In a profile in the New York Times Magazine, CBS chief foreign affairs correspondent Lara Logan shared the grueling details of how she came clean to her husband about the, “brutal and sustained sexual assault” she endured in Cairo’s Tahrir Square after Hosni Mubarak‘s resignation.

Columbia University professor Jeffrey Sachs and Joe Scarborough went after each other over Newt Gingrich SuperPAC funder Sheldon Adelson, devolving into a shouting match. “He’s a completely, by the way, unlikable guy,” Sachs said of Adelson. “And do we need major gambling influence and guy has played all over the world with governments so he gets the licenses and charges up and down as a core leader of our politics? Come on!”

Respected war reporter Marie Colvin, who was covering the conflict in Syria for the London Sunday Times, was tragically killed in a shelling attack on Wednesday. Just Tuesday, only hours before her death, she gave a chillingly detailed report to CNN’s Anderson Cooper about the situation on the ground, detailing how she witnessed a baby die of shrapnel injuries.

The Daily Caller’s Tucker Carlson spoke with Fox News’ Sean Hannity on Tuesday about Media Matters and their allegedly shadowy ties to the White House.

Appearing on Tuesday night’s Daily Show, a hilariously agitated Lewis Black ripped into the tabloid-saturated media coverage of Whitney Houston. “The media observed her passing in the tradition of the Native Americans– by using every part of the tragedy!” Lewis exclaimed. “For instance, did you know with very little skill you can turn a song catalog into hours of terrible segues?”

James Carville spoke to Fox Business Network’s Don Imus on Tuesday morning about the state of the presidential race, and how Republicans are allegedly, desperately seeking his advice. “I’m out there speaking to [Republicans] and talking to them and they’re just like flinching,” Carville snarked. “‘God, what are we going to do, Mr. Carville?!’ I’m like, ‘I don’t know, why ask me.’”

On Tuesday, Franklin Graham appeared on Morning Joe and made some statements that threw the show’s panel into a disarray. Franklin questioned President Obama’s faith and contentiously explained why Mormons weren’t Christian.

Appearing on CBS This Morning, former MSNBC contributor Pat Buchanan spoke with Charlie Rose and aggressively defended his book from charges that it is racist.

“What I’m warning about in our country,” Buchanan observed. “…Is the United States of America which is shifting to become a multicultural, multinational, multiethnic, multilingual country. There is nothing that’s going to hold us together if we lose our common language, our common Judeo-Christian faith, our common moral consensus, which we are losing.”

On Monday, Republican hopeful Newt Gingrich spoke at a town hall at Oral Roberts University in Tulsa, Oklahoma, and criticized the Obama Administration for encouraging Americans to buy more fuel-economical vehicles.

“The President has said, you know, you ought to buy smaller cars,” Gingrich quipped. “Now, let me start with a simple premise that most Oklahomans will understand: You cannot put a gun rack in a Volt!”

Speaking with George Stephanopoulos on Good Morning America Tuesday, ABC News senior White House correspondent Jake Tapper downplayed the idea of new Republican candidates getting into the presidential race. “Jon Karl got news from Republican Senators saying that if Mitt Romney loses in Michigan next Tuesday, he’s going to be calling for other candidates to get into the race. But most Republican voters, according to a new Gallup poll, don’t want that. this is still fanciful talk, isn’t it? “I think this is what Republicans believe in — Beltway Republicans believe in other than Santa Claus,” Tapper snarked.

Republican hopeful Ron Paul recently told an audience that he would consider tapping former Fox Business News host Judge Andrew Napolitano as his running mate.

“One time somebody asked me who I’d have to consider and the name Judge Napolitano jumps right out at me,” Paul said to raucous cheers.

The 700 Club‘s Pat Robertson discussed the banking crisis and glowingly spoke about how Iceland jailed many of the bankers who devastated their nation’s economy for taking out fraudulent loans. Robertson hailed the Nordic nation for its actions and said that Americans should deal with the financial crisis in the same way. “Guess what country is getting itself out of a financial problem by some draconian measures?” Robertson asked his co-host Terry Meeuwsen. “Greece?” she asked. “No, not even close. Iceland!” Robertson exclaimed. “They are putting people in jail. Prime ministers are being indicted. They are going after banks. The people said the banks are ripping us off. We don’t like what they did, and they brought our country to ruin. Suddenly Iceland is turning around and they look like a big success story!”

Did Rick Santorum just call up Michigan voters and ask them to support Mitt Romney? Some Michiganders are reporting that they’re getting phone calls using Santorum audio from 2008 endorsing Romney during his first run for the presidency. That year, Pennsylvania senator wholeheartedly supported Romney and campaigned for him on the Laura Ingraham Show–now it’s being used against him.

Rupert Murdoch tweeted his approval of Republican hopeful Rick Santorum and his views on Monday, saying “From distance, Santorum doing great. Values really do count in America, and not sneered at as in parts of Europe. Win Michigan game over.”

Doing his part to campaign for Republican hopeful Mitt Romney in Michigan, Donald Trump phoned into the “Art Lewis Show,” on WSGW in the Flint-Saginaw media market and lit into Rick Santorum. “There’s nothing – there’s no gift, no Christmas gift, that could be given better than Rick Santorum to the Democrats,” lambasted Trump. “They are just salivating at that. And, you know, I don’t think they believe it’s going to happen. But boy, would they like it to happen because that would be an easy election.”

On CNN’s Starting Point Monday, Soledad O’Brien grilled Rick Santorum communications director Hogan Gidley over comments his candidate made about President Obama‘s “phony theology.”

“What’s that mean?” O’Brien asked Gidley. “It’s not a theology…he’s talking about President Obama, not about jobs, it’s about a phony ideal: ‘Not a theology based on the Bible, a different theology.’ Well, what do you mean?”

Former ESPN editor Anthony Federico, who was fired over a controversial Jeremy Lin headline that used the word “chink”, told the Daily News that the entire thing was a “honest mistake.”

The Five‘s Dana Perino made an appearance on this morning’s Fox and Friends and spoke out about the mainstream media’s coverage of gas price prices, saying it was more negative under President Bush than President Obama.

As if! In a recent New York Times review of Jodi Kantor’s The Obamas, Douglas Brinkley cattily referred to the book as “chick nonfiction.” Going on to say “This book is not about politics, it’s about marriage.”

On Fox News HQ, Heather Childers held a panel discussion on a new Gallup poll that showed Americans were split on how history will regard President Obama: 38% said he will be remembered as above average or outstanding and 35% thought he would be seen as below average or poor. They also discussed additional findings in the poll that showed many people considered Ronald Reagan and Bill Clinton to be among the best modern US presidents.

During a heated segment on Sunday’s CNN Newsroom with Don Lemon, a fiery exchange took place between LZ Granderson and Will Cain over the controversy swirling around Arizona Sheriff and former Mitt Romney State Campaign Co-chair Paul Babeu. Granderson observed there was hypocrisy on the part of the GOP as there “always seems as if the person who’s working for…an anti-gay politician for some reasons seems to have these gay ties.”

In a discussion about the allegedly racially insensitive media incidents involving Jeremy Lin on CNN’s Reliable Sources, Jeremy Lin on CNN’s Reliable Sources, Vanity Fair/Daily Beast columnist Buzz Bissinger said he wasn’t offended by much of it. “‘Chink in the armor‘ is definitely offensive,” Bissinger observed. “I will not say what the penalty should or should not be. It’s hard to believe it got in but ESPN does this all the time. They do offensive things and then try to backtrack. I think some of the other stuff, frankly, is not that big a deal. The fortune cookie thing didn’t bother me…I don’t think — I don’t think it rises to the level of calling him a gook or a kike. People are having fun with it.”

CNN’s Don Lemon spoke with the Rev. Al Sharpton about Whitney Houston‘s funeral and the touchy subject of Bobby Brown leaving after getting into an argument with Houston’s family. Sharpton told Lemon, “I wish people would leave Bobby alone.”

Gospel legend Bebe Winans gave one of the most emotional eulogies during Whitney Houston‘s funeral, as his tears sometimes tripped him up, but he valiantly trudged on and gave a moving tribute to the pop star. “We spent a lot of time together and we talk about her voice and we talk about her talent, which was a beautiful thing, but what I’m going to miss is crazy Whitney,” Winans quipped.

On MSNBC Friday, Chris Matthews responded to the news that Pat Buchanan was leaving MSNBC by giving the conservative icon a warm sendoff. “He’s leaving the network and won’t be working with us from now on,” Matthews wistfully lamented. “I miss him already. We’ve had dragdown fights right here on this set and I’ve said things that drive him up a wall and he’s said things that have driven me up a wall. We’ve done it here in a pretty good spirit most of the time and have managed to be friendly and friends throughout it all. And, obviously, I’m going to miss his cheerful fun-loving irascible presence around here.”