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{{Infobox person | {{Infobox person | ||
| − | | name = Blain Michael "Moon" Griffon<br> | + | | name=Blain Michael "Moon" Griffon<br> |
| − | ( | + | (Radio talk show host known as "The Louisiana Limbaugh") |
| − | | image = | + | | image=Moon Griffon.jpeg |
| birth_date=May 16, 1961 | | birth_date=May 16, 1961 | ||
| birth_place=Plaquemine, Iberville Parish<br>[[Louisiana]]<br> | | birth_place=Plaquemine, Iberville Parish<br>[[Louisiana]]<br> | ||
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[[Lafayette]], Louisiana (since June 2014) | [[Lafayette]], Louisiana (since June 2014) | ||
|party=[[Republican Party|Republican]]-turned-No Party affiliation (2008) | |party=[[Republican Party|Republican]]-turned-No Party affiliation (2008) | ||
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|spouse=(1) Divorced from Connie Rene Moseley, since Connie Pace<br> | |spouse=(1) Divorced from Connie Rene Moseley, since Connie Pace<br> | ||
(2) Tonia Lou Digirolamo Griffon (married 1995) | (2) Tonia Lou Digirolamo Griffon (married 1995) | ||
| − | + | '''Children''':<br> | |
| − | Children:<br> | ||
From first marriaqe:<br> | From first marriaqe:<br> | ||
Daniel Blain Griffon<br> | Daniel Blain Griffon<br> | ||
Derek Charles Griffon<br> | Derek Charles Griffon<br> | ||
From second marriage:<br> | From second marriage:<br> | ||
| − | Mattie Griffon<br> | + | Mattie Griffon (born 1996)<br> |
Andrew Walker Griffon (born 2001)<br> | Andrew Walker Griffon (born 2001)<br> | ||
Grandson James Michael Griffon (born January 8, 2014)<br> | Grandson James Michael Griffon (born January 8, 2014)<br> | ||
| − | + | '''Parents''':<br> | |
| − | Parents:<br> | + | Charles Thomas and Dorothy Ann Berthelot Griffon<br> |
| − | Charles Thomas and Dorothy Ann Berthelot Griffon | + | '''Alma mater''': <br> |
| + | Redemptorist High School<br> | ||
| + | [[University of Louisiana at Monroe]] | ||
|religion=Reared [[Roman Catholic]]<br> | |religion=Reared [[Roman Catholic]]<br> | ||
| − | + | Member of North Monroe [[Southern Baptist|Baptist Church]] while residing in Monroe | |
|website= http://www.moongriffon.com/ | |website= http://www.moongriffon.com/ | ||
}} | }} | ||
| − | '''Blain Michael Griffon''', known as '''Moon Griffon''' (pronounced gre-FONN, born May 16, 1961),<ref name=ancestry/> is an [[United States|American]] [[conservative]] [[radio]] talk show host broadcast | + | '''Blain Michael Griffon''', known as '''Moon Griffon''' (pronounced gre-FONN, born May 16, 1961),<ref name=ancestry/> is an [[United States|American]] [[conservative]] [[radio]] talk show host broadcast across his home state of [[Louisiana]]. Now based at KPEL 96.5 in [[Lafayette]] in southwestern [[Louisiana]], he formerly broadcast from KMLB 540 AM in [[Monroe, Louisiana|Monroe]] in Ouachita Parish in the northeastern portion of the state. From 1993 to 2021, Griffon broadcast on weekdays for two hours daily. In January 2022, he expanded to three hours, 9 a.m.to 12 p.m. Central Time. |
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| − | Griffon is sometimes likened to the national radio talk show host [[Rush Limbaugh]]<ref name=nolacom>{{cite web|url=http://voices.yahoo.com/bobby-jindals-criticism-gop-romney-signals-2016-11880100.html| | + | Griffon is sometimes likened to the late national radio talk show host [[Rush Limbaugh]]<ref name=nolacom>{{cite web|url=http://voices.yahoo.com/bobby-jindals-criticism-gop-romney-signals-2016-11880100.html|author=Tim Morris|title=Gov. Bobby Jindal not conservative enough for some in La.|date=February 23, 2009|publisher=''New Orleans Times-Picayune''|accessdate=December 10, 2012}}</ref> though his program reflects his distinct Louisiana accent and his own style of politics. ''The Moon Griffon Show'' debuted on August 23, 1993,<ref>''The Moon Griffon Show'', August 23, 2012</ref> five years after the beginning of ''The Rush Limbaugh Show.'' Griffon left the [[Republican Party]] in 2008 to protest his discontent with non-conservative policies of the [[Bobby Jindal]] gubernatorial administration in the capital city of [[Baton Rouge]]. However, he has since mostly supported Republican candidates but remains a critic of Jindal and Jindal's [[Democratic Party|Democrat]] successor, current Governor [[John Bel Edwards]], whom he believes was elected twice in 2015 and 2019 because of Republican disunity. |
==Background== | ==Background== | ||
| − | Griffon was born and reared in Plaquemine, the seat of government for Iberville Parish south of | + | Griffon (pronounced gre-FONN) was born and reared in Plaquemine, the seat of government for Iberville Parish south of Baton Rouge. His paternal grandfather, Charles A. Griffon, Jr., was a [[sheriff]] of Iberville Parish for sixteen years until he was unseated in 1964 by then 31-year-old Jessel Mitchell Ourso, Sr. (1932-1978).<ref>''The Moon Griffon Show,'' August 17, 2010.</ref> His maternal grandfather, Matherine J. "Matt" Berthelot (1904–1985), originally from Morganza in Pointe Coupee Parish, owned and operated a Shell Oil service station in Plaquemine.<ref name=berthelot>Matherine J. "Matt" Berthelot obituary, ''The Baton Rouge Morning Advocate'', June 7, 1985, p. 12C.</ref> Griffon's father, Charles Thomas "Tommy" Griffon (November 1, 1935 – December 14, 2017)) of Plaquemine, served an unexpired term as an Iberville Parish police juror and was employed for thirty-four years at Dow Chemical Company in Baton Rouge.<ref>{{cite web|url=http://obits.theadvocate.com/obituaries/theadvocate/obituary.aspx?n=charles-t-tommy-griffon&pid=187541102|title=Charles T. "Tommy" Griffon obituary|publisher=''The Baton Rouge Advocate''|date=December 15, 2017|accessdate=February 14, 2018}}</ref> |
Griffon's mother, the former Dorothy Ann "Dot" Berthelot (born January 9, 1936), is one of four children of Matt Berthelot and the former Nethla Morales.<ref name=berthelot/> Griffon has two brothers, Steven Thomas Griffon (born 1957) and Kurt Joseph Griffon (born 1962), and two sisters, Karen Faye Griffon Shipp (born 1958), formerly Carolyn Leach, and Suzanne Marie Griffon Lestage (born 1964).<ref name=ancestry>{{cite web|url=http://archiver.rootsweb.ancestry.com/th/read/LAORLEAN/2002-06/1024537432|title=LAORLEAN-L Archives|publisher=rootsweb.ancestry.com|accessdate=December 21, 2012}}</ref> His brother-in-law, attorney Brian Steele Lestage (born December 1961), a Republican,<ref>{{cite web|url= | Griffon's mother, the former Dorothy Ann "Dot" Berthelot (born January 9, 1936), is one of four children of Matt Berthelot and the former Nethla Morales.<ref name=berthelot/> Griffon has two brothers, Steven Thomas Griffon (born 1957) and Kurt Joseph Griffon (born 1962), and two sisters, Karen Faye Griffon Shipp (born 1958), formerly Carolyn Leach, and Suzanne Marie Griffon Lestage (born 1964).<ref name=ancestry>{{cite web|url=http://archiver.rootsweb.ancestry.com/th/read/LAORLEAN/2002-06/1024537432|title=LAORLEAN-L Archives|publisher=rootsweb.ancestry.com|accessdate=December 21, 2012}}</ref> His brother-in-law, attorney Brian Steele Lestage (born December 1961), a Republican,<ref>{{cite web|url= | ||
https://voterportal.sos.la.gov/Home/Home?uid=3151505 | https://voterportal.sos.la.gov/Home/Home?uid=3151505 | ||
| − | |title=Brian S. Lestage, 70634, December 1961|publisher=Louisiana Secretary of State|accessdate=February 14, 2018}}</ref> has been since July 2008 the clerk of court | + | |title=Brian S. Lestage, 70634, December 1961|publisher=Louisiana Secretary of State|accessdate=February 14, 2018}}</ref> has been since July 2008 the clerk of court in DeRidder in Beauregard Parish.<ref>{{cite web|url=http://www.laclerksofcourt.org/Parishs/Beauregardparish.htm|title=Louisiana Clerks of Court|publisher=laclerksofcourt.org|accessdate=May 21, 2013}}</ref><ref>''The Moon Griffon Show'', May 21, 2013.</ref> |
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| + | Griffon received his nickname "Moon" because as a small boy he particularly enjoyed the [[Andy Williams]] song "Moon River".<ref>''The Moon Griffon Show'', February 4, 2014.</ref> He graduated in 1979 from [[Roman Catholic]]-affiliated Redemptorist High School in Baton Rouge, which has since closed.<ref>''The Moon Griffon Show,'' January 25, 2013.</ref> He was then recruited by coach and later athletic director Benny Hollis (1939–2011) to the [[University of Louisiana at Monroe]] to play [[basketball]].<ref>''The Moon Griffon Show,'' March 14, 2011.</ref><ref>{{cite web|url=https://www.legacy.com/obituaries/thenewsstar/obituary.aspx?n=benny-hollis&pid=149330852|title=Benny Hollis obituary|publisher=''[[Monroe News Star]]''|date=March 14, 2011|accessdate=March 14, 2011}}</ref> Griffon subsequently graduated in 1983 from ULM, then known as Northeast Louisiana University. On his radio program on May 13, 2009, Griffon revealed that he had kept a pistol for protection in his ULM dormitory.<ref>''The Moon Griffon Show'', May 13, 2009.</ref> In 2013, Griffon said on his program that he owns weapons but has never been compelled to use one for either personal or family protection.<ref>''The Moon Griffon Show,'' February 20, 2013.</ref> | ||
| − | Griffon | + | Griffon is divorced from the former Connie Rene Moseley (born March 1962).<ref name=ancestry/> She remarried and is now known as Connie M. Pace. Griffon has two sons from his first marriage, Daniel Blain Griffon (born 1987),<ref name=ancestry/> like his father a graduate of the University of Louisiana at Monroe, and Derek Charles Griffon (born 1989), a graduate of Northwestern State University in [[Natchitoches, Louisiana|Natchitoches]].<ref>{{cite web|url=https://www.facebook.com/derek.griffon#!/photo.php?fbid=3639638108836&set=a.3639638028834.2136260.1210770129&type= |