Posted on 04/30/2009 7:48:34 AM PDT by fleagle
Is Fox News host Glenn Beck our own Father Charles Coughlin, the "radio priest" who railed against Franklin D. Roosevelt in the 1930s?
That's become a common refrain among liberals, who hear echoes of Coughlin in Beck's attacks on President Obama. Conservatives recoil at the charge, of course...
(Excerpt) Read more at philly.com ...
Who knew all you would get from the Philadelphia paper is Communist propaganda ... The best way to high self esteem is a job, a job well done. It’s so simple you wonder why journalists haven’t figured that out.
It’s repackaged progressive crap.
“Consider the stated principles of Coughlin’s ill-fated National Union for Social Justice, which he founded in 1934. “I believe in upholding the right to private property, yet in controlling it for the public good,” Coughlin declared. He went on to demand the nationalization of “public necessities,” including the banking, oil, and natural-gas industries.”
If anyone said that I would believe they were communist.
Not just the left. He is getting savaged on Little Green Footballs (which I still consider mostly a conservative web site although whole threads have been dedicated to that question).
Father Coughlin was anti-Semitic and did not believe in the free market. Glenn Beck is nothing like that.
Actually it is liberals who have no lobe for the common man. Liberals are almost always elitist snobs. That is why they rarely if ever help minorities and yet the minorities are lead down the garden path by the liberal promises they never keep.
Little Green Footballs is fast becoming a Liberal, trashlike website. It mocks intelligent design (read, many Christians) while at the same time embracing anthropogenic global warming.
The progression of the Little Green Footballs website in terms of hysteria and junk science is proving Darwin wrong.
Wow, Glenn must be really taking off. And has people running scared.
Like most liberals the author fails to realize that fascism and nazism, what he thinks is the “far right” is actually just another wing of the far left. Because Beck criticizes his “FDR” messiah and is labeled “right wing” in our contemporrary terminology he thinks he is fascist and is disappointed not to find in Beck all the socialist “good” of Nazism.
Father Coughlin was anti-Semitic. So the implied charge is that Glenn Beck is a RACIST BIGOT for attacking Obama. (These right-wing Christians are all bigots, don’t ya know?)
The big joke, of course is that Obama is probably more anti-semitic than Fr. Coughlin ever was. And if the Jews have anying to fear today, it comes almost entirely from the LEFT.
As if comparing a current figure to someone 99% of Americans don’t know of is an attack to take seriously.
Glenn Beck’s ratings are through the roof. I assume along with the other liberal rags the Philadelphia Inquirer is on it’s last leg. So it makes perfect sense to believe what this libtard writes. sarc/on
The term common man is used to emphasize the similarities or distinctions between a member of a social, political or cultural elite, and the average citizen.
For some reason the calling people "common or average" irks me.
Good!
Most people are too ignorant to know who Father Coughlin was...the left will have to provide for their education their followers lack. Better stick to the cheap and the shallow...call in Jon Leibowart!
I hadn’t been on LFG in quite a while. I stopped by recently and was shocked at how it had changed. It’s gone left in a big way.
Well, LGF isn’t really a “conservative” website, because Charles Johnson isn’t fully a conservative. He’s always been socially liberal; like a lot of people, he had his eyes opened to Islamic terrorism on 9/11 and that got him motivated.
Something’s changed with him the past couple years, though. He’s absolutely gone rabid against anybody who believes in intelligent design, and he’s launched on the warpath against Ron Paulestinians, Robert Spencer, anybody he sees as a “right-wing fascist” (like some of the right-wing anti-Islamist parties in Europe), and social conservatives. And he’s been banning commenters over there at a frantic pace.
He did great work on Rathergate; he took the work that Buckhead did here and put it into a graphic form that everybody could understand (the famous animated .gif file). But now he’s hitting the right as hard or harder than the left, and I don’t know why. Maybe he’s fallen under The One’s spell.
}:-)4
“Not just the left. He is getting savaged on Little Green Footballs (which I still consider mostly a conservative web site although whole threads have been dedicated to that question).”
LGF is no longer conservative. It’s a conservative bashing site, like some of the ‘elites’ like Meghan McCain, they decided to attack the right rather than stand up to the left.
Wowie!
Gee, Yeah!
He’s a whiz at all those secondary issues, and the mannerisms are unique!
Now if only he would get down to THE ONE issue—you know, THE issue we hardly ever hear about anymore—ELIGIBILITY!
{See, it’s working!}
Just get people to STFU about what you don’t want them to hear, and it’s as if it never happened, or, in this case, it happened....(being native-born—an American, that is.
Whatever, cooperation—that’s the key and everybody will love ya.
What bullshit. Coughlin was a ranting, in your face anti-Semite. My folks heard his poison when they were kids. Beck is a good man on a mission. Quite a difference.
NAZI = national socialist.
socialism is a form of collectivism. Communism, nazism, and socialism are all rooted in the same collectivist point of view.
We need to ALWAYS correct when liberals lie and put fascists next to American conservatives.
The modern American conservative believe in the traditions of America: On matters of Government power, that means believe in the founding father's vision of a Government that was limited and whose purpose was to protect the rights of the people - our rights of 'life, liberty and pursuit of happiness'. American conservatives are American patriots who see a rich vein of good in the traditions of classical (small government) liberalism (ie Jeffersonianism). On culture, Conservatives also believe in upholding the best of American Judeo-Christian heritage and values, and abide by American traditional believe in the power of the individual, individual responsibility. And we believe in American exceptionalism, American sovereignty and American power.
In all respects, America in history has been the antithesis of a collectivist state. But we have had creeping socialism under Wilson, FDR, LBJ, and now Obama ... Those, like the Tea Partiers, or Glenn Beck, or any others, who oppose this trend and harken back to America's individualist small-government traditions, are the very antithesis of the collectivists.
They are the anti-Nazis.
“He’s absolutely gone rabid against anybody who believes in intelligent design”
Certain secular elites have let something in their head go POP, and it makes them rage against the conservative traditionalists.
For secular elitist and self-described gay conservative Andrew Sullivan, it was gay marriage. POP. Before you know it, he rabidly attacks not just that particular opinion but anything associated with the conservative movement. It’s like those militant athiests. Why bother?
LGF’s Johnson was one of the anti-Palin folks. He believes in evolution -fine, so do I. But he goes out of his way to abuse, bash, attack and demean creationists. Why? He was attacking Texas SBOE head, a body which btw does GOOD WORK in stopping PC nonsense in Textbooks. Liberals just HATE that we actually have people elected by the people to manage textbooks.
There must be some undrlying belief that drives this, I dont know what it is though.
I like Beck. He impresses me as having a particularly hard-won common sense.
I am furious at Beck. He is not coming anywhere near Washington State with his comedy tour. What’s up with that? What am I going to do, pay $20 to watch a time delayed ‘simulcast’ at a movie theater? Oh well, an excuse for a trip to Seattle. Now all I need is a babysitter.
Anyone who is a professional writer / journalist should be b!tch slapped for getting something fundamental like this wrong. But then, again, the author probably knew better. I mean who needs history anyway? So much of it is so inconvenient for advancing socialism.
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