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, June 8, 2008

Ari's hiss-tory

By Libby



It's long been known that the gang of thugs who dragged us into the ill-fated occupation of Iraq believe in creating their own reality, but this is ridiculous. Ari Fleischer has an op-ed in the WaPo today that basically says, the press did too ask tough questions and he offers up a list of the thorny queries that bedeviled his tenure as spokesliar for the administration. What he fails to mention is that the elite White House press corps then just meekly accepted the answers and dutifully transcribed the White House lies without putting them into any sort of context at all, much less challenging their veracity.



That's the complicity part that the worst perpetrators seem unable to admit -- even to themselves. Ari's defense of his media enablers would be laughable except that their joint deceits resulted in so much death, disorder and destruction. As it stands, it's just one more chapter in an overly long and tragic tale of negligence verging on treason.



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  1. PugJune 8, 2008 at 10:23 AM

    Ari Fleischer probably thinks Judith Miller of the New York Times was real hard them. She really dug into their WMD bullshit, didn't she?

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  2. LibbyJune 8, 2008 at 12:06 PM

    I'm sure he lived in terror of Judy. /snark

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