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John Ziegler (Former KFI Host) Releases Anti-KFI Manifesto
The Real KFI ^ | 1/10/08 | John Ziegler

Posted on 01/10/2008 12:15:38 PM PST by CaliGangsta

This website is dedicated to telling the totally true story of John Ziegler's experience at KFI in Los Angeles. John realizes that the creation of this website probably ends any chance that he will ever again hit the highest levels of talk radio and may very well end his talk radio career totally. But he is at peace with that potential consequence because he feels there are certain truths that are worth the risk to tell, especially when you are really the only person in the world in a position to do so.

This website is devoted to one of those truths. Specifically, that the talk radio industry (and particularly KFI) is dominated by freaks, fakes, frauds and phonies who tend to make crack whores seem respectable and reputable by comparison.

On this website you read and hear compelling and exclusive evidence that:

* The John & Ken Show is fundamentally fraudulent and makes professional wrestling seem credible in comparison * John Kobylt is the main reason that John Ziegler is no longer at KFI * John Kobylt made one of the most racist statements ever made by a person in his position and, in the opinion of John Ziegler, is a racist. * Ken Chiampou is presumed to be a homosexual by nearly everyone at KFI and why that should matter to KFI listeners. * There is a lot that John & Ken don't want you to know about how they do their show and determine what they are going to say * Bill Handel is a fair-weathered “friend” who hates John & Ken but who committed one of the most massive acts of hypocrisy imaginable after strangely going out of his way to defend John Kobylt * KFI management is utterly incompetent and corrupt * John Ziegler is hardly perfect and not talented enough to be a success doing KFI's brand of deceptive talk. * At the end of John Ziegler's tenure at KFI things got so absurd that they were absolutely comical


TOPICS: Miscellaneous; US: California
KEYWORDS: freedomofspeech; goodguy; goodvsevil; guts; hotstuff; johnandken; johnziegler; kfi; manoftruth; talkradio; weloveyou; wow; ziegler
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To: CaliGangsta
I just knew there was more to it than was being stated publicly.

It’s a shame Zig is truly done now, I really liked listening to his show.

Still, if this helps to bring down Kobylt and Handel by exposing them for the scumbags they apparently are, it’s worth it.

21 posted on 01/10/2008 1:50:12 PM PST by Dr.Zoidberg (Mohammedanism - Bringing you only the best of the 6th century for fourteen hundred years.)
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To: All

Although I do not agree with Zig on everything, he is a decent sort, and John&Ken have seemed to be more and more in recent times swarmy opportunists


22 posted on 01/10/2008 1:51:07 PM PST by BigEdLB (BigEd)
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To: truthkeeper
I always love a good food fight.

LOL - great read for talk radio junkies

John & Ken got blown out of conservative San Francisco KSFO radio a few years ago as political conservative frauds after a couple of months IIRC.

Listeners were starting to threaten open revolt & demonstrations before management finally cut the cord.

23 posted on 01/10/2008 1:55:09 PM PST by all_mighty_dollar
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To: CaliGangsta

I lived in SoCal from 2000 to 2006, covering the banning and return of J&K, and the coming of Ziegler to late night and then PMs. I was a big fan of both shows, this should be interesting to read. I hope Ziegler lands on his feet in another market.


24 posted on 01/10/2008 1:55:48 PM PST by Travis McGee (---www.EnemiesForeignAndDomestic.com---)
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To: weegee
I was never impressed with Clear Channel/Premier, overall, homogenizing music stations, picking less than talented people as replacements, and so on.

But, there are worse radio companies out there.

I use to live in the Boston area, and the quality of their radio has fallen substantially.

Again, from reading the blogs, etc., since they fired people that knew how to cover the local scene, the home office management told them to do more local stories, but all the professional radio people have moved on, and so they're reduced to hiring print journalists that may or may not be a fit for radio.

25 posted on 01/10/2008 1:56:13 PM PST by Calvin Locke
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To: Dr.Zoidberg
It’s a shame Zig is truly done now, I really liked listening to his show.

For the most part, me too. It's been clear to me for quite some time now that Handel and Kobylt are, at their core, nothing more than messianic, backstabbing, declasse scum and racist bigots who have somehow managed to find their way in the talk radio business and make a go of it. Zig is well to be away from them.

26 posted on 01/10/2008 2:12:41 PM PST by RedsHunter
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To: stylecouncilor

ping


27 posted on 01/10/2008 2:29:27 PM PST by windcliff
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To: CaliGangsta

He wrote, “One of the most frustrating aspects of the job was that the better (more memorable) a show I did, the more likelihood there was that I would get in trouble for having done it.”

That’s very common, especially in government where I work. If you excel, it makes others look bad and that’s not always a career-enhancing situation.


28 posted on 01/10/2008 3:16:33 PM PST by MayflowerMadam
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To: CaliGangsta

Thank you, this is an amazing link!


29 posted on 01/11/2008 12:45:10 AM PST by reformjoy
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To: truthkeeper

I’m on the list too, and I didn’t get it either!

Could it be a technical problem??

I did find out this, though because I have
google alerts for news events I like to
keep up on, and the link to this came up!!

With Hillary Clinton running for president,
we are going to see a lot of Good People dealing
with evil people feeling empowered!!

Much gratitude to JZ for speaking out.

I know this is wild, but I wish our Presient would
do the same thing, go to the Senate, and slap Hillary
Clinton and tell everyone what an Evil Enemy she is to
this nation!!

Evil just lives and grows and noone has the guts
to say THERE IS EVIL!!!

Evil is real.

God is real.

If God wasn’t real,
Evil wouldn’t try so hard.


30 posted on 01/11/2008 12:50:41 AM PST by reformjoy
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To: CaliGangsta

I used to listen to the John and Ken Show here in the Philly area when they were at New Jersey 101.5 during the Jim Florio administration (circa 1990). They were instrumental in promoting the “Hands Across New Jersey” protest of Florio’s massive tax hikes and ultimately getting Florio defeated after a single term.

They’ve been gone from here for a long time, and I have no idea what’s going on at KFI (I take it that’s in Los Angeles?) but it sounds like they got a little big for their britches.


31 posted on 01/11/2008 12:56:10 AM PST by Lancey Howard
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To: Lancey Howard; All

JOHN ZIEGLER RETURNING TO THE AIRWAVES!!

http://www.johnziegler.com/news.php?a_id=168

Wednesday, January 9, 2008

JZ to return to LA airwaves on January 14th
Story John Ziegler will return to the Los Angeles radio airwaves on Monday January 14th. Ziegler will be doing short commentaries that will be heard at 7:20 am and 4:20 pm on KGIL 1260 AM (Los Angeles) and 540 AM(Orange/San Diego Counties). The commentaries will be heard each week on Monday, Wednesday and Friday and are made possible by Mostly Windows and Doors (www.mostlywindowanddoors.com).

The commentaries will also be placed on the KGIL website, which is linked below.

http://1260.am/


32 posted on 01/11/2008 1:25:26 AM PST by reformjoy
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To: ALOHA RONNIE; RonDog; doug from upland

Man of Guts... That’s John Ziegler!

In another day and time,
this man would be leading the
Patriots against the British in
the American Revolution!!

It takes only a few to speak out to
say that wrong is happening.

It takes only the brave to speak out
and say Enough is Enough!!

John Ziegler: Totally COOL!!!!!


33 posted on 01/11/2008 1:34:27 AM PST by reformjoy
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To: CaliGangsta
John Ziegler

John Ziegler fires at 'John & Ken'
John Ziegler didn't just go away at KFI. He went away mad. Ziegler has put up a website called The Real KFI "dedicated to telling the totally true story of John Ziegler's experience at KFI in Los Angeles." He says this probably means ...
LA Observed - http://www.laobserved.com/

Former Talk Radio Host Dishes Dirt
By BoscoH
LA talk radio afficienados might be interested in former KFI host John Ziegler’s exposé of the “freaks, fakes, frauds, and phonies” that make that popular station work. Don’t miss this incredibly funny clip of short, bald, tummy stapled ...
Truemors - http://truemors.com

Guilty Pleasure Link of the Day
John Ziegler, outgoing KFI talk show host, followed this advice. He doesn't have anything nice to say about KFI's John and Ken -- and he says it here. (Via Roderick.) There's nothing particularly edifying ...
Patterico's Pontifications - http://patterico.com

Radio: John Ziegler gets real
By cydoniax(cydoniax)
John Ziegler is mad at KFI. Mad enough to start his own website called The Real KFI designed to put out John's truth of what happened while he was at KFI. The website contains 4 pages of John's story (with audio clips) of his time at ...
SoCal Media Scoop - http://socalmediascoop.blogspot.com/

34 posted on 01/11/2008 11:29:25 PM PST by reformjoy
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What fun! I liked reading that John Kobylt’s wife is pudgy!

Radio is more interesting with these visuals!! :)

John Ziegler is the BEST! His truthful take on news events, both local and national is real. Not canned, not for ratings. He is Everyman, but with intelligence and also humor.

His “Here’s what happened” site is great. I appreciate knowing all the dirt that KFI did to him.

View the movie The Foundationhead, and John Ziegler is Cary Cooper, for sure!!!

The world celebrates the mediocre, but it’s the true talent that gets the shaff.

Ziegler is TRUE Talent… on Loan from God!


35 posted on 01/11/2008 11:56:39 PM PST by reformjoy
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re: last post: See movie “The Fountainhead”

A great movie staring Gary Cooper!

A prototype for John Ziegler!


36 posted on 01/12/2008 12:09:00 AM PST by reformjoy
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John Ziegler

Former KFI Host Launches Site Critical Of Station Management
By Brian Maloney(Brian Maloney)
John Ziegler, who held early evenings at the Southland mega- talker until November, has created The Real KFI to "share my version of the truth" about "the fraudulent nature of the local talk show hosts at the number one talk station in ...
The Radio Equalizer: Brian Maloney - http://radioequalizer.blogspot.com/

KFI DJ ABANDONS STATION, SHIT TALKS
By Kevin Ferguson
John Ziegler (the one that isn’t friends with Ken, and possibly an estranged uncle to our music editor?) has left KFI and started a blog/manifesto web page where he blames that other John for all of his problems, calls Bill Handel a ...
The District Weekly - http://thedistrictweekly.com

37 posted on 01/12/2008 11:31:24 PM PST by reformjoy
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John Ziegler, who held early evenings at the Southland mega- talker until November, has created The Real KFI to "share my version of the truth" about "the fraudulent nature of the local talk show hosts at the number one talk station in America."
38 posted on 01/12/2008 11:33:01 PM PST by reformjoy
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To: CaliGangsta

I’m on his mailing list too and found it quite interesting. I did have trouble getting page 3, did you?


39 posted on 01/12/2008 11:34:56 PM PST by peggybac (Tolerance is the virtue of believing in nothing)
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To: peggybac

I didn’t get anything through his mailing list,
not sure he sent it out!

BUT, the news is HOT on the internet and his
site has a lot of traffic!

http://www.johnziegler.com

http://www.therealkfi.com

He will also be on the Radio again 1/14...
info at Post 32 above:


40 posted on 01/13/2008 12:02:29 AM PST by reformjoy
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