Poor John Hawkins of RightWing News
Because this is the founding editor of National Review Online, currently serving as NRO editor-at-large.
Also.
So, really, all you pretty much need to get hired on at NRO is a social security number and the ability to fog a mirror when it is held up to your mouth.






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So ggllaad I aren’t follow Jonahh Gollddbbeerrgghh. Or squealy John Hawkins.
You know what must be sad? Being married to Jonah Goldberg. I’d rather wake up with a gay human being than a slab of Spam.
Jonah, you’ve got your very own gay?
I can only count to potato if you spell it, Dan Quayle style, with an “e.”
People who can’t tell the difference between “your” and “you’re” (and they are fuckin’ legion on the intertubes) should have their scroti stapled to their thighs. That goes double for those troglodytes who use “prolly”
People who misspell Ann-Margret’s name should just be taken out back and shot.
An editor who can’t spell or use proper grammar is sure impressive. And, no, “it’s only Twitter” is no excuse.
Cretins.
Hear, hear! Then get out the staple gun!
Let’s not forget the alternate NRO editor.
The even sadder thing is that John Hawkins, if I understand him correctly, is mad because Reihan is “squishy,” meaning he doesn’t adhere to the ideologically-straight line. Instead, he and Douthat have a schtick in which they talk nonsense and about impossible hypotheticals under the guise of “new Republican ideas.”
For Hawkins, playing this game, instead of the usual braying that Obama is taking away our freedoms/jobs/money/whiteness, is a sign of underdevelopment.
What an odd world they live in.
William F. Buckley wept.
Hawkmeister, I believe your write. Most writers/editors at the NRO are 4th rate and can only dream of mediocrity. Why the step up? Oh, you didn’t mean it that way? Disregard.
Ahh yes, K-Lo, the James Patterson of on-line editing/journalism. Good call.
IMHO, the NRO has deteriorated since K-Lo stepped down. I didn’t read it back then, either, but she did supply T-Bogg with plenty of snark food. It’s just another pointless dryhole in the wingnut welfare, make-word landscape.
Oh, don’t forget to hit that asterisk.
The “so sad when…” context makes me think Jonah knows many closeted, unhappy married men. He’s given this issue a lot of thought.
Get it straight Hawkins: third-rate mediocrities write for WaPo, NYT and Atlantic Monthly. Those who aspire to mediocrity write for NRO.
More evidence that god does not want people to twitter.
Ann-Margret. Hmmmmm. She’s Swedish.
Hawkins’ query should read “How is it that a squishy 3rd rate mediocrity like National Review Online can get a writer like Reihan Salam?” Because you don’t have to be a fan of Salam’s to see that what honor there is in this hire is all NRO’s.
I know, I know… Mrs. TBogg is not reviewing this material before he hits “enter.” I hope Fenway is getting more fiber than TBogg.
Awww, too crappy a writer even for NRO, Porkins? That’s gotta sting.
Showing off his 4th rate C-minus teachers college learnin(Jonah knows his limitations). I heard he played Baby Huey in 15th grade.
What a bunch of twatters. Sheesh.
Thank you for your temper tantrum.
I can’t STAND the your vs. you’re and its vs. it’s mistakes.
Cripes, I used to teach 8th grade English, and my kids would not have survived my class with such errors!!
People who can’t tell the difference between “your” and “you’re” … should have their scroti stapled to their thighs.
And people who can’t tell the difference between the 2nd decl. masculine accusative plural and the 2nd decl. neuter accusative plural should have their scrota stapled to theirs.
Bahahaha.
I’m a non-twitterer, and I approved this comment.
For some reason the comments box ate the fake-HTML “pedant” tags I’d surrounded my comment with. I wasn’t seriously suggesting that Michael’s scrotum be stapled to his thigh.
Please don’t forget: their, they’re and there. Drives me nuts.
When the fuck did we get ice cream?*
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My favorite intertoobz grammar offense: loose and lose. As in “Like John Hawkins, I have yet to loose my virginity.”
Mrs. Tilton, if you’ll put down the staple gun, I will diffidently suggest that “scroti” and “scrota” are actually second declension nominative plurals.
I figure the NRO “potatoe” folks can only deal with two issues at a time.
But yes, they’re, there & their are fingernails on the blackboard too.
I wanna be there when that happens!!
That’s good to know.
I probably should have just added an “s”, or maybe opted for something along the lines of “nutsacks” as an alternative, but (as usual), I pulled the textural equivalent of one of Phil Mickelson’s ill advised shots, going for broke just trying for maximum laughitude.
My main point was that Jonah should have his fat ass kicked for mangling A-M’s name so wretchedly.
Me, to.
Too much silicone up top, too little meat on the bottom.
Also.