[The Forgotten Man]

As has been mentioned previously on this board, "Liberal Fascism", by Jonah Goldberg is a must read. I am about half way through and can not be more emphatic in my recommendation. The timing of this book could not be more ironic given the current climate in the presidential campaign. Personally, I am researching more on FDR as I believe Obaaama has modeled his political beliefs in the mold of FDR. Father Coughlin appears to have been a rival of FDR but, FDR was in more agreement with Father Coughlin than he seems to have been portrayed by history.

[AnAmericanMother]

I'll say this about Father Coughlin . . .

When his bishop told him to hush, he hushed.

Priests still believed in obedience in those days.

[rellimpank]

----he had quite a bit in common with another famous leader from the "thirties--

--After the 1936 election, Coughlin increasingly expressed sympathy for the fascist policies of Hitler and Mussolini, as an antidote to Bolshevism. His CBS radio broadcasts also became overtly antisemitic. He blamed the Depression on an "international conspiracy of Jewish bankers", --from Wikipedia--

[VR-21]

My copies on my nightstand, and I’ll begin reading it tomorrow. Given all that I’ve heard about it, and my own interest in history, I expect for it to be very compelling.

[Jabba the Nutt]

The only problem the liberals had with Father Coughlin was his anti-semitism. Just give them time though, some liberals have already crossed over, including Barack Obama, if you take the view of Debbie Schlussel or Krauthammer.

[Gay State Conservative]

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[Fiddlstix]

Bump

[RedCobra]

I’m as conservative as you can get, and I say that Father Coughlin was a disgraceful, lousy anti-semite. All throughout the years 1933 thru 1941 he was a despicable shill for Adolph Hitler with his evil Jew hating diatribes delivered via radio. He railed against the desperate Jewish refugees trying to find a place of refuge in a hostile, inhospitible world, and was vehement in urging Roosevelt and the powers that were in control back then to shut the doors of this country to them. He provided the mouthpiece in this country that Hitler needed to foment hatred and distrust of any Jewish person from Europe who desperately needed refuge from the hell that awaited them over there. Country after country, with the exception of just a miserable handfull shut their doors to Jewish immigrants, probably as a result of heeding the advice of poisonous haters like Coughlin and others like him. Anything good that Coughlin happened to believe in and promote was cancelled out by his disgraceful antisemitism during that period.

[mainestategop]

He’s full of it. Hitler made similar claims and then turned around and did the oposite.