war and stood up for the people who were suffering in katrina and saw african-american mothers and grandmothers on rooftops and whose hearts were broken to see people drowning and to see an american city drawn in and who stood up at that time when there was nothing in washington, d.c. that would answer the call and insisted the we would go a better way. i'm watching that movement that broke the fact of the stranglehold who elected the first african-american president. i'm watching that movement that inspired the world but stunned the world in the moment of maximum peril sit down. there are people in this country who were drowning on thailand. they are drowning economically on dry land are.

no, we were laughing at your last. night and if you did not hear it, listen again. yes, we're having fun, right. yes. we're having fun. night sove been up all i am extremely grateful that there are so many bright, shining faces. some using toothpicks to prop open the islands, but we have a lot of work to do. one of the things i am so grateful for from americans for prosperity over the years has been the laser focus on right online. it's not republican online.

it's not romney online. it's right online. and while we may have disparate interests and disagreements among ourselves in the conservative family over races and strategy and tactics, we are bound by this singular passion that each and every one of you in this room, the people watching on a live stream, the bloggers, the podcasters, the talk-show host to have come here year after year understanding that the right thrives on freedom. our thrive on force and coercion. we are here as a result of

individual choice and voluntary association and love of our founding fathers principles that made this country was it is. the other side -- [applause] is united by their treacherous agenda to tear down everything that has been built up over generations. this really is on line in the sand. and what i want to do is focus a little bit today on the online part of right online. because the fact is, we are winning. we are winning. and you need to use every ounce of your energy to make that message clear, because it is driving of n side nuts.

did you hear the commander in chief wining about how his opponents were able to summarize his campaign in one tweet. [laughter] this gave rise to the fa wonderful hashtag, characters despair, because we can summarize his in character 140 characters or less. fail. lot of characters to spare there. keynesian insanity. characters to spare.et silendra. let's move. le'tt's move you out. how about that? my friend john nolte who is a

brightbart blogger published an important manifesto about the use and our victories in the twitter battle space. along the same lines of thinking. i want twitchy.com in march. thank you. and it really is the first entrance in this space, and it is very important because it is all about pushing back against false progress of narratives. another good friend and inspiration of mine, ben howe, put it succinctly. this is what is great about twitter. we're able to distill our thoughts. there is none of this namby- pamby's, off teleprompter filibuster and that we get not

just from the commander in chief but from every inarticulate progress of that is in the public square. what ben howe said is very potent. it really is an m.o. for conservatives on line, and that is that you do not defeat narratives by ignoring them. he defeated them by crushing them. and pushing back forcefully and getting in their faces online and in real life. of course, andrew bright bart was the embodiment of that. not all of us -- i certainly cannot -- have the bravado to put on a pair of roller blades and roll right into those camps, but andrew inspired the next generation of young conservatives to do that. like i said yesterday, we need

all ranks of foot shoulders, number crunchers, analysts, bloggers who do long former forward reporting. we have the james o'kief's, the lila grace roses, god bless them. we are so grateful for what they do, risking their lives. [applause] i think it is very important to appreciate how we have evolved and how we have evolved specifically on twitter. and i registered, i signed up in about august, 2008. it was right around the time of the democratic national convention and i was trying to stay in touch with friends on the ground. now, i did not realize later that i would be accosted by an occupy-style nut ball in

denver on the ground who was in my face and almost spat on me. for surely there was an entourage bloggers around who protected me. was important to stay in touch with other people and that is how i first got into the medium. some of those early hashtags were so critical in the kind of community organizing that the left has been so good at. early on, we had -- teacot. an early members of that? yes. we had, there were go. we had the precursors to the tea party, the early organizer.

sgp. smart girl politics. the twisters. any twisters out there? yes, girls. then of course, this -- a huge milestone. and i think we cannot underestimate these sybols. itmbols. it is more than just the games we are playing online because this is what it's all about. [applause] and this, the power of the hashtag, cannot be underestimated. i think it is like a nice coincidence that this means pound, because that is what we are going back to them, pounding

right back. i talked about the sense of humor that's been unleashed, and the way in which it is driving the david axelrods of the world crazy. and the soledad o'briens. [laughter] does anyone remember this? stop tweeting soledad. this i think was a really revealing moment because it stripped these elitist journalist to pose and pretend and fake populism, they got on twitter and they tell us about how they are brewers of social engagement. then when you actually tried to use the "at sign" to talk to

them, they accuse them of harassing them. when occupiers use that sign, that is an aspiring political activism. and when we use it, is tantamount to terrorism. from the't want to hear barbarians at the gate. stop tweeting soledad. and as many of you will recall from that episode, which she did not want to hear about was what the brightbart bloggers were bringing to the table above barack obama's radical past. she did not want to hear about critical legal theory. she did not want to hear about thederrick bell and the left-wig progressive ideologue to crusade in the name of fairness while out're stakignmgg

preferential treatment for their cronies. stop tweeting soledad. and olberman. and rachel. and matt lauer who's tweeting about justin bieber, because he is a real reporter and we are just bloggers. [applause] [laughter] take note progressives on twitter, we are laughing at you. this is not outrage, this is laughing at you. god bless jim treacher. sarah palin is what was talking

about -- this is what sarah palin was talking about when she was talking about the basic reporters not to increase it work like reading a obama's autobiography. the dog recipes are hilarious. [laughter] but that penetrated the mainstream culture. even my hair stylists have heard of it and was talking about t it and talking abouthit and talkin. these are the kinds of people -- who will consume the "daily show" and letterman jokes and pig maher's jokes. humor is a way to reach a younger audience. this leads me to another great

milestone. shot out to -- shoutout to misfit politics. who can say this without the 20 a's. attack watch. what a fabulous way to defuse the hubris of the left and these people lose again fashion themselves the monopolists and overseers' of the new medium space. easton everyone of you ought to be signed ouup on twitter or on twitchy. there is no such thing as being a self promoter in the blogosphere. this is a tactic that they leveled against governor palin

and andrew bright bart and myself, but we realize that the only way you are part of this organic environment and climate is to know that it is, although we are each individually doing our own thing, this really is the greatest illustration of the big tent. we do not always agree on policies and candidates. some of us have very different passions stirred some of us focus on the second amendment. i'll remind you again led us to the expose of the fast and furious scandal. pro life bloggers, legal bloggers, sound science bloggers, we need each and everyone of you concentrating in order towin. and each in our own way to wage war. [applause]

it is a privilege and an honor to fight alongside you. and the historical context of the development of conservatives on really did break through with drudge, the original citizen journalist. and brightbart. but i think for the younger generation of conservative activists, know that you were preceded by the likes of power line bloggers who celebrated 10 years on the internet this year. glenn reynolds at the university of tennessee, the law professor and has been the godfather of the blogosphere and drove home this concept that we are an army of david's. lucien goldberg and jona h

goldberg were there -- in the days of conservatives on line. i mentioned the free republic.com. before there were conservative activists and people with video cameras going into the occupied camps, we got those great documentary's yesterday. . there were free republic activist to wage war on the precursors to occup. y. the code pinkos and the answer mob. they are of the piece. these are all the george soros- funded monkeys i was talking about. as funny as they can be with their tambourines and drums, these people are destructive.

these people have cost millions of dollars in losses of businesses in places like oakland and then the requestand los angeles and across the country. and those stories need to be told and those people need to be combated and we need to win, because this is war. get energized, go out there, redouble your efforts. i thank you. and learn a lot from these panels the next day and take it home with you, spread the word, speak truth to power and tweet truth to power. thank you very much. [applause] [captioning performed by national captioning institute] [captions copyright national cable satellite corp. 2012]

>> ladies and gentlemen, please put your hands together for our good friend and talk show hewitt.inarire hugh [applause] ♪ ♪ >> morning, everyone. it is great to be here and thanks to attend phillips and americans for prosperity for doing right online. four days ago, a broadcast from one of the most inspiring places -- it was the front porch of ronald reagan's rancho del cielo high above the said of barbara coast. to broadcast from and where the great communicator communicated was a privilege from which all along thank the young america's foundation for making possible. it was a special day. it was the 25th anniversary of

president reagan's, tear down this wall speech. i had a number of amazing guess. the most amazing were peter robinson and ed meese. i bring up this broadcast to thisi six points to audience. first, this country has been in bad place before in our lifetimes or most of our lifetimes. i do not know if you recall 1978, 1979, and 1980, but it was a dreary time. another speech i was present for in the rain was given by a russian profit alexander solzhenitsyn in which he declared that we have lost and it was over, that it was over, that the world has but apart and the west have lost its ability to fight back against soviet imperialism and the spread of communism. help was on the way and help was named ronald reagan.

second, in our side we often overestimate the power of our adversaries and our enemies. they are different categories. our political opponents and adversaries at home our deeply to radical, vicious killing enemies abroad. we overestimate how strong are cared we looked at wisconsin two years ago and we saw thousands of protesters occupying the capital and we thought that is an army of union activists. we listened to the wizards behind the curtain in chicago and we think axelrod was good as opposed to just lucky. we look out across the ocean at the fanatical mullahs in iran or the secretive overlords of china, and we china are we up to it? alexander solzhenitsyn wrote his memoirs, what if it is all papier-mache? i think the left is papier-

mache. the media, the occupiers, is papier-mache and boy, is is t raining now. the third point -- everybody matters to this movement online and in person. i mentioned peter robinson and ed meese for a reason. at the time, peter robinson was very young at the brandenburg speech -- in the reagan years, i shared an off as t betweenw two young people, one of whom was peter robinson who would write the tear down this wall speech. he was 30 or 31. on the other side, i left the white house by the brand of burkett speech, but there was a bright no lawyer who was astonishing the graceful and wonderful an absolutely

brilliant. his name as roberts. he is the chief justice of the united states. at the time, robinson and roberts were very young men, but there were integral to the success of the reagan presidency. so, too, was ed meese who's in his senior years of senior state and stick to the movement heard always loyal. as you look around, you will see young and old people here. he will seek a brand new comers to have not been a part of the online effort for a week, and you will see people like michelle malkin and glenn reynolds to have been there for 10, 12, 13 years, back to the genesis of internet advocacy. if it does not matter. every day is a new day on line and every barrier to entry is

thank you for investing your activism here. it is crucial for. 32 years ago, and the 1980 election, everything was on the line. ronald reagan won it. is all on the line again in 2012. our values will be stretched, tested, and the competition will be ferocious over the next five months between the values of the left in the valleys of the right. it will not be the last round of. we have made this mistake. 32 years from now -- i hope i am an old man in the back of the room chewing tobacco. the 32 years from now there will be another crisis. it is part of the obligation of this group to make sure we are looking that far ahead and planning that for a head and being part of a movement that is not ever satisfied that the end

of achievement has been achieved because there is no end of achievement short of the end of times. i want to make sure you are all committed not just to this or the next four years but to a longer project that requires accountability. point number five. a lot of conservatives do not like to talk about this. the online community has to speak for the you know firm services that cannot speak for themselves because of our treasured tradition in this country. president reagan who would give the gorbachev, tear down this wall speech. he had a defense establishment that was robust than had been built up and had a -- mean

deployed successfully by hand. we have another pearl harbor coming but this is self- inflicted. it is called the sequestration and cannot be allowed to go forward. it has to be part of our mission to tell people that the f-22 has been cancelled and it extended to non consequence. our navy is down to 283 ships and sinking further. the president's budget wants to cut marines and soldiers and airmen, wants to close bases around the world. he is not renewing the very systems that make our military unsurpassed. we have to tell that story because president reagan told that story in 1980. people out there that the media never see understand this moment a foot and in the ground

in afghanistan and around the world. we have to tell their story because they cannot. please do. finally, my sixth point. i want to tell you what matters the most. is it about helping other people shine. on the last day of his life, and her was my guest on the air. the last time i saw him in person he and one williams and i -- even though i was just a blogger -- quan is a good guy. he makes mistakes. we got together in pasadena between an audience to discuss and promote school choice. we spent a lot of time in the green room before hand. he was talking up other people. other people's projects and successes. he was helping other people shine. this is a core value of the

conservative movement and i cannot help -- express' it enough. i go from here. to new york city tomorrow to begin a book tour. by decree of the publisher i am not supposed to mention the brief against obama until tomorrow. i have not. but i am telling you a bout to the brief against obama because i want skeptics to understand there is a blurb on the first page of the book. a bowler by a person i am allegedly in competition with. my good friend mark levin. mark and i have been fellow travelers in the movement since the early years of the reagan administration. people say, are you not on from 6:00 until 9:00? we do not compete, we

complement. sean a does not compete with bill. mike gallagher does not compete with nail and everyone out there. we complement each other even though you complement each other in this movement. that is why market comes on my show to promote his book. that is why hand that he welcomes me on. that is why we are on -- all promoting each other and why i promote so many of you and why you should be promoting each other. i like to think of us as a commissure farm builders even though it is hard to think of mark and shawn as amish. we do not compete we complemented. i want this to be my take away. there is a new book out there right now. how will you measure your life. the metrics you will use is not the number of twitter followers

to have or the number of page views. it is the number of those things you can send to other people. in doing that you will encourage the next generation of activists and you will build up a 32-year cycle. we will not have a crisis we cannot meet. you are each other's best advocate. please continue to do so online, follow up other people, promoted good always, find the good find the good and present and our movement. remember this, he spoke passionately about and her. as digital. as did many others. they kept saying other things. he is indeed here. more breitbarts are on the way.

they are all on the way. help them get here. to that end, i am so pleased now to introduce to you what i think is the future of broadcast. i think the future of online. the author of extraordinary box for years to come. he is not only my colleague, he is not only my regular guest host and a welcome guest in my house, he is my friend and a rising star of this movement. please welcome guy benson. [applause] >> wow. the nut that is probably the nicest thing he has ever said

about me in any context. he must have lost a bet. thank you. that is so kind of you. thank you for being here. it is such a pleasure to be back working alongside the terrific team at americans for prosperity. being back here and las vegas provokes some on the memories for me. last time this conference convened here was in the summer of 2010. at the time we discussed the importance of grass-roots activism on line. we were recharging our batteries heading into an important midterm election. the aim of everybody in that room was to send a clear and unambiguous message to the white house that we had had just about enough of this president, the left, and there destructive agenda. 63 new republicans in the house, six new senators, and six

new gubernatorial pickups. here we meet again with a much larger task at hand. that is a backdrop. i thought i would tell you about an unusual experience a would have earlier in the week. is wednesday in the afternoon in our cell phone or rings. i did not recognize the number but i saw the area code is 210. a friendly voice at the other and identified itself as that of a producer at msnbc. she wanted to know if i might pretty please be available that evening to join a panel discussion on that night's edition of the ed show. based on your response i gather you are familiar with this gentleman?

his biggest contribution to the national dialogue came during the obamacare debate when he presented this nuanced piece of analysis to his audience. republicans lie. they want to see you dead. it would rather see make money off of your dead the courts. they kind of like it when that woman gets cancer. nice. i pondered the invitation for a moment and realized what i might be getting myself into. i concluded more than anything else this would be really fun. i accepted. she sounded very relieved and grateful, almost as if the ed show has trouble booking conservatives for some reason. they sent the evening's topics. topic one, on to these republicans sabotaging the economy to hurt obama?

topic two, what obama really needs to do more of is blame bush. those are the two topics. the show kicks off at 8:00. i am sitting in the green room by myself, high entertainment. i am not a regular viewer of the show. this is a long period of witnessing something new. i was the only conservative guest on the show. not on the panel but the entire hourlong show. our segment was before bernie sanders of vermont and a serious discussion about why racism is starting to hurt obama in 2012. this is what i like to call alternate reality television. finally we are up. earpiece and carried it was a three on one debate which is not surprising at all. i still had the upper hand.

the way i figure if the truth has to account for three contributors. let's say it is for on 3. despite what i believe to be a world record a quadruple and production i managed to destroy their republican obstructionism for numerous reasons including the fact they controlled everything 40 dead years and have done whenever they wanted and all of the seven republicans are blocking everything that is wrong is laughable. i have to say, the experience is so much fun. the staff at msnbc could not have been nicer. it was a discipline of from the experience than i cannot shake. the big demand, and schulz himself was out all week so i did not get to enjoy his company. i got to thinking, why my ted

schulz and needed a vacation the past week. i cannot help but wonder if scott walker stomping all over his big government drains might have had something to do with the timing of this holiday he taught. the good news is i have been invited back to rejoin this party. i am told he would be back from his bed rest. i hope you tune in when that happens. quickly on this. there is a reason i have had a smile on my face for two weeks. at risk of doing for the damage let'ss ongoing recovery, recap the time line in the badger state. the epic repeated failures of democrat and government sector unions. it begins in 2010. there are a popular democrat credit governor did not run for

reelection. democrats predictably start painting him as a cold hearted right wing extremists the state could not afford. he was elected by five points and republicans won both houses of the legislature including defeating both democratic leaders. can you imagine? so within weeks of being sworn and he introduces his budget legislation. they went into a giant public fit banging on drugs, breaking into an occupying the state capital, painting hiller moustaches some photos of the governor. they literally flooded the state. all of these histrionics to intimidate republican lawmakers and obstruct passage. they failed and his budget became law. liberals filed a lawsuit to block the law from being implemented. in order to help insure success

they try to defeat a supreme court justice named david prosser who was up for reelection in november. they failed. the law worked its way up to the supreme court where it was up told by one of votes. at this point they are incensed and then launch a recall effort against six scott walker allies in the senate. they needed to pick on three republicans to reclaim a majority. they failed and republicans maintained a majority in the state senate. all of that was a precursor to a main fight, the minivan. the recall of the governor itself. they chose this fight. they spent millions of dollars chasing their recall obsession. they insisted on this sore loser election that cost taxpayers $60 million. they called this the second most

important on the calendar and 2012. and they failed. [applause] scott walker won over 200,000 more votes than he did in 2010 and expanded his victory margin by two points. fifth they tried to spin this loss as a victory for president obama relying on flawed exit polls to fuel their fantasy. they failed. a new poll shows mitt romney winning by 3 points in that state. it is so great. here is the key lesson to be drawn from that litany of awesome i just outlined. the state's failures did not occur by accident. they happen for two important reasons.

first, scott walker pose a conservative government reforms worked. the state added tens of thousands of jobs, close to a multi-billion dollar ebbed deficit without raising taxes, property taxes are falling for the first time in 12 years and liberated from bargaining rackets, local communities have been able to realize huge savings. conservatism works and it was rewarded by voters in a state that is not fully voted for a candidate since before i was born. that is an serious. savor that. that is a big deal and wisconsin. perhaps as equally important, the left was out household, out organize, out passion, and out argued by you. conservatives recognized in the

stakes of that election and work to their rear ends off to make sure his courage was affirmed. how much of you are from wisconsin and voted for scott walker. how many of the volunteered in some way for scott walker? very good. how many of the donated to him at some point. at least half the room. keep your hand raised if you are a koch brother. exactly. this election was won by average people, taxpayers who have been starving for executive leadership. we do not have that in the white house today. we have an arrogant presidency hamstrung by an unflinching destructive ideologies. we cannot afford eight more years of barack obama but the feeding him will take a united effort. yes, he has had a few dreadful

weeks in a row. this president, they will do anything they can to clinch a second term. it is up to us, the people in this room and i like us around the country to follow the wisconsin model and send the president packing back to chicago. to borrow a theme -- forward, onward, to victory together. thank you some much. >> joining us from san diego, give a warm welcome to roger. >> thank you. that was terrific. i have thrown out all my calendars. it has replaced by calendars that are vw and a w. before wisconsin and after

wisconsin. i have come to you as noted by the voice of god from california. california is living already in obama's second term. we know what it is like to live in a society dominated by one- party, chronic unemployment. high taxes going higher. oppressive bureaucracy that is anti business by ideology and commitment. we know what it is to live in obama's second term. we are already there. illinois is in the same boat. anybody from illinois? people here from maryland. you are in the same boat. the answer for any problem is to raise taxes. we have to raise taxes just to be fair. the highest rate of taxation in california is 10.3%.

we apply it to the front the rest to make at least 47 of the $900. on my show, i started a website -- i had my first tea party in 1991. i was threatened with arrest for throwing a tea bag in the san diego harbor because i was going to pollute the harbor. they have a 50 navy ships and this t -- any way. i want to show you a couple of stories because i want to scare you into doing more than you are doing. we have a district that is intense on air quality. so intent a few years ago they barred -- get this now --

bakeries from exhaling the smell of baking bread because it was an air pollution. they had to put scrubbers on the exhaust fans from the ovens to prevent you from spelling in the morning as you walked along a downtown san diego streets the smell of baking bread and air pollution. had enough government yet? it is not just how much salt to have on your state or what ever else bloomberg is doing today. is everywhere. it is not just barack obama it is the 10,001 of the barack obama as. at every level, state and local, and our great state -- our once great global stage. a push was on for decades for solar energy. the perfect place for it is the

desert. a plan was drawn up for a mass of solar plant. hundreds of square miles it would cover 300 or 400 acres. now the environmentalists who pushed for it are opposed to the plan because it covers the habitat of the desert tortoise. we have a dream in california to have a bullet train like in japan. we can go from l.a. to san francisco and the -- i do not know -- 200 miles per hour. that is what it would say. the first phase is going in between two small towns and the central valley. the main feature of these two small towns is they both have state prisons. so we have dubbed this train the conjugal visit express'. typical of california after the

environmentalist pressure for this trend to be built, when they actually got down to it the natural resources defense council is now suing because -- did wait a minute, the train tracks will disrupt the habitat. we cannot do that. this is how crazy california is. we started off crazy at one level and we double down. we are all in like crazy in california. the answer to the budget that was balanced last july but by january was $16 billion out of alignment is to raise taxes again. people are fleeing california. businesses are fleeing california. what is left is the highest food stamp -- we are proud of our food stamp operations. we are proud of it. the card has been used in casinos here and a guess.

has been used on cruise ships in the caribbean. our poor people are living right in california. i want you to interact because here is what i am committed to that makes us all a lot more powerful. the old media coupled with the new media = that we can network like crazy out of this election. we can all of us be powerful. it does not take many. think back for a minute with me thought, how many people agree with this? everybody is so liberal and crazy. i cannot talk about being conservative. do you know what it was like in 7075 in this country? -- 1775 in this country?

3% supported the revolution, supported independence from great britain. 3%. there is 3 percent in this room. i am not asking for the revolution. even that. they left us with a peaceful way to do that. the peaceful way is despite the cheating, despite the dead people, did he know in florida, 83,000 dead people on the role. they deserve representation, too. of course, that is not unusual in california. i walked precincts for a van to iran. thank you very much california. a very nice gentlemen open the door and said, i am sorry. i did not in the country legally. what about these other two people in your home. they are illegal, too. you are on the voting rolls. i have never voted. you have a permanent address

where somebody is casting his ballot. we have to get after this. we cannot let them cheap. we cannot let them do what they do at in chicago. we have to stop at this election. if we do not, then we will not have a free and fair elections i think even jimmy carter is not going to help anything. we need you to look at our elections. we need to continue to do what you do so well and that is to communicate, communicate, communicate. we do not want a failure of communication. we want every basic tradition of about these, contrast of fear on the other side because that is what they have going for them. what we have going is the righteous knowledge that if we

prevail people oppose the lives will be a lot better off. even the president to cannot look himself in the mirror because his 2007 income was two and a half times the income of this year, even he cannot look and say i am better off today than four years ago and neither can anybody