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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Saturday, January 2, 2010

Conservative Project Censored 2009

by anderson

Now that the days of lists are upon us, politically stripped ones are an inevitable waste byproduct, as mounds of vacuous, ignorant nonsense, unseemly piles of ill-informed gobbery, paid-for corporate shilling, and trunk loads of truculent quibbling wend their incontinent way toward the intended target.

The media will figure largely in some of these lists, but not in a way that many might imagine.  While we may understand what role the corporate media play in the conduct of empire, American conservatives see something else entirely, as they always have: the destructive forces of liberalism lurking at the core of a lefty American press.

With this in mind, if you find yourself wondering what conservatives consider the most important "underreported stories of 2009," well, you are in luck.  Because we know the liberal media are covering up any number of subversive, anti-American plots, all of which are designed to bring on a terrorist-coddling, enviro-fascist vegetarian police state.

What? You've never heard of this evil plot?  Exactly.

And just so readers understand, these "underreported stories" may, at first blush, appear to have been reported.  In some cases, quite a lot.  Apparently, though, extant coverage was insufficiently thunderous, and it fell upon Breitbart's Dana Loesch to tell us so.

Within the meager confines of this conservative project censored effort, it shall be noted, is a rather thin sack of the usual complaints we've all enjoyed over the past year.  Climategate makes the list as "underreported," presumably because the media failed to further investigate the nether realms of the  vegan-nazi New World Order.  The "growth" of the Tea Party Movement is also being ignored and maligned, mostly it seems because no one really wants to know what kind of product such a movement might produce.

There is more, but not much more.  Ft. Hood; ACORN. Health care reform produced a cover-up of bribery, which is an odd complaint indeed considering that the bribery was being conducted in plain sight.  Van Jones failed to generated sufficient media outrage, and Kevin Jennings (?), who appears to be known to conservatives because of his desire transform American education into a platform to further the "homosexual agenda." This too was given a pass by media libs.  If you've found yourself paying more attention to Afghanistan, like we do here at Newshoggers, and think you have never heard of Kevin Jennings, well, that's just proof of the media plot, you see.  Escalation in Afghanistan was simply distracting cover so that Americans would fail to notice the attempted stealthy gay subversion of their own education system.  And guess what?  They did!

Resting on its well-deserved, yet covert laurels at number six, my own favorite underreported story has to be the long-running cover-up of the National Endowment for the Arts, a long-thought-to-be wicked, steaming cauldron of Boschian depravity and modernist angst in the age of quantum duality.  The NEA cover-up is listed because of the once subversive now "Obama controlled" institution's as yet unrealized dream of a global homo-marxist
utopia, created with taxpayer dollars an unsuspecting public thinks is
being used for ... art!  HA!  How wrong they are!  The NEA is actually a
Riefenstahlesque propaganda mill for Obama and his world-wide socialist
agenda. Hahahahahaha!

So, you can see the obvious liberal bias in the mainstream media.  They don't want you to know that homophilic socialist Liberals are ascendant -- have been for decades -- slyly planning the destruction of global capital and the glorious American way of life.  With the NEA and Kevin Jennings.



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