Newshoggers Archive: What's Wrong With The Media?

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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Friday, April 9, 2010

What's Wrong With The Media?

Commentary By Ron Beasley

This is what's wrong with the media? This:

Why does anyone pay any attention to this disgraced Rethuglican? Now this worked out really well for them last time:

Newt Gingrich: Say yes to government shutdowns!

The theme of Newt Gingrich's speech Thursday night at the Southern
Republican Leadership Conference was supposed to be "the party of yes."
Republicans, tarred for a year as knee-jerk obstructionists, should
instead talk about what they're for. "There are many things that we can
say yes to," the former House speaker told his audience.

But the plan that Gingrich got the most applause from, as he tried
to rally a few thousand GOP activists to say "yes," involved... just
saying no in a different way. "When we win control of the House and
Senate this fall, stage one of the end of Obamaism will be a new
Republican Congress in January that simply refuses to fund any more," he
said. "The Congress doesn't have to pass the money. If EPA gets no
money, it can't enforce cap and trade."

That's been the new line since the healthcare reform bill passed
and Republicans realized they probably wouldn't be able to repeal it.
Gingrich, and some lawmakers, have instead been talking about simply not
paying for it. But what Gingrich proposed Thursday went beyond just
that -- to refusing to pay for anything the (hypothetical) GOP
Congress didn't want to let President Obama do.

Steve Benen:

I realize that the events of 15 years ago seem like ancient history
for a lot of folks. A 30-year-old voter today was just starting high
school when Newt Gingrich shut down the federal government -- twice --
and became one of the nation's most reviled public figures.

But for those who do remember, it may seem almost amusing that
Gingrich would actively encourage his party to follow his misguided
playbook all over again.

Perhaps the more relevant question is, would the GOP be so foolish as
to follow Newt's ridiculous advice?

Yes Steve, the current FOX/Republican Party would be more than willing to follow old Newt off the cliff.

Best headline above:

Fat Amoral Baby Newt Gingrich Attacks Barack Obama For Not Being Fat

Keep on talking Newt. People will see that saying yes to no is still saying no.

Update:

More of Newt and his friends:

The Daily Show With Jon Stewart

Mon - Thurs 11p / 10c

The Big Bang Treaty

www.thedailyshow.com

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