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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Thursday, August 28, 2008

Daisy

By Ron Beasley



In 1964 I graduated from high school and was preparing for college.  The big issue for me at the time was the Vietnam war but we were still having air raid drills as part of the cold war hysteria.  For those who didn't grow up in the 50s you can't imagine the impact on young minds of the monthly drills where we went to the basement of the school, sat on the floor and put our heads between our legs.  It was that year that Lyndon Baines Johnson ran the infamous "Daisy Ad" against Barry Goldwater.





In retrospect I think the ad was a bit of overkill then.  But as I hear the bellicose and incoherent rantings of John McCain I think it might apply this time around.  Barry Goldwater was a pretty cool head but his heir is increasingly bat shit crazy.



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  1. EarlAugust 28, 2008 at 7:14 AM

    C'mon, Ron...In today's political climate, AuH20 would be a dirty, f***ing hippie and you know it.
    Sad and sick at the same time.

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  2. Ron BeasleyAugust 28, 2008 at 7:54 AM

    I agree Earl. Barry was not at all pleased with the direction of the Republican Party when he died and might well be an independent now if he were still alive.

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  3. rustedAugust 28, 2008 at 4:00 PM

    Ron...
    You have me by a few years.... but I remember the ads and the election in 64 as well as all of 68's... amazing how history could repeat some of itself... people need to know the past to know where they are going in the future..

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