She's Everywhere!

I've never seen so many mentions of Ayn Rand in the media! She's sweeping the country! Of course, the media, being leftist for the most part, is indignant. The below article from Slate is just too amusing. The hatred really leaps off the page. The cheap shots and innuendoes. Usually only a living figure, like Rush Limbaugh, gets this kind of treatment. How does a woman, who has been dead for twenty-seven years generate such vitriol? Because of her uncanny ability to strike just the right nerve. Not bad for a "third-rate philosopher" and "mediocre" novelist:

Ayn Rand is one of America's great mysteries. She was an amphetamine-addicted author of sub-Dan Brown potboilers, who in her spare time wrote lavish torrents of praise for serial killers and the Bernie Madoff-style embezzlers of her day. She opposed democracy on the grounds that "the masses"—her readers—were "lice" and "parasites" who scarcely deserved to live. Yet she remains one of the most popular writers in the United States, still selling 800,000 books a year from beyond the grave. She regularly tops any list of books that Americans say have most influenced them. Since the great crash of 2008, her writing has had another Benzedrine rush, as Rush Limbaugh hails her as a prophetess. With her assertions that government is "evil" and selfishness is "the only virtue," she is the patron saint of the tea-partiers and the death panel doomsters. So how did this little Russian bomb of pure immorality in a black wig become an American icon?

For the Objectivists in the audience, don't get all hot and bothered. This is the MSM's way of paying her a compliment.