The Wednesday Morning Club


The Wednesday Morning Club is a lunch forum that provides a platform in the entertainment and media industry for conservative speakers and ideas. In 1999, then Governor George Bush made his first public speech in California at the Wednesday Morning Club. Other speakers have included Senate Majority Leader Bill Frist, House Speaker Newt Gingrich, Senator Joseph Lieberman and George Will. The steering committee of the WMC includes actor Robert Duvall and Icon executive Steve McEveety who produced Braveheart, The Patriot and We Were Soldiers.

Thus far in 2003, speakers have included author Christopher Hitchens, David Frum, former Israel Ambassador to the United Nations Dore Gold and U.S. Senator Jon Kyl of Arizona and author Tammy Bruce. Past speakers include:

Dick Cheney
Former Secretary of Defense

Fred Barnes
Editor, The Weekly Standard

Jack Kemp
Vice Presidential Nominee

Judge Robert Bork
Author, Slouching Towards Gomorrah

Tom DeLay
Representative (R-TX)

Henry Hyde
Chairman, House
Judiciary Committee

John Kasich
Representative (R-OH)

Sam Brownback
Senator (R-KS)

William Bennett
Author, The Book of Virtues

Dinesh D'Souza
Author, The End of Racism

Newt Gingrich
Speaker of the House

Dore Gold
Israeli Ambassador to the United Nations

Larry Elder
KABC Radio Talk Show Host

George Gilder
Author, The Richest Man In Babylon

Chris Cox
Representative (R-CA)

Sonny Bono
Representative (R-CA)

Bill Carrick
Political Consultant

Dan Coats
Senator (R-IN)

Spencer Abraham
Senator (R-MI)

Jeffrey I. Cole
Director of UCLA's Center for Communication Policy

Sky Dayton
Founder and Chairman of the Earthlink Network, Inc.

David Dreier
Representative (R-CA)

Steven Goldsmith
Mayor of Indianapolis

Gerald Isenberg
Executive Director of Electronic Media Programs at USC's School of Cinema-Television

J.C. Watts
Representative (R-OK)

Bill Kristol
Political Consultant and Editor, The Weekly Standard

Fred Thompson
Senator (R-TN)

Ben Wattenberg
Author, Values Matter Most

Joe Lieberman
Presidential Candidate and U.S. Senator (D-CT)

Christine La Monte
Executive Vice President of Motion Picture Group, Rogers & Cowan

Trent Lott
Senate Majority Leader

Frank Luntz
Political Consultant

Paul Maslin
Political Consultant

Les Moonves
President of CBS Entertainment Division

Sam Nunn
Former Senator (D-GA)

Tony Puryear
Writer, Eraser

Frank Riggs
Representative (R-CA)

Jim Rogan
Representative (R-CA)

Dana Rohrabacher
Representative (R-CA)

Ed Royce
Representative (R-CA)

Rick Santorum
Senator (R-PA)

Bill Schneider
Political Consultant

Arlen Specter
Senator (R-PA)

Billy Tauzin
Representative (R-LA)
Chairman of the Telecommunications Subcommitte

Jeremy Verba
President, E! Online

Sriram Visuanathan
Director of CAA Intel Media Lab

Anne Volokh
President & Executive Publisher of Movieline Magazine


The idea for the Wednesday Morning Club was conceived the morning after the 1992 elections, hence the name. The Wednesday Morning Club does not necessarily meet in the morning, nor on Wednesday.