Ayn Rand interview on Donahue's old show. 5 parts. 46:29 in total time

[underpants]

Run time: 07:54 https://www.youtube.com/watch?v=FzGFytGBDN8   Posted on YouTube: October 14, 2007 By YouTube Member: Views on YouTube: 0   Posted on DU: March 28, 2009 By DU Member: underpants Views on DU: 2509

 
Part 2
http://www.youtube.com/watch?v=bUwTHn-9hhU

Part 3
http://www.youtube.com/watch?v=6N4KbLbGYgk

Part 4
http://www.youtube.com/watch?v=-q7cje1I3VM

Part 5
http://www.youtube.com/watch?v=qfqq4VKh1xM

[mitchum]

1. I remember this one. Particularly love it when the witch goes ballistic on...

the former fan who know realizes that her turgid blather was just selfish nonsense

[Hello_Kitty]

2. Isn't it funny how the word 'turgid' comes up so often in conjuntion with Ayn Rand?

She was nothing but a writer of turgid smutty sci-fi novels.

[mitchum]

4. Exactly...I never call her a hack because a hack must at least demonstrate...

a facility with language.

[regnaD kciN]

26. Yep...if she'd taken the nutty politics/economics/philosophy out of her books...

...she would have had a bunch of third-rate romance novels. :puke:

[underpants]

31. I hate to make this comparison...but

Like Kilgore Troust exposing truths and wisdom in skin mags (Vonnegut)?

[underpants]

3. I haven't actually watched it yet

but I wanted to compile it for later viewing

[Hello_Kitty]

7. I want to watch it too.

Someone linked to an interview she did with Mike Wallace back in the '50s. Wallace was clearly appalled by Rand's views and grilled her relentlessly. It made me sad because nowadays Rand's bizarre philosophy is accorded legitimacy.

[hlthe2b]

33. Was that on Youtube too?

[underpants]

34. Here you go

Part 1
http://www.youtube.com/watch?v=7ukJiBZ8_4k

Ayn Rand Mike Wallace -- gets you all the parts. Someone posted the beginning of this here on DU a month or so ago, I was not aware that there was a full interview.

[hlthe2b]

36. Gracias!

;)

[hlthe2b]

17. Bookmarked for later...

You know, there must be tons of old interviews Phil did that would be wonderful to watch now. Thanks to YouTube, maybe we will get some chance to do so.

Thanks for this post.

[underpants]

22. I grew up in Sothern Ohio until I was 6

Donahue was a standard everywhere you went when I was a kid. If there was a TV in a house or place of business Phil was on at 10 AM (I think)

[izquierdista]

5. What do Hatshepsut and Ayn Rand have in common?

One was "erased" from history and the other one should be.

[hlthe2b]

18. Yup....

As a fellow egyptophile, I agree wholeheartedly. ;)

[Deja Q]

6. Wow. I've never seen Hitler's girlfriend before. And now I have.

Once more than was ever needed too, might I add...

[GCP]

8. She doesn't like altruism

Not very Christian of her.

My god - she even hates the idea of kneeling buses for the handicapped.

What a POS.

[underpants]

13. She was damaged goods

A disruption of her early life (which paled in comparison to others of the time) set her on a course of a dismissal of all humans and humanity. Very Straussian of her. She went on to personally demonstrate this disdain for people in courting and openly revealing to her partner and his that she was taking him as hers mostly for the purpose of showing that she could do it or was willing to.

[regnaD kciN]

28. Well, considering...

Not very Christian of her.

...that Rand was a militant atheist who believed Christianity was "immoral" (because it called for sacrifice and an ethic revolving around the needs of others), is that all so surprising?

[Ladyhawk]

32. Not all atheists are the same.

I am an atheist who can't stand Ayn Rand's teachings. My brother is an Objectivist, so it affects me personally.

[Inspired]

9. That lady is wicked.

[GCP]

10. She was downright evil IMHO

:grr:

[Hello_Kitty]

12. And turned it into a bullshit "philosophy" whose adherents ruined the fucking world

Their nutty ideas wouldn't have been so bothersome if they'd kept them to their damn selves.

[GCP]

11. Jesus H Fucking Christ on a pogo stick

She's saying the Saudis don't have a right to their own land!

She was a complete wack job - and the pukes love her. :banghead:

[Delphinus]

14. Well,

part 1 was not bad. I'm glad there was a date (at least somewhat) for it, as I cannot tell based upon clothes.

I hadn't even read Atlas Shrugged or The Fountainhead at the time this was taped.

[bronxiteforever]

15. Dorothy Parker on Ayn Rand's Atlas Shrugged

“This is not a novel to be tossed aside lightly. It should be thrown with great force.”

[underpants]

16. That's funny

:applause:

[DoctorMyEyes]

23. OMG! I love Dorothy Parker!

I'd never read this quote before. I love it - typical Dorothy! LOL

[regnaD kciN]

29. I've heard the quote before...

...but never realized it referred to Rand's "novel" -- I like it even more now!

[underpants]

30. .

http://listverse.com/people/top-20-quotes-of-dorothy-parker/

[Captain Hilts]

19. I remember this when it first ran. Man, was she weird. nt

[Captain Hilts]

20. Anyone seen "The Simpsons" episode with the Ayn Rand daycare center? A RIOT!

It's also a satire of Streetcar Named Desire and The Great Escape.

[hlthe2b]

21. I managed to make it through college without ever reading...

anything by this woman. I've read enough about Atlas Shrugged, Fountainhead and others to know I definitely didn't miss much.

Sadly, though, this woman's crest was just long enough ago that many will be taken in by the Randians and their asshole theories. I'm glad to see these public interviews available. I'll watch when I have time.

[Warren DeMontague]

24. As others have noted, Bob the Angry Flower nailed it here:

[underpants]

25. Love it

I haven't read either book but she seems to have not consider that there has to be someone on the BACK of the garbage truck and that without law enforcement there is no stability in property ownership

or as "Judge Smails" said "the world needs ditchdiggers too"

[Warren DeMontague]

27. I'm small-l libertarian: I don't think gov't belongs in peoples pants, drs offices, or bloodstreams

but the big-L Ayn Rand Libertarians who think they're going to let the free market handle sewer systems and fire departments--- are seriously fucking NUTS.

[lame54]

35. they seem to be experts with sewer systems...

they produce nothing but shit

[Bucky]

37. Do I really need to spend 46 minutes listening to someone be wrong?

With modern soundbite technology I can here most right wing nuts be wrong in just 30 seconds.