Career
Graham was born in Los Angeles, California, and raised in South Carolina. A graduate of Oral Roberts University, he worked as a stand-up comedian before beginning his political career as the primary election coordinator for South Carolina for Pat Buchanan's Presidential campaign in 1992. This experience led to his working in various Republican campaigns over the next few years. One of his candidates included Harold Worley, a Republican challenger to Senator Strom Thurmond in 1996.
In 1998, Graham moved to the talk radio circuit. Living up to his self-proclaimed description of being "loud, obnoxious and frequently fired", Graham held positions at seven stations in seven years, including stints in South Carolina, WRVA in Richmond, Virginia, and Washington, DC, as well as the internet-only outlet Rightalk.com.
In 2002, Graham released his first printed book of original material, Redneck Nation: How the South Really Won the War through Warner Books. Reviews of the book included statements such as "The main flaw with this book is that it really has too simple a thesis too fill an entire book", as well as "seems like the one with a victimization complex is Graham".
Graham appeared on Real Time with Bill Maher. In addition, he made a number of appearances during 2005 on The O'Reilly Factor, Hardball with Chris Matthews,and Fox & Friends pertaining to his "America is at war with islam" controversy. Graham has also appeared as a panelist on the local Washington D.C. television program Eye on Washington until his dismissal from WMAL in August 2005. In November 2005, Graham joined the lineup of Boston's WTKK; his show, dubbed "The Natural Truth," presently airs (originally from 9 am - 12 pm EST, now at 3 pm to 7 pm).
Since 2005, Graham airs a weekly guest slot on the Monday edition of George Hook's drivetime show, The Right Hook on Ireland's Newstalk. Speaking from right-wing, US perspective, many of Graham's views are often controversial to the European audience, and so his weekly slot has proved unpopular with the show's regular listeners. In August 2009, Graham travelled to Dublin to present the show for three days while regular host George Hook was away.
On Sept 12, 2008, he appeared on the Dr. Phil Show Special 'The N-Word', a debate-format special of the show. Of the 6 guests, Graham was the only Caucasian. They debated the use of the word 'nigger' and the relevance of its use today by both whites and blacks.
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