BG writes in with an observation (and curious ploy) appropriate to a topic much on our mind lately: Great and Wondrous and (Regrettably, Apparently Lonesome) Czar – There is another meme out there, which was on display on the cover … Continue reading →
The Czar hates to play the blame game, and he would love to pin that reluctance on someone or something. But once again, we have to argue that the term “Right Wing” is not defined as “Anything the Left Wing … Continue reading →
All right, enough. The media is already all over the road like a drunk driver with this Higgs Boson particle. Proof of parallel universes? Time travel? The God Particle? Give us a break. Actually, here is a hint. If the … Continue reading →
Hey J-School grads! News has been bogged down lately. Here are some golden ideas for you to write stories on, based of course on your typical templates and antics. Have at it! Remember when you violated Michele Bachmann’s legal right … Continue reading →
There has been no immediate end of discussion on the latest Time magazine PR disaster—an article that openly suggests that the Constitution is becoming an out-moded document. Sure, the article is framed to investigate whether the original intentions of the … Continue reading →
The Czar told you this was coming. The Los Angeles Times dutifully reports that House Speaker Boehner and House Majority Leader Cantor are virtually at fisticuffs, tearing at each other’s throats, because things are really this bad for the Republicans. … Continue reading →
This AFP piece by Dan De Luce caught our eye this evening, and there is something positively off-putting about it. “Commanders say Obama overruled them on Afghanistan.” Well, not quite. The article says that GNL David Petraeus—a commander (singular)—and ADM … Continue reading →
Here are some facts that did not exist before last week. The Czar wants you to notice these patterns happening in the media right now, because this is what they are trying to sell you. Michele Bachmann, as of this … Continue reading →
Hey GorT, What the Czar thinks is even better is that a couple of Palin supporters are asking conservatives of all stripes to volunteer for this. Why? So that conservatives find emails that support family values, tax reduction, free trade … Continue reading →
Hiya again!!! Its meeee! Medea Mainstream, and I am back to tell you all about my latest summer project. So you know how that Sarah Palin girl is like the valedetorian for the whole high school because she is a … Continue reading →
The election season has (let’s be honest) already begun. We are already seeing some of the familiar patterns re-emerge from the media, many of which have already been identified and reported here. But let us condense a short list of … Continue reading →
The Czar spotted the following in The Muscovy Examiner this morning: Frank Neuhauser, winner of the very first National Spelling Bee, has died. He won the 1925 contest by correctly spelling “gladiolus.” He was 95. The Czar expects that a … Continue reading →
JS enclosed this into a wine bottle UPC bar code using his stegographic skills. Dear the The Czar, Have you seen the news articles about the poor female reporter who was assaulted during the celebrations in Cairo? I was reading … Continue reading →
Journalists, in an effort to infuriate the Czar ever more with incredible laziness, are playing a telephone game with a story about a planet way, way, way out around the Sun larger than Jupiter and quietly circling our sun. Not … Continue reading →
Ingmar Guandique, the MS-13 gang banger who brutally killed Chandra Levy back in 2001, was sentenced to 60 years by a DC superior court today. Read through the news stories about this. Here’s one, for example. Note the passing reference … Continue reading →
You know how we often say that the major media will write stories to fit a pre-decided template and if the news does not fit that template, they will change it until it does? You will recall Tunisia overthrew their … Continue reading →
Your Czarness: Might I offer a random observation concerning your first points in yesterday’s “News Roundup”? Now you might be sitting in your frozen castle up in Muscovy wondering what in tarnation Sarah Palin and Mohammed El-Baradei could possibly have … Continue reading →
And you might ask what the media has been fixated on, lately. Going through the day’s headlines, here is the schematic: Egyptians are protesting because they want to be like America. And Mohammed El-Baradei is the best candidate to lead … Continue reading →
Well done. Thanks for Professor Mondo for the link. The Czar of MuscovyБожію Поспѣшествующею Милостію Мы, Дима Грозный Императоръ и Самодержецъ Всероссiйскiй, цѣсарь Московскiй. The Czar was born in the steppes of Russia in 1267, and was cheated out of … Continue reading →
Airhead editorialist Dana Milbank wants to take a pledge: that as much as he cannot stand Sarah Palin, and is obsessed with talking about her, and thinking about her, and wondering what she is doing, or saying, or thinking at … Continue reading →
Your Czarness: You are, once again and unsurprisingly, entirely correct. Dosage is everything. Just because we can measure something, does not mean we understand it. (Although it may be a start.) humbly, erc And Czar, An enjoyable read. I thought … Continue reading →
Can you imagine anything so horrible? A University of California, San Francisco (UCSF) study has found in a survey of 268 pregnant women that virtually 100% of them have dangerous, cancer-causing chemical in their blood and urine! OMG! Pregnant women, … Continue reading →
Well, the Czar regrets this post may have nothing new for you. Rather, it is just an update of a familiar stump speech of ours. Over the weekend, the mainstream media yammered on and on about how the Tucson shootings … Continue reading →
This is not a complaint directed at the Google news services; rather, it serves as an example of something else that annoys the Czar. Here is the latest top Sci/Tech stories from Google news. It should be different every few … Continue reading →
News to us. He takes one little uptick in the polls, and suddenly a couple of news stories begin circulating that he is making a comeback. Ya know, Nixon used to do something. Whenever he felt his popularity was slipping … Continue reading →
CBS News Poll reveals most Americans hate the GOP plan to extend tax cuts to wealthy. Gallup Poll reveals most Americans hate the GOP plan to extend tax cuts to wealthy. Bloomberg National Poll reveals most Americans hate the GOP … Continue reading →
Fox News has this story about the Tata Motors Nano model and some new safety features that are being added to the exhaust and electrical system. Apparently there have been reports of about a dozen of the vehicles catching on … Continue reading →
CNN says “GOP senator: Consider neutering Iran’s ‘ability to wage war.’” The Czar could say “Democratic Senators: Recommend blatantly ineffective sanctions against Iran in hopes they just give up on a decades-old quest to achieve nuclear weapons, especially now that … Continue reading →
The increasingly shabby New York Times, in an effort to show the world it can reduce news stories ad absurdum like Time or Newsweek, has prepared a pretty good proof that their junior editors can be just as shoddy as … Continue reading →
JAB notes that even meat puppets are getting tired of defending Obama: Your Czarness, I offer an unrelated anecdote to support your observation of the President’s eroding levels of support. We here at The Doublewide are fans of a band … Continue reading →
And so the Czar was perusing The Chicago Sun-Times this morning over his traditional 13th-Century breakfast of моглашкы with a side of пошмацки, and was entertained to see two of the Times’ six remaining openly bleeding-heart liberal columnists each having … Continue reading →
He’s hoping they pass gay marriage, because after this press-conference moment de pwnage, as they say in France, he can’t quit Chris Christie. Well played, Governor. Via Big Journalism & Save Jersey. Confucius, Œc. Vol.Don’t ask impertinent questions like that … Continue reading →
From the Canadian CBC (link provided just in case you don’t believe me): George Lucas is tackling his first musical, a film about the Tuskegee Airmen, the first group of African-American pilots. According to the Hollywood Reporter, Lucas is working on … Continue reading →
What a knee-slapping exercise in media gullability. Based on conversations the Czar had in the last 24 hours, as well as a timely email from Gormogons secret operative MC (“BTW, Putin couldn’t meet with Hillary because he and I have … Continue reading →
You have probably noticed your own lack of surprise, when reading a bizarrely tragic news story, at the words “alchohol was believed to be a factor.” A man burns his friends with a homemade firework, and so on…alchohol was believed … Continue reading →
Because it’s super-late on Friday night, when the news media releases any information that looks bad for the Obama administration in hopes you miss it in your libertine haze. But not to the Gormogon’s all-seeing eye. Yeah, you read that … Continue reading →
By Robb Allen @ Sharp As A Marble. Be sure to check the cute baby picture on his About page and read his proposal story. Confucius, Œc. Vol.Don’t ask impertinent questions like that jackass Adept Lu. 3.14.242.153
Continue reading →So there’s this “gentleman’s club” in Florida—of course it’s in Florida—which has taken into its employment two girls who are 15 and 17. Fifteen-year-old’s Mom calls 911, the cops go get the girls. Then Your NewsTeamChannel On Your Side local … Continue reading →
The Czar was optimistic this headline was about healthcare: Hurricane Bill still growing, U.S. unlikely target Turns out, not. The Czar of MuscovyБожію Поспѣшествующею Милостію Мы, Дима Грозный Императоръ и Самодержецъ Всероссiйскiй, цѣсарь Московскiй. The Czar was born in the … Continue reading →
To assist the media with getting a jump on their competition, the Czar has assembled a Barack Obama question answerer. Simply fill in the blanks, and you already have your story. Actual words may be different from what the President … Continue reading →
Geep—there is no coincidence. As revealed in the somehow-obtained memo from SoS Clinton, our North Korean parolees were hardly in the wrong place at the wrong time. They were intentionally breaking the law by crossing into and out of China … Continue reading →
The two young ladies recently freed by North Korea were lefty reporters for Al Gore’s liberal news outlet and money pit, Current TV. Two of the three hikers recently captured/abducted/arrested by Iran are screaming liberal, Bay Area, UC-Berkeley grad, freelance … Continue reading →
Jonah Goldberg spotted a plea by Dan Rather for President Obama to repair and save the American media. Wow. Rather believes such a move is nothing short of saving American democracy! Quote: A truly free and independent press is the … Continue reading →
News that the blue dye in M&Ms might assist with treating spinal injuries. The story is written thus: injecting the blue dye into mice with spinal injuries seems to restore spinal functionals; further, the only side effect is that the … Continue reading →
Too bad for Michael Jackson. Walter Cronkite has died. The media has lost someone they looked up to. Who was popular. Expect two weeks, at least, of self-absorbed narcissism, personal reflections of what Uncle Walter meant to them, retrospectives (whoa, … Continue reading →
Just a devastating takedown of the media’s treatment of Gov. Palin. Carl Cannon, neither Republican nor conservative, just completely destroys any pretense of fairness or decency on the part of his colleagues in the press. Facts matter, the man said. … Continue reading →
Lao Tzu (for whom the Volgi has always had a low tolerance and once hit him in the head with an empty port bottle) once wrote “The Dow which can be spoken of is not the eternal way.” Indeed, the … Continue reading →
Wow, remember a hundred years ago when all that bad stuff was happening in Iran? Thank goodness that all ended, somehow. Because we need to talk about Michael Jackson! The entire weekend seems to have been Michael Jackson! Michael Jackson! … Continue reading →
The Czar offers to put NBC News up against his special “photography” wall, for their decision—in lieu of any evidence or autopsy findings—that Billy Mays clearly died as a result of luggage hitting him in the head on a botched … Continue reading →
Obama stopped off in Dresden to meet briefly with an increasingly challenging Chancellor Angela Merkel, keeping the discussions about Iran, Israel, Opel, and the environment. Thankfully contrary to your Volgi’s worst fears, Obama did not apologize for the Allied bombing … Continue reading →
You may have heard that Newsweek magazine has decided to reinvent itself in a very different format. This is long overdue. Back in 2000, the Czar won a free subscription to Newsweek, having not read it since the 1980s. He … Continue reading →
Read The New York Times account of the recruiting station shooting. Mmm-hmmm. Soldier shot; another seriously wounded. Police catch the suspect and he has an assault weapon on him. Now read this version of the story, which describes a very … Continue reading →
A pro-choice understanding of pro-life thinking. Read the article, and get angry. Because this is how the liberal side of the media sees the issue. They miss the total irony and hypocrisy here. What a bad, bad pro-lifer, to say … Continue reading →
The Press makes the Czar cry. Some quick hits: Mike Zapler of the San Jose Mercury News refers to California’s deficit, which “seems to be growing by the day.” Umm…Mike, if you have unpaid debt to which interest is applied, … Continue reading →
This blog, like so many others on both the Left and the Right, have no end of fun excoriating the Press for its mistakes, gaffes, and hypocrisy. The slightest error, the tiniest miscue, and there we are: exposing it, exaggerating … Continue reading →
The Czar needed help with this one. Read this AP release first. The Czar did, and wondered what the hell this was about. The French government wants to shut down internet access to people who repeatedly steal copyrighted material? Good … Continue reading →
The Czar is not certain whether there is a “Rule Number One” in journalism. Actually, there may not even be an ennumerated list of journalism rules at all, although the Czar would suspect that there could be a hip bullet … Continue reading →
Confucius, Œc. Vol.Don’t ask impertinent questions like that jackass Adept Lu. 3.14.242.153
Continue reading →At least Dick Cheney knew to keep quiet. When asked about the growing Everything Shall Die terror of the Swine Flu, POTUS Obama wants everyone to stay calm. “Everyone should rest assured that this government is prepared to do whatever … Continue reading →
Your Volgi received mail regarding the Czar’s recent post against the media’s pathetic Swine Flu exploitation. He was kind enough to send it on to us, and here it is: My Dad actually got West Nile virus—and DIDN’T die….It knocked … Continue reading →
As readers here know, the Great Swine Flu Pandemic of 2009 is a media invention. Again, to put this in perspective, 65 Americans have been hospitalized since Friday last, and none have died. Read this and think: since Friday last, … Continue reading →
[White House Press Secretary] Robert Gibbs gave White House reporters a “strong A” Friday for their work over the first 100 days of the new administration. And why wouldn’t he? Evening Newscasts Have Covered Obama More Than Bush & Clinton … Continue reading →
Watching television, listening to radio, or monitoring the internet, you would think that by now, billions of people have swine flu, and you are next. No question. Pack it in. Your Czar, like nearly all the experts being worn out … Continue reading →
Stop reading about Obama being snake bit by Fidel Castro, or increased Russification of free European countries, or impending strikes against Iranian nuclear facilities. In fact, stop thinking about anything. Stop it. The media has decided you need to know … Continue reading →
A nice description of the blur between reporting news and just baking in celebrity worship as legitimate journalism. CNN, how the mighty hath fallen. The Czar of MuscovyБожію Поспѣшествующею Милостію Мы, Дима Грозный Императоръ и Самодержецъ Всероссiйскiй, цѣсарь Московскiй. The … Continue reading →
Subscribers to the print version (formerly termed “a newspaper”) of the Seattle Post-Intelligencer learned on Monday that they now need to go online to get their news: the P-I is gone. Belly up. Folded (no pun intended, although the Czar … Continue reading →
The Czar states, without fear of exaggeration, that this site is read by perhaps several, or even billions, of people. He is comfortable with humiliating or enraging some of them with this screed. Blame yon Volgi, who sent the Czar … Continue reading →
You know what’s great about participating on a blog like this? The Czar can do only minutes of research and make an outrageous conclusion based on that. Know what’s evidently easier? Being an economic columnist for U.S. News & World … Continue reading →
Eugene Robinson in today’s WaPo parrots the Obama Campaign talking points on Gov. Palin. When you have the script in front of you, the column practically writes itself. With the media so far in the tank for Sen. Obama and … Continue reading →
Over at NRO‘s The Corner, there’s been an ongoing discussion about The Good Junior Senator From Illinois’ (“The GJSFI”) support for infanticide and the media’s reluctance to accurately report on this pro-infanticide position. This post by Yuval Levin makes the … Continue reading →
The Tax Foundation said in an August 12 release that an Associated Press article on a Government Accountability Office report on corporate tax liabilities overstated by 90 times the number of large corporations not paying corporate income taxes. The AP … Continue reading →
