probably were thinking of Hubert Humphrey.
Scribbler on December 2, 2009 at 9:03 PM
He looks like a fatter, less-articulate version of the homeless guy who asked me for “gas money” yesterday in Escondido.
On a positive note, Jesse Ventura makes Mike Huckabee seem slightly less retarded.
Infidoll on December 2, 2009 at 9:03 PM
Uh, bet HE has an American birth certificate!
Way to go, AP – bring out the hate seething inside all you liberals!
klickink.wordpress.com on December 2, 2009 at 9:06 PM
I noticed him shaking some time ago, but it appears more pronounced now.
JammieWearingFool on December 2, 2009 at 9:06 PM
Jesse is still in character from his days as a commentator. Slings out a bunch of BS and when called on it, tries to jump to another subject.
GO AWAY with the rest of the brain deads Jesse
jdsmith0021 on December 2, 2009 at 9:09 PM
Aye. Sorry. Thought Minnesota was 1 of 1 or 2 states McGovern won during the 72 campaign against Nixon.
Never mind on that point.
BowHuntingTexas on December 2, 2009 at 9:10 PM
They’re the same dumkoffs who elected Al Franken, remember?
MsUnderestimated on December 2, 2009 at 9:16 PM
“… and your stupid Rocky Horror hairdo.” I love Lil’ Jimmy!
I wonder what Ted Sheckler would have done…
sdm
stvdog on December 2, 2009 at 9:18 PM
Minnesota is so strange. When you look at the political landscape it’s creepy. Just creepy. It’s like a land-locked, frozen California. The weather really sucks, too, if you don’t like snow. What’s going on there? One used to think of the Midwest as being solid, centrist America. Minnesota is now the breeding ground for freaky politicians and Somali terrorists.
Have that with your Lutefisk, guys.
Cody1991 on December 2, 2009 at 9:20 PM
I laughed so hard I fell off my chair that has to be in the top 5 of the funniest damn videos for 2009
JIM NORTON rocks Jesse Ventura big tough guy with his rocky horror haircut LMFAO
Kevin43 on December 2, 2009 at 9:22 PM
Hey Jesse…STFU…your 15 minutes of fame is long over. Please go away.
KTHNXBY!
Gothguy on December 2, 2009 at 9:22 PM
You should see how his Team mates treat him when he goes to a reunion…
He is not the Alpha Male of the group.
Other than that, he is free to have his own beliefs and opinions. I am just not going to pay to listen to them…
Seven Percent Solution on December 2, 2009 at 9:24 PM
Youtube sucks.
Bugler on December 2, 2009 at 9:24 PM
The fact is that he is claiming to be something that he was not for the simple fact that more people have heard of SEALs than UDT or EOD.
Which is pathetic…
I always thought that UDT and SEALs pretty much started off in the same place, training wise, but some became divers/engineers and some became killers.
Was Jesse drafted or did he join? That would put some new meaning about the whole ‘Your country called and you answered’ thing. Or maybe not…he didn’t run off to Canada so he did answer.
He’s still an unhinged whack job.
BigWyo on December 2, 2009 at 9:24 PM
Me thinks Jessie took one too many to the head when he was younger. I’ve never listened to O&A, just not my cup of tea, but Norton OWNED Jessie. How in the h*ll did he ever pass SEAL training? LIke I said, one too many to the head.
What a fruit cake!
p51d007 on December 2, 2009 at 9:25 PM
Norton, . “Rocky horror hair-do”.
Snortworthy. . . .Best line of the clip.
Texyank on December 2, 2009 at 9:27 PM
He’s still an unhinged whack job.
BigWyo on December 2, 2009 at
Nail on the head
Kevin43 on December 2, 2009 at 9:30 PM
Okay, let’s clear some things up here.
In 1998, Jesse Ventura was elected as governor with 36.99% of the vote. Norm Coleman got 34.99%, while Hubert Humphrey III got 28.09% of the vote. That means over 60% of the voting population did not vote for him. Also, most of the people I knew at the time expressed disgust towards both Coleman and Hubert Humphrey III, and simply went with the “Other” option. Ventura’s approval ratings during his term weren’t ever high, so it’s hard to say Ventura is a reflection of Minnesota. Recently, some cities in Minnesota have tried different methods of voting, such as Ranked Choice Voting.
As for the election of Al Franken, it was a close race, and given the coattails effect that Obama provided, it makes perfect sense that he won (actually, you could say Franken winning with such a small percentage is surprising, given it was the Democratic party’s year to win).
DanStark on December 2, 2009 at 9:32 PM
Nah you were probably thinking about 84 and Mondale.
Waaahhh we are so depressing up here.
gophergirl on December 2, 2009 at 9:34 PM
Kind of reminds you of a birther – doesn’t he?
They always answer with the same cockamammie reaponse – just asking…duh…
AprilOrit on December 2, 2009 at 9:35 PM
Bayonne WHAT!!
I’m gonna comment first and then watch the video. I know Jim Norton. Never met him…but I know him. This is Jersey at our “I don’t give a rats ass who the hell you are dirtbag…take your 9/11 trutherism and shove it down your F*&%# throat! What?“
Now I’ll watch.
russcote on December 2, 2009 at 9:36 PM
Typical truther…he follows in the footsteps of Dylan Avery and Alex Jones.
StevefromMKE on December 2, 2009 at 9:40 PM
Fair enough, but it still indicates that MN is shaky. It is no longer a solid, centrist state that reflects mainstream American values. MN always seems to be on the tipping point, falling off a cliff.
Cody1991 on December 2, 2009 at 9:41 PM
LOL…Norton was hilarious.
I first remember seeing his stand-up on an episode of “Premium Blend” on Comedy Central several years ago. Look up his stuff on the Comedy Central website – great stuff.
What has happened to Ventura over the years? Totally off the deep end. How sad.
Tak_Bulgogi on December 2, 2009 at 9:44 PM
I think that Minnesota has been infected by Wisconsin liberal slime. Also all of their Indians always vote Democrat.
docdave on December 2, 2009 at 9:47 PM
Watched…
MISSING 20 MINUTES NOW!!
From back when they did terrestrial, O&A can’t be hiding the mysterious 20 minute break. No way.
Full Disclosure: I was a raging JFK theorist until the day, the 40th anniversary actually 11/22/03, I realized that I could have taken out Mr. Kennedy from the 6th floor with a poorly constructed slingshot. Yeh…it’s that small and yeh, Lee Harvey acted alone.
Guess who was there holding court on the grassy knoll that day…The Body. In all his nutty glory. I’ve got pictures to prove it.
Come down to the protest this Saturday in NYC Jesse. Be a man and challenge your detractors instead of stomping off in a huff like a jerk.
russcote on December 2, 2009 at 9:49 PM
People like Ventura are always the same. If you haven’t been in the military, you aren’t allowed to support wars. If you have been in the military and you support wars, you’re a nutjob.
Perhaps it should be turned on its head – and yes, I know Ventura served, kudos to him on that – but if you aren’t allowed to support a war if you haven’t served, perhaps it’s immoral to OPPOSE wars if you haven’t served either. Eh? Doesn’t that work?
Ventura’s constant belittling of Norton for not having served in the military is a joke. I say this as a veteran myself. Not everyone will serve. Not everyone is cut out to serve. That doesn’t mean their opinions are irrelevant.
What a loser.
Red Cloud on December 2, 2009 at 9:50 PM
Wow, just like Treacher when he’s challenged in his birtherism!
crr6 on December 2, 2009 at 9:55 PM
Umm..maybe. Our other Senator..Clobber…ahh..Kobistsh…Klobuchar!! Is every bit the female version of Al FrankenTard. Liberal as the day is long. She’s just been in politics longer.
And yeah, it was a close race with Al even with the One drawing in all the stewbums and derelicts to the polls…but he is Al Franken after all.
Plus finding some votes here and there and in that car trunk always helps.
Kinda reminds me of a moron. Produce one document..problem solved.
BigWyo on December 2, 2009 at 9:56 PM
Wow…
I was just typing the word ‘moron’ and look who showed up.
Scary.
BigWyo on December 2, 2009 at 10:00 PM
Full Circle: 1983 Circus Clown to 2009 Public Fool.
My they rot in hell.
EZnSF on December 2, 2009 at 10:00 PM
Just looking at his cap. It reads SEAL TEAM, Class #58. All SEALs can tell you their class number from Basic Underwater Demolition/SEAL school. The easiest way to catch a poser is to ask their class number. Whatever number they might throw out, a true Team guy would know the general time frame of their attendance. There is no class number of a SEAL Team.
That said, Ventura is a douche. If he was in Vietnam as a UDT, it was no picnic. And UDT was where the earliest SEALs came from. They were already trained in explosives and diving. I never met a SEAL that didn’t respect a UDT. They share a common fraternal organization. UDT SEAL Association
Unless things have changed dramatically since I retired in 97, EOD don’t blow things up unless it’s something they “find.” SEALs plant bombs, EOD harvests them.
TugboatPhil on December 2, 2009 at 10:01 PM
George McGovern however did not use self aggrandizing military exaggerations as part of his campaign like Jesse Ventura/Jim Janos did.
Not a fan of McGoverns politics but he was an actual combat vet – completing a 35 mission tour as a B-24 pilot in WW2.
firepilot on December 2, 2009 at 10:03 PM
I subtract ten IQ points from drivers with “W.O.W.” stickers on their cars.
RayinVA on December 2, 2009 at 10:07 PM
The most outrageous thing about Jesse Ventura is his claim that he is a Navy Seal. My personal opinion is, he is not! I find it amazing that he has not been challenged face to face on this. Read the attached two links and come to your own conclusion.
The most outrageous thing about Jesse Ventura is his claim that he is a Navy Seal. My personal opinion is, he is not! I find it amazing that he has not been challenged face to face on this. Read the attached two links and come to your own conclusion.
http://cursor.org/stories/how_candid.htm
http://cursor.org/stories/seal_or_udt.htm
z4hos on December 2, 2009 at 10:09 PM
His BUD/S school was #58, but that was not a SEAL school, it certainly was not called that then.
firepilot on December 2, 2009 at 10:12 PM
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