John Hawkins' Biography

John Hawkins runs Right Wing News (www.rightwingnews.com), Conservative Grapevine (www.conservativegrapevine.com), Right Wing Video (http://www.rightwingvideo.com) and writes a weekly column for Townhall.

John Hawkins is the blogosphere's premier interviewer and has interviewed big name conservatives like Jed Babbin, Michael Barone, Sam Brownback, Mona Charen, Ann Coulter, Tom DeLay, Jim DeMint, Larry Elder, Milton Friedman, Newt Gingrich, Bernard Goldberg, Jonah Goldberg, David Horowitz, Mike Huckabee, Duncan Hunter, G. Gordon Liddy, David Limbaugh, Michael Medved, Dick Morris, Richard Perle, Mark Steyn, Thomas Sowell, Tom Tancredo and Walter Williams.

John Hawkins's 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. In 2008, he consulted for Duncan Hunter's presidential campaign and was on the board of Slatecard, (http://www.Slatecard.com), which raised more than $600,000 for Republican candidates in the 2008 election cycle.