{"id":300,"date":"2007-05-19T21:23:16","date_gmt":"2007-05-20T02:23:16","guid":{"rendered":"http:\/\/jimbovard.com\/blog\/2007\/05\/19\/new-york-times-calls-me-an-anti-czar-czar\/"},"modified":"2007-05-20T10:17:26","modified_gmt":"2007-05-20T15:17:26","slug":"new-york-times-calls-me-an-anti-czar-czar","status":"publish","type":"post","link":"https:\/\/jimbovard.com\/blog\/2007\/05\/19\/new-york-times-calls-me-an-anti-czar-czar\/","title":{"rendered":"New York Times Calls Me an “Anti-Czar Czar”"},"content":{"rendered":"

The New York Times’ Mark Leibovich\u00a0 has a zesty<\/strong> piece<\/strong><\/a> in Sunday’s\u00a0Times<\/em>, “The Tin-Star Title for the Too-Tough Job.”\u00a0\u00a0 He starts out:<\/p>\n

IN 19th-century Russia, Czar Nicolas I commissioned an official national anthem known as \u201cGod Save the Czar.\u201d<\/p>\n

In 21st-century Washington, the anthem would be more suitably titled \u201cGod Help the Czar.\u201d<\/p>\n

It\u2019s not good to be the czar, not here, not now.\u00a0<\/p><\/blockquote>\n

Leibovich called me on Thursday to chat about czars. Here are some of the comments:<\/p>\n

\u201cI don\u2019t think any of the founding fathers looked to the Russian model,\u201d said James Bovard, a libertarian writer and lecturer whose contemptuous essay in 2000, \u201cTen Thousand Czars,\u201d made him something of an \u201canti-czar czar<\/strong>.\u201d Mr. Bovard dismisses the appointment of General Lute as \u201cthe same old scam that politicians have used for a long time whenever there is a failing policy.\u201d\u00a0<\/p>\n

…..<\/p>\n

Mr. Bovard proposes that government czars at least get to wear special hats, \u201clike something from Gilbert and Sullivan,\u201d to make them feel special and to differentiate them from other federal officials.<\/p><\/blockquote>\n

****************<\/p>\n

This is the first time – and the probably the only time – that I will ever be quoted making an opera reference.<\/p>\n

I wasn’t able to think of a good bluegrass<\/a><\/strong> metaphor or analogy on the spur of that moment.<\/p>\n","protected":false},"excerpt":{"rendered":"

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