I find it difficult to watch popular commentary shows, even in the rare case, like John Stossel’s show on Atlas Shrugged, where I don’t despise both sides of the debate:
If you’re going to make the case for Rand’s ideas, to a popular audience feeling betrayed by Wall Street, I think you need to clarify that the heroes of Atlas Shrugged aren’t “the rich” — the Paris Hiltons of the world — but the productive. The villains of the work are wealthy businessmen too — businessmen who use government to their own ends.