John Hawkins' Biography
John Hawkins runs Right Wing News (www.rightwingnews.com) and Conservative
Grapevine (www.conservativegrapevine.com) and writes a weekly column for
Townhall.
He's the blogosphere's premier interviewer and has interviewed big name
conservatives like Jed Babbin, Michael Barone, Sam Brownback, Mona Charen,
Linda Chavez, Bob Corker, Ann Coulter, Tom DeLay, Larry Elder, Milton
Friedman, David Frum, Newt Gingrich, Bernard Goldberg, David Horowitz, Mike
Huckabee, Duncan Hunter, G. Gordon Liddy, David Limbaugh, Dick Morris,
Richard Perle, Mark Steyn, Thomas Sowell, Tom Tancredo, Tim Walberg, and
Walter Williams.
Mr. Hawkins' work has been linked and discussed in numerous publications and
on TV and radio shows including ABC News, BusinessWeek, C-Span, The Chicago
Tribune, CNN, Editor & Publisher, Fox News, Hannity and Colmes, The Laura
Ingraham Show, Minneapolis Star Tribune, MSNBC, National Journal, National
Post, Newsmax, The Philadelphia Inquirer, The Rush Limbaugh Show, The Tammy
Bruce Show, Time Magazine, The Wall Street Journal, The Hugh Hewitt Show,
The Washington Post, Salt Lake Tribune, Scarborough Country, U.S. News &
World Report, WorldNetDaily, and Human Events, where he had a weekly column.
Right Wing News has been studied by college classes and inspired an urban
legend that was covered at Snopes
(http://www.snopes.com/politics/satire/withdrawal.asp).
John Hawkins also founded and led the Rightroots group, a grassroots effort
that collected almost $300,000 for Republican candidates in the last 3
months of the 2006 election cycle.