Category Archives: Week 12: Conservatism, I

Radio broadcasting had been unifying the nation since Franklin Delano Roosevelt’s Fireside Chats he gave to the nation. Many years have passed since then and it was being used differently in the 1950s to the 1980s. In the case of Carl McIntire, he used the radio to unify the Christian Right. However, he did notContinue reading “McIntire’s Radio”

In the 1950s there was an “emergence of neo-evangelicalism a movement of intellectual and culturally engaged Christians” (385). Carl Mclintire was a prominent radio broadcaster and fundamentalist Christian pastor who played a significant role in the formation of the Christian Right movement in the United States.  Mclntire was granted a “one-year license, based on hisContinue reading “Week 12”

Carl McIntire was a prominent radio broadcaster and pastor who played a significant role in the formation of the Christian Right movement in the United States. In the 1940s and 1950s, he gained a following through his radio program, “The Twentieth Century Reformation Hour,” which promoted a fundamentalist interpretation of Christianity and attacked what heContinue reading “McIntire and the Christian Right”

Carl McIntire played a very active role in right-wing religious media and through this role, he ended up being instrumental in the move towards the New Christian Right and away from fundamentalism. McIntire used his religious broadcast to discuss very right-wing views on politics in addition to religion. This contradicted the Fairness Doctrine created inContinue reading “No more Carl McIntire erasure”

In the 1950s, ‘60s, and ‘70s, Carl McIntire was a prominent figure in radio culture, Christianity, and right-wing politics. McIntire was a through and through religious fundamentalist and because of this ideology, he became an instrumental figure to the formation of the Christian Right, specifically the old Christian Right. As Hendershot explains, McIntire “felt thatContinue reading “McIntire and the Christian Right”

    Radio broadcaster Carl Mclntire was instrumental to the formation of the Christian Right but in a completely unexpected manner. To be specific, according to the journal article titled, “God’s Angriest Man: Carl Mclntire, Cold War Fundamentalism, and Right-Wing Broadcasting” there is a point where the author says that, “Mclntire provided a negative example of whatContinue reading “Blogpost #9”

Throughout the 1970s, America was going through a change in identity. As many corporations moved their operations to overseas industries, the American working class began to lose their jobs. Along with this, their political beliefs began to shift. Throughout the late 1970s and early 1980s, Conservatism began to rise within the American public, and noContinue reading “Christianity’s Red Sea”

Radio broadcaster and pastor Carl McIntire was instrumental to the formation of the Christian Right because he popularized his beliefs to a mainstream level. While McIntire was extremely far-right and the majority of those on the right did not agree with most of what he said, he was able to bring a level of attentionContinue reading “Rise of the far-right”

The conservative movement was a response to what conservatives saw as the excesses of liberalism and the perceived threat of communism. Conservatism championed conservative principles such as limited government, free markets, and traditional values.  Carl McIntire was “an activist, a preacher, and, most importantly, a highly charged symbol of the conflict in the 1960s andContinue reading “The Rise of Conservatism”

Heather Hendershot’s “God’s Angriest Man: Carl McIntire” (2007) describes Carl McIntire as “successful failure” (374). Hendershots calls him crude, stubborn, and unable to make real political, legal change during his career/lifetime. Yet his name was remembered. He was a strong anti-communist that would identify his “enemies” as groups such as the NAACP, the pope, andContinue reading “Week 12: McIntire- known for what exactly?”