Scottie Nell Hughes is the news director and chief journalist for the Tea Party News Network as well as a contributor to Patriot.TV and PatriotUpdate.com. Her stories include on the street interview packages to entertaining yet revealing interviews with some of the most notorious names in both politics and Hollywood. Scottie Nell's interviews have been linked on top sites like Drudge Report, Breitbart, The Blaze, World Net Daily, The Daily Caller with several stories going viral. Scottie also serves as a columnist for TownhallFinance.com and Townhall.com and on the speaker circuit for Americans for Prosperity. Along with being in front of the camera, Scottie Nell Hughes, has a well established base in the talk radio media. Having started at the very beginning as the executive producer of the Steve Gill Show in Nashville, TN, Scottie Nell used her early years in radio to learn every element of a successful talk radio program. She eventually accepted roles with several nationally syndicated talk shows like the Rusty Humphries Show, The Jerry Doyle Show, The Michael Berry Show, The Mark Skoda Show and many others. Currently, Scottie Nell is signed exclusively as a contributor to all Talk Radio Network programing. Over the last 10 years, Scottie Nell has organized broadcasts from the Republican and Democrat National Conventions (for which she was awarded a Nashville Air Award in 2005), numerous national primaries, as well as the White House and the Pentagon and she was assigned to the White House Press Corps for Inauguration 2005. She also was in the first group of radio talk show hosts sent by the Department of Defense to travel to the frontlines of Operation Enduring Freedom in Iraq and Kuwait as well as the detention facilities at Guantanamo Bay, Cuba. A Magna Cum Laude graduate from the University of Tennessee at Martin with a broadcast communications/ political science degree, Scottie Nell realized her calling for a life in political journalism at the young age of 12 with her first reporting job as a Kids to Kids Reporter for WKRN-ABC Nashville. She went on to win the top High School Broadcaster Award for the state of Tennessee and the Broadcaster of the year for her college class 3 years in a row. To learn more or to view Scottie Nell's interviews please visit: www.tpnn.com http://finance.townhall.com/columnists/scottiehughes/ www.patriot.tv http://www.townhall.com/columnists/ScottieHughes http://media.townhall.com/TownHall/icons/TH-feed-icon-128x128.gif http://www.townhall.com/columnists/ScottieHughes TownHall.com, Where your opinion counts. 128 Copyright (c) 2013 Townhall.com, A Salem Communications Web. ALL RIGHTS RESERVED jim.dearras@townhall.com (Jim De Arras) Mon, 13 May 2013 13:00:00 GMT Mon, 13 May 2013 13:00:00 GMT http://blogs.law.harvard.edu/tech/rss RSS.NET: http://www.rssdotnet.com/ "Being on President Nixon's enemies list was the highest single honor I've ever received," the actor Paul Newman once remarked. America's 37th president had a fascination, some might say an unhealthy obsession, with the... http://www.townhall.com/columnists/ScottieHughes/2013/05/13/barack-milhous-nixon-n1593659 71ae914f-e454-4088-8c49-ecad0e3d03ac Mon, 13 May 2013 13:00:00 GMT Ready for the next Solyndra? If you haven't heard of GreenTech Automotive, that's going to change. And fast. The "green energy" company that boasts about building electric cars has recently been vaulted into the... http://www.townhall.com/columnists/ScottieHughes/2013/04/30/crony-capitalism-at-work-n1582146 33e148b6-7470-4285-9eb5-dbff81046b36 Tue, 30 Apr 2013 04:01:00 GMT We have problems in America. The most obvious is a busted budget, an overtaxed citizenry (at least for the 53% who pay into the system), another push on gun control, a broken immigration system, a socialist... http://www.townhall.com/columnists/ScottieHughes/2013/04/18/why-a-solution-will-destroy-the-democratic-party-n1571051 8d7df018-1694-480b-a1ab-4738b064471f Thu, 18 Apr 2013 04:01:00 GMT Lately, it seems Republicans keep trying to brainstorm about how to attract new voters in order to win in 2014 and 2016. Unfortunately, the blame is wrongly being placed by the moderates within the Republican Party on... http://www.townhall.com/columnists/ScottieHughes/2013/04/08/why-welfare-is-working-n1561191 d826f01e-0d97-424a-a3d8-eb91069e00f1 Mon, 08 Apr 2013 14:49:00 GMT I, like many Christians, watched in disbelief this past September at the Democratic National Convention in Charlotte, North Carolina as the delegates not only voted once, but three times, to deny the reinstatement of... http://www.townhall.com/columnists/ScottieHughes/2013/03/28/one-nation-above-god-n1551614 3c5eac14-0db1-4969-ad12-34aae8fe62e6 Thu, 28 Mar 2013 13:30:00 GMT You are beginning to worry me. I am afraid you are losing touch with the people of whom your fame is based. I, after all, was one of your biggest supporters once. I am thrilled that you get invitations to go to NBA... http://www.townhall.com/columnists/ScottieHughes/2013/03/25/an-open-letter-to-sarah-palin-n1548327 ec8af883-7251-4d68-8636-28ea02d4d3ff Mon, 25 Mar 2013 13:20:00 GMT Welcome to the post-sequester apocalypse. As much as President Obama will have us believe otherwise, the greatest financial catastrophe in the coming days will not be of Washington's making at all. If you're looking... http://www.townhall.com/columnists/ScottieHughes/2013/03/01/detroit-rock-city-has-hit-rock-bottom-n1523823 97cd8f8a-d9a5-4f8a-be57-b2795f9dc814 Fri, 01 Mar 2013 17:42:36 GMT The Democrats love to hate Rush Limbaugh, and yet they are now taking a page right out of his playbook. Republicans remember well in 2008 when Rush implored listeners to take part in what he dubbed “Operation... http://www.townhall.com/columnists/ScottieHughes/2013/02/28/the-dems-secret-plan-to-help-the-tea-party-n1522250 07fce431-2334-4b5d-a424-13589bbc5f41 Thu, 28 Feb 2013 05:01:00 GMT In times of trouble, I always look to those wiser and stronger then I for guidance. I look to those who, when faced with hardship, found a way to overcome. Benjamin Franklin- “They who can give up... http://www.townhall.com/columnists/ScottieHughes/2013/02/26/ignoring-american-history-n1520388 caf24c09-4380-4b7b-81aa-95614e61c11e Tue, 26 Feb 2013 05:01:00 GMT President Obama may be the most honest politician in elected office today. After his reelection in November, not only did we sentence our Country to four more years of big government but we also took away any reason... http://www.townhall.com/columnists/ScottieHughes/2013/02/19/for-whom-the-pork-toils-n1515104 691f3499-4243-470a-90f7-882059c391d9 Tue, 19 Feb 2013 05:01:00 GMT ROSES ARE RED VIOLETS ARE BLUEKARL ROVE JUST SAVED THIS COUNTRYBY UNITING ME AND YOUOver the weekend well-funded Republicans announced an effort to protect Senate incumbents from Tea Party challengers, such as Ted Cruz... http://www.townhall.com/columnists/ScottieHughes/2013/02/07/i-love-karl-rove-n1507042 31aadbec-a66c-443e-9313-b3f89c749397 Thu, 07 Feb 2013 05:01:00 GMT Raising a daughter is tricky enough. Last week, the job of all American parents became much more complicated. Not only do parents of daughters have to worry about dates to the dance, mean girls on the playground, or... http://www.townhall.com/columnists/ScottieHughes/2013/01/28/why-every-responsible-american-should-turn-their-daughter-to-a-man-n1499077 93a9fad6-c4ed-40ee-8391-a0ba538ffaab Mon, 28 Jan 2013 05:01:00 GMT A new poll by Rasmussen Reports found that only 8% of Americans now identified themselves as members of the Tea Party. While that still equals more then 25 million people, this is a startling drop from the 24% who... http://www.townhall.com/columnists/ScottieHughes/2013/01/10/gd-the-tea-party-n1486057 69b9c27f-b1ad-462e-b00b-e7389613cfb2 Thu, 10 Jan 2013 05:01:00 GMT We don't talk about the first day of spring in 1974. It's been that way for as long as I could remember. March 20th started off like any other as my 8 year old brother headed off to school wearing his blue ball cap... http://www.townhall.com/columnists/ScottieHughes/2012/12/28/smoke-pot-ban-guns-kill-kids-n1475119 7936f04e-64d8-4790-99ff-03a104585670 Fri, 28 Dec 2012 05:01:00 GMT This is not about the 1960's book Silent Spring, written by the environmentalist Rachael Carson. It is about the 1960's people who read the book and who fought against the pesticides released in the environment about... http://www.townhall.com/columnists/ScottieHughes/2012/10/23/silent_scream 3da3efd9-ed20-4801-ad76-23eed22c0245 Tue, 23 Oct 2012 04:01:00 GMT