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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Sunday, April 27, 2008

Well there goes another keyboard...

By Libby



I don't normally bother to read Karl Rove's tripe at Newsweek, but I couldn't resist when it started out with Dear Senator Obama. Fair warning, do not read while consuming liquids. He did however give Obama one piece of good advice that harks to my own letter to Barack, that being the "don't explain" rule.



As a practical matter, of course Obama can't ignore the negative memes that his opponents invent and the media promotes. We all remember what happened to Kerry when he ignored the Swiftboaters, but -- and I can't believe I'm saying this -- Rove is correct when he tells him he should have just repudiated the initial statement and then stayed with it. To the extent that he would be forced to elaborate further, he should have stuck with simply stating that he doesn't agree with the Rev's statements and he had nothing additional to say because he's not planning to give the man a cabinet post and it's not material to how he would run the government.



Otherwise, Obama should take my advice on the chattering class, and ignore Rove's blathering. But I'm sure he doesn't need me to tell him that.



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  1. RockyspoonApril 27, 2008 at 6:14 PM

    Pretty sad when an article is rejected just because of the author. Had that article by Rove been written by any of the liberal pundits, Libby would have been all over it like white on rice, extolling its virtues point by point by point by point (ad nauseum). This is an excellent example of media bias and it sickens me. I'm an Independent and such blatant display of Right vs Left mentality just makes me laugh, then I'm saddened that intelligent people keep making the same mistakes. Oh well, maybe in 100 years it will be different, but I doubt it.

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  2. LibbyApril 28, 2008 at 2:23 AM

    It's sad when a commenter judges a blogger's intent and ideology by reading one post. It's really sad when an American doesn't recognize one of the greatest enemies of their democracy was right hand man to the prez for years.

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  3. banditApril 28, 2008 at 4:32 AM

    "one of the greatest enemies of their democracy was right hand man to the prez for years. "
    Sorry - but when you write something that idiotic it's pretty easy to guess your intent. You don't like Rove - who could guess?!?!?!?! Threat to democracy - sorry but when you lose an election it means you lost - it doesn't mean the other side cheated.

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  4. LibbyApril 28, 2008 at 6:02 AM

    Bejus, who is sending in the koolaid blinded trolls today?

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