These Libertarians Are Starting To Give Me The Creeps

Another paragon of purity has a slip of the tongue:

Robert Benmosche, the CEO of insurance giant AIG, was widely criticized last week after comparing reactions to the bonuses his company's employees received in 2009 to a lynch mob.

...Between 1882 and 1968, nearly 200 anti-lynching bills were introduced in Congress. Only three of those bills managed to pass the House of Representatives. None were approved by the Senate. No anti-lynching laws were ever signed into law. In acknowledgment of its failure to pass anti-lynching legislation in the 1950s, the Senate formally apologized in 2005. Last week, Benmosche issued an apology of his own after the uproar over his remarks.

"It was a poor choice of words," he said in a statement. "I never meant to offend anyone."

Good guy, bad climate,...