John Galt With A Porno Mustache
by digby
Any person over the age of 21 who discovers Ayn Rand and takes her seriously is automatically disqualified from every being taken seriously again. And yet John Stossell admits in this interview that he was an "Upper Westside liberal" well into his adulthood.
As he debuts his prime-time show on Fox Business Network this week, John Stossel talks about his falling out with ABC, his Gordon Gekko fetish—and why Peter Jennings wouldn’t look at him.
Tell me a little bit about what the show is going to be.
It will be one subject. The first subject will be maybe Atlas Shrugged or global warming—Atlas Shrugged because I think 50 years ago, Ayn Rand predicted today. It sort of sums up what I’m going to be reporting about.
Ayn Rand predicted what?
Big government, nice-sounding legislation like “The Preservation of Livelihood Law,” which mandated that Hank Rearden’s production must not be bigger than any other steel mill, to make it a level playing field. It’s silly.
Is that a new law passed by this Congress?
No, but it’s what Wesley Mouch, the evil bureaucrat in the book, passed. And what Tim Geithner and what Barney Frank might like to pass.
And also Dagny Taggert was like this total babe who really loved a manly man with a big, thick .... moustache and said totally hot stuff like:
“A circle... is the movement proper to physical nature... but the straight line is the badge of man, the straight line of a geometrical abstraction that makes roads, rails and bridges, the straight line that cuts the curving aimlessness of nature by a purposeful motion from a start to an end.”
I so need a cigarette.
Do read the whole article if only for his fascinating intellectual insights on how the financial markets collapsed. Or you could just go to a teabag party and read the signs.
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