Former Minnesota Gov. Jesse Ventura, doing press for his new TV show on “conspiracy theories,” made got some attention from (among others) Eric Roper at the Minneapolis Star-Tribune. Roper alludes toa “curious comment Ventura made in the Los Angeles Times this weekend”– that MSNBC canceled his short-lived show when they found out that he opposed the Iraq War:

I was basically silenced. When I came out of office, I was the hottest commodity out there. There was a bidding war between CNN, Fox and MSNBC to get my services. MSNBC ultimately won. I was being groomed for a five-day-a-week TV show by them. Then, all of asudden, weird phone calls started happening: “Is it true Jesse doesn’t support the war in Iraq?”

Roper writes that MSNBC‘s decision would be an “odd one since they are considered liberal.” Except for the fact that the same cable channel canceledits highest-rated program for the same reason, as FAIR noted in 2003: