Howard Phillips

By Richard A. Viguerie, CHQ Chairman
Conservatives took note of how the liberals used the Internet in 2003 to create the first Internet-based presidential campaign. Both Left and Right realized that politics would never be the same again. This is excerpt 42 (of 45) from America’s Right Turn.

By Richard A. Viguerie, CHQ Chairman
Conservatives can learn an important lesson from liberals in how to turn a lemon (the Clinton impeachment) into lemonade (the MoveOn.org movement). This is excerpt 41 (of 45) from America’s Right Turn.

By Richard A. Viguerie, CHQ Chairman
As the Internet grew in size and importance, conservatives and libertarians were quick to embrace it. We also noted a dramatic increase in use of the Internet as a source for alternative political and campaign news. (Excerpt 40 of 45 from America’s Right Turn.)

By Richard A. Viguerie, CHQ Chairman
Lest we forget (or you are too young to remember), Hillary was no friend of the Internet when it was young.  And for good reason: She couldn’t control it.  (Excerpt 39 of 45 from America’s Right Turn.)

By Richard A. Viguerie, CHQ Chairman
The Internet’s impact on American politics was far, far greater than Monica Lewinsky and Bill Clinton, but that was the affair that jarred us into the realization that we were in a new media era.  (Excerpt No. 38 of 45 from America’s Right Turn.)

By Richard A. Viguerie, CHQ Chairman
Using alternative media, conservative publishers and entrepreneurs gave conservative authors new venues for their books.  The liberal gated book fortress of Manhattan had been breached.  (Excerpt #37 of 45 from America’s Right Turn.)

By Richard A. Viguerie, CHQ Chairman
Conservative stalwarts like M. Stanton Evans trained thousands of young journalists.  Many of them took advantage of expanding opportunities with the new alternative media, as columnists and magazine writers.  (Excerpt 36 of 45 from America’s Right Turn.)

By Richard A. Viguerie, CHQ Chairman
With the rise of the alternative media, conservatives have a seat at the table, which they didn’t have when newspapers were dominant and confined them to largely unread editorial pages.  (Excerpt 35 of 45 from America’s Right Turn.)

By Richard A. Viguerie, CHQ Chairman
Cable TV overtook the broadcast TV networks as the main source of political and campaign news after 2000—and Fox News dominated cable TV.  (Excerpt 34 of 45 from America’s Right Turn.)

Most Americans were conservative; TV news very liberal.  That spelled opportunity for an entrepreneur like Rupert Murdoch.  (Excerpt 33 of 45 from America’s Right Turn.)

By Richard A. Viguerie, Chairman, FedUp PAC
The TV broadcast networks have been all liberal, all the time.  C-SPAN gave the American people a direct line to Congress, bypassing the networks.  (Excerpt 32 of 45 from America’s Right Turn.)

By Richard A. Viguerie, CHQ Chairman
The National Rifle Association is a conservative success story—and an alternative media success story, using them to stop the gun-grabbers and gun-controllers.  (Excerpt 31 of 45 from America’s Right Turn.)

By Richard A. Viguerie, ConservativeHQ Chairman
In this excerpt from America’s Right Turn (No. 30 of 45), we offer two reasons why liberals fail on talk radio—and probably always will.

By Richard A. Viguerie, ConservativeHQ Chairman
In this excerpt from America’s Right Turn (No. 29 of 45), we look at talk radio’s impact on the culture wars, and why it “worked” for candidate Bill Clinton but against his administration.

By Richard A Viguerie, CHQ Chairman
In this excerpt from America’s Right Turn (No. 28 of 45) we explain why talk radio became so popular, with its hosts enjoying audiences larger than virtually any print journalist.

By Richard A. Viguerie, CHQ Chairman
In the 1930s, President Franklin D. Roosevelt was the most powerful voice on that new medium: radio.  By the 1990s, the most powerful voice on radio was Rush Limbaugh.  In this excerpt from America’s Right Turn (No. 27 of 45), we look at how that revolution took place.

“You owe it to your philosophy to learn how to win,” says Morton Blackwell.  Here is how his Leadership Institute has trained more than 191,000 conservative activists, leaders, and students in the skills needed to win.  (Excerpt 26 of 45 from America’s Right Turn.)

By Richard A. Viguerie, CHQ Chairman
Conservatives should always be willing to learn, not only from our own experiences but also from the experiences on the Left.  We interviewed Roger Craver and found lessons that can benefit today’s conservatives.  (Excerpt 25 of 45 from America’s Right Turn.)

By Richard A. Viguerie, CHQ Chairman
Conservatives would no longer have the use of their “secret weapon” (direct mail) to themselves.  It was no longer a secret.  (Excerpt 24 of 45 from America’s Right Turn.)

By Richard A. Viguerie, CHQ Chairman
By stopping the Equal Rights Amendment at the last moment, Phyllis Schlafly taught conservatives that nothing is inevitable.  We can do it!  (Excerpt 23 of 45 from America’s Right Turn.)