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...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...

Author: /time Magazine | Title: Jesse Ventura: Keeping His Eye on The Ball | 12/27/1999 | See Source »

Musharraf: I would like to move toward the substance of democracy and away from the sham democracy we have had. I want a true democracy at the grass-roots level in which people can govern themselves and run their own health programs and road construction. Members of the National Assembly were doling out uncontrolled funds and controlling people's destinies at their whims. I'll change that...

Author: /time Magazine | Title: Pakistan Q & A: Pervez Musharraf: The New Man | 12/6/1999 | See Source »

POLITICAL ALLIES: Donald Trump ENEMIES: Ross Perot, Pat Buchanan RECENT OUTBURST: On organized religion: "It's a sham and a crutch...

Author: /time Magazine | Title: Pawlitics | 10/18/1999 | See Source »

...breasts, breasts, breasts, Sophia Loren's and his wife's, and how he'd like to be reincarnated as a 38-double-D bra, and he implies that groping women, Tailhook-style, is a prerogative of the warrior and says, in perfectly plain English, "Organized religion is a sham and a crutch for weak-minded people who need strength in numbers." So much for St. Thomas and Martin Luther...

Author: /time Magazine | Title: Minnesota: Let Jesse Ventura Be Jesse... | 10/11/1999 | See Source »

...several venues, Ventura defended remarks he made about organized religion, which, in the Playboy interview he said was a "sham...

Author: By Marc J. Ambinder, CRIMSON STAFF WRITER | Title: Ventura Speech Packs Forum | 10/7/1999 | See Source »

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