Becephalus:

And no TV show is reaching more viewers than what American Idol, Survivor (I don't watch TV so I wouldn't know)? Popularity is no good judge of the value of something. Statism is much more popular than objectivism for example.

Not to mention the extreme irony of a Randian arguing that something is to be taken seriously because of its popularity.

Do you think people will STILL be watching survivor 40 years from now? If Rand was a flash in the pan, you wouldn't have even heard about her after 1960. She's obviously saying SOMETHING with lasting value to someone.