J-Lo & the rest of the conservative kiddy table

7. Kathryn Jean Lopez, The National Review

"The Virgin"

Approximate Age: 34

Accomplishments: Lopez has worked for the National Review for a third of her life. Her reign as editor of its blog, The Corner, has been marked by very little actual editing (did you know Martin Luther King Jr.’s wife’s name was Loretta?), at least one sentence from May 25, 2004 that should be remembered—“If the radio gig doesn’t work out[,] Al Franken can always run for Senate”—and pom-poms whenever gays suffers a civil rights setback. The Corner perch has given Lopez entrée to the Wall Street Journal, the Washington Times and the cable networks.

Fun Fact: From her Amazon wish list: The Nanny: Complete Season 4, The Hardy Boys/Nancy Drew Mysteries: Season One and an Israeli paratrooper bag.

Antecedent: None. Lopez is a true original. Never in the history of American letters has an editor had so little grasp of basic sentence structure.

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Posted by Kevin K. on 08/18/10 at 07:56 AM • Permalink

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Other items on the K-Load Amazon wish list: boxed sets of “The Scarecrow and Mrs. King” and “Barbara Mandrell and the Mandrell Sisters” shows. Mercy.

Comment by Betty Cracker on 08/18/10 at 07:23 AM

It’s the Wolfgang Puck 5-piece knife set that has me worried.

Comment by Oblomova on 08/18/10 at 08:30 AM

That Amazon wish list is a classic. It’s the combination of the knife set, the book on Nazi’s, and the first season of That Girl, that rounds things out.

If I ever write a book on the Banality of Banality that’s the first site I’ll check out.

Comment by AltHippo on 08/18/10 at 10:14 AM

boxed sets of “The Scarecrow and Mrs. King” and “Barbara Mandrell and the Mandrell Sisters”

What is it with Catholics and self-flagellation?

Comment by gil mann on 08/18/10 at 12:05 PM

Heh.

#6 on that list, E.D. Kain, is pushing his entirely reasonable paleocon shtick over at John Cole’s place these days, which is either really funny or incredibly evil.

Comment by Zandar on 08/18/10 at 12:42 PM

I already read the list because it’s linked from Balloon Juice - if I were a conservative I would no doubt be VERY worried about the future of conservatism. But I’m not, so I ain’t!

Comment by Stephen1947 on 08/18/10 at 12:56 PM

That is one of the saddest wish lists I’ve ever seen.

Comment by unclemike on 08/18/10 at 03:49 PM

@Zandar, the Balloon Juice commentariat is hammering Kain mercilessly/deservedly. I don’t think he’s used to getting called on the lazy deployment of tropes, and it doesn’t help that his personal circumstances (new baby in the house + can’t post/comment from work = limited time to post/comment) leave the impression that he refuses to climb into the ring with the commenters, as is the Internet tradition there.

Of course, if you link favorably to both Megan McArdle and the Heritage Foundation, I don’t know what else you’d expect.

Comment by Dave S. on 08/18/10 at 03:59 PM

another conception somehow shocked me more than all the rest- a scene in an unknown vault, where scores of the beasts crowded about one who had a computer displaying NRO.com and was evidently reading aloud. All were pointing to a certain passage, and every face seemed so distorted with epileptic and reverberant laughter that I almost thought I heard the fiendish echoes. The title of the picture was, ‘Kathryn Jean Lopez is the editor of National Review Online.’