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From Salon, via Reddit, Robert Benmosche, CEO of taxpayer-rescued AIG, offers a completely failed analogy concerning executive bonuses:
The uproar over bonuses “was intended to stir public anger, to get everybody out there with their pitch forks and their hangman nooses, and all that-sort of like what we did in the Deep South [decades ago]. And I think it was just as bad and just as wrong.”
Here, for your reference, is an actual picture of a deep south* lynching.
![](http://www.journalofamericanhistory.org/teaching/2011_06/img/day2ex1_marion_lynching.jpg)
Note the difference.
*actually Indiana.
UPDATE: Gawker has seven more links to various other weak analogizers.