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, January 13, 2010

Even Beck Knows Palin is an Idiot

Commentary By Ron Beasley



Anyone who thinks they can predict what will happen in November of 2010 is not paying attention.  While it's true that Obama and the Dems are in a downfall the Republicans are not in any better shape.  Case in point - Sarah Palin.  As she has demonstrated over and over again she has little if any knowledge of anything that really matters.  She demonstrated that again today when she got some friendly fire from Glen Beck on FOX.

During Sarah Palin's interview with Glenn Beck today, something
extraordinary happened -- Beck challenged Palin on a stock,
noncommittal answer to a question. Beck asked: "Who's your favorite
Founder?"



"You know, well, all of them, because they came collectively
together with so much--" Palin began, in a manner much like her
non-answers to Katie Couric's questions about which newspapers she's
read ("All of them.") and which Supreme Court decisions she's disagreed
with (which brought a similarly broad answer about how there are a lot
of decisions).



"Bullcrap," Beck interrupted. "Who's your favorite."



"--so much diverse and so much diversity in terms of belief, but
collectively they came together -- and they were led by, of course
George Washington, so he's got to rise to the top." Palin then gave a
short speech on Washington's virtues.





Of course they wern't even led by Washington who while he may have been the first President had nothing to due with the Declaration of Independence of the Constitution and was really little more than a popular and yes lucky general.





7 comments:

  1. you liberal morons make me sick. Washington was a lucky general huh. that has to be the most intelligent comment I have ever heard. I wish you all would get on a boat and go to France.

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  2. Hey there David, keep in mind we would have lost the Revolutionary War if it had not been for France and because that support bankrupted France Louis XIV lost his head. And yes, Washington himself admitted he was lucky - you conservative morons really are morons who have no knowledge of history.

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  3. It was certainly all Washington's brilliance that led to a gifted, Polish combat engineer being at West Point and building fortifications that kept the British from splitting American forces.
    IIRC, Washington gave him a lot of credit. Got him a statue at the Academy at least.
    But whatever, i'm sure that Ms. Palin could lead us as brilliantly as Washington, 'cause, you know, he wasn't an insider or anything. He was just a regular American who understood small-town values. (Oh, and he wasn't a committed Mason dedicated to the worship of Reason either. He was a good Christian which is why he dedicated the Capitol in full, Masonic regalia.)

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  4. Palin shows how dumb she is stupid. News at 11.

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  5. IRL, Palin's favorite founder would be Elbridge Gerry.

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  6. Well Ron, you touched one of the gods in an unkind way, and we can't have that, whatever the facts. What would be next? Mentioning that Reagan suffered from Alzheimer's and that this was remote-diagnosed correctly, as it later turned out, during his first term?

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  7. Its generally reported that Washington single handedly started the French and Indian War by failing to control his Indian allies.
    Washington was in the room when the Dec of Indy was debated, wearing his old FAIW British Officer's dress. He was the choice of Adams etal to lead because, besides being one of the few revolutionaries with ANY war experience, he, like Jefferson, was Virginian and the radicals of the North needed to shore up support from the Carolinas and anyway Virginia had the most people.
    Washington was also in the room when the constitution was created. He was an important figurehead, and, as president of the convention, served to calm its competing factions. Since he was an ego-driven aristocrat, he enjoyed the role a lot, esp because he didn't have to do much work.
    Palin must have liked that idea....

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