Ventura ratings dive

Wojtek Sokolowski sokol at jhu.edu
Tue Oct 5 07:59:09 PDT 1999


At 02:35 PM 10/4/99 -0400, Doug Henwood quoted:
>[for all you Jesse Ventura fans out there]
>
>Minneapolis Star-Tribune - October 4, 1999
>
>VENTURA'S COMMENTS HAVE HURT HIS STANDING WITH MINNESOTANS
--- snip


>A lopsided majority, 75 percent, said they disagreed with Ventura's
>most incendiary quote in the Playboy interview, that "organized
>religion is a sham and a crutch for weak-minded people."
>
>Those in almost as large a majority indicated that they've heard more
>than enough from Ventura. Sixty-eight percent said they agree that he
>should "use better judgment about when to keep his opinions to
>himself."

It seems that the best way to make enemies in Amerika is to speak disparagingly of celebrities, popular fetishes and causes d'jour.

wojtek (no-respect-for-celebrities hoodlum)



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