The Patron Saint of Television? - The Imaginative Conservative

The Patron Saint of Television? - The Imaginative Conservative

One may have had low expectations when his television show began in 1951, to put it mildly. The former radio broadcaster worked without a teleprompter or cue cards or referring to written notes, with only a blackboard for a prop, alone without guests or so much as a chair, delivering an almost full thirty-minute unscripted monologue at the camera and a studio-audience invisible offstage. Moreover, he was a Roman Catholic priest dressed flamboyan…