Robert McChesney’s War On The First Amendment

David Horowitz's NewsReal Blog ^ | October 12, 2009 | Matthew Vadum

[HorowitzianConservative]

Robert McChesney, former editor of Monthly Review, a leading Marxist publication, has dangerously close ties to the Obama administration, Glenn Beck said on his TV show last week. McChesney created the “media reform” organization Free Press, and served on the board of Norman Solomon's Institute for Public Accuracy. He remains on the board of Monthly Review, which has a half-century history of supporting Communist movements and regimes.

Echoing President Obama's media diversity czar Mark Lloyd, McChesney supports Venezuela's Marxist strongman Hugo Chavez and that country's crackdown on the media. He even argued that owners of an opposition TV station that had been critical of Chavez should be arrested for treason.

[abb]

I read this one a couple of months ago. He’s a pure Marxist.

http://www.oup.com/us/catalog/general/subject/?view=usa&ci=0195093941

Telecommunications, Mass Media, and Democracy
The Battle for the Control of U.S. Broadcasting, 1928-1935
Robert W. McChesney

[kjo]

Early in the New Deal FDR had the same problems...Father Coughlin, Francis Townsend, and Hugy Long were all directing people away from the propaganda of the New Deal.

Coughlin was ordered to shut up by the Pope, Townsend saw his ideas taken over by the social security act, and Long was assassinated.

Watch Obama closely...these things have a way of working out to the president’s advantage.

[abb]

THE NEW ORLEANS PRESS-RADIO WAR AND HUEY P. LONG, 1922-1936.

http://etd.lsu.edu/docs/available/etd-0711102-133745/unrestricted/Collins_thesis.pdf

Also see,

Media at war: radio’s challenge to the newspapers, 1924-1939
By Gwenyth L. Jackaway

http://books.google.com/books?id=PkXTrh4eDlcC&dq=Media+at+War:+Radio%27s+Challenge+to+Newspapers,+1924-1939&source=gbs_navlinks_s

[Arthur McGowan]

Coughlin was actually highly thought of in the Vatican, as an excellent exponent of Papal social teaching. Which he was.

Coughlin was done in by FDR, the Reds, and FDR loyalists and Commies among the bishops. Several archbishops of Detroit, in a row, were basically Commies—with the notorious Dearden in the midst of them. Coughlin had his number from the very beginning, but remained silent, as he had been ordered.

[kjo]

I was confirmed by then archbishop Deardon in 1960...I sure don’t especially remember him as a lefty.

But I was pretty young.