Thursday, March 12, 2009

Ayn F'ing Rand

She is now being quote on Fox News. Atlas Shrugged was everything South Park made it out to be.
Seriously though Rand though not a great writer had her moments and why Atlas Shrugged was a totally biased and long winded attack on Communism/ Socialism it did have the the advantage of not being authored by Fox News. "Going Galt" should not be a phrase battling efforts to combat the total fail of uncontrolled capitalism; instead "Who is John Galt?" Should be a struggle against totalitism. We should at least have read the book (disclaimer I shipper 60 or so pages of John Galts 90 page speech, I think it just repeated itself every 5 pages spoiler alert communism is bad, come on I read the other 1,100 or so pages) before we start quoting it.
I know researching our news stories is too much to ask but please; that is the difference between blogging, (what I am doing now) and real reporting. I work in retail grocery and bitch on the world wide web. I don't call myself a reporter and neither should anyone at Fox News. (And for that matter ABC, CBS, NBC, CNN, and onward.) We should demand more from our news. Our most researched new should not be from Comedy Central. Sadly Ayn Rand and John Galt would be ashamed and if at this late hour my mind does not fail me Eddie Willards would be ashamed for he is the real hero of that book.
E

1 comment: