Guest Speakers
L. Brent Bozell III | Host
Lecturer, syndicated columnist, television commentator, debater, marketer, businessman, author, publisher and activist, L. Brent Bozell III is one of the most outspoken and effective national leaders in the conservative movement today.
Founder and President of the Media Research Center, Mr. Bozell runs the largest media watchdog organization in America. Since its launch in 1987, the MRC has developed the largest video archive in the world; the popular NewsBusters.org blog site; the CNSNews.com internet news service; MRC Business; MRC Culture; MRCTV; MRC Latino; and most recently, Free Speech America. The MRC has nearly 650,000 members nationwide, with over 12 million fans on Facebook, and over 7 million video views per week online.
In 2010, Mr. Bozell founded ForAmerica, an organization committed to restoring America to its founding principles. ForAmerica has grown to over 7 million Facebook followers with the most engaged social media army in the conservative movement. ForAmerica was declared, “One of the greatest unexpected influences on the [2016] election,” by the New York Times. In 1998, Mr. Bozell founded and was the first president of the Parents Television Council, the largest group in America dedicated to restoring decency to Hollywood. He founded the Conservative Victory Committee PAC in 1987. Before founding the MRC, Mr. Bozell was the finance director and later the president of the National Conservative Political Action Committee and the National Conservative Foundation.
Mr. Bozell's bi-weekly column (with Tim Graham) was syndicated by Creators Syndicate to over 50 media outlets nationwide. His writings have also appeared in numerous other outlets including the Wall Street Journal, The Washington Post, FoxNews.com and USA Today. He is the author of six books, including And That’s the Way It Is(n’t) (with Brent Baker), Weapons of Mass Distortion, Collusion: How the Media Stole the 2012 Election (with Tim Graham), Whitewash (with Tim Graham), Unmasked: Big Media’s War Against Trump (with Tim Graham), and Stops Along the Way.
He has been a guest on numerous television programs, including the O'Reilly Factor, Nightline, The Today Show and Good Morning America. He appeared weekly on the "Media Mash" segment of Hannity, on Fox News, as well as regular appearances on The Kelly File, Your World with Neil Cavuto and Varney & Co.
Named the 1998 Pew Memorial Lecturer by Grove City College, Mr. Bozell is a frequent speaker on school campuses and for civic and political organizations around the country.
Mr. Bozell received his B.A. in History from the University of Dallas, where he was named the 1998 Alumnus of the Year. In 2015, he received an honorary PhD from UD. He is married, with five children and sixteen grandchildren.
David Bozell
David Bozell is President of ForAmerica, the largest-of-its-kind, award-winning, national grassroots organization championing American exceptionalism. ForAmerica, with its 9-million-member army, is dedicated to using social media to advance freedom, prosperity, and virtue in all public policy debates, and was labeled by the New York Times, "One of the great unexpected influences of the [2016 Presidential] election."
David regularly appears in print and on broadcast as a conservative pundit as well as an expert on the intersection of social media and politics. He has been quoted in the nation's leading publications including the Wall Street Journal, the Washington Times, National Review, New York Times, TIME, and Huffington Post, and his columns have appeared in numerous outlets including Fox News, the Hill and the Daily Caller.
Joe Concha
Born and raised in the great state of New Jersey, Joe Concha is currently a columnist for the Hill and a Fox News Contributor.
The father of two and husband to an ER doctor, Joe can be seen on Fox News programs from morning until night, including on Fox & Friends, Mornings with Maria, Varney & Co., America's Newsroom, Outnumbered, The Story, Kudlow, Hannity and Fox News @ Night.
Monica Crowley
Monica Crowley is a prominent news analyst on multiple television, radio, digital and print platforms and is the Host of the Monica Crowley Podcast. Previously, she served in the Trump administration as Assistant Secretary of the Treasury for Public Affairs at the United States Department of the Treasury. During her tenure, she and the team she led conceived, developed and executed the policy and communications strategies for the Secretary of the Treasury, the Treasury Department, and the Trump Administration more broadly. For exceptional service to the Treasury Department and the Nation, she received the Alexander Hamilton Award, the highest honor bestowed by the Department. Prior to her government service, she was a popular television anchor and political and foreign affairs analyst for the Fox News Channel, Fox Business Network, ABC News, NBC News, and other national networks. For several years, she was a regular panelist on the legendary The McLaughlin Group. On radio, she was the host of the nationally syndicated program, "The Monica Crowley Show". She is also the author of The New York Times bestseller, What The (Bleep) Just Happened? The Happy Warrior's Guide to the Great American Comeback. While at the Washington Times, she was the Online Opinion Editor and Senior Opinion Columnist. Earlier in her career, she served as Foreign Policy Assistant to former President Richard Nixon in his final years, and wrote two bestsellers about her experiences, Nixon Off the Record and Nixon in Winter. She has also written for many national publications, including The New Yorker, The Wall Street Journal, The New York Post, The Los Angeles Times, and Newsweek, and has lectured at Yale, Columbia, and MIT. Dr. Crowley graduated from Colgate University and holds two Master's degrees and a Doctorate in International Relations from Columbia University.
Allen B. West
Allen B. West is National Center for Policy Analysis Executive Director and Vice Chairman of the Board of Directors. Lt. Col. West joined the NCPA because he believes it will be policy, not politics that secures a sound economic future for Americans – with growth, opportunity and returning the promise of the American dream for this generation and those to come.
He is the third of four generations of military servicemen in his family. During his 22 year career in the United States Army, Lieutenant Colonel West served in several combat zones and received many honors including a Bronze Star, three Meritorious Service Medals, three Army Commendation Medals and a Valorous Unit Award. In 1993 he was named the US Army ROTC Instructor of the Year.
In November of 2010, Allen was elected to the United States Congress, representing Florida's 22nd District. As a member of the 112th Congress, he sat on the Small Business and Armed Services Committees and was instrumental in passage of the 2012 National Defense Authorization Act.
He is a Senior Fellow at the London Center for Policy Research, a Fox News Contributor, author of Guardian of the Republic: An American Ronin’s Journey to Family, Faith and Freedom.
West is an avid distance runner, a Master SCUBA diver, and a motorcyclist, and in his spare time he enjoys cheering his beloved Tennessee Volunteers.
Lt. Col. West is a legacy life member of the Veterans of Foreign Wars, life member of the Association of the United States Army, life member of the National Rifle Association. He has recently been appointed by Texas Lt. Gov. Dan Patrick to the Texas Sunset Advisory Commission. He is married to Dr. Angela Graham-West and they have two daughters, Aubrey, a graduate student pursuing her master’s degree and Austen, a college freshman.