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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Tuesday, April 20, 2010

McCain Take Down

Commentary By Ron Beasley



Daniel Larison has one great McCain take down today.  Go read the entire thing but here's a snip:

As the presidential campaign showed once again, McCain�s actual
acquiantance with the substance of any policy, especially domestic
policy, was extremely sketchy and poor. During at least the last ten
years he never adopted a domestic policy position because he had studied
the issue carefully and determined that a certain kind of legislation
made the most practical sense or was the best expression of certain
guiding principles. He determined that the fastest way to get attention
and to aggrandize himself was by breaking with his party in
melodramatic fashion over issues that happened to appeal to mainstream
media journalists and pundits. The latter played along because they
liked what he was saying, and they wanted to reward a Republican
politician for strongly disagreeing with his party. They helped McCain
to invent the myth of his being a �maverick,� when he was really the
most predictable establishment �centrist� on almost every important
issue. It helped that he always frames his disagreements with others in
the most obnoxious, moralizing way possible, so that he is always
playing the heroic crusader against corruption and his opponents are
tainted villains on the take. [bold mine]





Update:

John Cole has more.

So help me, if I could, I would print that out and staple it to the
forehead of every journalist in DC if I thought it would do any good.

Don't waste your time John - it wouldn't.



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  1. SRW1April 20, 2010 at 9:45 AM

    McCain�s actual acquaintance with the substance of any policy, especially domestic policy extremely sketchy and poor?
    Wasn't the reason why he chose Sarah Palin as his running mate to make up for that deficit?

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