Gitzo Loc: Indiana

Jesse Ventura Swoons Over Fidel Castro and Che Guevara

Article by / Humberto Fontova | Aug 01, 2014



Maybe it’s just a coincidence that somebody like Jesse Ventura is also a major fan of Fidel Castro and Che Guevara? (Or claims to be for the publicity value among the “hip”?)

Recalling his visit to Cuba and meeting with Fidel Castro in 2002 Ventura grew misty-eyed: “Fidel Castro looked into my eyes and told me I was a man of great courage…Maybe he (Castro) saw a little of him in me.”

Recall the Cowardly Lion’s reaction when the Wizard grants him “the NERVE.” Well, Jesse Ventura’s moronic gloating outdoes even the lion’s (“Shucks, folks, I’m speechless..ha-ha…Ain’t it the truth! Ain’t it the truth!”)

And this imbecile and buffoon (or is it master fraud and expert showman?) was elected governor of a populous and prosperous state, and honored by Harvard University with the title of “Visiting Fellow,” to say nothing of his career as media host and author.

“And I’ll tell you another thing that shows me a little bit more about Castro” also revealed Ventura in an interview. “The main downtown building in Havana has this huge flat wall and it has got a huge portrait on it. It’s not Castro. It’s Che Guevara. The biggest photograph in downtown Havana was a mural on a wall of Che. Now if Castro was such an egomaniac and all this, wouldn’t he put himself up there instead of Che?”

For a man with Ventura’s (mostly self-) vaunted “street smarts,” Fidel Castro’s blandishments of (the conveniently dead) Che Guevara should be a cinch to plumb. Didn’t Don Barzini send the biggest and fanciest flowers to Don Corleone’s funeral?

The Minneapolis Star Tribune reported how on his Cuba visit Ventura spoke at the University of Havana where he “exhorted students to dream big and work hard to achieve success!” Here one blinks, looks again—and gapes. You long to believe otherwise, you grope for an extenuation, you hope you misread—but it’s inescapable: A man elected as governor of a populous and prosperous U.S. State (and a “Harvard Visiting Fellow”) cannot distinguish between the subjects of a Stalinist police state and the attendees of an AmWay convention.

Ask anyone familiar with Communism. To achieve “success” in such as Castro’s Stalinist fiefdom, you join the Communist Party, you pucker up and stoop down behind Fidel and his toadies and smooch away. (Either that or jump on a raft.)

So come to think of it, Jesse Ventura indeed had much to teach those Havana U. students. On his Cuba visit he performed brilliantly.

Years later when, during an interview, The Daily Caller’s Jaime Weinstein suggested to Ventura that Castro runs a very inhumane dictatorship, a “shocked” (or expertly performing?) Ventura gasped: “They have the highest health care of any Latin American country! … What has he (Fidel Castro) done that’s inhumane?”

For the benefit of the esteemed academics who granted Ventura’s “Visiting Fellowship” at Harvard University's John F. Kennedy School of Government, here’s a few fully- documented items that might address their esteemed “Visiting Fellow’s” question:

Fidel Castro’s regime jailed and tortured political prisoners at a higher rate than Stalin’s during the Great Terror, murdered more Cubans in its first three years in power than Hitler’s murdered Germans during its first six and came closest of anyone in history to starting a worldwide Nuclear war. In the above process Fidel Castro and Che Guevara converted a nation with a higher per-capita income than half of Europe and a huge influx of immigrants into one that repels Haitians and boasts the highest suicide rate in the Western Hemisphere.

"What has Cuba ever done to us?!” the again “shocked” (or masterfully miming) “Harvard Visiting Fellow” gasped recently on his show On the Grid. “We've been practicing terrorism against them!”

“War against the United States is my true destiny,” Fidel Castro had confided in a letter to a friend in 1958. “When this war’s over I’ll start that much bigger war.”

“Of course I knew the missiles were nuclear- armed,” responded Fidel Castro to Robert McNamara during a meeting in 1992. “That’s precisely why I urged Khrushchev to launch them!”

But for the purposes of this discussion let’s overlook the above trivialities, as they’re obviously regarded by Harvard’s esteemed academics. Instead let’s focus on the fact that Jesse Ventura claims some sort of “fellowship” with American servicemen, especially Viet-Nam veterans. (Granted, this fellowship is–to put it mildly—not fully reciprocated.)

So again, for the benefit of the esteemed academics who granted Ventura’s “Visiting Fellowship” at Harvard University's John F. Kennedy School of Government, we’ll mention a few items to highlight their “Visiting Fellow’s” ignorance (or expert burlesque?) To wit:

In 1967 Fidel Castro sent several of his regime's most promising sadists to North Vietnamese prison camps to instruct the Vietnamese reds in finer points of their profession. Testimony during Congressional hearings titled, "The Cuban Torture Program; Torture of American Prisoners by Cuban Agents" held on November 1999 provide some of the harrowing details.

The communists titled their torture program "the Cuba Project," and it took place during 67-68 primarily at the Cu Loc POW camp (also known as "The Zoo") on the southwestern edge of Hanoi. In brief, this "Cuba Project" was a Joseph Mengelese experiment run by Castroite Cubans to determine how much physical and psychological agony a human can endure before cracking.

The North Vietnamese—please note!— never, ever asked the Castroites for advice on combat. They knew better. Unlike director Steven Soderbergh, they saw through the whole "Che as Guerrilla" hoopla for what it was and is: a Castroite hoax to camouflage the Inspector Clousseau-like bumblings of an incurable military idiot--and more specifically, Castro's own hand in the idiot's offing.

No, the North Vietnamese sought Castroite tutelage only on torture of the defenseless, well aware of the Castroites expertise in this matter.

For their experiment the Castroites chose twenty American POWs. One died: Lieutenant Colonel Earl Cobeil, an Air Force F-105 pilot. His death came slowly, in agonizing stages, under torture. Upon learning his Castroite Cuban affiliation, the American POWs nicknamed Cobeil's Cuban torturer, "Fidel."

"The difference between the Vietnamese and "Fidel' was that once the Vietnamese got what they wanted they let up, at least for a while,” testified fellow POW Captain Ray Vohden USN. “Not so with the Cubans. Earl Cobeil had resisted 'Fidel' to the maximum. I heard the thud of the belt falling on Cobeil's body again and again, as Fidel screamed "you son of a beech! I will show you! Kneel down!--KNEEL DOWN!” The Cubans unmercifully beat a mentally defenseless, sick American naval pilot to death."

"Earl Cobeil was a complete physical disaster when we saw him," testified another fellow POW, Col. Jack Bomar. "He had been tortured for days and days and days. His hands were almost severed from the manacles. He had bamboo in his shins. All kinds of welts up and down all over; his face was bloody. Then 'Fidel' began to beat him with a fan belt.”

According to the book Honor Bound the tortures of U.S. POWs by Castro’s agents were “the worst sieges of torture any American withstood in Hanoi.”




Humberto Fontova;

Humberto Fontova holds an M.A. in Latin American Studies from Tulane University and is the author of four books including his latest, The Longest Romance; The Mainstream Media and Fidel Castro. For more information and for video clips of his Television and college speaking appearances please visit www.hfontova.com.


Comments;

I'm with Humberto Fontova.......Jesse Ventura is a total Douche Bag!

Che Guevara & Fidel Castro


Humberto Fontova

Steven Seward Loc: Cleveland, Ohio

When Jesse Ventura was first elected as Governor of Minnesota, I was somewhat enamored of him because he was not a politician, was an atheist, and didn't have affiliation with either the Democrat or Republican party. I'll admit In hindsight, these were naive, somewhat Obamaesque reasons. The first thing that I saw that made me change my mind was when the World Football League (I'm not sure this is the right name) made its appearance. They hired Ventura as a commentator for football games despite the fact that he was a sitting governor.

During one TV broadcast Ventura derided the head coach for one of the teams because the coach had apparently made a critical remark about Ventura in the press. Ventura's vengeful remarks continued through the broadcast until finally when the game ended, Ventura asked the camera crew to come follow him down to the field where he could confront the coach in person. They did just that and Ventura went up to the coach in front of the cameras, challenged his manhood and then "called him out" to a fist fight. The coach, who didn't seem to recognize Ventura, waived him away as some sort of lunatic.

This was definitely not behavior becoming the Governor of a state (except maybe Illinois), nor of an adult in general. I recently saw a video of Ventura being interviewed by Pierce Morgan, who asked Ventura about all the wacky conspiracy theories that he believes in. Unbelievably, Ventura made Morgan seem like the paragon of rationality and conservatism by comparison. It was surreal.

Gitzo Loc: Indiana

I hadn't heard about this story! Thanks for sharing it; I kinda thought the same way you did when Ventura got elected, probably because of his having been a seal; the first I heard about his being a prick, oddly enough, was when I was reading a book about Hulk Hogan's life; from what I could gather, the hulkster would love to tie Jesse in a knot! Since then, I've read several books where former special forces guys have said some very unflattering things about Ventura.

I was really surprised when I read this piece by Humberto Fontova; I hadn't even heard about Ventura going to Cuba, but it doesn't really surprise me, now that I get to thinking about it.

chienfou Loc: Valley Stream, NY

58,000 dead,200,000 wounded american soldiers in Vietnam and yet we today have relations with Vietnam. We have great relations with the biggest communist country in the world, China. But we can't have relations with little Cuba. What's wrong with that picture?

bkellyusa Loc: Nashville, TN

Ventura is scary nuts. Every time I hear him speak I am shocked that he was ever elected to anything much less the Governor of Minnesota.

Of course it's the same with Obama. Both of these elections and more just show how desperate we are for some decent leadership in this country. So desperate that we will "try" anybody, no matter how unqualified, that promises to do better.

I'd love to know if and how much Ventura got paid to speak in Havana.

Shutterbugsailer Loc: Staten Island NY (AKA Cincinnati by the Sea)

Well it does prove that TV wrestling isn't fake. Anyone swooning over Castro must have been pile drived on his head one time too many

bkellyusa Loc: Nashville, TN

I don't know what is going on in our culture anymore but ay too many people are suffering frm some sort of mental illness that enables them to thing the craziest shit is perfectly rationale. Those that admire Che Guevara are either crazy themselves, psychotically stupid or just don't know anything about the real Che Guevara. The psychopathic atrocities he committed and power crazed dementia that this guy was suffering from knew no bounds. Both of these guys, Castro and Che Guevara, are truly sick.

silver Loc: Santa Monica Ca.

Nobody cares about this nonsense.

Gitzo Loc: Indiana

I spent a couple of hours on Wiki tonight, checking out phony Jesse's claim that he was a Navy Seal; it turns out that he did go through BUD/S training, and served in UDT team 58; but he DID NOT attend the 26 week SEAL course, so he can not claim to be a SEAL; It's all explained below.

BTW; "Jesse Ventura" is actually the "made-up" stage name for James George Janos; (the more you read about this jerk, the more you realize what a POS he is! )



Navy SEAL background controversy

Bill Salisbury, an attorney in San Diego and a former Navy SEAL officer, has accused Ventura of "pretending" to be a SEAL. He wrote that Ventura would be blurring an important distinction by claiming to be a SEAL when he was actually a frogman with the UDT. Compared to SEAL teams, UDTs saw less combat and took fewer casualties.[15][116]

Ventura has often implied that he was a SEAL, but has never stated it categorically. Bill Sainsbury described Ventura's Navy training thus:

[Ventura] took a screening test at boot camp to qualify for...Basic Underwater Demolition/seal (buds/s) training...Those who completed bud/s, when [Ventura] was in training, were sent to either a seal or an underwater demolition team. Graduation did not, however, authorize the trainee to call himself a seal or a udt frogman. He had to first successfully complete a six-month probationary period in the Teams.[117]

Although Ventura underwent UDT training, he never attempted the additional 26-week SEAL Qualification Training. On completion of his BUD/S training, Ventura was assigned to a UDT team. In 1983, eight years after Ventura left the Navy, the UDTs were disbanded and those operators were retrained and retasked as SEALs.[116]

Some argue that since Ventura's BUD/S training was common to UDTs and SEALs, and the work of UDTs and SEALs was similar, he is entitled to call himself a SEAL in all but name, but others disagree and hold the view expressed by Bill Salisbury.

Responding to the controversy, Governor Ventura's office confirmed that Ventura was a member of the UDT. His spokesman stated that Ventura has never tried to convince people otherwise.[15] Ventura stated, "Today we refer to all of us as SEALs, that's all it is", and dismissed the accusations of lying about being a SEAL as "much ado about nothing".[116]

Opie and Anthony Show incident
The Opie and Anthony Show hosted Ventura on December 2, 2009. The theme was Ventura's show, Conspiracy Theory with Jesse Ventura. A debate arose with Ventura opposing the hosts on torture and suspension of due process after the September 11 attacks, as well as the wars in Afghanistan and in Iraq.

The debate shifted from terrorist profiling to racial profiling of Mexicans, in which Ventura said when returning to the United States from his home in Mexico, two hours after crossing the border into Arizona, he witnessed Border Patrol agents demanding proof of citizenship on a highway in an effort to combat illegal immigration, actions that Ventura argued were violating the Constitution.

When co-host Jim Norton, who defended these actions by the Border Patrol, said he also believed in the Constitution, Ventura said, "No, you don't, 'cause you're saying this is OK."

Both Ventura and Norton continued to argue over the government's handling of illegal immigration. During the debate, Ventura told Norton to not "put words in my mouth". Norton defended doing so by saying Ventura was doing the same, to which Ventura said "Bye, guys" and prepared to exit the studio. When Norton asked Ventura why he was leaving, Ventura said, "No, I'm not. There's a f**king guy here telling me I've got a schedule, asshole," Norton replied, "You're using dirty language, asshole." Further tension ensued, with Norton making various insults and accusations of physical intimidation.

Norton continued to vent after Ventura left the studio, calling Ventura a "f**king baby" and a "big f**king guy who doesn't like the little guy yelling." The incident was recorded on camera and gained over a million views since the video was posted in December 2009 on YouTube.[118] Ventura, who was hosted on the Opie and Anthony Show a few times prior to the incident, has not returned to the show since.

Chris Kyle controversy;

On January 4, 2012, Chris Kyle, a former U.S. Navy SEAL who had served in Iraq and, having 160 confirmed kills, and was the deadliest marksman in American military history,[123] promoted his recently released book American Sniper on the Opie and Anthony Show.

When Kyle was on the air, a listener called in and asked about how Kyle allegedly punched Ventura in a bar fight. Show host Gregg 'Opie' Hughes asked Kyle about the rumor. Kyle claimed that he punched Ventura in the face at a bar in Coronado, California which was popular with Navy SEAL personnel. According to Kyle, he did this because Ventura loudly expressed criticism of the Iraq War back in 2006 during a wake for Michael A. Monsoor, a Medal of Honor recipient and Navy SEAL who had been killed in action in Iraq the same year.

Kyle indicated that Ventura, who was present in San Diego to give a speech to a graduating BUD/S class, was "letting it be known he did not agree" with the war in Iraq and was "bad-mouthing the war, bad-mouthing (former President) Bush, bad-mouthing America." Although Kyle, who wrote about the alleged incident in his book but did not mention Ventura by name, said he approached Ventura and asked him to tone down his voice because the families of SEAL personnel were present, Ventura allegedly said to Kyle that the SEALs "deserved to lose a few guys."

Kyle said he responded by punching Ventura.[124][125] Kyle repeated his claims in a later interview with Bill O'Reilly on his show.
Following this interview, radio host Alex Jones interviewed Ventura on January 8 regarding what happened. During the interview, Ventura denied the rumors, saying he never met Kyle nor has he heard of him before.

Ventura argued that had the confrontation occurred, Kyle would be admitting to assault and that the incident would have become known across the Navy SEAL community, as Ventura had been a member of the UDT/SEALs community. Ventura also stated that the bar, known as McP's, was owned by a former Navy SEAL who was his cadre instructor when in the military and that he would not misbehave at the bar. Because the rumors emerged as Ventura was traveling down to his second home in Mexico, Ventura felt that the story was released at that point so he would be unable to properly fight the allegations.[126]

After the Opie and Anthony Show hosts learned of Jones' interview with Ventura, they interviewed Kyle, who clarified his view of what happened and urged witnesses who were present at the bar to come forward to back his claims. Alex Jones, who is a friend of Ventura's and was highly skeptical of Kyle's claims even before Ventura's interview on his show, was also invited by the Opie and Anthony Show hosts to discuss the controversy.

After Jones called in, an argument erupted over whether the incident happened with the Opie and Anthony Show hosts siding with Kyle's version of events and Jones siding with Ventura's. During the argument, Kyle denied claims by Jones that he was part of a bigger plot of discrediting Ventura and also suggested frustration over the attention on Kyle being focused on the alleged incident rather than on his book in general. Kyle also offered to meet with Ventura privately to end the dispute.[127] While Jones and the Opie and Anthony Show hosts were receptive to Kyle's proposal, no meeting occurred.

Ventura, reiterating that the incident did not happen, posted a comment on his official Facebook page saying the following:
The event this man spoke of never happened. I have been to McP's many times since leaving the Navy. I was never there alone. I was always accompanied by other people. If this happened 6 years ago, someone would have known of it before now.

Certainly in the UDT/SEAL community it would have been known. This has to be news to all of us. I have always opposed the war in Iraq but I have never spoken or wished any ill will towards the soldiers. My heart aches that soldiers have died or been wounded because this war should never have taken place. I am perplexed over the agenda this man has and why a fellow Navy Seal [sic] would tell a lie about an event that never happened. [128]
Lawsuit against Kyle

Ventura filed a defamation suit against Kyle in January 2012.[125] Ventura initially considered dropping the lawsuit, but said several retired Navy SEALs (including the owner of McP's) demanded that Ventura continue his lawsuit, which Ventura did after Kyle failed to agree on a settlement in which he would state the incident never happened.[129] In a motion filed by Kyle's attorney in August 2012 to dismiss two of the suit's three counts, declarations by five former SEALs and the mothers of two others supported Kyle's account.[130] However, in a motion filed by Ventura,

Bill DeWitt, a close friend of Ventura and former SEAL who was present with him at the bar, suggested that Ventura interacted with a few SEALs but was involved in no confrontation with Kyle, and said that Kyle's claims were false. DeWitt's wife also said she never witnessed any fight between Kyle and Ventura.[131][132]

Although the lawsuit was ongoing as of 2013, Kyle was murdered in an unrelated incident on February 2, 2013.[133] In May 2013, Ventura substituted Kyle's widow, Taya Kyle, as the defendant, with his lawyers arguing that “it would be unjust to permit the estate to continue to profit from Kyle’s wrongful conduct and to leave Governor Ventura without redress for ongoing damage to his reputation.”[134]

On July 29, 2014, after a three week trial in Federal Court in Saint Paul, a jury awarded Ventura $1.8 million on an 8 to 2 split verdict, $500,000 for defamation and $1.3 million for unlawful enrichment.[135][136]

My comments?

Regardless of "who said what", in my book, James George Janos, AKA / Jesse Ventura, is an idiot and a douche bag.

bkellyusa Loc: Nashville, TN

What could possibly be nonsense about this???

silver Loc: Santa Monica Ca.

Nobody cares about Jessy Ventura.

Steven Seward Loc: Cleveland, Ohio

Silver, why are you even in this conversation if you care so little about Ventura? It is a waste of our time and internet space for you to keep injecting "nobody cares" without offering even a hint of thoughtful dialog on the subject.

Gitzo Loc: Indiana

Steven;
"Silver", (alias "troll boy" ), is a disgruntled, "low-info", nincompoop who, IMO brings nothing of substance to any topic of discussion; his problem is, he's a rabid Obama butt-smoocher and sycophant, and he absolutely despises me because I constantly post things that throw "cold water" on HIS "hero"! I would strongly suggest that everyone replying to any of my posts should send a PM to the Admin, complaining about this imbecile. This forum is just as good, (or just as bad ) as members make it; IMO, this "member" makes this forum impossible for anyone to enjoy. I have read and re-read the forum rules many times, and so far I'm unable to find any rule, forcing anyone to read posts from anyone that you "don't like"; I have a whole list of "don't like" people, (all committed to memory ); and I never run into any of them on THEIR posts.....because I never GO on their posts! I only run into these fools on my own posts!

In over a year now, this fool has never once posted anything of substance, while at the same time, he has posted over 5,000 childish, meaningless comments to topics that I've started.

The only way we will ever be able to put an end to this kind of nonsense, is for enough members to take the time and trouble to PM the Admin and make your thoughts known.

I don't expect anyone who supports a would-be dictator such as Obama to agree with me about anything; and I have suggested numerous times that they should avoid any post I make, because they already know they won't be hearing anything that they agree with; furthermore, they ALL have the same opportunity that I, (or anyone else ) has to post anything that they desire, and they will never need to worry about me, "following them around", making a fool of myself.

So......."Silver", "troll boy", who ever you are........feel free to start all of the meaningless, nonsense, BS "topics" you want to.... (and be sure to let us know how many people pay the slightest bit of attention to them! )


Now......back to Jesse Ventura......

silver Loc: Santa Monica Ca.

Jesse Ventura can only make television shows about aliens and silly conspiracy theories. Nobody takes him seriously.

silver Loc: Santa Monica Ca.

You are not the only person posting here. Everybody has the right to post here. I have seen people posting here that are racists, lunatics, out and out liars, idiots and generally really uninformed. Just because you dont like peoples response to your posting does not give you the right to censor them. When you make the decision to put a post on this site, you have to take the consequences wether good or bad. If you dont like someones responses to your posts, stop posting.