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margin: 0 0 0.5em 0.5em; text-align:left; border: 1px solid #FF6E00; width:175px;"> <tbody><tr> <td style="font-size: 95%; text-align:center; color:White; background-color:#FF6E00"><b>Parroting squawkbox</b><br /><a href="/wiki/Pundit" title="Pundit"><font size="4" color="White"><b>Pundits</b></font></a> </td></tr> <tr> <td style="background-color:#E9E4E4;" align="center"><a href="/wiki/Category:Political_pundits" title="Category:Political pundits"><img alt="Icon pundit.svg" src="/w/images/thumb/4/45/Icon_pundit.svg/100px-Icon_pundit.svg.png" decoding="async" width="100" height="100" srcset="/w/images/thumb/4/45/Icon_pundit.svg/150px-Icon_pundit.svg.png 1.5x, /w/images/thumb/4/45/Icon_pundit.svg/200px-Icon_pundit.svg.png 2x" data-file-width="200" data-file-height="200" /></a> </td></tr> <tr> <td style="font-size: 95%; color:White; background-color:#FF6E00; text-align:center;"><b>And a dirty dozen more</b> </td></tr> <tr> <td style="font-size: 95%; background-color:#E9E4E4;"> <ul><li><a href="/wiki/Matt_Barber" title="Matt Barber">Matt Barber</a></li> <li><a href="/wiki/Suzanne_Venker" title="Suzanne Venker">Suzanne Venker</a></li> <li><a href="/wiki/Tom_Bethell" title="Tom Bethell">Tom Bethell</a></li> <li><a href="/wiki/Michael_Moore" title="Michael Moore">Michael Moore</a></li> <li><a href="/wiki/Ben_Carson" title="Ben Carson">Ben Carson</a></li> <li><a href="/wiki/Katie_Hopkins" title="Katie Hopkins">Katie Hopkins</a></li> <li><a href="/wiki/Rudy_Giuliani" title="Rudy Giuliani">Rudy Giuliani</a></li> <li><a href="/wiki/Ward_Churchill" title="Ward Churchill">Ward Churchill</a></li> <li><a href="/wiki/Andrew_Roberts" title="Andrew Roberts">Andrew Roberts</a></li> <li><a href="/wiki/Owen_Benjamin" title="Owen Benjamin">Owen Benjamin</a></li> <li><a href="/wiki/Caleb_Maupin" title="Caleb Maupin">Caleb Maupin</a></li> <li><a href="/wiki/Yoram_Hazony" title="Yoram Hazony">Yoram Hazony</a></li></ul> <div class="vte plainlinks" style="font-size:smaller; text-align:center;"><a href="/wiki/Template:Pundits" title="Template:Pundits">v</a> - <a href="/wiki/Template_talk:Pundits" title="Template talk:Pundits">t</a> - <a rel="nofollow" class="external text" href="https://rationalwiki.org/w/index.php?title=Template:Pundits&action=edit">e</a></div> </td></tr></tbody></table> <p><i>Not <a href="https://en.wikipedia.org/wiki/John_Hawkins_(naval_commander)" class="extiw" title="wp:John Hawkins (naval commander)" rel="nofollow"><span style="color:#477979 !important;" title="Wikipedia: John_Hawkins_(naval_commander)">the pioneer of the African slave trade</span></a>,<sup><img alt="" src="https://upload.wikimedia.org/wikipedia/commons/thumb/5/5a/Wikipedia%27s_W.svg/12px-Wikipedia%27s_W.svg.png" decoding="async" width="12" height="12" srcset="https://upload.wikimedia.org/wikipedia/commons/thumb/5/5a/Wikipedia%27s_W.svg/18px-Wikipedia%27s_W.svg.png 1.5x, https://upload.wikimedia.org/wikipedia/commons/thumb/5/5a/Wikipedia%27s_W.svg/24px-Wikipedia%27s_W.svg.png 2x" data-file-width="128" data-file-height="128" /></sup> though we can see how you would be confused.</i> </p> <table style="margin: auto; border-collapse:collapse; border-style:none; background-color:transparent;" class="cquote"> <tbody><tr> <td><div style="padding:4px 50px;position:relative;"><span style="position:absolute;left:10px;top:-6px;z-index:1;font-family:'Times New Roman',serif;font-weight:bold;color:#B2B7F2;font-size:36px">“</span><span style="position:absolute;right:10px;bottom:-20px;z-index:1;font-family:'Times New Roman',serif;font-weight:bold;color:#B2B7F2;font-size:36px">”</span>It’s generally considered over-the-top to compare modern <a href="/wiki/Liberal" class="mw-redirect" title="Liberal">liberals</a> with <a href="/wiki/Communist" class="mw-redirect" title="Communist">communists</a>, <a href="/wiki/Red-baiting" title="Red-baiting">but that’s because it’s painful to accept such a harsh truth about fellow Americans</a>, not because they aren’t nearly identical.</div> </td></tr> <tr> <td style="padding:4px 10px 8px;font-size:smaller;line-height:1.6em;text-align:right;"><cite style="font-style:normal;position:relative;z-index:2">—John Hawkins<sup id="cite_ref-1" class="reference"><a href="#cite_note-1">[1]</a></sup></cite> </td></tr></tbody></table> <p><b>John Hawkins</b> is a batshit-crazy <a href="/wiki/Wingnut" title="Wingnut">wingnut</a> who runs the website Right Wing News and regularly contributes articles to the <a href="/wiki/Radical" title="Radical">radical</a> right side of the clogosphere. He likes to make <a href="/wiki/Clickbait" title="Clickbait">listicles</a> of "<a href="/wiki/Bullshit" title="Bullshit">facts</a>" <a href="/wiki/Proll" title="Proll">that cater to his fringy audience</a> who, in turn, adore him for being <a href="/wiki/Politically_incorrect" title="Politically incorrect">politically incorrect</a>. He writes columns for both <a href="/wiki/Townhall.com" title="Townhall.com">Townhall.com</a> and <a href="/wiki/Pajamas_Media" class="mw-redirect" title="Pajamas Media">PJ Media</a>, and has made a name for himself as the poor man's <a href="/wiki/Erick_Erickson" title="Erick Erickson">Erick Erickson</a> if you thought that was even possible. </p> <div id="toc" class="toc" role="navigation" aria-labelledby="mw-toc-heading"><input type="checkbox" role="button" id="toctogglecheckbox" class="toctogglecheckbox" style="display:none" /><div class="toctitle" lang="en" dir="ltr"><h2 id="mw-toc-heading">Contents</h2><span class="toctogglespan"><label class="toctogglelabel" for="toctogglecheckbox"></label></span></div> <ul> <li class="toclevel-1 tocsection-1"><a href="#Lists"><span class="tocnumber">1</span> <span class="toctext">Lists</span></a></li> <li class="toclevel-1 tocsection-2"><a href="#Hypocrisy"><span class="tocnumber">2</span> <span class="toctext">Hypocrisy</span></a></li> <li class="toclevel-1 tocsection-3"><a href="#Stopped_clock"><span class="tocnumber">3</span> <span class="toctext">Stopped clock</span></a></li> <li class="toclevel-1 tocsection-4"><a href="#References"><span class="tocnumber">4</span> <span class="toctext">References</span></a></li> </ul> </div> <h2><span class="mw-headline" id="Lists">Lists</span><span class="mw-editsection"><span class="mw-editsection-bracket">[</span><a href="/w/index.php?title=John_Hawkins&action=edit&section=1" title="Edit section: Lists">edit</a><span class="mw-editsection-bracket">]</span></span></h2> <p>Perhaps the best way to discredit Hawkins is to simply quote just one of the lists he's made.<sup id="cite_ref-2" class="reference"><a href="#cite_note-2">[2]</a></sup> </p><p>"1) <a href="/wiki/Transphobia" title="Transphobia">"People who want to change sexes should be treated by a psychologist, not deformed through surgery, given hormone treatments, and falsely told that they can change sexes."</a> </p><p>"8) Most liberals aren't <a href="/wiki/Patriotic" class="mw-redirect" title="Patriotic">patriotic</a> and they don't love their country." </p><p>"9) Our soldiers should make every effort to avoid civilian casualties, but when it comes right down to it, the life of an American soldier should be treated as more important than the life of a foreign civilian." </p><p>"11) The only practical way to make peace between the <a href="/wiki/Israel" title="Israel">Israelis</a> and <a href="/wiki/Palestinians" class="mw-redirect" title="Palestinians">Palestinians</a> is for the Israelis to transfer the Palestinians and take their land." </p><p>"19) If you have good character, you should feel ashamed of taking food stamps, taking <a href="/wiki/Welfare" class="mw-redirect" title="Welfare">welfare</a>, or being on a school lunch program." </p><p>Yes, you read that right, a <i>school lunch program.</i> </p><p>"20) We would be much better off as a nation if most of the immigrants to this country were well educated people from nations in Europe that shared our Western values as opposed to our current policy which brings in mostly less educated people from Third World nations." </p><p>Because well-to-do immigrants would do the backbreaking labor that keeps our economy going. </p><p>In his list "25 Reasons To Dislike Liberals" he gives us some more delicious quotes because there is so much <a href="/wiki/Strawman" class="mw-redirect" title="Strawman">strawman</a> everywhere.<sup id="cite_ref-3" class="reference"><a href="#cite_note-3">[3]</a></sup> </p><p>"2) Because the closest thing to <a href="/wiki/Sodom_and_Gomorrah" title="Sodom and Gomorrah">Sodom and Gomorrah</a> in the modern world is <a href="/wiki/San_Francisco" title="San Francisco">San Francisco</a> and Berkeley." </p><p>"3) Whether you're talking about cop killers, <a href="/wiki/Terrorists" class="mw-redirect" title="Terrorists">terrorists</a>, <a href="/wiki/Radical" title="Radical">radical</a> <a href="/wiki/Islamism" title="Islamism">Islamists</a> or <a href="/wiki/Dictator" class="mw-redirect" title="Dictator">dictators</a>, all you have to do is say, "I hate <a href="/wiki/America" title="America">America</a>," and liberals start to sympathize with you." </p><p>"4) Liberals are actually bothered by people who do love America. On the rare occasion when you do see a liberal waving a flag, look for a camera." </p><p>"5) The same people who voted <a href="/wiki/Jimmy_Carter" title="Jimmy Carter">Jimmy Carter</a> and <a href="/wiki/Barack_Obama" title="Barack Obama">Barack Obama</a> into office think they're smarter than tradition, the <a href="/wiki/Founding_Fathers" title="Founding Fathers">Founding Fathers</a> and <a href="/wiki/God" title="God">God</a> Himself." </p><p>"11) <a href="/wiki/Psychological_projection" title="Psychological projection">The dumbest, most close-minded and mean spirited people in all of politics are inevitably liberals</a> who are convinced they're brilliant, open-minded and compassionate because they call themselves liberals." </p><p>"18) Liberals have been big supporters of <a href="/wiki/Slavery" title="Slavery">slavery</a>, Indian massacres, the <a href="/wiki/KKK" class="mw-redirect" title="KKK">KKK</a>, <a href="/wiki/Eugenics" title="Eugenics">eugenics</a>, fascism, <a href="/wiki/Communism" title="Communism">communism</a> and <a href="/wiki/Jim_Crow_laws" title="Jim Crow laws">Jim Crow laws</a>. Then, down the road, after liberals finally join everyone else, they try to claim that <a href="/wiki/Conservatives" class="mw-redirect" title="Conservatives">conservatives</a> still support all the practices that we fought liberals on from the beginning." </p><p>Like most wingnuts, Hawkins thinks that the <a href="/wiki/Republican_Party" title="Republican Party">Republican Party</a> was always conservative and the <a href="/wiki/Democratic_Party" title="Democratic Party">Democratic Party</a> was always liberal. Calling them commie sympathizers is the oddest accusation, since liberals like <a href="/wiki/Franklin_D._Roosevelt" title="Franklin D. Roosevelt">Franklin D. Roosevelt</a> and Hubert Humphrey were thought of as the hawks during <a href="/wiki/World_War_II" title="World War II">World War II</a> and the early stages of the <a href="/wiki/Cold_War" title="Cold War">Cold War</a> (before the rise of the <a href="/wiki/New_Left" title="New Left">New Left</a>), while the <a href="/wiki/Paleoconservative#The_Old_Right" class="mw-redirect" title="Paleoconservative">Old Right</a> of the 1940s and '50s, led by the likes of <a href="/wiki/Robert_A._Taft" title="Robert A. Taft">Robert A. Taft</a>, was more <a href="/wiki/Isolationist" class="mw-redirect" title="Isolationist">isolationist</a> and opposed confronting the Nazis or the Soviets. </p><p>"19) Liberals think black Americans are inferior to whites, which is why the worst, most crime-ridden places to live in America are inevitably run by liberals. That's acceptable to liberals because they don't think black Americans deserve any better." </p><p>"25) Even "liberal <a href="/wiki/Christians" class="mw-redirect" title="Christians">Christians</a>" are generally supportive of other liberals who attack Christianity, <a href="/wiki/No_True_Scotsman" title="No True Scotsman">which is why "liberal Christians" is in quotes."</a> </p><p>As ridiculous as it may seem, these lists make wingnuts <i>fawn</i> over Hawkins despite (or maybe because of) their <a href="/wiki/PIDOOMA" title="PIDOOMA">intellectual laziness</a>, despite the fact that one could make a true statement just by repeating Hawkins's lists, but switching the words "liberal" and "conservative". Many of them believe he is pushing true Christian values. <a href="/wiki/Crank_magnetism" title="Crank magnetism">As if that's not enough</a>, he also pushes <a href="/wiki/Global_warming_denialism" class="mw-redirect" title="Global warming denialism">global warming denialism</a>,<sup id="cite_ref-4" class="reference"><a href="#cite_note-4">[4]</a></sup> claiming that "Liberal luddites <a href="/wiki/Strawman" class="mw-redirect" title="Strawman">who hate capitalism and industry</a> <a href="/wiki/Poisoning_the_well" title="Poisoning the well">have spent billions to spread global warming propaganda</a>, despite the fact that it looks more like a fraud, a scam, and a hustle every year."<sup id="cite_ref-5" class="reference"><a href="#cite_note-5">[5]</a></sup> Not surprisingly, he's also pretty sexist and once claimed that no woman deserves to be regarded as among the greatest Americans because no woman has ever made a great contribution to this country's history.<sup id="cite_ref-6" class="reference"><a href="#cite_note-6">[6]</a></sup> </p> <h2><span class="mw-headline" id="Hypocrisy">Hypocrisy</span><span class="mw-editsection"><span class="mw-editsection-bracket">[</span><a href="/w/index.php?title=John_Hawkins&action=edit&section=2" title="Edit section: Hypocrisy">edit</a><span class="mw-editsection-bracket">]</span></span></h2> <p>Despite Hawkins' self-proclaimed dislike for liberals because he thinks they play the "<a href="/wiki/Race_card" title="Race card">race card</a>" and/or the "<a href="/wiki/Professional_victim" title="Professional victim">victim</a>", Hawkins himself got in trouble when he sent out a tweet saying "a white woman voting for Barack Obama is like a black woman voting for the KKK".<sup id="cite_ref-7" class="reference"><a href="#cite_note-7">[7]</a></sup> Hawkins is also great at playing the victim, believing that homeschooled kids are better off because <a href="/wiki/Conspiracy_theory" title="Conspiracy theory">liberals indoctrinate students at public schools</a>. </p> <h2><span class="mw-headline" id="Stopped_clock">Stopped clock</span><span class="mw-editsection"><span class="mw-editsection-bracket">[</span><a href="/w/index.php?title=John_Hawkins&action=edit&section=3" title="Edit section: Stopped clock">edit</a><span class="mw-editsection-bracket">]</span></span></h2> <p>To <a href="/wiki/Stopped_clock" title="Stopped clock">give credit where it is due</a>, in a 2007 article for <i>Human Events</i>, Hawkins did push back against the <a href="/wiki/North_American_Union" title="North American Union">North American Union</a> conspiracy theory advocated by <a href="/wiki/WorldNetDaily" class="mw-redirect" title="WorldNetDaily">WorldNetDaily</a> writer <a href="/wiki/Jerome_Corsi" title="Jerome Corsi">Jerome Corsi</a>: "Sure, lots of people saw planes hit the Pentagon and the World Trade Center, but let's ignore that and talk about the temperature that steel melts at and the size of the hole in the building at the Pentagon. That’s how [conspiracy theorists] trick people in missing the big picture."<sup id="cite_ref-8" class="reference"><a href="#cite_note-8">[8]</a></sup> </p><p>Another slightly decent thing of him is that in contrast to a lot of his right-wing peers, John is very opposed to Putin's Russia. Still not opposed enough to be willing to help Ukraine.<span class="error mw-ext-cite-error" lang="en" dir="ltr">Cite error: Closing <code></ref></code> missing for <code><ref></code> tag</span> the Democrats used to support the KKK<sup id="cite_ref-9" class="reference"><a href="#cite_note-9">[9]</a></sup><sup id="cite_ref-10" class="reference"><a href="#cite_note-10">[10]</a></sup>) with usually little to no evidence to back them up would be as <a rel="nofollow" class="external text" href="http://www.cracked.com/blog/4-hilarious-self-help-books-crazy-old-people/">a bad self help writer.</a> </p> <h2><span class="mw-headline" id="References">References</span><span class="mw-editsection"><span class="mw-editsection-bracket">[</span><a href="/w/index.php?title=John_Hawkins&action=edit&section=4" title="Edit section: References">edit</a><span class="mw-editsection-bracket">]</span></span></h2> <div class="references-small" style="-moz-column-count:2; -webkit-column-count:2; column-count:2; font-size:90%;"> <div class="mw-references-wrap"><ol class="references"> <li id="cite_note-1"><span class="mw-cite-backlink"><a href="#cite_ref-1">↑</a></span> <span class="reference-text"><a rel="nofollow" class="external text" href="http://www.rightwingnews.com/uncategorized/communists-liberals-whats-the-difference-supposed-to-be-at-this-point/">We're sorry for having so many links to his website.</a></span> </li> <li id="cite_note-2"><span class="mw-cite-backlink"><a href="#cite_ref-2">↑</a></span> <span class="reference-text">Hawkins, John. <a rel="nofollow" class="external text" href="http://townhall.com/columnists/johnhawkins/2013/06/08/20-basic-truths-youre-not-supposed-to-talk-about-in-america-anymore-n1615722/page/full">20 Basic Truths You Can’t Talk About in America Anymore</a></span> </li> <li id="cite_note-3"><span class="mw-cite-backlink"><a href="#cite_ref-3">↑</a></span> <span class="reference-text">Hawkins, John. <a rel="nofollow" class="external text" href="http://townhall.com/columnists/johnhawkins/2013/05/11/25-reasons-to-dislike-liberals-n1592873/page/full">25 Reasons To Dislike Liberals</a>. The full list is even crazier</span> </li> <li id="cite_note-4"><span class="mw-cite-backlink"><a href="#cite_ref-4">↑</a></span> <span class="reference-text">Hawkins, John. <a rel="nofollow" class="external text" href="http://townhall.com/columnists/johnhawkins/2013/04/20/20-questions-liberals-cant-answer-n1573545/page/full">20 Questions Liberals Can't Answer</a></span> </li> <li id="cite_note-5"><span class="mw-cite-backlink"><a href="#cite_ref-5">↑</a></span> <span class="reference-text">Hawkins, John. <a rel="nofollow" class="external text" href="http://www.rightwingnews.com/john-hawkins/15-quotes-from-conservatives-on-the-global-warming-hoax/">15 Quotes From Conservatives On The Global Warming Hoax</a></span> </li> <li id="cite_note-6"><span class="mw-cite-backlink"><a href="#cite_ref-6">↑</a></span> <span class="reference-text"><a rel="nofollow" class="external text" href="http://www.rightwingnews.com/uncategorized/is-history-sexist/">Is History Sexist?</a></span> </li> <li id="cite_note-7"><span class="mw-cite-backlink"><a href="#cite_ref-7">↑</a></span> <span class="reference-text">Blue Texan. <a rel="nofollow" class="external text" href="http://crooksandliars.com/blue-texan/stupid-right-wing-tweets-john-hawkins-e">Stupid Right-Wing Tweets: John Hawkins Edition</a></span> </li> <li id="cite_note-8"><span class="mw-cite-backlink"><a href="#cite_ref-8">↑</a></span> <span class="reference-text"><style data-mw-deduplicate="TemplateStyles:r2708880">/* Errors processing stylesheet [[:Module:Citation/CS1/styles.css]] (rev 2708880): • Invalid or unsupported value for property ⧼code⧽background⧼/code⧽ at line 44 character 14. • Invalid or unsupported value for property ⧼code⧽background⧼/code⧽ at line 50 character 14. • Invalid or unsupported value for property ⧼code⧽background⧼/code⧽ at line 55 character 14. • Invalid or unsupported value for property ⧼code⧽background⧼/code⧽ at line 64 character 14. • Invalid or unsupported value for property ⧼code⧽color⧼/code⧽ at line 96 character 9. • Invalid or unsupported value for property ⧼code⧽color⧼/code⧽ at line 100 character 9. • Invalid media query at line 138 character 8. */ .mw-parser-output cite.citation{font-style:inherit;word-wrap:break-word}.mw-parser-output .citation q{quotes:"\"""\"""'""'"}.mw-parser-output .citation:target{background-color:rgba(0,127,255,0.133)}.mw-parser-output .id-lock-free.id-lock-free a{}.mw-parser-output .id-lock-limited.id-lock-limited a,.mw-parser-output .id-lock-registration.id-lock-registration a{}.mw-parser-output .id-lock-subscription.id-lock-subscription a{}.mw-parser-output .cs1-ws-icon a{}body:not(.skin-timeless):not(.skin-minerva) .mw-parser-output .id-lock-free a,body:not(.skin-timeless):not(.skin-minerva) .mw-parser-output .id-lock-limited a,body:not(.skin-timeless):not(.skin-minerva) .mw-parser-output .id-lock-registration a,body:not(.skin-timeless):not(.skin-minerva) .mw-parser-output .id-lock-subscription a,body:not(.skin-timeless):not(.skin-minerva) .mw-parser-output .cs1-ws-icon a{background-size:contain;padding:0 1em 0 0}.mw-parser-output .cs1-code{color:inherit;background:inherit;border:none;padding:inherit}.mw-parser-output .cs1-hidden-error{display:none}.mw-parser-output .cs1-visible-error{}.mw-parser-output .cs1-maint{display:none;color:#085;margin-left:0.3em}.mw-parser-output .cs1-kern-left{padding-left:0.2em}.mw-parser-output .cs1-kern-right{padding-right:0.2em}.mw-parser-output .citation .mw-selflink{font-weight:inherit}@media screen{.mw-parser-output .cs1-format{font-size:95%}html.skin-theme-clientpref-night .mw-parser-output .cs1-maint{color:#18911f}}</style><cite id="CITEREFHawkins2007" class="citation web cs1">Hawkins, John (January 10, 2007). <a rel="nofollow" class="external text" href="https://web.archive.org/web/20070214113743/http://www.humanevents.com/article.php?id=18859">"There Isn't Going to Be a North American Union"</a>. <i>Human Events</i>. 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