Farewell. The Flying Pig Has Left The Building.

Steve Hynd, August 16, 2012

After four years on the Typepad site, eight years total blogging, Newshoggers is closing it's doors today. We've been coasting the last year or so, with many of us moving on to bigger projects (Hey, Eric!) or simply running out of blogging enthusiasm, and it's time to give the old flying pig a rest.

We've done okay over those eight years, although never being quite PC enough to gain wider acceptance from the partisan "party right or wrong" crowds. We like to think we moved political conversations a little, on the ever-present wish to rush to war with Iran, on the need for a real Left that isn't licking corporatist Dem boots every cycle, on America's foreign misadventures in Afghanistan and Iraq. We like to think we made a small difference while writing under that flying pig banner. We did pretty good for a bunch with no ties to big-party apparatuses or think tanks.

Those eight years of blogging will still exist. Because we're ending this typepad account, we've been archiving the typepad blog here. And the original blogger archive is still here. There will still be new content from the old 'hoggers crew too. Ron writes for The Moderate Voice, I post at The Agonist and Eric Martin's lucid foreign policy thoughts can be read at Democracy Arsenal.

I'd like to thank all our regular commenters, readers and the other bloggers who regularly linked to our posts over the years to agree or disagree. You all made writing for 'hoggers an amazingly fun and stimulating experience.

Thank you very much.

Note: This is an archive copy of Newshoggers. Most of the pictures are gone but the words are all here. There may be some occasional new content, John may do some posts and Ron will cross post some of his contributions to The Moderate Voice so check back.


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Thursday, April 24, 2008

All I want

By Libby



I've accepted the fact that this miserable primary process is going to play out all the way to June at least. All I want now is to stop hearing these silly arguments.



Media bias - Yes, the media has been brutal to Hillary but they have been just as brutal to Obama. That's what the media does. They savage Democrats. The only candidate getting a free ride from the press is McCain.



Electability - Both candidates have their weaknesses and their strengths and there is no way to predict which one would be better able to beat McCain in November. The electorate is fickle and prone to be influenced by nonsenical side issues. Both Dems have their baggage and if either one of them was so much more electable than the other, one of them would have definitively sewn up the nomination by now. Either one can beat McCain if their fellow Democrats don't kill them before they get out of the gate.



Sexism and Racism - Both still exist in America. Electing a woman won't magically eliminate sexism and electing a black man won't end racism. Supporting one over the other doesn't automatically make that supporter a misogynist or a racist.



The Historic Aspects - If either Democrat wins, it will be a historic moment. It doesn't matter whether it's a woman or a black man. Either one, presuming they govern well, will crack the door open a little farther for future candidates and maybe next time we'll get a real progressive to vote for because we sure as hell don't have one now. What we have are two professional politicians who will more likely sell out progressives for political convenience, than not, once they get into office.



All I want is for Leftopia to remember we started blogging to change the system, not to become just another cog in the same machine that's been screwing us over since we started.



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