Shark Tank is about the only commercial show I watch. Anyone wanting to get into business should watch it for educational reasons. Mark Cuban is there because he is trying to get people interested in starting businesses. He doesnt need the $$ at all.

Maybe US citizens arent as ignorant as one might have believed after the election of Obama. Maybe Obama and his lies and hidden socialist agenda is turning people away from socialism after all. One has to look only to Venezuela to see where it leads- yet the people in Venezuela appear to be so ignorant that they cant even see it when it gets that bad.
I think that young people are rebelling against the crony capitalist bent of the politicians and are really looking for a change from that. Regular people dont have a chance when lobbyists and politicians can favor their friends using government power.

How respectable are those who grant respect to the undeserving?

It's up to seventy-four percent now. But some people here raise an interesting point. People are less willing than they once were, to peruse articles with content with which they disagree.

I didn't see the poll - maybe too late in the day, but I did get to an even smarmier article from, of course, The Wire.
I knew, when I [voluntarily] signed the pledge against the initiation of violence, that there would be these times, when I just wanted to walk up to someone and slap him. just once, I promise? OK, you're right. a pledge made and then abandoned when it's hard to keep is no pledge. But still.........

This article reads like an assignment the author didn't want to write, on a person he knew nothing about but didn't like anyway. He points out that neither "progressive economist" Paul Krugman nor Peter Wehner, an aide to Reagan and Bush the Elder, were thrilled by her. That and a page of the Congressional Record, and you can go to the bathroom and emerge squeaky clean!
Yes, I like to see Rand's name in print, even that of her detractors. his one reads just so.....icky.
and yet he is, I supposed, a "respected" columnist. You notice no mention of any movies, of course. He wants you to think the only way you can learn what she said is to read Atlas, whose sales stats he also maligned.
oh, grrrrr.

I miss you :)

Not fair, not fair. Quick, get a screen shot.

They also have another pretty interesting show about revamping restaurants to make them more profitable.

I didn't know that. I'll check it out.

Never would have thought they'd poll this topic.

that is a good point.

Don't forget that CNBC is where the Tea Party movement actually started. They have radically changed their lineup to a much more capitalistic lineup. They have several shows now that a Gulcher might like, including Shark Tank and The Profit.

if you look closely, you will see the vote is its own article referenced in this article. I half expect them to remove the post.

Exactly.
Critics of Ayn Rand either never went to the article (most likely), or never made it as far as the poll.

I would give anything for that 73% to be true cross section....

Of course! Beyond that, most in this country are desperate for a bitch slap too. The sheeple need to be woken up.

Wonder if the 73% is a measure of the 'readers' of CNBC or were Objectivist drawn to the article.

Ah, so you voted too.

I'm fairly sure we voted the same way.

73% YES.

N I C E.

It says "vote to see results". Sigh.

Oh... was that obvious?

If you vote it will then show the totals.

I don't see the results :( the comments are idiotic. Decent article tho .:)