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 10, 2008

Who's fist jabbing now?

By Libby



I wasn't surprised, but was more appalled then usual at this ridiculous teaser this weekend over the "fist bump" exchanged between Obama and his wife.

During the June 6 edition of Fox News� America�s Pulse, host E.D. Hill teased an upcoming discussion by saying, �A fist bump? A pound? A terrorist fist jab? The gesture everyone seems to interpret differently.�

Actually, everyone except the braindead White House stenos at Fox pretty much interpreted it as a perfectly innocent gesture but if Fox wants to speculate about the deeper meanings of this, perhaps they want to analyse Gov. Easley's greeting to Obama at yesterday's rally. And while they're at it, perhaps they would like to ask the first President Bush, the signifigance of this gesture.



If only life was really like an episode of Survivor, we could have voted the idiots at Fox off the island by now.





<b>Update by Fester</b>  Ol'Froth has more on this...



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  1. KatJune 10, 2008 at 11:59 AM

    Fester's update said 'Ol'Froth has more on this'. But upon taking the link and scrolling down to the relevant post at the homepage of Slosh B-Gosh, all I found was a photo of the Obamas and a link to the brief post at Crooks and Liars that Libby originally linked to.
    The Crooks and Liars post was based on and links to a better post at Media Matters which includes a video and a complete transcript of the Hill-Driver interview -- in which Driver's body-language analysis makes Hill's 'terrorist' teaser look like the complete idiocy it is -- followed by 73 comments about how this sort of Faux News idiocy is driving off viewers -- even hard-core koolaid-sniffers who still have half a functioning brain.
    So as far as I'm concerned, the more Faux idiocy, the better.
    Kat

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  2. LibbyJune 11, 2008 at 1:26 AM

    Hey Kat. I saw the Media Matters. It was really good and I also see that Hill apologized.

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