Before There was Glenn Beck

There was Father Coughlin. Rather than the bully pulpit of Fox News, Father Coughlin used Marconi's new invention to tell the people what to think and whom to hate and, at his heydey, the Roman Catholic priest's program commanded 1/3rd of all radios as he broadcast from the depths of the Great Depression.

There will always be at least one of these people in society because there is an element of society, any society, which will always crave people like this who claim to have all the answers if we will just hate in proper measure. If you just hate right way, all the wrong will be defeated. And always they preach division rather than inclusivity.

Yet, all being said, it was wrong for the government to censor Father Coughlin into oblivion. Free Speech is still Free Speech.

"I disapprove of what you say, but I will defend to the death your right to say it."
-VOLTAIRE