If you were watching Late Night on NBC last night, you may have, at one point, double-checked to make sure you weren’t high on something. Well, don’t worry. We all saw it. Jimmy Fallon challenged his late night comrade Stephen Colbert to a friendly game of “bubble soccer,” alongside two of NBC’s most respected (and tallest) newsmen: Lester Holt and David Gregory.

Class warfare be damned! Almost two-thirds of Americans in a recent poll said they believe that the United States benefits from having a rich class, up exactly one percentage point from the same poll taken over 20 years ago. Fox & Friends brought up this poll today, just a little amazed at how the number has basically not changed considering all the debating this year over the rich paying higher taxes, the Buffett Rule, etc.

There has been all sorts of substantive news about gay marriage this week, it’s easy to forget the small moments. I’m referring, of course, to the Nebraska woman who gave her remarkably unique reasoning for why gay people should not be allowed to get married. To say she went off the rails would be kind. More accurately, she went off the rails and down into a bottomless pit of confused bigotry. Thankfully, the guys over at Red Eye picked up this moment and decided to have some fun with it.

Ann Coulter sat down with Sean Hannity on his radio show Thursday to talk about President Obama finally coming out in support of gay marriage. Coulter didn’t spend too much time going after Obama for his position, instead going after him for putting his own reelection chances ahead of members of his own party. Several Democratic legislators in contentious elections are backing away from Obama’s endorsement of gay marriage so they stay in office. Coulter said that the president’s thought process on this was just to “screw them six ways to Sunday” and keep the focus on his own reelection.

As much as the Mitt Romney campaign wants to keep the election focused on jobs and the economy, this entire week was just dominated by gay marriage, one of the most divisive social issues in the country. From Joe Biden‘s endorsement of gay marriage to North Carolina’s anti-civil unions measure to President Obama finally completing his evolution, Maddow noted that this has probably been the gayest week in Romney’s entire life.

Bill O’Reilly continues to shine a light on an assault in Virginia where a group of black men attacked two white news reporters, and last night O’Reilly was surprised that only one of the attackers in question has been arrested and brought up on charges. O’Reilly brought on Geraldo Rivera and anointed him the attorney for the victims in the case, asking him what he would do if he was actually representing the couple and trying to help them get justice.

Republican presidential candidate Mitt Romney delivered a commencement address at Liberty University earlier today in a speech that focused more on his life experiences than policy. Romney spoke of how “American culture promotes personal responsibility,” including the value of getting a good education. He told students that what you believe helps shape your future just as powerfully as any other force in life, if not more so. However, Romney did manage to restate his belief that marriage is between a man and a woman, to much applause.

On last night’s O’Reilly Factor, Bill O’Reilly observed that one of the most annoying aspects of his job is when he tries to confront some pundit with a piece of factual information and them trying to change the subject to other “bad behavior” that doesn’t hurt their side. He noticed this seemed to be happening with the story about Mitt Romney being a high school bully, with pundits resorting to “third-grade” tactics with the blame game.

A memo sent out by a Republican pollster has been making the rounds online for its conclusion that the party needs to embrace gay marriage as part of its platform because of recent trends showing increased support for this important social issue. Jan van Lohuizen, who worked as a pollster for George W. Bush in 2004, made the case that the GOP should be fighting for gay marriage as a conservative issue, by emphasizing that “freedom means freedom for everyone.”

One prominent North Carolina politician has been making her opposition to Amendment One, the proposal that passed this week to end recognition of all civil unions in the state beyond an already-existing ban on gay marriage, known. Governor Beverly Perdue remarked that the vote was disappointing coming from a “progressive forward thinking economically driven state” and added that by having a population that overwhelmingly supports such measures, “we look like Mississippi.”

One cannot help but marvel at how the Obama administration’s hand was forced on the gay marriage issue after a “gaffe” from Vice President Joe Biden on Meet the Press this week. Three days after the VP came out in favor of gay marriage, President Obama made his position known to the public. Bill Maher pointed out the interesting turn of events in his final New Rule of the night…

On tonight’s edition of Real Time, Bill Maher admitted he’s of two minds about the relevancy of Mitt Romney‘s bullying past in the 2012 presidential campaign. Obviously, he acknowledged that everyone has done stupid things in high school that, in most cases, they’ve come to regret. But Maher asked the panel if Romney bullying young gay peers in high school says something about his character and general outlook of people not like him.

If anything in this country of ours exemplifies the disconnect between the people and the press, it’s the White House Correspondents’ Dinner. The “Nerd Prom,” as it was affectionately called, brings together the best and the brightest of the media and political elite in a room where they dine on the flesh of poor people and conspire to destroy this nation from the top down. Okay, maybe not exactly that, but on Meet the Press today, Tom Brokaw argued that it’s time to reevaluate the purpose of the dinner and what it says about the press.

Senator Marco Rubio sat down with Chris Wallace on Fox News Sunday today, and naturally the conversation turned to the presidential election and the importance of the Hispanic vote. In four states with big Hispanic populations, President Obama is winning the Hispanic vote with a 2-1 margin over Mitt Romney. Wallace asked Rubio how Romney could possibly win if this is the kind of support he’s getting from an important voting bloc.

We get too much heavy-handed politics these days. How about something lighter, like game shows? Alex Trebek was today’s featured “Power Player” on Fox News Sunday, and the Jeopardy! host opened up about hosting one of the most popular game shows on TV for almost three decades. He told Wallace that he has given some thought to retiring after another year or two of hosting, but he’s “torn” by the decision because of how much he enjoys it.

Rupert Murdoch has not exactly gotten the best press lately. Since last summer, he has been embroiled in scandal over phone hacking that took place at newspapers owned by News Corporation. He appeared before a Parliament committee and a grand inquiry to testify about the malfeasance. But what of Fox News? Well, Bill Keller‘s newest column for The New York Times argues that the cable news channel is Murdoch’s “most toxic legacy” and that its slogan “fair and balanced” is just for “suckers.”

Nicolas Sarkozy has officially conceded defeat in France’s presidential race, meaning the next leader of the French Republic will be Socialist Party candidate Francois Hollande. Hollande was pushed into office by voters not necessarily because they wanted him in office, but because of growing anti-Sarkozy sentiment throughout the country.

Vice President Joe Biden sat down for a lengthy interview on Meet the Press today, and obviously he ended up talking about the recent hay being made over attempts by the Obama administration to use the death of Osama bin Laden to attack Mitt Romney. David Gregory asked Biden why he and the rest of the administration has been implying that Romney would not have carried out the now-infamous mission.

During an appearance on CNN’s State of the Union earlier, Newt Gingrich was asked about the relative influence of the Tea Party in Republican politics. Crowley brought up the hotly contested Indiana race between incumbent Senator Duck Lugar and Tea Party challenger Richard Mourdock, and how Lugar might finally see his political career end after decades of service. Gingrich did not take sides in the race, but did credit Mourdock with being aggressively conservative and predicted he would end up winning the primary.

Last night CNN’s Don Lemon brought up the latest in the saga of the gay foreign policy spokesman for the Mitt Romney campaign who parted ways with them last week. It was only after he left that Romney publicly said he didn’t want Richard Grenell to leave. Lemon got into a heated argument with Newsbusters associate editor Noel Sheppard over why Romney didn’t do more to keep Grennell on and only waited until he left before speaking out in his defense.

On CNN’s State of the Union today, host Candy Crowley talked with Newt Gingrich in some depth about the current state of the Republican party. Gingrich defended the GOP from claims that it is not diverse enough, pointing to people who help make the party more racially and ideologically diverse. Crowley told Gingrich during the interview that a common perception of Republicans is that they’re just a “conservative bunch of white guys who want to protect big oil.”

There’s been a lot of talk about the “enthusiasm gap” between President Obama and his Republican rival Mitt Romney. Conventional wisdom says that Obama can get voters excited and inspired in ways that Romney simply can’t. But does the president have his own enthusiasm gap to deal with? On ABC’s This Week today, Jake Tapper asked David Axelrod if Obama is still capable of drawing the same large crowds he did back in 2008.

During an appearance on Meet the Press earlier today, Vice President Joe Biden argued passionately in favor of full same-sex marriage rights, indicating a shift in position for the VP. Biden made sure to clarify that these were his personal views and not necessarily the views of the Obama administration, but he did talk at some length about how perceptions of gay people have changed over time thanks to TV shows like Will & Grace.

If you were wondering how the Communist Party-run media in China would handle the case of activist Chen Guangcheng, The Wall Street Journal details how instead of willfully ignoring the news, the media in China has been doing its best to brand Chen as “a pawn and an unwitting tool of the U.S.” A tentative deal has been worked out to allow Chen to study in the United States, but that has not stopped the media from making its bold claims about Chen’s U.S. ties and the United States’ ambassador to China, Gary Locke.

Over 60 years after the end of World War II, the Associated Press has now publicly and formally apologized for firing a reporter following a scoop they got about the end of the war. Edward Kennedy, who died in 1963, discovered that the Germans had unconditionally surrendered before anyone else, but he ran with the story by going around military censors and publishing it ahead of time. The AP reacted at the time by firing Kennedy, but now they have apologized to him and acknowledge it was a “terrible” day for them.