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sorta neglected re recall
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schools rank near bottom, 1/3 of all homeless, highest unempl 5.5%?
GAS CA 6 BEFORE IRAN War
176,776 views Premiered Mar 28, 2026 The Brief
California already had the highest gas prices in America before the Iran war — so why is Gavin Newsom blaming foreign conflict for a homegrown crisis? Larry Elder joins Shabbos Kestenbaum to break down what’s driving California’s affordability collapse: taxes, regulations, a worsening homelessness problem, outbound migration, and a state budget heading toward an $18B shortfall. They also discuss the proposed “billionaires wealth tax,” why major companies and high-income residents keep leaving, the “homelessness industrial complex,” and how one-party rule in Sacramento shapes everything from the cost of living to public services.
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Listeners keep calling in to right-wing radio shows to complain about Trump’s policies
Written by Gideon Taaffe
Research contributions from Isabella Corrao, Jane Lee, Helena Hind & Alicia Sadowski
Published 03/20/25 mma
In the past several months, right-wing radio shows have been receiving calls from audiences who are unhappy with the Trump administration’s policies. Listeners are sharing their stories of family members losing jobs, discussing anxiety about the economy, and expressing their disagreement with President Donald Trump and Vice President JD Vance’s handling of the Ukraine-Russia war.
Right-wing radio shows are getting negative calls from their audiences, but some hosts have dismissed the outrage
- Since Trump took office, listeners have been calling in to right-wing radio shows complaining about the administration’s rhetoric, government cuts, and foreign policy. Some of these callers identified themselves as Trump supporters or Republicans. Media Matters, [2/26/25]
- :{:{Some hosts have noted the increase of such calls but have dismissed the outrage as either “scripted” or not having “merit.”F}:ox’s Sean Hannity commented, “We have seen an uptick in callers that I promise you are scripted and on-message.” Chris Stigall claimed he was being “bombarded with displeased government workers,” adding, “I don’t care, I just don’t.” The producer of Outkick’s The Clay Travis and Buck Sexton Show noted that the show was “getting some disagreement” about the hosts’ comments on Ukraine, adding, “But I wouldn’t really say it’s disagreement that has merit.” Premiere Radio Networks, *The Sean Hannity Show*, [3/4/25; Salem News, The Chris Stigall Show, 3/12/25; OutKick and Premiere Radio Networks,The Clay Travis and Buck Sexton Show, 2/28/25]
- ## Callers are upset about the economy and social security
- A caller toThe Brian Kilmeade Showpushed back on Trump’s lie that a significant number of people over the age of 100 were receiving social security checks.The caller asked how people can push back on lies, like when Trump “talked about all of these Social Security recipients over the age of 100. … It has been proven that they are in the system, but they are not actually receiving payments.” Fox News Radio, *The Brian Kilmeade Show*, [3/6/25]
- A caller toThe Mark Levin Showsaid that every time he hears Trump mention tariffs, “I cringe.”Caller: “I've been applauding for the past month and a half almost everything the Trump administration has been doing, but I cringe every time I hear him say something like tariff is my favorite word. … I keep hoping that these tariffs are just a means to an end.” Westwood One, *The Mark Levin Show*, [3/6/25]
- A caller toThe Erick Erickson Shownoted that his annual raise may not meet inflationary pressures under Trump: “I don't think I'll ever catch up.”The caller explained: “I would imagine where people work and they do get a raise once a year, but that's only once a year. Inflation is just, like, ongoing. So I don't, I don't think I'll ever catch up.” Westwood One, *The Erick Erickson Show*, [3/7/25]
- ## Callers have noted the negative impact of government cuts
- A self-identified Republican caller phoned Erick Erickson to discuss his veteran wife being “put on the list for termination” just two months shy of the end of her probationary period.The caller also noted that her job would be understaffed, which would likely have a negative impact on America’s military deployment ports, saying, “Trump said stop using a chainsaw and start using a scalpel. But I don't think they, according to my wife, I don't think they are using a scalpel now.” He later added, “I am hoping that they are taking all this into account, of who is retiring this coming year and how short-handed they are now, because I tell you, when the military deploys, she works around the clock.” Westwood One, *The Erick Erickson Show*, [3/7/25]
- A caller toThe Larry Elder Showasked, “I was just wondering why are you not criticizing the Trump administration” for “cutting the VA 4%?” The caller also noted, “I know that they are overworked and that there’s not enough staff. And just to give you an example of now because of the cuts, the VA in Westwood, which has all these beautiful new brown buildings that are getting ready to open to take the homeless veterans and put them in shelters has now been forced to delay that because they don’t have enough money to staff them once they are open now because of the cuts.” The Salem Podcast Network,*The Larry Elder Show*, [3/11/25]
- A caller to Erickson’s show noted that the USAID freeze was impacting his daughter’s anti-malaria work in Africa. Caller: “I just want to let you know about my daughter who is the good part of USAID. She's in the health section, and she's been with anti-malarial the entire 8 years that she’s been with. And they're really kind of stymied now because once every funds were cut off, a lot of the medications were literally on its way to Africa and other high malarial areas. And they frankly don't know what to do. The people who made the medicine have their invoice and they can't get any money, which violates the contract. The same thing with … warehouses, they can't keep the warehouse anymore and they're talking about dumping them out in the garbage. So this is the other part of USAID, the good part, which needs to be addressed pretty quickly.” Westwood One, *The Erick Erickson Show*, [2/21/25]
- Another caller toThe Erick Erickson Showidentified himself as a former “student in special education” and argued that the proposed elimination of the Department of Education would impact special needs students.Caller: “If you cut a lot of the education out federally, you lose a focus on a wide range of special education like, you know, down syndrome and all kinds of ranges of special education.” Westwood One, *The Erick Erickson Show*, [3/7/25]
- A caller toThe Mark Davis Showcomplained that the federal layoffs were arbitrary and illegal.The caller claimed “I think that he's wrong” to mass fire federal employees, adding, “You can't arbitrarily just fire government officials. The president sure can't.” 660AM, *The Mark Davis Show*, [3/6/25]
- ## Callers complained about Trump and Vance’s handling of the war in Ukraine and treatment of Zelensky
- In February, Trump ratcheted up rhetoric toward Zelensky, accusing him of being a “dictator” and suggesting Ukraine was responsible for starting the war. Then in late February, the leaders had a tense exchange in the oval office where Vice President JD Vance claimed Zelensky was not grateful enough for America’s support.
- A caller onThe Larry Elder Showcalled to say he found Vance’s treatment of Zelensky at the White House “reprehensible” and “entirely uncalled for.” He described JD Vance and Zelensky’s exchange, saying that Vance, “had a president from a very important foreign country in front of him in our Oval Office, a cherished place for the presidency of The United States, and his conduct in the way that he he challenged President Zelensky in front of the media and in front of our president, our secretary of state, and other various president in the room was entirely uncalled for, such a lack of tact.” He added, “And for somebody whose sole military experience is being a spokesperson for the Marine Corps as his only service, with limited knowledge of having boots on the ground in any part of our countries, I just find unfathomable.” He then called for Vance to apologize: “The person that needs to express apologies is JD Vance.” Salem Podcast Network, *The Larry Elder Show*, [3/1/25]
- Another caller who identified herself as a “big Trump supporter” said on The Larry Elder Show she “became kind of incensed” listening to Trump “bully” Zelensky.Caller: “It just seemed like the bully was coming out in him, going after Zelensky, and I feel like Zelensky’s kind of in a position where he’s almost defenseless.” Salem Podcast Network, *The Larry Elder Show*, [3/1/25]
- A self-identified Trump supporter and former Army colonel called in to Sean Hannity’s show to complain about the way JD Vance talked to Zelensky.Caller: “As soon as JD Vance opened his mouth and started talking, he basically started provoking Zelensky from everything that I can see that this was really a provocation on his part.” Premiere Radio Networks,*The Sean Hannity Show*, [3/3/25]
- A self-identified Trump supporter called Erick Erickson to say that Trump’s comments on Ukraine and Zelensky were “off the charts crazy.” Westwood One, *The Erick Erickson Show*, [2/28/25]
- One caller toThe Steve Gruber Showpushed back on the notion that the rare minerals deal with Ukraine was going to benefit Americans, saying that the deal was really going to benefit corporations.Caller: “How, though, is this rare earth deal going to reimburse the citizenry of our country when those minerals are going to go to corporate entities?” WJIM, *The Steve Gruber Show*, [2/28/25]
- Additionally, on the March 13 edition of CSPAN’s Washington Journal, the program solicited audience opinions about the prospect of the Department of Education being eliminated. A call came in from the show’s “Republican line,” and the caller said, “I am definitely against it completely.” He added, “These teachers are all underpaid. They are not getting the salaries that they’re deserved. If you take somebody making $100,000 a year that does their job versus somebody making $30,000 a year — who is going to do better? I am totally against taking it away from the teachers. I think we need to focus more on how we can spend tax dollars on paying teachers to be able to educate our children.”
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BUSTED: ‘Right-wing misinformation’ newspaper gave a GOP presidential candidate up to $5 million in salary
Mark Alesia,Alexandria Jacobsonand Raw StoryAugust 23, 2023
Long-shot Republican presidential candidate Larry Elder made between $1 million and $5 million from The Epoch Times, according to a new financial disclosure submitted three months past a federal deadline.
The Epoch Times — accused by the New York Times of being “a leading purveyor of right-wing misinformation” — spent heavily on Facebook ads for Donald Trump in 2020 and was later banned from the platform for violating political transparency rules. The Epoch Times is associated with the Chinese religious movement Falun Gong.
Elder’s filing, covering the past year and first reported by Raw Story on Monday, characterized his earnings from The Epoch Times as “salary.”
As Politico reporter Kimberly Leonard observed, Elder failed to report the exact amount of the money as required by federal regulators.
“Despite facing numerous challenges and setbacks, we have never lost hope in our mission to report the truth. Our commitment to journalistic integrity has not wavered, even in the face of adversity,” The Epoch Times states on its “about us” page.
Its stated vision: “To be recognized as the ‘paper of record,’ the world’s most trusted and admired media company, and the organization that will restore, by its example, the best practices and highest principles of journalism.”
Neither Elder nor The Epoch Times responded immediately to requests for comment.
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Before he announced his run for president in April, Elder had a talk show on EpochTV that promoted far-right political views.
Raw Story reported in July that Elder, a tough-on-crime conservative, missed a May 20 deadline to file the financial disclosure. Elder then asked federal regulators for an extension, saying he didn’t know about the requirement.
The FEC granted an extension to Aug. 18.
Elder revealed multiple additional sources of income on the federal financial disclosure, including salaries each in the $100,001 to $1 million range from Relief Factor, a pain relief supplement,and Old Glory Bank, where he serves as a director alongside 2016 presidential candidate Ben Carson, who later became Trump’s secretary of Housing and Urban Development.
Elder also reported salaries from a machining company, CNC Broach Tools, educational consultancy Yrefy and media companies Creators Syndicate, Breaking Battlegrounds andSalem Radio Network.
His consulting for Elder for America and Baric and Associates earned him up to $1.5 million collectively, according to the disclosure.
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Elder, who has been a vocal opponent of abortion rights, earned up to $370,000 additional income from honorariums, including from anti-abortion centers like the Crisis Pregnancy Clinic of Southern California and Avenues Pregnancy Clinics.
Elder is not slated to appear in the Republican Party’s first presidential candidate debate on Wednesday in Milwaukee, with the Republican National Committee ruling he didn’t meet pre-set fundraising and polling thresholds.
Elder has disputed the ruling, and on Tuesday, asked his supporters to contribute to a lawsuit against the RNC, accusing it of unfairly sidelining him.
“The RNC told us they would be fair in their qualification for the August debate happening tomorrow night,” an email solicitation said. “They lied. And to prove their lies, we’re going to take them on in court.”
Elder contends he met the RNC’s criteria for participation.
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Christian nationalists in California are making an aggressive push to have embattled Gov. Gavin Newsom (D) recalled. The candidate they are advocating for heavily aligns with their own political agenda.
According to a new report published by Right Wing Watch, far-right Christian leaders and Republicans are advocating for conservative radio host Larry Elder.
Holding a sharp position on key conservative issues like abortion, voting rights, and COVID mitigation, Elder has received an influx of support from conservatives religious leaders.
One of his strongest supporters is Ché Ahn, a Pasadena, Calif.-based religious leader working to get as many evangelicals as possible to vote on the recall.
In fact, Ahn has a long history of advocating for Republican candidates and controversial policies the party has long worked to enact.
On Jan. 5, just one day before the insurrection on the U.S. Capitol, Ahn appeared at the "Stop the Steal" rally which was organized to stir up the pro-Trump base. At the time, Ahn reportedly circulated misinformation about the presidential election by telling Trump-supporting rallygoers "that the election was stolen but that Trump would remain in office."
"We're gonna rule and reign through President Trump and under the lordship of Jesus Christ," he declared.
Over the last several weeks, a number of similar events have been held to boost Elder's campaign but the publication highlights one event in particular as it sheds light on how Christian nationalists are using religion to justify their political goals.
Per the publication:
"A Sept. 2 California Pastors Town Hall sponsored by the Salt & Light Council focused in part on the recall election. Bishop Art Hodges urged pastors to bring their ballots to church and to portray voting as a sacred duty. 'It is our duty as Christians in America,' he said, to ensure God's continued blessing on the U.S. by 'choosing leaders who will honor biblical values and morality.' Hodges presented talking points favoring the recall, which began with Newsom performing marriage ceremonies for same-sex couples and running through a litany of complaints, including 'Cash payments to illegals.'"
California's special election will be held on Tuesday Sept. 14.
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In his series of Not My Party videos, Tim Miller — a Never Trump conservative and former Republican who supported now-President Joe Biden in the 2020 election — has offered countless examples of the type of extremist behavior that drove him out of the GOP. In a video added to YouTube and the conservative website The Bulwark on September 9, Miller weighs in on California's gubernatorial recall election. And even though Miller pokes fun at Democratic Gov. Gavin Newsom, he slams most of the Republicans hoping to unseat him as a "sea of right-wing freaks."
On Tuesday, September 14, voters in California will decide to either keep Newsom as governor or replace him with someone else. The leading Republican challenger is Larry Elder, a far-right talk radio host based in Los Angeles.
In his video, Miller explains, "So, California is having a wild recall election that might just end up with a wacko conspiracy-minded conservative from the entertainment world shocking the country."
Newsom goes on to describe Newsom as "a pretty boy neoliberal Democrat" who is "a little slick" and was married to Kimberly Guilfoyle, Donald Trump, Jr.'s current girlfriend, from 2001-2005.
"As governor," Miller says in the video, "Gavin's biggest fail has been not doing enough on the housing crisis. But the premise of the recall isn't even about that. The Republicans trying to overthrow him launched this recall because Gavin was fighting Trump's nativist immigration agenda."
Miller's comments poking fun at Newsom, however, are mild compared to what he says about Elder.
"Here are just some of the freaks and geeks who might replace him in a recall," Miller explains. "The favorite is Larry Elder, a conservative talk radio show host who is basically a walking Boomer Facebook meme. This guy has made countless crazy statements, but just watch this one."
Miller then shows a clip of Elder discussing slavery reparations and telling right-wing pundit Candace Owens, "You could make an argument that the people that are owed reparations are not only just Black people, but also, the people whose quote, property, close-quote, was taken away after the end of the Civil War."
Miller observes, "In addition to being possibly interested in reparations for slaveowners, Elder has supported rolling back Gavin's vaccine mandates. And the Democrats have been trashing him for it."
Others challenging Newsom in the recall election include Caitlin Jenner and John Cox, the Republican who lost to Newsom in California's 2018 gubernatorial election. The one "vaguely normal" Republican in the recall election, according to Miller, is former San Diego Mayor Kevin Faulconer.
Miller says of Faulconer, "He's a moderate Republican former mayor of San Diego. He wants to address climate change and supports citizenship for undocumented immigrants. Sounds like my kinda guy. But of course, he also voted for (Donald) Trump."
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https://www.alternet.org/2019/08/heres-how-an-obscure-california-conservative-commentator-is-indoctrinating-a-new-generation-of-right-wingers/
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Here’s how an obscure California conservative commentator is indoctrinating a new generation of right-wingers
The Economist magazine with Donald Trump on title page.]
Written by Alex Henderson August 23, 2019
Los Angeles native Larry Elder — a libertarian/conservative firebrand, African-American talk radio host/author and the self-described “Sage from South-Central” — has often cited Dennis Prager as his mentor and described him as a key factor in his career in right-wing media. The “mentor” part is important, as the 70-year-old Prager has set out to be exactly that to younger people on the right. And the Los Angeles’ Times’ Evan Halper, in an in-depth article, describes the ways in which Prager has been indoctrinating right-wingers of the future via his L.A.-based Prager University.
PragerU, as Halper notes in his piece, isn’t literally a university. Rather, it is a collection of short online propaganda videos addressing topics ranging from the economy to multiculturalism to climate change. And the goal is to indoctrinate right-wingers who are 30, 40 or 50 years younger than him.
Bradley Devlin, a leader of the College Republicans at UC Berkeley in the San Francisco Bay Area, told the Los Angeles Times that PragerU is viewed as a learning tool among young conservatives on campus.
“People watch these videos in between classes,” Devlin told the Times. “They watch them on the line at Starbucks. They point out the unsustainability of leftism and intersectionality and the false promises of the left.”
Prager viewed himself as a right-wing “educator” long before he started PragerU in 2009. Elder is now 67, and Prager took him under his wing back in the 1980s (Elder sounds like he’s talking about an older brother when discussing his relationship with Prager). But in the digital age, Halper explains, PragerU has given Prager a chance to reach out to Millennials via social media and let them know when a new video is available.
Halper notes in his piece that PragerU has more than his share of critics, who view many of thevideos as wildly misleading. For example, the Weather Channel has described PragerU’s videos on climate change as “a course in climate misinformation” (Prager is a climate change denierdespite a mountain of evidence from scientists all over the world showing that climate change is a painful reality).
Another critic is Tara McGowan, chief executive of the nonprofit Acronym — which advises liberals and progressives on digital outreach. McGowan, in Halper’s article, is quoted as saying that PragerU is “a sophisticated campaign to indoctrinate young people. The amount of money they are putting behind it is alarming and significant. They seem to have created a savvy way to push an ideology onto an audience and get a tax break in the process.”
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https://www.investors.com/politics/columnists/larry-elder-the-shameful-blackout-of-thomas-sowell-and-williams/
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Larry Elder: The Shameful Blackout Of Thomas, Sowell And Williams
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LARRY ELDER8/10/2017
Clarence Thomas, one of nine members of the Supreme Court and the second black to ever join the Court, is not in the National Museum of African American History and Culture in Washington, D.C. Asked to explain Thomas' absence, the chief spokeswoman for the Smithsonian said, "The museum's exhibitions are based on themes, not individuals."
Yet the museum plans to add a popular local D.C. television news broadcaster. The museum's founding director, Lonnie Bunch, said the broadcaster "symbolized that it was really important that America was changing and his presence was a symbol of that change." And Thomas, raised in poverty to become only the second black to sit on the Supreme Court, is not "a symbol of that change"?
Left-wing blacks — and that's the overwhelming majority — feel that black conservatives like Thomas do not just have different or wrongheaded or illogical views. Thomas' views, to them, damage the black community. Never mind that most Clarence Thomas-haters could not identify a single case Thomas decided with which they disagree.
One line of attack against Thomas goes as follows. Thomas "took advantage" of race-based preferences to get into college and law school, but then "turned his back on those behind" by arguing that such preferences violate the 14th Amendment.
What these critics assert is that but for race-based preferences, Clarence Thomas would likely be working the deep-fryer at McDonald's. Assume, for the moment, that but for race-based preferences, Thomas would not have gotten into the particular schools he attended, College of the Holy Cross in Worcester, Massachusetts, and Yale Law School. But in America thousands of colleges and universities, from community colleges to Harvard, accept students of varying abilities with financial assistance readily available. Surely the driven, hardworking, academically oriented Clarence Thomas could have and would have found admission into schools matching his skills and ability.
Here's another problem with race-based preferences. Studies document a disproportionately high college-dropout rate for minority students admitted with lower test scores and grades than their peers selected without preferences. How is this mismatching of value to the "beneficiary" if it leads to a higher dropout rate, with the frustrated student giving up and leaving school in debt? The student often blames his failure to succeed at this high level on unfair, if not racist, professors.
The African-American Museum's discrimination against Thomas provides just one example of the black anti-conservative bigotry. Here's another. Every year, the black monthly magazine Ebony lists its "Power 100," defined as those "who lead, inspire and demonstrate through their individual talents, the very best in Black America." Each year Thomas is conspicuously absent. Apparently, as a sitting black justice on the Supreme Court of the United States, Thomas does not "lead, inspire and demonstrate ... the very best in Black America."
Ebony not only excludes Clarence Thomas but also shuts out prominent conservatives Thomas Sowell and Walter Williams.
As for Sowell, he's only an economist and writer whom playwright David Mamet once called "our greatest contemporary philosopher." Sowell, who never knew his father, was raised by a great-aunt and her two grown daughters. They lived in Harlem, where he was the first in his family to make it past the sixth grade. He left home at 17, served as a Marine in the Korean War, graduated magna cum laude from Harvard, earned a master's degree at Columbia University the next year, followed by a Ph.D. in economics at the University of Chicago.
Sowell, at 87, authored some four dozen books (not counting revised editions) and wrote hundreds of scholarly articles and essays in periodicals and thousands of newspaper columns. In 2015, Forbes magazine said: "It's a scandal that economist Thomas Sowell has not been awarded the Nobel Prize. No one alive has turned out so many insightful, richly researched books." Yet, thanks in part to the Ebony shutout, many blacks have never heard of him.
How does Ebony justify excluding economist and writer Walter Williams, former chairman of the economics department of George Mason University, where he still teaches? Raised by a single mother, he lived in Philadelphia's Richard Allen housing projects. He served as a private in the Army before earning a bachelor's degree at a state university, followed by a master's and a Ph.D. in economics at UCLA. Williams has written a dozen books on economics and race, including the inspirational "Up From the Projects: An Autobiography," and was recently the subject of a documentary about his life.
The exclusion of people like Clarence Thomas, Thomas Sowell and Walter Williams explains why there's no serious discussion in the black community about government dependency; school choice; the damage done by high taxes, excessive regulation and laws like minimum wage; and why blacks should rethink their allegiance to the Democratic Party.
The failure to acknowledge conservative blacks is a failure to engage their ideas, to the detriment of the community. This is not merely an injustice to them: It is an injustice to all Americans.
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Laurence Allen "Larry" Elder (born April 27, 1952) is an American radio commentator. His radio program The Larry Elder Show formerly aired weekdays at 3 PM on talk radio 790 KABC in Los Angeles. His show began on September 27, 2010;[1][2] it was previously heard on the same station weekdays from 3 PM to 7 PM from 1994 to 2008 and was syndicated on ABC Radio Networks from 2002 to 2007 and locally on KABC radio in the Los Angeles Metro area from 2009 to 2014.[3] In December2014, KABC radio did not renew his contract.
Since December 2014, he has been running a live show on the internet on his podcast and then on CRN Channel 1 from 12 PM to 3 PM PST.[4][5] Starting April 4, 2016, Salem Communications now syndicates The Larry Elder Show nationwide,[6] with his base station at AM 870 in Los Angeles and currently syndicated in over 300 markets.
Early life
Larry Elder was born in Los Angeles and grew up in the city's Pico-Union and South Central areas. Elder attended Washington Preparatory High School and later graduated from Crenshaw High School and earned his B.A.. in political science in 1974 from Brown University. He then earned his J.D. from University of Michigan Law School in 1977.[7] After graduation, he worked with a law firm in Cleveland, Ohio, where he practiced litigation. In 1980, he founded Laurence A. Elder and Associates, recruiting attorneys.
Career
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In the early 1990s, the show's name was retitled The Larry Elder Show and moved to the local Fox Network affiliate WOIO and cable TV. Goulden and Elder won the Ohio Cable Television Association's "Best Program Series Award" in 1992 for their work on the show,[9]which lasted until Elder moved back to Los Angeles in 1994. Between 2000 and 2001, Elder hosted the court series Moral Court, distributed by Warner Brothers Television. In September 2004, he began the television version of The Larry Elder Show, which was dropped on April 12, 2005, due to low ratings.
He was a host of the PBS program National Desk, including the segment "Redefining Racism: Fresh Voices From Black America," for which he won an AEGIS Award of Excellence, a Telly award, and an Emerald City Gold Award of Excellence.[citation ^needed] Elder also won a Los Angeles Area Emmy Award in 2000 for his KCAL-TV News special Making Waves – LAUSD. He has played himself on the sitcoms Spin City and The Hughleys. He is a columnist with Creators Syndicate.[10] Elder's newspaper and online column is carried by Investor's Business Daily, World Net Daily, Townhall.com, Jewish World Review and Front Page Magazine}:}:
From 2002 to 2007, Elder's show was nationally syndicated by ABC Radio Networks and its news-talk network, ABC News & Talk. After Citadel Broadcasting took over most of ABC's radio operations in 2007, syndication of Elder's show was discontinued in favor of Mark Levin, and the show reverted to a local show in August of that year.
Elder was one of the rotating talk hosts auditioning for the slot vacated by the now-canceled Imus in the Morning on MSNBC.[11] However, the job went to Joe Scarborough instead.
On July 5, 2008, the pilot Showdown with Larry Elder aired on Fox News Channel. The show was not picked up.[citation ^needed]
December 12, 2008, was his final day on KABC.[12] Elder then began a daily live podcast as well as a webcast starting in December 2009.[13][14] In late March 2011, Elder started to charge for his podcasts. They were previously available for free on the KABC website.[citation ^needed] On September 27, 2010, Elder returned to KABC,[1][2] hosting weekdays from 9 to noon. He was soon back in his regular afternoon slot.
On December 2, 2014, Elder was fired from KABC following his afternoon airshift.[15] On April 27, 2015, Elder was honored with a star on the Hollywood Walk of Fame. Of the year's 30 honorees, Elder is the only one from the radio industry.[16]
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On June 1, 2015, Elder joined the lineup of CRN Digital Talk Radio Networks. His program is heard from noon to 3 PM on CRN Channel 1 and is replayed from 3 to 6 PM on CRN Channel 5.[16]
On July 16, 2015, Larry Elder, substituting for Ben Shapiro on the Morning Answer Show,[17] announced on local radio station KRLA (The Answer 870) Glendale, CA that he will be back on the air in August 2015 from 9 PM to 11 PM PST. KRLA is part of the Salem Radio Network (SRN), a division of the Salem Media Group.[18]
In January 2016, Larry Elder answered the question Is America Racist? in a video created by PragerU that has received over 10 million views on YouTube and Facebook.
Starting April 4, 2016, Salem Communications will syndicate The Larry Elder Show nationwide.[19] Currently The Larry Elder Show can be heard on more than 300 stations nationwide.
Politics
Elder's political views are philosophically libertarian and have also been described as conservative.[20] He supports free trade, school choice, and same-sex marriage. Elder opposes racial and gender preferences in employment and higher education;[21] the income tax and supports replacing it with the FairTax, a national retail sales tax; and the war on drugs and has been quoted as saying: "Philosophically, I think that if somebody wants to sit around and get stoned that's up to him or her. And if that ruins your life, so be it.... So I am for drug legalization."[8] Although he is not an Objectivist, he says that Atlas Shrugged, written by novelist Ayn Rand, is one of his favorite books.[22]
Elder's name was in an advertisement in the Los Angeles Times (August 17, 2006) that condemned Hamas and Hezbollah and supported Israel in the 2006 Israel-Lebanon conflict.[23]
Following Elder's re-registering as a Republican, in a 2008 interview with The New Individualist Magazine he said, "A lot of my listeners will often call up and say, 'I preferred you when you were a Libertarian.' I always tell them I never was a 'capital-L Libertarian.' I am still 'small-l.' It’s a philosophy to me, not a party."[22] Elder supported presidential candidates Harry Browne[22] in 2000, George W. Bush[24] in 2004, and John McCain[25] in 2008.
Roll Call reported that Elder contemplated a possible run for the United States Senate against California Senator Barbara Boxer in 2010.[26]
Personal life
Elder was born in 1952, the second of Randolph and Viola Conley Elder's three sons.[citation ^needed] At the time, the family lived in the largely Latino Pico-Union district of Los Angeles. Elder's father, Randolph, was on his own from the age of 13 and worked a variety of jobs. He enlisted in the US Marines and served as a cook in the Philippines during World War II. Following the war, he was refused employment as a short-order cook many times because he had no references.
Elder's father moved to California and worked several jobs at once to support his family. He also attended night school to earn his GED. By his early forties he had saved enough to open his own café, which he successfully owned and operated near downtown Los Angeles for 30 years. On his radio show, Elder said about his father: "A tougher life I have rarely come across. Yet he never hated, he was never bitter, he never condemned his circumstances, and he always said there are very few problems that cannot be solved through hard work." Elder told a Reason interviewer in 1996 that his father was his role model: "He was the hardest working man I've ever known.... He had a work ethic that was beyond belief."[27]
In 2013, Larry Elder and his brother Kirk accepted a Congressional Gold Medal from U.S. Representative Dana Rohrabacher on their father's behalf.[28]
Works
Books
- Stupid Black Men: How to Play the Race Card and Lose ISBN 0-312-36733-3
- The Ten Things You Can't Say in America ISBN 0-312-28465-9
- Showdown: Confronting Bias, Lies, and the Special Interests that Divide America ISBN 0-312-32017-5
- What's Race Got to Do with It? : Why It's Time to Stop the Stupidest Argument in America (2009), ISBN 0-312-54147-3[29] originally titled Stupid Black Men: How to Play the Race Card—and Lose, ISBN 0-312-36733-3.[30]
- Dear Father, Dear Son: Two Lives...Eight Hours (2012), ISBN 1-936-48845-0[31]
DVD
In 2005, Elder created a self-financed film called Michael & Me, in which he refutes filmmaker Michael Moore's anti-gun politics and his assertions in Moore's controversial documentary, Bowling for Columbine.[32]
Video
- Redefining Racism: Fresh Voices from Black America
- Title IX And Women In Sports: What's Wrong With This Picture? Whidbey Island Films
- For Goodness Sake II (1996).[33] – Elder hosts the "Diversity Through Character" segment.[34]
- Michael & Me (2005)
See also
- Black conservatism in the United States
- History of African Americans in Los Angeles
- Libertarian conservatism
- Libertarianism in the United States
- Libertarian Republican
- List of African-American Republicans
References
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External links
- Larry Elder's Official Website
- Larry Elder at Jewish World Review
- Larry Elder at WorldNetDaily
- Appearances on C-SPAN
- Larry Elder on IMDb
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