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(Radio talk show host known as "The Louisiana Limbaugh")
 
(Radio talk show host known as "The Louisiana Limbaugh")
 
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|website= http://www.moongriffon.com/
 
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'''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.  
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'''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|title=Tim Morris, "Gov. Bobby Jindal not conservative enough for some in La.", 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]].
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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|title=Tim Morris, "Gov. Bobby Jindal not conservative enough for some in La.", 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]].
    
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