Jesse Ventura: Keeping His Eye on The Ball

Jesse Ventura's mouth is muzzled, and he's focused on running Minnesota

You can print this," says Jesse Ventura, eating a banana and a granola bar. He's still miffed about that damn Playboy interview, the one that sent his polls plummeting. "That was my fault in simply not saying 'some,'" he explains. "Had I simply said some religions are a sham and a crutch for weak-minded people, probably not that much would have been made of it." Ventura is peeved that belittlers, like Gary Bauer and Geraldine Ferraro, have dubbed him a bigot. "I looked it up," Ventura says of the word. "It's someone who's intolerable [Jesse's Yogi Berraism] of any other religion...

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