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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Tuesday, May 13, 2008

Propaganda is funny, but it's not a joke

By Libby



I haven't been digging into the DOD document dump myself but it is proving to be a treasure trove, as documented here by our resident wonks. Today TPM reveals the lighter side of the Pentagon's illegal domestic psyops campaign.

Back in June 2006 there's this email ...



hi. jed babbin, one of our military analysts, is hosting the michael medved nationally syndicated radio show this afternoon. he would like to see if general casey would be available for a phone interview any time between 3 and 6 pm. topics would be: status of operations in iraq and if troop levels should/can/will be reduced. ... please feel free to contact jed directly (contact info below) if the general can/would be available for the interview. this would be a softball interview and the show is 8th or 9th in the nation.



A short time later a press flack from the Office of the Secretary of Defense writes back ...



Hi Thanks for sending this. Just fyi, probably wouldn't put "softball" interview in writing. If that got out it would compromise jed and general casey.

If you happen to be harboring any stray doubts that the Pentagon also successfully co-opted the wingosphere into their game plan, TPM adds, Babbin is now the editor of Human Events Online.



I'd be more amused by this if I thought it would have any effect on diminishing the credibility of all these perpetrators of misinformation but considering the legacy media's determined avoidance of covering this gross fraud, I doubt if these revelations will filter out to the majority of the electorate. I expect they'll get the last laugh. They'll simply ride out the well deserved ridicule from the alternate media and continue to pummel the people with the propaganda.



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