Newshoggers Archive: Why Would Anyone Listen To Joe Lieberman?

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.

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Thank you very much.

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Sunday, November 8, 2009

Why Would Anyone Listen To Joe Lieberman?

Commentary By Ron Beasley

Senator Joseph Lieberman, (Zionist), Israel, has decided that the Fort Hood Massacre is a terrorist act.

Sen. Joe Lieberman called the Fort Hood
massacre an act of "Islamist extremism" - even as top Army brass warned
Sunday against guessing at a motive, fearing backlash against Muslim
soldiers.
"There are very, very strong warning signs here that
Dr. Hasan had become an Islamist extremist and, therefore, that this
was a terrorist act," Lieberman (I-Conn) told Fox News on Sunday.
"If
the reports that we're receiving of various statements he made, acts he
took are valid, he had turned to Islamist extremism."

The Army disagrees:

Lieberman's comments were in stark contrast to U.S. Army chief of staff George Casey, who told CNN he's deeply worried "that the speculation could cause something that we don't want to see happen."
"It
would be a shame - as great a tragedy as this was - it would be a shame
if our diversity became a casualty as well," Casey said.
The
former Iraq war commander said on ABC that focusing on Hasan's
religious roots might "heighten the backlash" against all Muslims
serving in the armed forces.

It's Joe Lieberman who is the terrorist and the fact that he remains chairman of the Homeland Security Committee is inexcusable.

2 comments:

TFTNovember 8, 2009 at 4:41 PM
Not that I agree with Lieberman, but it doesn't seem the army guy refuted Lieberman as much as it seems Lieberman's comments caused army guy concern about fallout.
And there was the story (UK paper I think) of Hasan getting very muslimy at grand rounds.
Maybe fundamentally Islamic, or not. It looks like it sure could be rooted in Hasan's religion.
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E LNovember 9, 2009 at 4:47 AM
Gee, be nice to little Joey. He just wants to find a home as Secretary of State in the 2012 Republican administration. Right now [sob], he's homeless.
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