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, August 24, 2010

Scaring White People

Commentary By Ron Beasley




In the last week or so I have never been so ashamed to be an American.  The FOX News/Talk Radio industry has been trying to "excite" it's Tribal Neanderthal base by with a fear campaign centered around a Muslim community center in a run down neighborhood two blocks from the 911 site all to make sure they vote in November in addition to increasing their ratings.  This is not only morally objectionable, Constitutionally objectionable but down right treasonous. Now I don't really hold out much hope for our misadventure in Afghanistan but this action will only further convince the people of that country that the US really is at war with Islam.  And then there is the hypocrisy.  John Stewart explains.





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"That Guy" indeed!

Of course the scare the tribal white people tactic may work in November. That's the really sad part.

Update:


A brilliant statement from Mayor Michael Bloomberg:


But if we say that a mosque and community center should
not be built near the perimeter of the World Trade Center site, we would
compromise our commitment to fighting terror with freedom.


We would undercut the values and principles that so many heroes died
protecting. We would feed the false impressions that some Americans have
about Muslims. We would send a signal around the world that Muslim
Americans may be equal in the eyes of the law, but separate in the eyes
of their countrymen. And we would hand a valuable propaganda tool to
terrorist recruiters, who spread the fallacy that America is at war with
Islam.


Islam did not attack the World Trade Center � Al-Qaeda did. To
implicate all of Islam for the actions of a few who twisted a great
religion is unfair and un-American. Today we are not at war with Islam �
we are at war with Al-Qaeda and other extremists who hate freedom.


[snip]


The members of our military are men and women at arms � battling for
hearts and minds. And their greatest weapon in that fight is the
strength of our American values, which have always inspired people
around the world. But if we do not practice here at home what we preach
abroad � if we do not lead by example � we undermine our soldiers. We
undermine our foreign policy objectives. And we undermine our national
security.



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