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, October 22, 2010

That didn't take long

Commentary By Ron Beasley


Just for the hell of it I watched Juan Willaims hosting the Bill O'Reily show tonight.  In one short day he's gone full wingnut - the straight neocon/Republican talking points - and all it cost Murdoch was 2 million dollars.  NPR may have done it badly but they did the right thing.


Update:


This from The Gawker came a little late.



Because, Juan, we now fear�and we wish we didn't, but we do�that you have swallowed the Fox News company line. Which is that you are a hero. A heroic martyr, sacrificed upon the altar of NPR's left-wing liberal correctness. Of course you are smarter than that, Juan, but it's surely difficult to think very clearly when your brand new friends on the right are rushing to your defense and attacking the mean people who just fired you and dumping $2 million in your lap.



Note:


I think Williams knew exactly what he was doing and wanted NPR to fire him.  He's not getting any younger and hasn't done anything of any real merit for 10 or 15 years.  He was surrounded by wealthy pundits on FOX and at this stage of his life wanted some of the action.  The best way to get it was for NPR to fire him and stir up the hornet's nest of the right.  It worked!



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