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, December 2, 2009

Andrew Sullivan's Coming Out

By John Ballard



I wondered how long it would take. Or if it ever might.
In her early days Arianna Huffington was a poster child for the political right. Sullivan is by no means the first to make such a switch.



...there has to come a point at which a movement or party so abandons core principles or degenerates into such a rhetorical septic system that you have to take a stand.

This could be a trend, but I'm not optimistic.

Check out the credo.



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2 comments:

  1. TinaDecember 2, 2009 at 3:06 AM

    Sorry but what a attention whore. Has he been deaf and blind the last eight years. Although his post was better than his insane obsession with all things Palin.

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  2. ZifnabDecember 2, 2009 at 3:36 AM

    It's not a "trend" in the Hannah Montana sense, where everyone piles on for a year or two and immediately abandons it for the next hot ideology to come down the pipe.
    More like a slow bleed, as former staunch defenders of the party become lukewarm apologists and finally dejected opponents. The popular trend away from the GOP has been ebbing and flowing since 2005. You never see a massive exodus, just one guy after another - from John Cole at Balloon Juice to the LGF crew to Senator Arlen Specter to random guy on the street - drop off edge of the tightening purity circle.

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