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ahrenheit 9/11, what a
piece of garbage," says L.A.
radio host Bill Handel.
He's livid, because a caller has sug-
gested the Bush-bashing film is par-
tially true: "So if I have pictures of
you screwing goats, and that's only
25 percent of the story, is that OK?"
he retorts before hanging up in dis-
gust. "Let's see if we can get some
other cretins like this guy to call in."
It's early morning in KFI-AM's
gray, freezing studio, but the boister-
ous Handel is already heating up the
airwaves with the kind of talk that's
made him the top morning host in
Los Angeles. He also is the host of a
national legal advice show, Handel
on the Law, which can be heard 10
p.m.-1 a.m. Saturdays on WTCM-
AM (580 on the dial) out of Traverse
City, Mich.
While the 52-year-old attorney-
turned-host can be as obnoxious as
Howard Stern and as bombastic as
Rush Limbaugh, he's neither an ide-
ologue nor a shock jock. He
describes his show as "in-your-face,
informational, with a lot of racial
humor," yet he isn't dirty or dogmat-
ic.
There aren't any strippers or alle-
gations that Democrats are inherent-
ly evil. Handel may bash illegal _
immigration one minute and sup-
port pro-choice activists the next.
He'll lambaste Fahrenheit 9/11, then
excoriate Bush for his "insane" stand
on the stem cell issue.
"Bill is strongly opinionated, but
his menu of pet peeves isn't what
you'd expect," says Steve Carney,
who writes about radio for the Los
Angeles Times.
.
"Part of what makes him so suc-
cessful is that "he's unpredictable,"
says Al Peterson, news-talk radio edi-
tor of Radio & Records magazine.
.
Bill Handel can
be as obnoxious as
Howard Stern and
as bombastic as
Rush Limbaugh,
but he neither an
ideologue nor
a shock jock.
"He's also smart and
damned funny. He can say the most
outrageous things and still not be
totally offensive. He's like the uncle
you love, because he's entertaining,
but at the same time, he's a little bit
cranky."
KFI marketing director Neil
Saavedra put it another way:. "Bill is
," he says. "And that's
a lovable a
not shtick. He's exactly the same off
the air as he is on his show."
Handel seems to be doing his best
to cultivate that image -as he finishes
his show and strolls to his office,
where a poster depicts him as
Frankenstein's monster, with the slo-
gan, "We've created a monster! (rat-
ings)." He faux-kvetches about a
framed story on himself in Obesity.
Help magazine, which has fake bites
engraved in the frame; it was written
when he lost 112 pounds after
bariatric surgery.
"All the other talk show hosts get
covers of real magazines," he says. "I
get Obesity Help — your gateway to
the weight-loss surgery community.'"
If he's hamming it up as the lov-
able jerk, he clearly relishes the role.
When his- program director, Robin
Bertolucci, says nice things about
him, he jokingly grumbles at her to
"shut up." When Saavedra describes
himself as a "nondenominational
Protestant," Handel retorts, "You're a
fanatic, is what you are."
Undaunted, Saavedra describes his
first meeting with Handel after