I posted one of those interviews, if anyone is interested:
http://www.videosift.com/video/Ayn-Rand-Interview-Part-1-of-5

Ayn Rand bothers me.

^because you're trying to repress your attraction to her.

She speaketh the truth.

I've said it before, and I'll say it again.

There's a very good reason that Ayn Rand is not taught in universities as a serious philosopher.

HadouKen24, why?

I read her Wikipedia entry and the only thing I could see that was really contreversial was her views on homosexuals. Ironically I guess she shares the view of many religions on gays.

About not having to prove a negative, I think Richard Dawkins really drives this point home in his lectures and the book "The God Delusion", I have him to thank for not counting myself an agnostic anymore, and I will recommend his book to anyone.

Though I do not agree with all her political opinions, she has a wonderful mind. We need more like her.

HadouKen24, why?

Because she sucked at philosophy. Her epistemology and metaphysics were not even close to sophistication and nuance of the works of the Vienna Circle, whose philosophical contributions were similar in aim and attitude, but far superior in quality. She did not come close to answering the challenges presented by the pragmatism of William James or the holism of W. V. O. Quine. (The Quine-Duhem thesis pounds the last nail in the coffin of Objectivism.)

Her ethical thought, while correct in its rejection of a hard fact-value distinction, nonetheless failed to account for or take into account important facts about human nature and psychology. As a result, it is abysmal--not only wrong, but horribly and dangerously wrong.

While Rand occasionally refers to previous philosophers like Kant and Aristotle, the way she made use of their works made it clear that her understanding of them was cursory at best.

I miss Donahue's show. :-(

i think she is brilliant especially in her "not depending on others for happiness" ideologies