{"id":3831,"date":"2012-10-02T06:27:38","date_gmt":"2012-10-02T11:27:38","guid":{"rendered":"http:\/\/thenonsequitur.com\/?p=3831"},"modified":"2012-10-02T06:27:38","modified_gmt":"2012-10-02T11:27:38","slug":"how-you-know-its-time-for-a-new-analogy","status":"publish","type":"post","link":"https:\/\/thenonsequitur.com\/?p=3831","title":{"rendered":"How you know it&#8217;s time for a new analogy"},"content":{"rendered":"<p>Godwin time.&nbsp; Let it be said that the Hitler analogy is multi-purpose.&nbsp; But it&#39;s not all purpose.&nbsp; Ask billionaire Leon Cooperman.&nbsp; Speaking of the abuse he has suffered at the hands of the Obama administration, <a href=\"http:\/\/www.newyorker.com\/reporting\/2012\/10\/08\/121008fa_fact_freeland?currentPage=all\">he said<\/a>:<\/p>\n<blockquote>\n<p>You know, the largest and greatest country in the free world put a forty-seven-year-old guy that never worked a day in his life and made him in charge of the free world,&quot; Cooperman told Freeland. &quot;<strong>Not totally different from taking Adolf Hitler in Germany and making him in charge of Germany because people were economically dissatisfied<\/strong>. Now, Obama&#39;s not Hitler.<strong> I don&#39;t even mean to say anything like that<\/strong>. But it is a question that the dissatisfaction of the populace was so great that they were willing to take a chance on an untested individual.&quot;<\/p>\n<\/blockquote>\n<p>Cooperman doesn&#39;t mean to say anything like Obama is Hitler, he just happened to be the only analogy laying around.&nbsp; This was the second time Cooperman used that analogy.&nbsp; After the first, his wife called him a &quot;schmuck&quot;.<\/p>\n<p>via <a href=\"http:\/\/gawker.com\/5947826\/a-list-of-the-things-whiny-rich-people-have-compared-themselves-and-obama-to\">Gawker<\/a> (see this link for more inappropriate analogies).<\/p>\n","protected":false},"excerpt":{"rendered":"<p>Godwin time.&nbsp; Let it be said that the Hitler analogy is multi-purpose.&nbsp; But it&#39;s not all purpose.&nbsp; Ask billionaire Leon Cooperman.&nbsp; Speaking of the abuse he has suffered at the hands of the Obama administration, he said: You know, the largest and greatest country in the free world put a forty-seven-year-old guy that never worked &hellip; <a href=\"https:\/\/thenonsequitur.com\/?p=3831\" class=\"more-link\">Continue reading <span class=\"screen-reader-text\">How you know it&#8217;s time for a new analogy<\/span> <span class=\"meta-nav\">&rarr;<\/span><\/a><\/p>\n","protected":false},"author":2,"featured_media":0,"comment_status":"open","ping_status":"open","sticky":false,"template":"","format":"standard","meta":{"footnotes":""},"categories":[1],"tags":[1465,1464,1969],"class_list":["post-3831","post","type-post","status-publish","format-standard","hentry","category-general","tag-leon-cooperman","tag-obama-is-hitler","tag-weak-analogy"],"_links":{"self":[{"href":"https:\/\/thenonsequitur.com\/index.php?rest_route=\/wp\/v2\/posts\/3831","targetHints":{"allow":["GET"]}}],"collection":[{"href":"https:\/\/thenonsequitur.com\/index.php?rest_route=\/wp\/v2\/posts"}],"about":[{"href":"https:\/\/thenonsequitur.com\/index.php?rest_route=\/wp\/v2\/types\/post"}],"author":[{"embeddable":true,"href":"https:\/\/thenonsequitur.com\/index.php?rest_route=\/wp\/v2\/users\/2"}],"replies":[{"embeddable":true,"href":"https:\/\/thenonsequitur.com\/index.php?rest_route=%2Fwp%2Fv2%2Fcomments&post=3831"}],"version-history":[{"count":1,"href":"https:\/\/thenonsequitur.com\/index.php?rest_route=\/wp\/v2\/posts\/3831\/revisions"}],"predecessor-version":[{"id":3832,"href":"https:\/\/thenonsequitur.com\/index.php?rest_route=\/wp\/v2\/posts\/3831\/revisions\/3832"}],"wp:attachment":[{"href":"https:\/\/thenonsequitur.com\/index.php?rest_route=%2Fwp%2Fv2%2Fmedia&parent=3831"}],"wp:term":[{"taxonomy":"category","embeddable":true,"href":"https:\/\/thenonsequitur.com\/index.php?rest_route=%2Fwp%2Fv2%2Fcategories&post=3831"},{"taxonomy":"post_tag","embeddable":true,"href":"https:\/\/thenonsequitur.com\/index.php?rest_route=%2Fwp%2Fv2%2Ftags&post=3831"}],"curies":[{"name":"wp","href":"https:\/\/api.w.org\/{rel}","templated":true}]}}