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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Sunday, January 22, 2012

A loooonnnnnggg GOP primary season

By Dave Anderson:


Just a quick note before I have to put a very silly bug to bed.


This morning as I was driving to a wrestling meet, I started the drive with a sports talk radio station on.  The second commercial I heard was from the Gingrich supporting super-PAC slamming Romney's vampire capitalism. 


Ten minutes later, I had flipped the dial to a classic rock station, and heard another add from the same super-PAC that used Michelle Bachman's words to praise Gingrich in an attempt to claim the Clinton legacy.


Both stations have demographics that lean male, white and older than the median voter, so it makes sense to have a conservative advertising on them.  The surprisign thing was the timing.  The Pennyslvania primary is not until mid-April. 


Pass the popcorn.



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  1. John BallardJanuary 22, 2012 at 12:11 PM

    I want to see so many super PAC ads over the next ten months that even the dullest of Americans gets nauseated.
    Let a thousand complaints erupt so I can say "Corporations are people and money is free speech, you know. The Supreme Court says so."

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