Read your history on Father Coughlin. FDR set out quite deliberately to silence him. He used FCC rules and postal regulations to pretty much shut him up (though a new Archbishop in Detroit sealed the deal by ordering Fr. Coughlin to be quiet and go back to being a parish Priest). The rule that even an overnight-shift disc jockey had to pass an FCC licensing test before touching a turntable was passed specifically to get Coughlin off the radio.
He may have been a Nazi-sympathizing Socialist rabble-rouser, but his First Amendment rights were trampled on perhaps more brazenly than any other American in our history.
Yep. Lurkers should definitely check out the treatment of Father Coughlin.