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, July 19, 2011

Bachmann Hit Piece

Commentary By Ron Beasley


Michele Bachmann continues to surge in the polls so what are the Republican power brokers going to do?  The Democrats dream candidate is Ms Bachmann for the Republican elites it's a nightmare.  So what are they to do?  Call Tucker Carlson's rag The Daily Caller and arrange a hit piece.



In late July 2010, Rep. Michele Bachmann�s then-communications director, Dave Dziok, told his boss that he planned to take a new job with the public relations firm Edelman.


Dziok had worked for Bachmann for two and a half years, a relatively long period by the standards of her office, and was leaving on good terms.


Staff turnover can frustrate any employer, but Bachmann responded more dramatically. Dziok�s departure triggered a debilitating medical episode that landed the congresswoman in urgent care.


�Within 24 hours she was in the hospital,� a former aide says.



And this was not first time!



It was, according to three people who have worked closely with Bachmann, not an isolated event.The Minnesota Republican frequently suffers from stress-induced medical episodes that she has characterized as severe headaches. These episodes, say witnesses, occur once a week on average and can �incapacitate� her for days at time. On at least three occasions, Bachmann has landed in the hospital as a result.



This was so predictable.  If not this it would have been something else.  Neutralize the crazy.  It really doesn't matter how true this is Bachmann is finished.  I image they are doing some serious research on Rick Perry.



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