History of RW hate talk

[nadinbrzezinski]

per crooks and liars

http://videocafe.crooksandliars.com//heather/history-right-wing-hate-talk

[Manifestor_of_Light]

1. Look up Father Coughlin.

[nadinbrzezinski]

2. Oh I know of him

piece of work.

But think about his reach compared to oh Savage. Coughlin wishes he had the same reach... let alone El Rushbo.

[janet118]

3. Have you ever heard of Father Charles Coughlin?

Hate talk radio goes back further than the 60s - back to the Roosevelt years. Coughlin, a Catholic priest, had a radio program during the late thirties entitled "Golden Hour of the Little Flower." Here is a sample program: Jews Support Communism. There are whiffs of Beck and O'Reilly and Limbaugh in this smarmy, Christianoid spiel. He was insanely popular in his day.

After election, Coughlin’s radio speeches became increasingly anti-Roosevelt, calling the administration a “communist conspiracy and incipient dictatorship.” More disturbingly, he began to make increasingly vitriolic and anti-Semitic statements both on the air and in the pages of Social Justice, attitudes that had only been hinted at earlier in some of his broadcasts. His following, as Brinkley notes, remained large, but changed, and the throngs of crowds that waited to see him, and torrents of letters declined. After the election he reconstituted the NUSJ into cells known as the Christian Front organization, an extremist organization which included increasingly “violent and unstable” activities. One of this group's offices was raided by the FBI, and explosives were found. By 1940 Coughlin was effectively off the air, but continued his diatribes in his newspaper, where he expressed sympathy for Mussolini and Hitler, and even claimed the the Jews were responsible for starting World War II.

Father Coughlin: Radio Priest, Depression Demagogue

[pnorman]

4. Here are some of his speeches in his own voice:

http://www.archive.org/details/Father_Coughlin

[janet118]

5. Before listening get a barf bag ready.

I did a thesis on Coughlin in college and listened to hours of his tapes at the library. It was nauseating - a weird mixture of populism, religion and hate. As part of my research, I also interviewed older people who had heard the original programs. More than a few of them told me that they still thought that Coughlin had made a lot of sense. I admit to being a bit freaked out by that. I was hoping that, with the passage of time, they had just forgotten how creepy he really was.