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Apr 3, 2008 11:24 pm US/Central
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In The Know: The Gall That Just Keeps On Giving
(WCCO)
Jesse Ventura thinks there's more to the story of 9/11 than we've been told and on Thursday said he wished, on the Alex Jones radio show, he would have done more as the governor of Minnesota. He's been promoting a new book and stepping back into the ring cast by the spotlight. Don Shelby says he always thought Ventura was performing for the audience.
The difference is this. When he was governor, he was surrounded by people who gave him good advice, and a legislature with whom he had to make nice. He still managed, on his own, to be outrageous from time to time.
And he apparently forgot that he was elected with just 37 percent of the vote. Those of us who knew him as a wrestler then as a talk radio host were in on the joke, but the joke was on us when the votes were counted.
We haven't been surprised since, but it appears Jesse Ventura now fully believes what he is saying. It is not, apparently, a gag anymore. He likely believes, as he told Larry King this week, that he
is the most powerful man in America, that he would win the presidency if the election were held today, that a home-grown conspiracy brought down the towers on 9/11.
The night he was elected governor I said on the air, "I can't believe what I'm about to say." I still have trouble believing it.
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