{"id":34173,"date":"2011-04-16T12:23:00","date_gmt":"2011-04-16T12:23:00","guid":{"rendered":"http:\/\/euvolution.com\/futurist-transhuman-news-blog\/a-few-freshman-congressman-attend-first-viewing-of-atlas-shrugged\/"},"modified":"2011-04-16T12:23:00","modified_gmt":"2011-04-16T12:23:00","slug":"a-few-freshman-congressman-attend-first-viewing-of-atlas-shrugged","status":"publish","type":"post","link":"https:\/\/www.euvolution.com\/futurist-transhuman-news-blog\/libertarian\/a-few-freshman-congressman-attend-first-viewing-of-atlas-shrugged.php","title":{"rendered":"A few freshman Congressman attend first viewing of Atlas Shrugged"},"content":{"rendered":"

<\/a>From Eric Dondero:<\/p>

The official premiere of Atlas Shrugged took place in Washington, DC this week, and according to one news source, there were a number of freshman, most likely Republican, congressman in the audience.<\/p>

From the UK Independent<\/a>, \"Atlas Shrugged – and The Tea Party poured in to watch\" April 16:<\/p>

line after line of middle-age white people wearing tricorn hats, stars-and-stripes T-shirts and pin badges suggesting that Barack Obama was born in Kenya. This is the Tea Party, on a big night out. <\/p>

<\/a>The occasion was the launch of Atlas Shrugged, a film version of a novel written in 1957 by Ayn Rand. The book, a 1200-page parable espousing the author's robust libertarian philosophy, has for years been popular bedtime reading for members of the Republican right...<\/p>

The trailer for Atlas Shrugged was unveiled earlier this year at Cpac, the annual conference for right-wing Republicans, driving thousands of fans to its YouTube page (versions of it have now surpassed two million \"views\"). Its official premiere, at a Washington railway station this week, was attended by several Tea Party-endorsed freshman congressmen...<\/p><\/blockquote>

No word on who the mysterious congressmen were? Only one former congressmen is confirmed to have seen the movie.<\/p>

From Philly.com<\/a>:<\/p>

former Texas congressman Dick Armey, has launched a national effort to get Atlas Shrugged into as many theaters as possible. The FreedomWorks website exhorted visitors to \"Demand Atlas Shrugged at a Theater Near You on April 15th!\"<\/p><\/blockquote>

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