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To: i-node who wrote (539873)	12/31/2009 2:52:11 PM
From: bentway	1 Recommendation Respond to of 1583373

"There is a reason there has never been a radio performer that could TOUCH Limbaugh." Another LIE, but probably one of plain historical ignorance: en.wikipedia.org "Father Charles Edward Coughlin (pronounced /'k?gl?n/ COG-lin;[1] October 25, 1891 – October 27, 1979) was a Canadian-born Roman Catholic priest at Royal Oak, Michigan's National Shrine of the Little Flower Church. He was one of the first political leaders to use radio to reach a mass audience, as more than forty million tuned to his weekly broadcasts during the 1930s. Early in his career Coughlin was a vocal supporter of Franklin D. Roosevelt and his early New Deal proposals, before later becoming a harsh critic of Roosevelt.[2] It was at this point Coughlin began to use his radio program to issue antisemitic commentary, and later to rationalize some of the policies of Adolf Hitler and Benito Mussolini.[3] The broadcasts have been called "a variation of the Fascist agenda applied to American culture".[4] His chief topics were political and economic rather than religious, with his slogan being Social Justice, first with, and later against, the New Deal. ..At its peak in the early 1930s, Coughlin's radio show was phenomenally popular. His office received up to 80,000 letters per week from listeners, and his listening audience was estimated to rise at times to as much as a third of the nation. Coughlin is often credited as one of the major demagogues of the 20th century for being able to influence politics through broadcasting, without actually holding a political office himself.