After reading Sam's article/critique over at Gawker.com I found his example of an 'analogy' to be quite misguided. Rand said the following: “Let’s say we had a terrible president that you didn’t like from another party and that president said, The View, oh you should hear the things they’re saying on The View! We should limit their speech, we should register the journalists, and then we should have an approval board…and that’s silly! We would all be opposed to that… but that’s the danger of letting a president make the rules.” Analogy: a comparison between two things, typically on the basis of their structure and for the purpose of explanation or clarification. Sam, you are correct in your use of the word analogy. However, it is definitely not