Larry Elder

Larry Elder

Born Laurence Allen Elder
(1952-04-27) April 27, 1952
Los Angeles, California, U.S.
Alma mater Brown University (A.B.)
University of Michigan (J.D.)
Political party Republican
Spouse(s) Alexandra Datig
Website Official website

Laurence Allen "Larry" Elder (born April 27, 1952) is an American lawyer, writer and radio and television personality who calls himself the "Sage of South Central," a district of Los Angeles, California.[1] His radio program The Larry Elder Show formerly aired weekdays 3 pm on talk radio 790 KABC in Los Angeles. His show began September 27, 2010;[2][3] it was previously heard on the same station weekdays from 3 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.[4] In December 2014, KABC radio did not renew his contract. From December 2014 to present 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.[5] [6] On July 16, 2015, Larry Elder 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. [7] Starting April 4, 2016, Salem Communications will syndicate The Larry Elder Show nationwide. In the Los Angeles area the show airs from 6 to 9 PM. This moves the Hugh Hewitt Show to the morning drive time slot of 6 to 9 AM. [8]

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.[9] 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

While he was a lawyer in Cleveland in the late 1980s, Elder began to host a topic-oriented television show on PBS affiliate WVIZ produced by Dennis Goulden. "I auditioned for and got a television show on PBS, which I hosted for six years. I can't say I had a plan. I literally picked up the phone and talked my way into getting this audition on PBS and they hired me. They just happened to be looking for a cohost."[10] In the early 1990s, the show's name was retitled to 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,[11] 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. Elder was profiled by 60 Minutes and 20/20 and served as replacement for Geraldo Rivera on CNBC’s Rivera Live while Rivera was on vacation. 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. 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.[12] Elder's newspaper and online column is carried by Investor's Business Daily, World Net Daily, Townhall.com, Jewish World Review and David Horowitz's Front Page Magazine and The Atlasphere.

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. His audition was on May 7 and 8, and Elder was said to be openly pursuing the permanent position.[13] 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.

On December 11, 2008, Elder announced that the following day, December 12, would be his final day on KABC.[14] Elder then began a daily live podcast as well as a webcast starting in December 2009.[15][16] In late March of 2011 Elder started to charge for his podcasts. They were previously available for free on the KABC website. On September 27, 2010, Elder returned to KABC,[2][3] hosting weekdays from 9 to noon. He was soon back in his regular afternoon slot.

On December 2, 2014, Larry Elder was fired from KABC following his afternoon airshift. His agent George Green reported, "I was eating dinner last night when Larry called and said he was fired. The KABC general manager and program director called a few minutes later to confirm."[17] His program can now be heard from 3 to 6 pm Pacific time at www.larryelder.com. 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.[18]

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.[19]

On July 16, 2015, Larry Elder, substituting for Ben Shapiro, on the Morning Answer Show [20] 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.[21]

In January 2016, Larry Elder answered the question Is America Racist? in a video created by PragerU that has received over 2 Million views on YouTube and Facebook.

Starting April 4, 2016, Salem Communications will syndicate The Larry Elder Show nationwide.[22] As CRN also carries Salem on CRN3, his show will continue to be carried on that platform.

Politics

Elder's political views are philosophically libertarian, and have also been described as conservative.[23] He supports free trade, school choice, and same-sex marriage. He opposes the income tax and supports replacing it with the FairTax, a national retail sales tax. He is also a firm opponent of 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."[10] Although he is not an Objectivist, he says that Atlas Shrugged, written by novelist Ayn Rand, is one of his favorite books.[24]

He has called himself a "libertarian with a small 'l'" to distance himself from the national Libertarian Party concerning the 2003 invasion of Iraq. Elder was registered as Decline to State, but became a Republican in May 2003 in support of the War on Terror,[25] to be more influential within the Republican Party and to open up the possibility of running for office.[24] In his May 13, 2003 column for Jewish World Review, Elder explained reregistering as a Republican by quoting Nobel laureate economist Milton Friedman, who said, "I am a Republican with a capital 'R,' and a libertarian with a small 'l.' I have a party membership as a Republican, not because they have any principles. But because that's the way I am the most useful and have the most influence. My philosophy is clearly libertarian."[25] Elder ended his column by saying, "Make no mistake: My libertarian principles remain unchanged. But as writer Midge Decter once said, 'There comes a time to join the side you're on.'"[25] Elder has said that the Libertarian Party differs in ways from the libertarian philosophy, which has roots in the Whig and Republican parties. Melding the two parties, he sometimes refers to himself as a "Republitarian," which he defines as a Republican Party member who holds libertarian political ideals.[26]

Elder's name was in an advertisement in the Los Angeles Times (17 August 2006) that condemned Hamas and Hezbollah and supported Israel in the 2006 Israel-Lebanon conflict.[27]

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."[24] Elder supported presidential candidates Harry Browne[24] in 2000, George W. Bush[28] in 2004, and John McCain[29] in 2008.

Roll Call reported that Elder contemplated a possible run for the United States Senate against California Senator Barbara Boxer in 2010.[30]

Personal life

Elder was born in 1952, the second of Randolph and Viola Conley Elder's three sons. 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 military and served as a cook in the Philippines during World War II. Following the end of 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."[31]

In 2013, Larry Elder and his brother Kirk accepted a Congressional Gold Medal from U.S. Representative Dana Rohrabacher on their father's behalf.[32]

Works

Books

DVD

In 2005 Elder created a self-financed film called Michael & Me, in which he attempts to repudiate filmmaker Michael Moore's anti-gun politics and his assertions in Moore's controversial documentary, Bowling for Columbine.[36]

Video

See also

References

  1. ↑ "The Official Website Of Larry Elder". Larryelder.com. 2002-08-12. Retrieved 2009-04-28.
  2. 1 2 "Larry Elder returning to KABC". Orange County Register. 2010-09-22.
  3. 1 2 ""The Sage of South Central" Returns Home". KABC. 2010-09-22.
  4. ↑ Shuster, Fred (1998-02-10). "Elder's Radio Show Back to 4 Hours Long". Los Angeles Daily News.
  5. ↑ Elder, Larry. "The Larry Elder Show". larryelder.com. Larry Elder. Retrieved 2015-07-16.
  6. ↑ Elder, Larry. "KABC Radio Parts Ways With Long-Time Host Larry Elder". thehollywoodreporter.com. Hollywood Reporter. Retrieved 2015-07-16.
  7. ↑ Elder, Larry. "KRLA/Los Angeles Adds CRN Digital Talk Radio's Larry Elder For Nights". allaccess.com. allaccess.com. Retrieved 2015-07-16.
  8. ↑ Elder, Larry. "Larry Elder Radio Show to start national syndication". WND.com. WND. Retrieved 2016-03-29.
  9. ↑ "Larry Elder.com". Larry Elder.com. Archived from the original on April 22, 2009. Retrieved 2009-04-28.
  10. 1 2 "Elder Statesman: He was a promising young lawyer when he quit to stat a business. It thrived. So he sold it, moved across the country, and became Los Angeles's most controvers...". Reason.com. Retrieved 2009-04-28.
  11. ↑ The Plain Dealer, April 3, 1992
  12. ↑ Creators.com
  13. ↑ Lycan, Gary (2007-05-13). "Radio: Elder calls MSNBC stint a 'blast' – Entertainment – OCRegister.com". OCRegister.com<!. Retrieved 2009-04-28.
  14. ↑ "Larry Elder Departs From 790 KABC", "KABC-AM", December 11, 2008
  15. ↑ "Larry Elder Returning With Daily Podcast in December". OCRegister.com. 2009-11-12. Retrieved 2009-11-18.
  16. ↑ "Larry Elder Announcement". Larryelder.com. Retrieved 2009-11-18.
  17. ↑ Don Barrett (December 3, 2014). "Larry Elder Fired from KABC". L.A. Radio People.
  18. ↑ Laradio.com April 30, 2015
  19. ↑ http://laradio.com/ June 1, 2015
  20. ↑ Shapiro, Ben. am870themorninganswer.com. Salem Communications http://www.am870theanswer.com/themorninganswer.aspx. Retrieved 2015-07-16. Missing or empty |title= (help)
  21. ↑ Elder, Larry. "KRLA/Los Angeles Adds CRN Digital Talk Radio's Larry Elder For Nights". allaccess.com. allaccess.com. Retrieved 2015-07-16.
  22. ↑ Elder, Larry. Twitter. Twitter https://twitter.com/larryelder/status/702628366302748672. Retrieved 2016-03-29. Missing or empty |title= (help)
  23. ↑ Braxton, Greg (2010-09-27). "Larry Elder returns to airwaves on KABC-AM". Los Angeles Times.
  24. 1 2 3 4 "TNI's Interview with Larry Elder, by Robert L. Jones". Objectivistcenter.org. Retrieved 2009-04-28.
  25. 1 2 3 "Larry Elder". Jewishworldreview.com. Retrieved 2009-04-28.
  26. ↑ "Larry's Bio". Larry Elder.com. Retrieved 2009-04-28.
  27. ↑ "Nicole Kidman and 84 Others Stand United Against Terrorism" Hollywood Grind. 18 August 2006.
  28. ↑ "Column – Larry Elder – Historians Write Off Bush's Presidency". The Cagle Post. Archived from the original on March 18, 2009. Retrieved 2009-04-28.
  29. ↑ Elder, Larry. "Larry Elder : Obama vs. McCain – A Clear Choice – Townhall.com". Townhall.com<!. Retrieved 2009-04-28.
  30. ↑ "California: Ex-Talk-Show Host Eyes Boxer Challenge". rollcall.com. 2009-04-21. Archived from the original on July 18, 2010. Retrieved 2009-06-12.
  31. ↑ Elder, Larry (January 1, 2000). "Tribute to My Father". FrontPage Magazine. Retrieved July 27, 2013.
  32. ↑ Harrer, Jacob (August 19, 2013). "Montford Point Marine awarded Congressional Gold Medal posthumously". 1st Marine Division (United States). Retrieved April 28, 2016.
  33. ↑ What's Race Got to Do with It?: Why It's Time to Stop the Stupidest Argument in America: Larry Elder: Books. Amazon.com. ISBN 0312541473.
  34. ↑ Stupid Black Men: How to Play the Race Card—and Lose: Larry Elder: Books. Amazon.com. ISBN 0312367333.
  35. ↑ Dear Father, Dear Son: Two Lives...Eight Hours Larry Elder: Books. Amazon.com. ISBN 1936488450.
  36. ↑ "Michael & Me". The New York Times.
  37. ↑ Internet Movie Database
  38. ↑ Worldcat.org

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