Ayn Rand: Why is she so popular?

[David Morris]

http://crooksandliars.com/david-neiwert/huckabee-and-hannity-proclaim-tea-pa

Mike  Huckabee featured a canned interview with Sean Hannity on his show
this weekend as part of a year-end retrospective in which they discussed
the Tea Party. The amusing part came when they discussed Teh Awesome Power
of the Tea Parties, which Hannity identified with the American people
themselves. Both of them argued vehemently against the notion that the Tea
Parties were mere corporate Astroturf.

Completely absent from the discussion, naturally, was any mention
whatsoever of the role played by Fox News. And while the role of
astroturfers like FreedomWorks and Americans for Prosperity in fact was
indispensable, none of them came close wielding the sheer energizing and
organizing power that having a national "news" network openly propagandize
for a movement can bring.

http://www.newyorker.com/reporting/2010/10/18/101018fa_fact_wilentz




On Saturday, August 18, 2012, Ian Livingston wrote:

> I first about 'em on NPR. They were branding themselves at the time as
> independent. The reporter had called their new office and the person who
> answered the phone said, "Republican Party Headquarters. How can I help
> you?"
>
> On Sat, Aug 18, 2012 at 5:40 AM, David Morris <fqmorris at gmail.com<javascript:_e({}, 'cvml', 'fqmorris at gmail.com');>
> > wrote:
>
>> The Tea Party is a Fox "News" and Kotch bros invention, just a rebranding
>> of the most ignorant Republicans, AKA their "base."
>>
>>
>>
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