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Ventura calls the shots on "Monday Night Raw"
Jesse Ventura knows he's not perfect. But that didn't stop him from making some big decisions last night.
“Jesse. You are making a very, very big mistake," speedo-clad professional wrestler Randy Orton told Minnesota's former governor on live television after learning that Ventura had barred him and several others from winning a WWE title.
“Well Randy. I gotta tell you this, Mr. Orton," said Ventura, a wrestling icon turned politician. "I’ve made plenty of mistakes before. You can’t govern and not make mistakes. But I move on from them mistakes and my rules still go.”
Perhaps he was referring to the time his son threw a couple of wild parties in the governor's mansion?
Regardless, "The Body" proudly returned to the ring last night as a guest host on WWE's "Monday Night Raw," sporting a red alligator-skin jacket and sunglasses. Talk of the governorship was fairly limited (this is a politics blog, after all), though he briefly compared WWE chairman Vince McMahon's fortune to the Minnesota budget.
"You went on to become governor and I went on to become a billionaire," McMahon said. "And you want me to sign some autographs – picture opportunity, that sort of thing.”
“No. And if you think its so great that you’re a billionaire, let me tell you something," Ventura replied. "The budget of the state of Minnesota was 32 billion a year. That’s what I was in charge of, McMahon."
The visuals are much better, so here they are.
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