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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John McCain's age will be an issue but it will be the result of John McCain not anything his opponents say.
ReplyDeleteAre we going to go over every verbal gaffe now?
ReplyDeleteOf course we are, Dan. It's politics. But I'd like to point out a crucial difference between Obama's and Mccain's gaffes. The formers have come during the closing weeks of a gruuelling primary battle, and can be written off to exhaustion. The latter, on the other hand, has been well rested and under no primary pressure for months. Moreover, all his major gaffes have been in the field of foreign affairs, supposedly his strong suit. The folk complaining loudest about going over every gaffe are the McCain folks who have a candidate making unforced errors. If the show was on the other foot, the loudest complaints would come from the other camp and McCain's supporters would, likewise, pile on regardless.
ReplyDeleteRegards, C
Cernig- given the point you are making about timing, it is relevant to note that this video is from February 2007 (the statement was made during a town hall meeting in Iowa.) And since he mentions that he'd been at the conference in Germany over the weekend prior to the day he's speaking, jet lag is certainly plausible as an explanation for fatigue that leads to verbal gaffes.
ReplyDeleteIf all of McCain's misstatements are because of age then all of Obama's must be because of affirmative action.
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