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I’m back to my regular schedule today, as Randi Rhodes returns to her radio perch this afternoon.  But as I always do when I guest host her show, I had a blast over the past few weeks.  It’s an honor to be entrusted with her microphone and loyal listeners, and I hope we’ll have some new friends joining us here at RadioOrNot.  BTW, I’ll be back in for Randi next Friday, July 20, when she heads to Seattle for KPTK’s big progressive soiree…

In the meantime, the show goes on here (live 10am ET!)….  

I got an email yesterday morning from the new CEO of the Atlas Society, telling me of Allen West’s comments regarding Ayn Rand.  

Dear Sandler, Nicole,

I am the new CEO of The Atlas Society, and I wanted to make you aware of a recent interview we conducted with Allen West:

On June 26, 2012 Edward Hudgins, The Atlas Society director of advocacy, conducted a video interview with Rep. Allen West (R-FL) on his thought’s on Ayn Rand’s Atlas Shrugged and the influence the book had on him in his struggle for liberty. The interview was filmed for the Atlas Summit, held recently in Washington, D.C. You can view the video clip at http://www.atlassociety.org/rep-allen-west-atlas-shrugged-interview

Best,

Aaron Day, CEO

The Atlas Society

I wrote back and invited him on the show this morning, but he never responded..  The timing would have been perfect, as I’ll be joined again this morning by my friend Stephen Goldstein, author of the brilliant new novel Atlas Drugged: Ayn Rand Be Damned.  I’ll be hosting Stephen for FireDogLake’s book salon this Saturday, 5-7pm ET… I hope you’ll join us (just follow this link to join in!)  Perhaps we’ll attempt to call Mr. Day anyway.  Regardless, I hope you’ll listen in.

In hour two, as we do most Thursday mornings, John Fugelsang will join in for a chat.

And, because so many have asked… here’s the video I played on Randi’s show a few days ago, courtesy of The Partisans.   It’s called “The Victims of Obamacare”

 

***Update*** It’s now post-show and, wow, there were major fireworks!
Stephen Goldstein did join me, as planned. After talking with him for a while, I called the number that Aaron Day had included in his email and, much to my surprise, he answered the phone – and stayed on with us for most of the next hour! All I can say is that you really need to listen. And join Stephen and me Saturday at FDL’s Book Salon!

Finally, at the end of the show, I shared an essay written by John Gray (of Venus-Mars fame). I promised I’d post it here too, so here you go. Enjoy, and share!

Joe gets up at 6:00am to prepare his morning coffee. He fills his pot full of good clean drinking water because some liberal fought for minimum water quality standards. He takes his daily medication with his first swallow of coffee. His medications are safe to take because some liberal fought to insure their safety and work as advertised.

All but $10.00 of his medications are paid for by his employers medical plan because some liberal union workers fought their employers for paid medical insurance, now Joe gets it too. He prepares his morning breakfast, bacon and eggs this day. Joe’s bacon is safe to eat because some liberal fought for laws to regulate the meat packing industry.

Joe takes his morning shower reaching for his shampoo; His bottle is properly labeled with every ingredient and the amount of its contents because some liberal fought for his right to know what he was putting on his body and how much it contained. Joe dresses, walks outside and takes a deep breath. The air he breathes is clean because some tree hugging liberal fought for laws to stop industries from polluting our air. He walks to the subway station for his government subsidized ride to work; it saves him considerable money in parking and transportation fees. You see, some liberal fought for affordable public transportation, which gives everyone the opportunity to be a contributor.

Joe begins his work day; he has a good job with excellent pay, medicals benefits, retirement, paid holidays and vacation because some liberal union members fought and died for these working standards. Joe’s employer pays these standards because Joe’s employer doesn’t want his employees to call the union. If Joe is hurt on the job or becomes unemployed he’ll get a worker compensation or unemployment check because some liberal didn’t think he should loose his home because of his temporary misfortune.

Its noon time, Joe needs to make a Bank Deposit so he can pay some bills. Joe’s deposit is federally insured by the FSLIC because some liberal wanted to protect Joe’s money from unscrupulous bankers who ruined the banking system before the depression.

Joe has to pay his Fannie Mae underwritten Mortgage and his below market federal student loan because some stupid liberal decided that Joe and the government would be better off if he was educated and earned more money over his life-time.

Joe is home from work, he plans to visit his father this evening at his farm home in the country. He gets in his car for the drive to dads; his car is among the safest in the world because some liberal fought for car safety standards. He arrives at his boyhood home. He was the third generation to live in the house financed by Farmers Home Administration because bankers didn’t want to make rural loans. The house didn’t have electric until some big government liberal stuck his nose where it didn’t belong and demanded rural electrification. (Those rural Republican’s would still be sitting in the dark)

He is happy to see his dad who is now retired. His dad lives on Social Security and his union pension because some liberal made sure he could take care of himself so Joe wouldn’t have to. After his visit with dad he gets back in his car for the ride home.

He turns on a radio talk show, the host’s keeps saying that liberals are bad and conservatives are good. (He doesn’t tell Joe that his beloved Republicans have fought against every protection and benefit Joe enjoys throughout his day) Joe agrees, “We don’t need those big government liberals ruining our lives; after all, I’m a self made man who believes everyone should take care of themselves, just like I have”.

REPUBLISHED: Originally published by TvNewsLIES.org July, 2004.
Written by John Gray Cincinnati, Ohio – jgray7@cinci.rr.com – Published July – 2004