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, July 2, 2009

I got a paper cut and Obama is to blame

by Jay McDonough

Some things are almost too stupid to be true.

Here's Rush Limbaugh the other day explaining South Carolina Governor Mark Sanford's disappearance and affair:

...So he ups and leaves for five days, doesn't leave anybody in charge of the state, in case there's an emergency.

This is almost like: I don't give a damn! Country's going to hell in a handbasket. I just want out of here!

He
had just tried to fight the stimulus money coming to South Carolina. He
didn't want any part of it. He lost the battle and said "What the hell?
The Federal government is taking over! I want to enjoy life!"

Not quite stupid enough?  OK, then...how's this?

Michael
Jackson's biggest successes, and as it turns out his final successes,
real successes took place in the eighties. That was Billie Jean,
Thriller and all this. I mean he was as weird as he could be but he was
profoundly, because of his weirdness, an individual. He wasn't a group
member. He reached a level of success that may never be equaled. He
flourished under Reagan; he languished under Clinton-Bush; and died
under Obama. Let's hope the parallel does not continue.

Got
that?  Mark Sanford's and Michael Jackson's stories have nothing to do
with bad judgment and bad choices.  It's actually the federal
government and Barack Obama that forced the governor to disappear for
five days, leaving his state in the lurch while he was off in Argentina
with his mistress.  And it's the suffocating power of the state that
caused Michael Jackson's declining popularity and death, not the
multiple botched plastic surgeries, persistent rumors of improper
behavior, freakish lifestyle, and reported drug abuse that doomed
Jackson.

For a group that claims personal responsibility as a
mantra, these conservatives sure are quick to blame someone, anyone,
else for all their troubles.



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