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Why Did the ‘Deadliest’ SEAL Sniper Punch Jesse Ventura in The Face?

Jan. 5, 2012 6:20am Mike Opelka

Imagine what would happen if a man in a bar told a group of Navy SEALs that he:

Disagrees with the war.
Believes they (the military) are murderers, killing innocent people… men, women and children
Thought they probably deserve to lose a few of their own.

You are probably wondering if the guy making the offensive comments is still alive.

He is alive, and he also happens to be Jesse Ventura, a SEAL alum/reservist and the former governor of Minnesota.

Making matters worse, Ventura’s comments were directed at Chris Kyle, the Navy SEAL known as “the military’s deadliest sniper.”

This little known incident was brought out during an interview on SiriusXM’s Opie and Anthony radio show on Wednesday. Speaking exclusively to The Blaze, Gregg “Opie” Hughes explained that he had a tip to ask Kyle about his run-in with Jesse Ventura. So Opie casually brought it up and the story unfolded.

It was in 2006 when Ventura and the SEALs happened to be in the same bar, for very different reasons. The SEALs were holding a wake to honor a lost member of their team. Jesse was in town to speak to some new graduates of the SEAL program. During his military career from 1969-75, Ventura was a member of the Navy’s elite Underwater Demolition Team or UDT (the UDT was the precursor to the SEALs) and Jesse is a SEAL reservist. You might expect that sharing the history of membership in an elite military unit would garner a lifetime of mutual respect. Not so with Ventura.

As stated above, the SEALs were in the bar to mourn the loss of team member. They had gathered with the family of Medal of Honor recipient Mike Mansoor when Ventura made it known to many that he did not agree with the war. Kyle claims that he approached the former governor, and asked him to keep it down, informing Jesse that the family of the deceased was also with them.

That’s when Ventura unleashed more of his insensitive comments and Kyle reportedly countered with a one-punch knockdown.

Earlier this week, The Blaze featured a story about Chris Kyle and his autobiography that explains his amazing prowess with a rifle. We know now that Chris is also accurate with his fists and at close range.

Here’s the interview from the Opie and Anthony show on Wednesday. Chris Kyle explained the encounter with Jesse “the Body” Ventura.

(Content warning, this video contains what the Navy might call “salty language:”)

(Video courtesy of Opieradio)

Following the interview, “Opie” says that Chris Kyle told him that very few people knew about the Jesse Ventura incident and that his source must be “very inside.”

(H/T: Opie and Anthony – @opieradio on Twitter)

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Chancellor
Posted on February 3, 2013 at 12:35am
Ventura was and still is a loud mouth loon. He always runs his mouth and gets even louder when he knows he’s wrong.

In the 31 odd years I spent in the Navy and reserves I know for a fact that this wasn’t the first time Ventura made a date with the carpeting. Bad thing is everytime I personally heard or seen it he deserved it!

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team_mmerica
Posted on September 1, 2012 at 9:12pm
Chris Kyle purposely did not mention Ventura in his book and chose not to lie when it was brought up AFTER it ha been leaked when the book came out. He is an American hero who not only donated the proceeds of that book to charity, but continues to raise awareness and give back through his company- Craft International (www.thecraft.com) and the charities he is active in, including FITCO Cares, Wounded Warriors, Boot Campaign and more. He has devoted his life to this country and continues to do what he can to support the troops and their families in any way he can. What has Jesse done lately?

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blackyb
Posted on June 8, 2012 at 2:11am
Sometimes people just need to get their big bad azzed mouths smacked. Too bad that old mouth was flapping when he should have been quiet. There is a place and time for things like mouthing off when people are still in mouring, etc. Ventura should have had enough age on him to keep his big mouth still around those who just was not in the mood to hear his rhetoric. Upset and drinking people do not have a lot of patience for things they would normally overlook.

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UnidyneCorp
Posted on April 21, 2012 at 1:02am
Hmmm, the story sounds realistic enough… SF EMs in a bar toasting a fallen comrade, and inviting his parents to join them out of respect (where do you think they’d be — the main banquet hall of the Waldorf-Astoria?). Jesse Ventura is a known blowhard & loud-mouth. Also a proven liar. He always maintained he was a SEAL in Vietnam, and had seen extensive combat. While he was still Governor some Navy SEALS investigated his claims and found out that 1) he was NOT a SEAL in Vietnam, but a UDT (which is still very good, but not quite up to SEAL standards); and 2) his UDT unit had never seen actual combat or been on an mission within Vietnam (the closest they’d been was shipboard off the coast off Vietnam). Most of Ventura’s svc during the war was at his base in the Philippines. When confronted with the evidence, Ventura had to do some serious back-peddling, trying to rationalize his lies. Check it all out on the internet — it’s a matter of public record. And yes, he’s got alot of decidedly Leftist-Hollywood views. In fact, during his single term as Governor, he succeeded in alienating just about everyone — to the point that he had virtually no supporters in the Minnesota legislature (and ended up being the most “do nothing” governor, and public joke, Minnesota’s ever had). So I can see him shooting off his big mouth to a bunch of younger SEALS, and expecting them to be in some sort of “awe” of him — big politician and movie actor. The guy’s a loser

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BennyBee3
Posted on March 24, 2012 at 12:04pm
Jesse Ventura needs a lot more than this. He’s an arrogant, loudmouthed jackass that thinks he’s a hot shot. He’s just a joke, and I’d like to see more of this.

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okredstate
Posted on March 22, 2012 at 1:37pm
“MONICNE: Talk about fake. Picture of a hot blond with a nice rack. Everyone knows your a transgenger female trying to live as a man, with boobs and a penis. You have no right calling someone fake.

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Kerstile
Posted on March 22, 2012 at 8:08am
Seems to me this event should have remained between these two men. That is how men handle things. Words were had and a resolution occurred. Case closed.

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- UnidyneCorp
  Posted on April 21, 2012 at 1:07am
  True, and I agree with you… but evidently the interviewer threw it at him without prior warning, and he probably just didn’t have time to consider that. He’s probably not too “media savvy” yet, and lots of interviewers specialize in “blindsiding” their guests.
  
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Use2BaFan
Posted on March 14, 2012 at 7:54pm
For those who are still reading this story, Jesse Ventura has come out and called Chris Kyle a liar. Since Ventura is a good friend of owner of the bar, you would think someone would have asked him if the story were true. I know, tough journalism, but after all, the truth lives here. By the way, I believe Kyle is receiving alot of government money for running a company providing military consulting and training, and Ventura has come out against the wars.

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- blackyb
  Posted on June 8, 2012 at 2:15am
  Ventura want attention from his Hollywood friends who probably cannot stand his big mouth either.
  
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tomacz
Posted on March 3, 2012 at 10:48pm
ditto x xxxxx what silenttrail posted,,ventura done it to himself,by venting liberal sneering snapping snotty contempt in the wrong place the wrong time to the wrong hillbilly

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joemamma
Posted on February 28, 2012 at 1:25pm
“Why Did the ‘Deadliest’ SEAL Sniper Punch Jesse Ventura in The Face?”

ummm, the answer is because this douchebag Kyle is a brain dead idiot and pawn of the military-industrial whores who profit from sending morons like him to kill brown furrin’ folks so the corporations that control them can then steal their resources…why dio you think they ALL hate ‘Merka? It’s because the rich folks send the poor dumbasses like Kyle to do their bidding and and tell him it’s ‘patriotic’ or some ******** like that…srsly if you’re stupid enough to join the US Dept of War and go to invade/ destroy/ kill/ occupy another country that was NO threat to you then you’re just another war criminal and murdered and being a Navy Seal just means you’re PAID whore of the military…this country will NEVER learn from it’s mistakes as long as idiots and sadists like this idiot Kyle ******* continue to breed

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spacebluesonoma
Posted on February 8, 2012 at 4:33pm
tell you what chris kyle supporters- put your money where your mouth is, you cowards! let’s organize a cage fight between jesse ventura and chris kyle In las vegas and see who punches out who. my money says chris kyle will be a no-show- any takers?

I THOUGHT NOT!!!

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- okredstate
  Posted on March 22, 2012 at 1:45pm
  How about me vs you. Average white male, Defense contractor, mid fifties vs twenty something, OWS educated, no job, living in mammas basement, on unemployment for 97 months, MSNBC viewer, obama supporter. I would wipe your fanny and make you eat it. Ready?
  
  I Think Not. Wimp
  
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- UnidyneCorp
  Posted on April 21, 2012 at 1:14am
  Sure, I’d like to see. Kyle would simply put that old fart down again! Ventura shone as a WWF type fake “wrestler”, where everything is scripted and rehearsed like a movie, and was never even a real SEAL. Whatever hand-to-hand combat training he got as a UDT (45 years ago) probably couldn’t compare to what training real SEAL Kyle got. Ventura’s lying mouth would be shut again, and in short order!
  
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spacebluesonoma
Posted on February 8, 2012 at 4:26pm
chris kyle is a liar. get over it. he never punched jesse ventura. here is jesse ventura’s side of the story:
From Jesse’s facebook

The event this man spoke of never happened. I have been to Mc P’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 would tell a lie about an event that never happened.

Clearly between this story and the previous week’s story about supposedly getting pulled over for tailgaiting in CA that was also a lie, someone is out to destroy my credibility. I find it very interesting that both these stories are being spread by Fox news and it’s affiliates. As a Navy veteran you realize you can’t believe every sea story you hear. Let me finish by stating both of the recent two national stories about me are completely untrue lies, neither event ever happened.

https://www.facebook.com/OfficialJesseVentura

Why is the so called SEAL Chris Kyle making stuff up about Ventura? Because he is a loser tool. ED SKI

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- UnidyneCorp
  Posted on April 21, 2012 at 1:16am
  Unfortunately, we only have Jesse Ventura’s word for it. That doesn’t constitute “proof”.
  
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larrytrick
Posted on January 20, 2012 at 12:41pm
Where are the witnesses?

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larrytrick
Posted on January 20, 2012 at 12:21pm
Selling a book huh? That’s what George Washington and Thomas Jefferson did they just sit around writing books while everyone else fought the revolution. I read this last week and it’s nonsense. He said that he decked Jessie and then ran out the door and down the street because the cops were coming. What a coward! I can see why he’s a sniper it allows him to kill people from great distances and then run away. This man is no hero, not by any means.

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- blackyb
  Posted on June 8, 2012 at 2:17am
  Larry, Larry, thy mouth procedeth thy brain.
  
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Dressblues7
Posted on January 11, 2012 at 12:14am
Seals are given no options….they are trained to be life takers and heartbreakers…they keep fear in America’s enemies hearts…GOD BLESS EM!….they will strike first and then suffer what may come…they are taught that!…don’t bad mouth this kid for doing what he was taught to do!…but the T.V interview thing?…………..100% WRONG!!!

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- blackyb
  Posted on June 8, 2012 at 2:18am
  Well, somebody’s gotta do it, it seems.
  
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Dressblues7
Posted on January 10, 2012 at 11:59pm
@ChiefGeorge…I knew good and well that the spin doctors would come out….you know damn well why that young man hit and run…he did right , he followed training, answering questions, are not what a Seal is supposed to do. Ventura deserves better than he is getting..It’s not a popularity contest,,,he voices his opinion., that doesn’t make him a bad guy..You stand for the Constitution right Chief?, or are you trying to score points? .. There is no Honor in mud slinging!

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JuanJeremy2012
Posted on January 9, 2012 at 8:19pm
what kind of creep commits a couple hundred cowardly murders by hiding behind a rock and taking pot shots? i guess the answer is “the same kind of coward that sucker punches a 60 year old patriot like jesse”. chris kyle is a walking serial killing time bomb. its only a matter of time before this guy beats his wife, kills again, gets into a bar fight or drives drunk and kills someone. this guy should have either been euthanized or lesft in iraq, he shouldnt be free to walk amount civilized society

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- UnidyneCorp
  Posted on April 21, 2012 at 1:21am
  Wow, but you really got something against this guy. Just for serving his country and doing his job, you got him pegged as a drunken, murderous wife-beater? That’s pretty weird.
  
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JuanJeremy2012
Posted on January 9, 2012 at 8:13pm
wow this clown cris kyle is a real piece of work. not only is he a cowardly murderer and a psychopath, hes also a thug liar. jesse is a real man who stands up to the government that takes advantages of dummies like chris kyle and turns them into murderers, injures them and gets them killed. but chris is too but of a dummie to realize this and all he can think about is gettting off on committing more murders like the serial killer he is under the guise or “serving his country”. jesse is 10 times tougher that this coward chris kyle. if chris kyle had met jesse in a bar jesse would have beaten his punk mass murdering behind into the dirt

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- UnidyneCorp
  Posted on April 21, 2012 at 1:25am
  If you’re right, then what does that say about Vietnam vet/UDT Jesse Ventura? That he likes to go around planting bombs and blowing people up?
  
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oceanbnd
Posted on January 9, 2012 at 11:09am
I’m with another on this one…He’s bragging about punching a 60 yr old in the face. There goes the hero status and I’d put Kyle on watch as the next psycho shooter out here. Actually I hope they both go and live in peace.

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bammbamm
Posted on January 9, 2012 at 7:17am
Amazing that within the course of 5 days: 1) an article appears in the NY Post about this guy (before the Ventura story came out) 2) a Wikipedia page is created, and 3) the story comes out about Ventura. This is a setup folks. Why? My theory: To hurt Ron Paul, who wants to end the overseas wars and might pick Ventura as his running mate. This guy Kyle is a government contractor and wants to stoke the fires – the last thing he wants is peace. Ventura never heard of this guy, no one ever heard of the incident, and no corroborating witnesses have come forward. This is bogus.

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- Dressblues7
  Posted on January 11, 2012 at 12:07am
  1 plus 1 equals 2, EVERYTIME…you seem to be well versed in math.
  
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Workforit
Posted on January 9, 2012 at 6:45am
This Chris Kyle has proved himself to be just plain trash.

I thank him for his service and would be happy for him and his success… If he just would have stuck to the truth and his own record. I hope his slanderous comments cost him big.

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- Dressblues7
  Posted on January 11, 2012 at 12:08am
  That kid did what he was told…Seals don’t go T.V by accident!!!….lay off the guy
  
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- UnidyneCorp
  Posted on April 21, 2012 at 1:31am
  Jesse Ventura’s the piece of trash. A proven LIAR about his service record, a some-time Hollywood ham actor, a “pro wrestler” (LOL), and a joke of a governor who more than wore out his welcome with Minnesotans. I’ve got lots of family in Minnesota, and they all cringe at the thought that their state once elected a clown like that to be Chief Executive. Ventura needs to join the circus (when he’s not hosting meetings of the Liars Club!).
  
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LibertyBelleFox
Posted on January 9, 2012 at 6:34am
here’s the interview http://youtu.be/C8RlPGmFOOo

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