{"id":72623,"date":"2017-06-08T12:34:28","date_gmt":"2017-06-08T16:34:28","guid":{"rendered":"http:\/\/valorguardians.com\/blog\/?p=72623"},"modified":"2017-06-08T13:17:37","modified_gmt":"2017-06-08T17:17:37","slug":"jimmy-janos-defects-to-russia-tv","status":"publish","type":"post","link":"https:\/\/www.azuse.cloud\/?p=72623","title":{"rendered":"Jimmy Janos defects to Russia (TV)"},"content":{"rendered":"<p><center><a href=\"https:\/\/www.azuse.cloud\/?attachment_id=27337\" rel=\"attachment wp-att-27337\"><img loading=\"lazy\" decoding=\"async\" src=\"https:\/\/www.azuse.cloud\/wp-content\/uploads\/2011\/11\/Jesse-Venturas-big-fucking-mouth-300x198.jpg\" alt=\"\" width=\"300\" height=\"198\" class=\"alignnone size-medium wp-image-27337\" srcset=\"https:\/\/www.azuse.cloud\/wp-content\/uploads\/2011\/11\/Jesse-Venturas-big-fucking-mouth-300x198.jpg 300w, https:\/\/www.azuse.cloud\/wp-content\/uploads\/2011\/11\/Jesse-Venturas-big-fucking-mouth.jpg 630w\" sizes=\"auto, (max-width: 300px) 100vw, 300px\" \/><\/a><\/center><\/p>\n<p>The <a href=\"https:\/\/www.washingtonpost.com\/news\/morning-mix\/wp\/2017\/06\/08\/jesse-venturas-new-russian-state-tv-show-i-am-working-for-the-enemy-of-mainstream-media-now\/?utm_term=.512190115fe6\">Washington Post<\/a> reports that Jimmy Janos, AKA Jesse Ventura, AKA Scruff Face, the former wrestling actor and governor has gone over to the Russians because no one is paying attention to him these days;<\/p>\n<blockquote><p>Now, Ventura will star in his own reality show, \u201cThe World According to Jesse,\u201d on RT America \u2014 the Washington-based branch of Russian state television.<\/p>\n<p>Known previously as Russia Today, RT is funded by the Russian government and describes itself as a TV channel \u201cfor viewers who want to Question More.\u201d Critics call RT a propaganda tool with poor journalism standards, as The Washington Post has reported.<\/p>\n<p>\u201cRT covers stories overlooked by the mainstream media, provides alternative perspectives on current affairs, and acquaints international audiences with a Russian viewpoint on major global events,\u201d according to the channel\u2019s website.<\/p><\/blockquote>\n<p>It&#8217;s odd to read about the Post criticizing RT because they seemed to support Donald Trump in the 2016 election season especially the way the Post sold their soul to the Clinton campaign and they&#8217;ve continued to criticize the President even though they&#8217;ve lost their grip on public opinion.<\/p>\n<p>Anyway, Janos tells why he went to RT;<\/p>\n<blockquote><p>Ventura told the Minneapolis Star Tribune that he been reassured by RT that he will not be censored.<\/p>\n<p>\u201cI have total artistic control and I can talk about anything I want,\u201d he told the Star Tribune. \u201cWe\u2019re more interested in talking about our country. I didn\u2019t join RT to report on Russia.\u201d<\/p>\n<p>[&#8230;]<\/p>\n<p>\u201cWhat you will hear from me is opinions, not agendas,\u201d Ventura said in a statement. \u201cI look forward to holding our government accountable. I will be exercising my First Amendment rights with no filters.\u201d<\/p><\/blockquote>\n<p>I&#8217;m sure RT&#8217;s ratings will fall down to Janos&#8217; IQ level in no time. I guess Janos ran out of widows to sue.<\/p>\n","protected":false},"excerpt":{"rendered":"<p>The Washington Post reports that Jimmy Janos, AKA Jesse Ventura, AKA Scruff Face, the former wrestling &hellip; <a title=\"Jimmy Janos defects to Russia (TV)\" class=\"hm-read-more\" href=\"https:\/\/www.azuse.cloud\/?p=72623\"><span class=\"screen-reader-text\">Jimmy Janos defects to Russia (TV)<\/span>Read more<\/a><\/p>\n","protected":false},"author":1,"featured_media":27337,"comment_status":"open","ping_status":"open","sticky":false,"template":"","format":"standard","meta":{"footnotes":""},"categories":[177],"tags":[],"class_list":["post-72623","post","type-post","status-publish","format-standard","has-post-thumbnail","hentry","category-dumbass-bullshit"],"_links":{"self":[{"href":"https:\/\/www.azuse.cloud\/index.php?rest_route=\/wp\/v2\/posts\/72623","targetHints":{"allow":["GET"]}}],"collection":[{"href":"https:\/\/www.azuse.cloud\/index.php?rest_route=\/wp\/v2\/posts"}],"about":[{"href":"https:\/\/www.azuse.cloud\/index.php?rest_route=\/wp\/v2\/types\/post"}],"author":[{"embeddable":true,"href":"https:\/\/www.azuse.cloud\/index.php?rest_route=\/wp\/v2\/users\/1"}],"replies":[{"embeddable":true,"href":"https:\/\/www.azuse.cloud\/index.php?rest_route=%2Fwp%2Fv2%2Fcomments&post=72623"}],"version-history":[{"count":0,"href":"https:\/\/www.azuse.cloud\/index.php?rest_route=\/wp\/v2\/posts\/72623\/revisions"}],"wp:featuredmedia":[{"embeddable":true,"href":"https:\/\/www.azuse.cloud\/index.php?rest_route=\/wp\/v2\/media\/27337"}],"wp:attachment":[{"href":"https:\/\/www.azuse.cloud\/index.php?rest_route=%2Fwp%2Fv2%2Fmedia&parent=72623"}],"wp:term":[{"taxonomy":"category","embeddable":true,"href":"https:\/\/www.azuse.cloud\/index.php?rest_route=%2Fwp%2Fv2%2Fcategories&post=72623"},{"taxonomy":"post_tag","embeddable":true,"href":"https:\/\/www.azuse.cloud\/index.php?rest_route=%2Fwp%2Fv2%2Ftags&post=72623"}],"curies":[{"name":"wp","href":"https:\/\/api.w.org\/{rel}","templated":true}]}}