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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Monday, September 7, 2009

High Wingnuttery - Robert Stacy McCain Edition

Commentary By Ron Beasley

Robert Stacy McCain certainly qualifies as a high wingnut.  In addition he has not been paying attention to what's going on in his own party.

The demonization of the "Religious Right" was a project developed by
Norman Lear and others during the Reagan era, after Jerry Falwell's
Moral Majority played such a key role in the 1980 election, and this
theme has defined the politics of the Democratic Party ever since.

As
a political tactic, it is both amazingly effective and fundamentally
false. The Republican Party is chiefly devoted to political policies
having nothing specifically to do with evangelical Christianity
. Yet
there is an entire industry of liberal propagandists who specialize in
seeking out various outre pronouncements of "Religious Right"
leaders and presenting these views as if they would become firm policy
in the next Republican administration.

See here, here, here and here

In the same post he also suggests something that sounds very much like Mao, Stalin or even Adolph Hitler.

If Messrs. Podhorhetz, et al., wish to promote conservatism
among American Jews, let them find some way to encourage Jewish
families to move to small towns in the Heartland, where their kids can
grow up hunting, fishing and hot-rodding the backroads. A guy with a
gun rack in the back window of his four-wheel drive truck may
occasionally vote Democrat, but he's extremely unlikely to be an
out-and-out liberal.

So high wingnut McCain is suggesting relocation for political re-indoctrination of Jews - turn them into to rednecks.



3 comments:

  1. Hell no, we won't go! All kidding aside, there's no place you can send us that'll turn us into rednecks -- it's genetic.

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  2. Many of us fish, but hunted game is not schechted and so is not kosher. So, you know, thanks, but no.

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