re: #51 Anymouse 🌹🎃

… Father Coughlin was the original Christian hate radio preacher, but is also the template for later hate radio preachers and political propagandists. He was remarkable at fundraising to fund both building a Catholic church in Detroit and to keep his radio programme on the air.

He was finally rebuked by the Catholic Church and ordered to give up any non-pastoral work or be defrocked. He died in the late Seventies.

At the height of his popularity spreading antisemitism and promoting Nazi propaganda, Gallup did a poll, finding one-third of those polled listened to his radio programmes at least once a month.

Caution for ugly hate speech from a radio programme by Father Coughlin in the beginning of the clip, along with hate speech by David Duke and Nick Fuentes as comparisons to today (they are remarkably similar, and all rooted in Christianity)….

Oh, my husband hated Father Coughlin! I knew nothing about him until we got married, and I sure heard about him then. We thought of Rush Limbaugh as being like that. In our early decades of marriage, we listened to KMOX out of St Louis. It was on all the time we were up. Then the long time manager died, and the new manager booked in the RL show. We turned it off, and found NPR, and we never listened to KMOX again.