Or perhaps they paid closer attention than you did.
The phrase "commie czar" is obviously a play on words: a reference to the far left political leanings ("commie") of President Obama's special advisors ("czars"), as well as an allusion to the title of commissar (Russian: комиссар) that was held by certain communist political operatives in the government and military during the Bolshevik and Soviet eras in Russia.
Here's the Wikipedia article on the subject. It's a little sketchy, but it gets the point across.
If you go over to the original post at kitchenpundit.com and do a search in the comments section for the word "commissar" you'll see that at least three other commenters reached the same conclusion as I did.
BTW, I posted my comment at jobsanger before having read the other three. I only added my observations at kitchenpundit (two comments after "Basara") because I thought he/she was the only other one who caught the pun.
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ReplyDeleteOr perhaps they paid closer attention than you did.
The phrase "commie czar" is obviously a play on words: a reference to the far left political leanings ("commie") of President Obama's special advisors ("czars"), as well as an allusion to the title of commissar (Russian: комиссар) that was held by certain communist political operatives in the government and military during the Bolshevik and Soviet eras in Russia.
Here's the Wikipedia article on the subject. It's a little sketchy, but it gets the point across.
And here's A Brief History of White House Czars, courtesy of Time Magazine.
Get real, CT. It doesn't take a genius to know the czars were overthrown by the communists. To mix the two is just silly.
ReplyDeleteI'm sorry if the pun is too subtle for you, Ted.
ReplyDeleteIf you go over to the original post at kitchenpundit.com and do a search in the comments section for the word "commissar" you'll see that at least three other commenters reached the same conclusion as I did.
BTW, I posted my comment at jobsanger before having read the other three. I only added my observations at kitchenpundit (two comments after "Basara") because I thought he/she was the only other one who caught the pun.