While campaigning for his father at the Arizona Republican Party convention on Saturday, Josh Romney got drowned out by boos by Ron Paul supporters and was forced to leave the stage.

The Arizona Republic’s Rebekah Sanders reported that Paul supporters screamed out that Romney was “the white Obama.”

On CBS’s Face The Nation, Bob Schieffer asked Family Research Council president Tony Perkins about the controversial anti-gay joke that Kentucky Republican Senator Rand Paul made about President Obama saying “Call me cynical, but I wasn’t sure his views on marriage could get any gayer.” “Got a big laugh there, what’s your take?” Schieffer said. Perkins rebuked Paul for his comments, saying the issue was serious and he should not have ridiculed President Obama about it.

Al Sharpton‘s PoliticsNation beat CNN’s John King USA on Thursday, topping him 114,000 to 105,000 in the demo and 721,000 to 366,000 in total viewers. John King USA came in fourth behind Fox News, MSNBC and HLN (in demo)   Here are the rest of your Thursday night ratings: TV NEWS RATINGS: 25-54 DEMOGRAPHIC (L [...]

With the spotlight being brightly shone upon Mitt Romney‘s prestigious prep school Cranbrook in the Washington Post’s allegations that he was a bully in his youth, it turns out another famous Michigan resident crossed paths with the institution.

On Thursday night,Stephen Colbert had a long, comprehensive laundry list of threats to tackle during his trademark “Threatdown” segment, which he deftly took to task with gusto.

Colbert began by reporting on a new study that showed the New York Police Department performed more frisks of black men in 2011 than the total number of young black men living in the city.

Jamie Lynne Grumet appeared on the Today show with her 3-year-old son and hit back at critics who said her cover photo in Time Magazine that featured her exposed breast went too far.

“Okay Jamie, you knew this was going to cause a stir. Did you know it was going to cause as much of a stir?” asked co-host Savannah Guthrie.

They became household names by reading and sometimes analyzing the news, inspiring a generation of aspiring, up-and-coming journalists. They were the headliners in prime time, some covering some of the most influential news events of the past several decades. But now many of them have moved on to do other projects, explore different interests and new lives. The Mediaite sleuths are hot on their trail, tracking down their current known whereabouts.

Thursday night on NBC’s Late Night with Jimmy Fallon, Will Ferrell hopped into a pair of “tight pants” during an uproarious retro skit replete with ’60s-era singing and dancing. Grooviness ensued. “Everybody’s talkin’ ’bout my tight pants, I got my tight pants — I got my tight pants on!” Ferrell sang.

On Thursday’s Ellen, host Ellen Degeneres gave an enthusiastic reception to President Obama‘s affirmation to ABC’s Robin Roberts that “same-sex couples should be able to get married.” “What an amazing day for our country!” DeGeneres exclaimed.

On MSNBC Thursday, host Martin Bashir tore into presumptive Republican nominee Mitt Romney over the allegations that he bullied a gay high school classmate.

On Tuesday, The Daily Caller‘s Michelle Fields caught up with ’90s kid icon and scientist Bill Nye The Science Guy who was in Washington, D.C. speaking on behalf of the Planetary Society. Fields asked Nye about his thoughts about the Obama Administration. “He has a lot of constraints until he gets re-elected. He can’t do what, certainly, my parents would have thought were routine things — social programs. This notion that government is inherently bad is new.” Nye observed. “Whoever’s in charge can’t do anything about it ’til after the election. … He’ll have a freer hand is what I believe.”

On Thursday’s Starting Point, CNN’s Soledad O’Brien got into a spirited tête-à-tête with Family Research Council president Tony Perkins over the ramifications of President Obama‘s announcement he supports gay marriage and whether allowing same-sex couples to marry would redefine the institution of marriage.

Was Vice President Joe Biden‘s so-called ‘gaffe’ coming out in support of same-sex marriage rights an elaborate hoax? Some panelists on Wednesday morning’s Red Eye surmised as much, as the controversy over his remarks continued to be the topic du jour of the talk show set. Radio host John Gibson was unsettled by various aspects of Vice President’s remarks, and thought something didn’t smell right. “Look, I can’t believe this is a natural gaffe,” Gibson observed. “He goes on Meet The Press, he gives this long winded answer. It is not like something casual. And it seems to me that the Obama team is playing chips all over the roulette table. You put a little on red and a little on black and a little here and a little there. So the president can say he’s evolving. Arne Duncan is for it and Joe Biden is for it.”

Despite being out of office since early 2009, former President George W. Bush is still being subsidized by the US Government. According to a budget proposal document put together by the General Services Administration, Bush is slated to receive more than $1.3 million in taxpayer dollars, including $85,000 in phone costs, The Daily Caller‘s Alex Pappas reports. The money is budgeted to go towards office staff, travel and postage. Bush will receive more taxpayer subsidies than any other living ex-president.

Victorious Indiana Republican Senatorial challenger Richard Mourdock stopped into CNN’s Starting Point on Wednesday morning on the heels of his defeat of Richard Lugar and was pressed by Soledad O’Brien over his affirmation to refuse to compromise in the Senate.

On Tuesday night, Piers Morgan spilled about his hilarious hijinks involving his toilet paper collection to a stunned Conan O’Brien. “You are not afraid to admit to some peculiarities in your private life and we’ll get to them right now,” O’Brien told the CNN host. “Whoa, no we’re not!” Morgan replied. “You were arrested in 1974, no,” O’Brien asked “You like to collect strange things. You collect toilet paper, do you not?” “Um, only very particular toilet paper,” he revealed.

CNN’s Erin Burnett sat down with Carson Daly on NBC’s Last Call, and shared an intimate story about her childhood, that inspired her TV career.

Meet Keith Judd — or as some call him, “Inmate No. 11593-051.” He is serving a 210-month sentence at the Beaumont Federal Correctional Institution in Texas for making threats at the University of New Mexico in 1999.

According to U.S. and Yemeni officials, the alleged would-be bomber at the heart of an al-Qaida airliner plot was actually an informant working for the CIA. “The revelation, first reported by The Los Angeles Times, shows how the CIA was able to get its hands on a sophisticated underwear bomb well before an attack was set in motion.”

On Monday night’s AC360, in the wake of Vice President Joe Biden‘s comments favoring gay marriage, Anderson Cooper questioned whether President Obama was trying to have it both ways on the issue, without taking a concrete stance.

Republican Indiana Senator Richard Lugar appeared on CNN’s Starting Point on Tuesday, on the day of a decisive primary that could end his 36-year career in the Senate and was put on the hot seat by the panelists. Host Soledad O’Brien asked Lugar if there wasn’t room for a moderate in the US Senate anymore. “I believe that Hoosiers will vote for me today,” Lugar responded.

Arizona Senator and staunch Mitt Romney supporter John McCain hit back at TNT commentator and former Phoenix Suns power forward Charles Barkley, who predicted President Obama would defeat the presumptive Republican presidential nominee Sunday night during the Boston Celtics/Atlanta Hawks game. “Dear Charles Barkley, ‘don’t take it personally, you seem like a nice guy,’” McCain tweeted. “But you’re clueless – @MittRomney wins. Wanna bet?”

Mitt Romney‘s press secretary Andrea Saul stopped by CNN’s Starting Point on Monday, and took aim at President Obama‘s job creation numbers, which she claimed were in the red. “President Obama hasn’t created a net single new job,” Saul asserted. “When you say hasn’t created net jobs, of course, you’re talking about there was so much jobless that even started to happen before the President came in,” O’Brien countered. “They are rebuilding from that so I’m going to correct you on that if I can.”

ABC and Univision have announced they are launching a new English-language cable channel aimed at Latino Americans.

According to ABC News President Ben Sherwood, the channel will be a “a 24/7 news, information and lifestyle network primarily in English that will serve the youngest and fastest-growing demographic in the country: U.S. Hispanics.”

On the Today Show Monday, NBC News’ Michelle Kosinski spoke with Dania Suarez, the Colombian prostitute at the center of the Secret Service sex scandal.