Bill Handel is a controversial radio personality in Los Angeles, hosting a popular morning show and legal show. He has moderate convictions and supports political incorrectness. Handel is a “Latin Jew” who advocates for surrogacy and takes a mostly centrist view on issues. His aggressive style angers both left and right partisans, but his show is influential and has won numerous awards.
William Wolf Handel, more popularly known as Bill Handel, is a prominent radio personality in the Los Angeles California area. His weekday morning show, The Bill Handel Show, is the most popular morning show in Los Angeles, despite his controversial personality. On weekends, Handel also hosts a legal show, Handel on the Law, in which he famously informs callers that they have absolutely no cases. Some call Handel a “shock jock” for his energetic utterances and youthful humour, but supporters describe him as having moderate convictions and active support for outright political incorrectness. His strong personality has repeatedly landed him and his radio station, KFI640, in hot water.
A self-proclaimed “Latin Jew,” Handel was born in Brazil to a Brazilian mother and Jewish father who emigrated from Poland to South America. The family moved to the United States when Bill was a child and he received most of his education in Southern California. After graduating from Whittier Law School, Bill Handel became extremely active in legal cases involving surrogacy and continues to actively advocate for surrogacy for childless couples as director of the Center for Surrogate Parenting.
Handel is often misidentified as having “conservative” views, similar to Rush Limbaugh. In truth, he takes a mostly centrist view, advocating tight taxation and the death penalty, but also advocating for the protection of civil liberties like free speech and burning issues like gay marriage. Indeed, both in his work with the Center for Surrogate Parenting and on his radio show, Bill Handel has often insisted that not only should gay marriage be allowed, but that there should be no additional requirements that allow gay couples to adopt or have surrogate children.
Using an extremely aggressive polemical style, Bill Handel generally manages to anger both far-left and far-right partisans. His radio show became the target of so many complaints, that they started issuing apologies at the end of each show, apologizing to anyone they might have offended. While detractors consider him an arrogant and antagonizing fool, supporters say his aggressive style and often offensive comments are both political argument and satire in the vein of Jon Stewart or Stephen Colbert, only noisier.
The Bill Handel Show is a four-hour weekday morning show, available live on radio, on the Internet, and in podcast form. The first hour consists of commentary, listener letters, and general banter between Handel and “The Morning Crew,” a group of other radio personalities and station producers. From 6 to 7, the “Handel on the News” segment features discussion and mockery of the daily headlines. The show will usually include an in-depth guest interview or lengthy discussion on a single topic, followed by a latest edition of “Handel on the News.”
Whether or not you agree with Bill Handel’s views, his presence in the radio world is very influential. He has won numerous local and national awards for his work and will receive a star on the Hollywood Walk of Fame in 2009. Refusing to accept much of the dogma of Democratic or Republican doctrines, his show offers a refreshing, if vulgar-opportunity listening experience for a large group of listeners who share similarly mixed viewpoints.
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