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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Saturday, June 11, 2011

An Anthony Weiner Post

Commentary By Ron Beasley


Juan Cole brings us the Top Ten Things Anthony Weiner has Said that are Worse than Sexting.



1. Called for Columbia University professor Joseph Massad to be fired for being critical of Israel; Weiner thus spearheaded a new McCarthyism.


2. On the Israeli attack, in international waters, on the Mavi Marmara relief ship, Weiner sputtered: ��If you want to instigate a conflict with the Israeli navy it isn�t hard to do. They were offered alternatives. Instead they chose to sail into the teeth of an internationally recognized blockade.� The blockade of Gaza civilians is a breach of international law; it is not internationally recognized and has on the contrary been condemned by almost every nation and human rights organization.


3. Alleged that the New York Times is anti-Israel: �Amnesty International in particular, has always had bias against Israel, and frankly I would argue that in many cases, the New York Times has, as well.�


4. Alleged that the Palestine Liberation Organization is still listed by the US as a terrorist organization. It was dropped from the list over 2 decades ago.


5. Tried to bar the Palestinian delegation to the United Nations from New York.


6. Alleged that Mahmoud Abbas, President of the Palestine Authority, is not the head of the PLO. He is.


7. Refused to condemn the use by Israel of cluster bombs on the civilian farms of south Lebanon in 2006.


8. Alleged that the Israeli army does not occupy the West Bank and that there is no Israeli Army presence in the West Bank.


9. Called Israel�s war on Gaza a �humane� war. 400 children were killed.


10. Voted for Iraq War authorization in 2002, before later turning against the war.



Yes - he should resign for lying.



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