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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Thursday, May 27, 2010

Shifting Views - Except Republicans

Commentary By Ron Beasley




It's not too surprising the public views on energy VS the environment have shifted after the Deepwater Horizon disaster.


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But it has had no impact on the Republicans.


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This has to be something the Democrats can use in the months leading up to the November elections.  They need to introduce a strong energy bill and let the Republicans block it. Once again the Republicans are so out of touch.



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  1. scottMay 28, 2010 at 3:16 AM

    The Democrats could use it more credibly if they weren't hamstrung by an administration of their own party which exalts energy production above environmental considerations. I think they ought to use it anyway, with or without help from the Keystone Kops in charge, because this issue is too important to wait around for the administration to start caring about it.

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  2. andersonMay 28, 2010 at 3:54 AM

    Impervious to reality. No surprise there, really.

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  3. mparkerMay 28, 2010 at 1:11 PM

    I read about an experiment recently completed.
    The subjects are comprised of two groups, each one having an equal number of Conservatives and Progressives in it.
    The first group is read an old, mostly erroneous news story publishes prior to the Iraq war accusing that Country of having weapons of mass destruction and attempting to get yellowcake uranium etc.. This group is then asked to rate wether they believe or disbelieve different aspects of the story. When they looked at the answers the outcome is that the Progressives are aware of the errors while the Conservatives are far more likely to believe the errors even ten years later.
    The second group is read the same story. But this time each error in the story is explained to the group. It is "fact checked" for them and evidence is provided.
    This group is also asked to rate wether they believe or disbelieve different aspects of the story. There is little change in the ratings given by Progressives.
    Conservatives rated even stronger belief in the bullshit when it was fact checked.
    You may have wondered why you can't change the minds of your Conservative friends or family with facts. Well there it is. It's not just that facts mean nothing to them, it's worse. than that. When confronted with evidence that disagree with their beliefs, they retreat even further into them. They double down on their bullshit, eyes shut tightly, fingers in their ears, singing louder and louder.

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