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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Wednesday, May 21, 2008

The beginning of the end

By Libby



Well, the last major contests are over and it seems apparent that failing a major swing by the superdelegates, Obama won the nomination. Of course Hillary is not conceding and Obama is not claiming victory outright. I think that's the right way to handle it. There's still a lot of passion out there for Clinton's candidacy and at this point I don't see any point in Hillary dropping out. It's so close to the end and it's great for democracy that every state gets some attention. But for the love of the Goddess, if Hillary wants to make speeches about every vote counting, then excluding caucus states and uncommited votes in MI when the campaign calculates its status is just a little contradictory.



Speaking of speeches, I was in bed before dark last night, but only half dozing so I caught Hillary's victory speech in Kentucky. This line made me laugh out loud.

And it�s often been said, as Kentucky goes, so goes the nation.

Maybe it's just my dry sense of humor but if I had a nickel for every time I heard somebody say that, I'd have -- a nickel.



But I really don't want to bash Hillary. I may not agree with her tactics but I believe in going down fighting for what you believe in and on that level you have to admire her for not giving up. On the other hand, I can't think of single thing to admire about MoDo. I see she's posted some self-absorbed dreck about the campaign today. Fortunately, thanks to Molly, who has made translating MoDodoisms her life's work, I didn't have to read it and neither do you.



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  1. CKRMay 21, 2008 at 2:39 AM

    Hillary's claim that "all the votes need to be counted" in Michigan is just a bit over the top. One of my Obama-supporting friends in Michigan feels that her vote was shut out because Obama wasn't on the ballot.
    There was also a letter to the editor in the New York Review of Books a few issues back making this point.
    I keep wondering why I haven't seen more of it.
    Ah well, with a bit of luck (and maybe some time for Hillary to digest the realities), we won't have to go there.

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  2. LibbyMay 21, 2008 at 2:54 AM

    The problem is at this point, their new argument seems to be to only count Hillary's votes and not the uncommited which really were mostly for Edwards I think at that time. But as you may know, I blog for the Detroit News as well and thus followed this issue more closely than I might have otherwise. Many people have said they either didn't vote or voted in the GOP primary because they were told their votes wouldn't count. I started a post about this but didn't publish it because I don't really want to go there and am also hoping it doesn't end up as a determining issue.

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