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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Friday, August 29, 2008

Stay Classy

By Fester:



Raw Story is picking up what a local Fox News associate noticed about one of McCain's recent attack ads --- I'll circle the relevant portion:



Change_or_hang




The circled section is the word HANG.  The Obama crowd was previously waving around the letters for CHANGE.  Yet somehow the editor of the McCain ad made a set of choices that brought out the word HANG.  An Amazing Coincidence (tm) much like the flashing of the word RAT a few cycles ago --- such horrendously poor editing that conveniently reinforces right wing frames on a consistent basis.  There is absolutely nothing inflammatory about the word HANG in any context much less the context of an African American man who is trying to be cast as 'too good' and arrogant.



Stay Classy McCain



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  1. adamsonSeptember 1, 2008 at 6:42 AM

    Well, I didn't notice that...
    A little fucked up, to be honest. But I hope it wasn't intentional.

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