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, June 3, 2008

Quote Of The Day

By Ron Beasley



Our own Cernig was disgusted but not as disgusted as Sully:

The speech tonight was a remarkable one for a candidate who has lost the nomination, though not remarkable for a Clinton. It was an assertion that she had won the nomination and a refusal to concede anything to her opponent. Classless, graceless, shameless, relentless. Pure Clinton.

But he wasn't finished with quote of the day:

Her narcissism requires that she deprive her opponent of a night, or a second, of gratification or attention. And she has now won, in her Bush-like version of reality, 18 million votes. Her invitation for her supporters to email their suggestions to her website is pure theater, a way of keeping herself in the spotlight and maneuvering her delegates to demand a second spot on the ticket. The way she is now doing this - by an implicit threat, backed by McCain, to claim that Obama is an illegitimate nominee if she does not get her way - is designed to humiliate the nominee sufficiently to wound him enough to lose the election.



Either way, she is clearly intent on getting Obama defeated this fall if she is not offered the vice-presidency. And if she gets the veep nod, the way she has gotten it will allow her to argue that a November loss was not her loss. It was his. And she will run again in 2012.

It's not and shouldn't work.  She could have gotten a cabinet position or even Senate Majority Leader but after tonight she deserves zip.  Obama will win in November without her so nothing for Hillary and Bill but a failed legacy.  Perhaps there is some land available near Crawford.



Bonus Quote



The bonus quote comes from Bill at On My Mind

All of this is business as usual in Clintonland. She is going out with power plays, dictating terms under which she is willing to play her role in reuniting the party. �I have my loyal voters,� she is saying, in effect, �and if you want them back in November here�s what you have to do for me, because this is still about me.�



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4 comments:

  1. Thomas JacksonJune 3, 2008 at 5:48 PM

    If they wait a little while, they can get some land IN CRAWFORD, since the bastard who owns it is going to prison for war crimes.

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  2. Jack TannerJune 4, 2008 at 1:07 AM

    Just hold on to that bitter delusion.

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  3. CarolJune 4, 2008 at 2:21 AM

    Look, all of the people who have been in this contest have been to some extent narcissistic, Obama, mcCain and Clinton top the heap.
    Your nastiness is one sure way to turn off Clinton supporters, and not the way to go forward in a united manner.
    Shame on you. Maybe Clinton is a political hack, but this kind of editorializing belongs with teh right wing crap.

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  4. zenpunditJune 4, 2008 at 4:09 AM

    "is designed to humiliate the nominee sufficiently to wound him enough to lose the election"
    Well, yes. See Mondale circa 1984, Dukakis 1988.
    Simple calculation here on the Clinton's part. One term McCain is realistically another bite at the apple in 2012 for Hillary. An Obama win in 2008 leaves Hillary in 2016 as...an observer on the sidelines due to age, legacy of enemies and a long-faded power base

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