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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Wednesday, November 25, 2009

Too Stupid to be a Democracy

Commentary By Ron Beasley



When the United States falls it will be because it's population is simply not up to critical thought - too stupid.  Headlines like this would lead one to believe the end is not too far away.



Sarah Palin: 'We'll see' about run with Glenn Beck

What is it about Sarah Palin is it that her cultist supporters like?  It's not policy!

Chase Whitestead and Erick Stroll of "New Left Media"
set out to determine just what was it about Sarah Palin that impelled
her supporters to stand in massive lines for hours for the chance to
meet her at book signings.



They interviewed several of her supporters who were waiting in line
at a Borders bookstore in Columbus, Ohio. These fans expressed very
strong support for Palin, but it was mostly couched in vague
generalities about her being "real" and "strong" and "fair."



When pressed to cite specific policies that they favored or thought
qualified her for the presidency, most of her fans struggled to come up
with anything other than generic lines about cutting taxes and spending
and the Palin staple: "drill, baby, drill."



On the other hand, they were all worried that President Obama has
been doing enormous damage to the country. However, again, specifics
eluded them.







So what do they like about her?  She's just as dumb as they are.



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