{"id":4437,"date":"2013-09-24T11:39:33","date_gmt":"2013-09-24T16:39:33","guid":{"rendered":"http:\/\/thenonsequitur.com\/?p=4437"},"modified":"2013-09-24T18:03:56","modified_gmt":"2013-09-24T23:03:56","slug":"robert-benmosche-ceo-of-weak-analogies","status":"publish","type":"post","link":"https:\/\/thenonsequitur.com\/?p=4437","title":{"rendered":"Robert Benmosche, CEO of weak analogies"},"content":{"rendered":"<figure style=\"width: 320px\" class=\"wp-caption alignnone\"><img loading=\"lazy\" decoding=\"async\" alt=\"\" src=\"http:\/\/abcnews.go.com\/images\/Business\/rt_robert_benmosche_2_090803_mn.jpg\" width=\"320\" height=\"240\" \/><figcaption class=\"wp-caption-text\">A victim of lynching fig. 1<\/figcaption><\/figure>\n<p>From <a href=\"http:\/\/www.slate.com\/blogs\/moneybox\/2013\/09\/24\/aig_s_benmosche_bonus_outrage_just_as_bad_and_just_as_wrong_as_lynchin.html\">Salon<\/a>, via Reddit, Robert Benmosche, CEO of <a href=\"http:\/\/en.wikipedia.org\/wiki\/American_International_Group\">taxpayer-rescued AIG<\/a>, offers a completely failed analogy concerning executive bonuses:<\/p>\n<blockquote><p>The uproar over bonuses &#8220;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 <strong>just as bad<\/strong> and just as wrong.&#8221;<\/p><\/blockquote>\n<p>Here, for your reference, is an actual picture of a deep south* lynching.<\/p>\n<figure style=\"width: 607px\" class=\"wp-caption alignnone\"><img loading=\"lazy\" decoding=\"async\" class=\" \" alt=\"\" src=\"http:\/\/www.journalofamericanhistory.org\/teaching\/2011_06\/img\/day2ex1_marion_lynching.jpg\" width=\"607\" height=\"480\" \/><figcaption class=\"wp-caption-text\">Fig. 2: An actual lynching<\/figcaption><\/figure>\n<p>Note the difference.<\/p>\n<p>*actually Indiana.<\/p>\n<p>UPDATE: Gawker has seven more links to various other weak <a href=\"http:\/\/gawker.com\/seven-things-that-are-not-lynch-mobs-1378854179\">analogizers<\/a>.<\/p>\n","protected":false},"excerpt":{"rendered":"<p>From Salon, via Reddit, Robert Benmosche, CEO of taxpayer-rescued AIG, offers a completely failed analogy concerning executive bonuses: The uproar over bonuses &#8220;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]. &hellip; <a href=\"https:\/\/thenonsequitur.com\/?p=4437\" class=\"more-link\">Continue reading <span class=\"screen-reader-text\">Robert Benmosche, CEO of weak analogies<\/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":[1747,1748,1746,1969],"class_list":["post-4437","post","type-post","status-publish","format-standard","hentry","category-general","tag-aig","tag-lynching","tag-robert-benmosche","tag-weak-analogy"],"_links":{"self":[{"href":"https:\/\/thenonsequitur.com\/index.php?rest_route=\/wp\/v2\/posts\/4437","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=4437"}],"version-history":[{"count":2,"href":"https:\/\/thenonsequitur.com\/index.php?rest_route=\/wp\/v2\/posts\/4437\/revisions"}],"predecessor-version":[{"id":4443,"href":"https:\/\/thenonsequitur.com\/index.php?rest_route=\/wp\/v2\/posts\/4437\/revisions\/4443"}],"wp:attachment":[{"href":"https:\/\/thenonsequitur.com\/index.php?rest_route=%2Fwp%2Fv2%2Fmedia&parent=4437"}],"wp:term":[{"taxonomy":"category","embeddable":true,"href":"https:\/\/thenonsequitur.com\/index.php?rest_route=%2Fwp%2Fv2%2Fcategories&post=4437"},{"taxonomy":"post_tag","embeddable":true,"href":"https:\/\/thenonsequitur.com\/index.php?rest_route=%2Fwp%2Fv2%2Ftags&post=4437"}],"curies":[{"name":"wp","href":"https:\/\/api.w.org\/{rel}","templated":true}]}}