Wednesday, August 08, 2007

Ellsworth Toohey and Catherine Halsey Mirrored by Hillary Clinton and Saul D. Alinsky

Ayn Rand’s novel, The Fountainhead, which I should pick from my shelf and read once again, provides readers with a list of characters whom can be seen in the world around us today.  I’m not talking about the Howard Roark type of character, but rather the more craven sort such as Ellsworth Toohey.

Edward Cline has noted this in a piece posted at The Rule of Reason titled Hillary Clinton’s Uncle Ellsworth, which is worth a read.  From Cline’s piece.

Compare that with Hillary’s quest for the meaning of her life in her letters to Peavoy. One letter to him she signs “Me,” parenthetically adding “the world’s saddest word.” That one brief signature can stand to represent the self-deprecatory remarks in all her other letters discussed by the Times. I do not think Hillary suffered from a crisis of self-respect, as Catherine Halsey did; I do not think she ever had a self to respect. She would have agreed with everything Toohey told Catherine, without Toohey having to exert much effort to convince her or having to resort to vicious put-downs.

UPDATE: Edward Cline posts a correction and a postscript to Hillary Clinton’s Uncle Ellsworth.

Posted by John Venlet on 08/08 at 10:23 AM
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