Must read for this weekend is the new Jennifer Burns book Goddess of the Market Ayn Rand covered last night here. Jennifer Burns’ new book on the life of Ayn Rand delivers in Goddess of the Market an exciting read. Jon Stewart spoke to Burns about the book Thursday night on Comedy Central.

Burns uses Rand’s unedited journals in an examination of Rand that is described as groundbreaking.

“Worshipped by her fans, denounced by her enemies, and forever shadowed by controversy and scandal, the novelist and philosopher Ayn Rand was a powerful thinker whose views on government and markets shaped the conservative movement from its earliest days. Drawing on unprecedented access to Rand’s private papers and the original, unedited versions of Rand’s journals, Jennifer Burns offers a groundbreaking reassessment of this key cultural figure, examining her life, her ideas, and her impact on conservative political thought.”

The book carries you from Russia to Hollywood and confronts Rand’s relationship with Nathaniel Branden.

“Goddess of the Market follows Rand from her childhood in Russia through her meteoric rise from struggling Hollywood screenwriter to bestselling novelist, including the writing of her wildly successful The Fountainhead and Atlas Shrugged. Burns highlights the two facets of Rand’s work that make her a perennial draw for those on the right: her promotion of capitalism, and her defense of limited government. Both sprang from her early, bitter experience of life under Communism, and became among the most deeply enduring of her messages, attracting a diverse audience of college students and intellectuals, business people and Republican Party activists, libertarians and conservatives. The book also traces the development of Rand’s Objectivist philosophy and her relationship with Nathaniel Branden, her closest intellectual partner, with whom she had an explosive falling out in 1968.

The Washington Times sees the book still timely, and has the power to instruct on the implications of current government trends:

“A smart assessment of Rand’s life and ideas and how they influenced each other… As Ms. Burns successfully demonstrates, Rand’s ideas have remained an important part of the American ideological mix, especially in how she honored the creative powers of American business in a free market to improve human lives. Ms. Burns’ readers will see Rand still has the power to instruct on the meaning and scary implications of government growth in the age of Barack Obama.”

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PHOTO! Here is the Fox Ad that CNN is calling the False Fox Ad. The advertisement concerns Fox Tea Party coverage during the recent march on Washington.

The ad reads: “How Did ABC, CBS, NBC, MSNBC and CNN Miss This Story?”

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Fox’s Michael Tammero says of the ad:

“Generally speaking, it’s fair to say that from the tea party movement … to Acorn … to the march on 9/12, the networks either ignored the story, marginalized it or misrepresented the significance of it altogether”.

CNN anchor Rick Sanchez is slamming back:

“Let me address the Fox News Network now perhaps the most current way that I can, by quoting somebody who recently used a very pithy phrase, two words. It’s all I need: You lie.”

ABC had battled over crowd sizes numbers:

Conservative activists, who organized a march on the U.S. Capitol today in protest of the Obama administration’s health care agenda and government spending, erroneously attributed reports on the size of the crowds to ABC News.

Matt Kibbe, president of FreedomWorks, the group that organized the event, said on stage at the rally Saturday that ABC News was reporting that 1 million to 1.5 million people were in attendance.

At no time did ABC News, or its affiliates, report a number anywhere near as large. ABCNews.com reported an approximate figure of 60,000 to 70,000 protesters, attributed to the Washington, D.C. fire department. In its reports, ABC News Radio described the crowd as “tens of thousands.”

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VIDEO! Watch youtube video of Joe Wilson’s You Lie remark against Obama tonight. Joe Wilson’s You Lie remark came during President Obama’s speech on health care as it relates to immigrants.

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The above is a screengrab at the moment of reaction after the outburst.

The exchange went as follows:

Obama: The reforms I am proposing would not apply to those who are here illegal.
Wilson: You Lie!
Obama: That is not true.

Wilson has since apologized in a statement:

“I let my emotions get the best of me.

“While I disagree with the president’s statement, my comments were inappropriate and regrettable. I extend sincere apologies to the president for this lack of civility.”

Obama has yet to comment tonight.

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Rep Joe Wilson of South Carolina said to President Obama Wednesday “You lie”. Joe Wilson of South Carolina’s “You lie” remark came during President Obama’s speech to the House on Health Care.

Wilson’s remark was so loud that reportedly most of the House heard it. Unfortunately even the highest quality youtube video online tonight make it still a bit hard to hear for tv viewers:

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Since his “You lie” President Obama remark, Joe Wilson, who is 62, has since issued a written apology to press:

“I let my emotions get the best of me.

“While I disagree with the president’s statement, my comments were inappropriate and regrettable. I extend sincere apologies to the president for this lack of civility.”

Wilson’s staff says he’s also phoned the President directly to apology. Instead, Wilson reportedly got Chief of Staff Rahm Emanuel on the phone.

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