I Love Myself – A Comedy in Three Acts
29 05 2009The dynamic duo of Phil Munger and Dennis Zaki made quick work of revealing the biggest ego in the biggest state. Behold the behemoth, over-inflated sense of self worth of John Ziegler. He’s the guy that made the documentary “Media Malpractice – How Obama Got Elected and Palin Was Targeted.” You can read about my experience at the showing of the film HERE. The tag line on the dvd says “Witness the Death of Journalism.”
~~Phil Munger and Dennis Zaki Warm Up for the Big Interview~~
Well, journalism ain’t dead yet. The bloggers pull through, and gently guide Ziegler down a damaging path as he reveals the golden, magnificent, puffed-up glory that is…..HIM. Stomach all three clips if you can.
“I Love Myself – A Comedy in Three Acts” by John Ziegler
(with a little help from his friends Phil Munger and Dennis Zaki)
Act I – I’m better than award-winning documentary filmmaker Michael Moore.
Act II - I’m better than award-winning journalist Max Blumenthal.
Act III – I’m better than Brendan Joel Kelley of the Anchorage Press.
It must be tiring being so darned resplendent and talented, day after day. Time to pull out the hand-mirror, give it a kiss, and retire for the night.
May 30th, 2009 at 8:27 AM
I couldn’t watch the clips either, have seen enough before. I did watch the one of his arrest, All he did was whine and just kept asking “why can’t I” like a three year old. Try reasoning like an adult, at leat on camera.
May 30th, 2009 at 8:34 AM
Well, that was a minute, 57 seconds I will NEVER get back!
To avoid this further, I can’t even stand to push the PLAY button on the other two.
What a puffed up NO BODY!! Seriously? His documentaries (HIS term, not mine) are more intelligent, etc. than Michael Moore’s?
REALLY?
May 30th, 2009 at 8:39 AM
Palin on the Couric interviews: “After it didn’t go well the first day, why were we going to go back for more?”
Answer: Because nobody at that time thought she could be that consistently clueless. Except her. The more I listen to that segment, the more I’m sure she knew she was in way over her head and it was only going to get worse, not better, as even more of her ignorance was exposed.
What I’d like to know is what happened since then that makes her think she’s such a braniac now?
Ziegler’s comments are truly from the Bizarro Wingnut Universe, where they must not have to worry about slander and defamation of character, given his comments on Blumenthal.
Ziegler and Palin are truly two of a kind – both narcissistic and living in their own universes.
May 30th, 2009 at 8:44 AM
Just before logging off last night I went to that ‘other website’ over there..>>>> and one the comments from one of the most vocal posters said this in reference to having Palin work with Ziegler…
” ziegler is a must hire for 2012
watching him smackdown MSNBC loons everyday is worth a bag of popcorn.”
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While eating their popcorn I have to assume they are entirely engrossed in the little cartoons at the beginning of the movie at the theater…… and never actual stay around to watch the Main Attraction at the theater.
And this Gem …
“If Sarah runs I believe she needs to hire Ziegler to follow her with a camera and cover everything. Think about it for the Couric interview she would have to allow Ziegler and the cameraperson to be present. It would end any doubt as to how the interview actually happened and could go on U tube immediately after the Network covers the interview.”
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Whoever made that statement needs to be under ‘medication’. I guess they believe Ziegler is a REAL professional cameraman and that pesky Katie Couric and CBS are just doing it as a ‘ hobby’… and they need improvement.
If only John could expose the truth…. Geeesh.
In actuality… the premise above I would be all for because that ship would sink so fast. I take it back… Palin SHOULD hire Ziegler.(can We start that rumor?)
May 30th, 2009 at 8:48 AM
I just saw his arrest vid on Diva’s site….he reminds me of someone I know who is a schizophrenic, the anger, laughing inappropriately, crying, lying and egotistical.
No wonder the wingnuts love him. Inquiring minds want to know…
“Where was the queen?”
She missed her premiere.
May 30th, 2009 at 8:58 AM
The interviews with Ziegler are very sad. It’s as if there is a body with no one inside. The date, the arrest, and the Munger/Zaki interviews all seem to show a bubble of a person. He seems to have had a sad life, never quite connecting with anything. He must have inherited money somewhere. I have the feeling he was never loved.
This is creepy to have such a reaction to a nobody. Maybe I need another cup of coffee.
May 30th, 2009 at 9:21 AM
I agree honestyinGov. So far he has shown no proof that anything she said was taken out of context, but a full video proving that the idiotic things she says were not taken out of context would be even better.
I’d be happy to let her supporters bury themselves with her when it turns out their irrational defense of her behavior was just that – irrational.
May 30th, 2009 at 9:24 AM
Here’s a long and rambling article about Ziegler from The Atlantic in 2005 that includes an interesting (and disturbng) chronology of his career and apparent mental state (skip to page 3 for the timeline, including an overview of his bizarre obsession with the OJ trial). The article also gives a good inside view into what makes talk radio tick. Poor Ziegler has a long history of having to endure those mentally inferior to his clearly Mensa-level insights.
http://www.theatlantic.com/doc/200504/wallace
May 30th, 2009 at 9:25 AM
I tried some Goggle searches with various words to see who reported on John’s Premiere in AK.
Not much chatter or posting about it. I saw this blurb in the Goggle search field…. but their was nothing on the webpage.( Maybe inside a link on the page)
“John Ziegler’s Film Premieres To Packed House/Standing Ovation …”
( no story though )
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I don’t remember AKM or Fan from Fenway mentioning a ‘ standing ovation’.
I guess that is just one of those ‘rhetorical flourishes’ you use when writing.
(It COULD have happened…. but didn’t really)
The Google search did take me right to Johns Online webpage… Hmmm..?
I expected HIM to talk about HIMSELF and his big event in AK.
And what has he reported as ” Breaking News” right on the top on HIS own webpage. His arrest on the Campus at USC. Huhhh…? John…. that was MONTHS ago?
You are ’supposed to be ‘ a reporter and a Journalist…KEEP UP!
Was the Alaska Premiere of your movie not newsworthy enough…. to put on your OWN WEBPAGE !!!!
I guess not….
May 30th, 2009 at 9:32 AM
56degreesN Says:
May 30th, 2009 at 9:24 AM
Here’s a long and rambling article about Ziegler from The Atlantic in 2005 that includes an interesting (and disturbng) chronology of his career and apparent mental state (skip to page 3 for the timeline, including an overview of his bizarre obsession with the OJ trial). The article also gives a good inside view into what makes talk radio tick. Poor Ziegler has a long history of having to endure those mentally inferior to his clearly Mensa-level insights.
http://www.theatlantic.com/doc/200504/wallace
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“Poor Ziegler has a long history of having to endure those mentally inferior to his clearly Mensa-level insights.”
Gotto go read that for my “laugh of the day”
May 30th, 2009 at 9:35 AM
Could a person appear more reprehensible?
May 30th, 2009 at 9:47 AM
Ew, I just watched way more of Ziegler than anyone should. Those interviews were so awful – he’s so full of himself. And has no one ever told him that it’s not good form to trash other people in an attempt to make yourself look good? It never works, and it REALLY doesn’t work for him. Of course, by criticizing everyone else, he takes the focus off of his own short-comings, which are many and very apparent.
Then, crazy person that I am, I watched the date. I don’t know how that girl stuck it out that long. “Well, I’ve never been married. . . ” And clearly he has no clue why.
What a disgusting piece of poo.
May 30th, 2009 at 10:03 AM
And apparently no woman born is good enough for him since they will all age into decrepit hags while he will simply become more distinguished.
Too bad he didn’t make any money on his little filmfest. He could have bought himself a chin.
Narcissist? Maybe that’s the root of his obsession with Palin?
May 30th, 2009 at 10:12 AM
I watched a good portion of the arrest at USC, which (breaking news) was on April 14 or 15. Breaking news? Well, all he did was show everyone why HE wasn’t inside receiving an award for excellence in journalism. What an idiot!
May 30th, 2009 at 10:12 AM
Honestyingov:
“John Ziegler’s Film Premieres To Packed House/Standing Ovation …”
( no story though )
It could be that that’s the press release that Ziegler sent out.
May 30th, 2009 at 10:53 AM
Narcissists generally do not play well with each other.
I doubt the twits form a long term relationship.
Does Ziegler make Coale and Van Suckup look less creepy?
No, not really.
May 30th, 2009 at 10:56 AM
Maybe the “standing ovation” was in Ziegler’s trousers, but I doubt it was a “packed house”.
Sorry, I couldn’t help myself. I’ll try to be nicer…..
May 30th, 2009 at 11:07 AM
56degreesN
Thank you for the Atlantic article. That explains a lot. Losing his mother when Nicole Simpson was murdered probably was not a coincidence. Interesting insight on what makes talk radio work, also.
May 30th, 2009 at 12:34 PM
You are wasting your time… Ziegler doesn’t impress me as a guy smart enough to realize or understand that you essentially calling him an egotistical dumbass.
May 30th, 2009 at 12:49 PM
You might enjoy this Ziegler interview with Nate Silver concening a push poll Ziegler commisioned just before the election.
http://www.fivethirtyeight.com/2008/11/interview-with-john-ziegler-on-zogby.html
May 30th, 2009 at 12:53 PM
This guy is ill. He thinks he’s better than Michael Moore?!?! That is like comparing his flip-book of stick figures to Moore’s many documentaries that are, at minimum, awe inspiring and have dutifully served to raise the consciousness of Americans all over. Zeigler’s audacity knows no bounds, unlike his talent, which is very limited.
May 30th, 2009 at 12:58 PM
To edit the above, it was shortly after the election, material to be used in his documentary.
May 30th, 2009 at 1:18 PM
The more I read about this man (the arrest video was painful)—I get an extremely disturbing feeling.
Ziegler is not walking on solid planks. Unfortunately, he has decided to put all his energy behind Sarah— whose plank broke long ago. Nightmare, ugliness and tragedy can only follow. It’s true, he’s even creepier than Greta and her husband in their “attention” to Sarah.
May 30th, 2009 at 1:44 PM
56degreesN – thanks also for the Atlantic article. A long read but very interesting. Catch the comments he made about Katie Couric interviewing OJ?
May 30th, 2009 at 6:57 PM
I may be misremembering this, but re: the “Katie-not-center-of-universe” comment, I thought I read somewhere that after the trailer for this film was getting around the YouTube and all the other ‘tubes’ that Palin made a CYA statement like “oh, just taken out of context again”, “came off sounding that way because of the editing”, something like that.
Which is funny, bceause it was edited by Ziegler. So she would be accusing HIM of doing to her the same thing his film rails about the MSM doing to her!
Also, rewatched parts of the Couirc interview and the Media Malpractice interview and picked up a couple of things I hadn’t put together before.
The reason Palin doesn’t interview well is because (I know you’re going to find this one a shocker, so sit downand hold tight to your wine glasses) …….
She doesn’t actually LISTEN to the question she’s asked!
Her hampser-wheel of a brain “fills in” stuff that simply was not there.
Ex. Why she didn’t answer the Couric question about what she reads? She decided the question was derogatory to Alaskans and that Couric only asked it because of stereotypes that Alakans are all ignorant troglodytes. And of course none of that was in Couric’s question whatsoever.
But I also heard her say regarding the “Bristol and Levi are dropouts”, she added that the media was saying “and they were gonna be loking for government handouts”. WTF????? When did anyone ever say that? That’s one of the things her little hampster-wheel brain ran ahead with, and now, even though it’s not actually true, to her it is
Almost the same thing with the Trig Birth Controversy. When talking, she makes no distinction about media type – I guess Mudflats is MSM just like CBS News. ‘Cause I don’t remember one single major news network running a story about it, or even commenting about it.
Pardon me if I want a leader who will LISTEN to what is being said, and not just make up in his/her head what s/he THINKS is being said, or what s/he WANTS to hear.
May 30th, 2009 at 7:01 PM
What I think we have here is another case of self-parody. I found myself thinking of the guv when I listened to these. SNL could do with this guy what Tina Fey did with SP–just lift his words, verbatim. No need to rewrite.