A few freshman Congressman attend first viewing of Atlas Shrugged

From Eric Dondero:

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.

From the UK Independent, "Atlas Shrugged – and The Tea Party poured in to watch" April 16:

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.

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...

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...

No word on who the mysterious congressmen were? Only one former congressmen is confirmed to have seen the movie.

From Philly.com:

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!"

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