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I note from the article: "Ironically, Republican Jeff Atwater (Florida's CFO) is hosting a screening of Part III in Boca Raton, Florida tomorrow. It is ironic because, one of his last votes in the Florida legislature, Atwater voted in favor of a heavily government subsidized railroad system, which ..." We have this conversation here continuously and continually. Political conservatives think that _Atlas Shrugged_ is about the Marxist/Muslim Liar-in-Chief and never see Cuffy Meigs as one of their own. Mr. Thompson pleads with John Galt, "I am a liberal, enlightened man..." but he cannot protect Galt from the muscle-mystics, i.e., from the right wing of his coalition.
And for all of that, this is not about politics. _Atlas Shrugged_ is a love story. It is a novel of philosophical detection. It is a modern American instantiation of the 19th century Russian novel. It is much more - and on many levels. No film could do it complete justice, or else Ayn Rand, as a child of Hollywood, would have made a movie in the first place.
That all being as it may, I enjoyed every minute of the show.
Everyone seems to have a problem with Project F. I choose to look at it this way. The competent and capable people have all disappeared, so what else would you expect of a torture device then something that appears cobbled together, rather than something really slick looking. Still, Galt naked on the table as in the book would have been a nice touch ;).