A sign of the times? The most comprehensive, mature, and convincing conversation Newt Gingrich has had with the media so far about his dubious personal history comes to us from Univisión, where their top journalist, Jorge Ramos, sat down for an extensive interview with the candidate released today. Ramos went where few journalists have gone before with Gingrich– a comparison of his second known affair with President Clinton’s– and got a fair and long answer.

Bill O’Reilly opened his show announcing a particularly exciting interview double-header today– yes, 2012 Republican candidate and former House Speaker Newt Gingrich would be on the program, but not before an extended interview with his former nemesis, former President Bill Clinton. O’Reilly got the former President’s opinion on just about every political topic in the news today, but, naturally, the most fascinating tidbits of the interview related to Gingrich and his ability to win the nomination. President Clinton had a thought or two on this.

Former President Bill Clinton will make an appearance on Bill O’Reilly‘s The Factor tonight (which we will, of course, be covering, Pop Secret and Jujubes close at hand).

“He’s being rewarded for thinking,” said former President Bill Clinton of Newt Gingrich in an interview with Newsmax yesterday. The former President, for whom Gingrich was a longtime thorn in the side as Speaker of the House, gave an interview for his upcoming book to the conservative publication, the full content of which will be released tonight. The excerpt on Gingrich was released last night, however, and Clinton praised Gingrich by suggesting his message appeals to independents.

“This is war. And that’s how they fight it.”

That’s how Rush Limbaugh summed up his feelings on the blossoming Herman Cain sexual harassment story during his radio show today. The “they” in question are Democrats as Limbaugh conflated the Cain story with the Marco Rubio scandal from last week and said they were both examples of liberals working to destroy conservative minority members.

Over the weekend, former President Bill Clinton had a several-month late birthday bash in Hollywood, lasting two nights and capped off with a seductive performance by Lady Gaga, who performed a special version of “Bad Romance” and giddily called her performance a “Marilyn moment.” Given that ostentatious displays of power and wealth are public enemy #1 on The Last Word, Lawrence O’Donnell‘s cringing reaction to the affair (no pun intended) should not have come as a surprise, but it was still fairly hard-hitting from one liberal to another.

Former president Bill Clinton paid a visit to the Late Show last night, where he weighed in on several topical political issues, including ideas for how to breathe new life into the economy. When host David Letterman brought up the concept of redistributing wealth — or at least the idea that the well-off would feel some sort of impetus to help out those not as well-off — Clinton seemed skeptical. “I’m always looking to blame somebody,” Letterman joked.

President Bill Clinton appeared on the Late Show with David Letterman last night and discussion of the Occupy Wall Street protests proved to be as interesting a recap as one might expect. The former president was generally very supportive of the movement, however he did not seem entirely impressed with the specific message currently coming from the protestors, summing up by saying “you need to be for something, not just against something,” before drawing comparisons to both the Tea Party and the Arab Spring.

Former President Bill Clinton is Back To Work with a new book due out in November, via Knopf. The 200-page book examines the current economic environment and outlines a path to recovery; one that Clinton hopes will reinforce President Obama’s jobs plan.

Yesterday, in regard to that day’s Rush Limbaugh clip, I wrote that “one of the biggest memes in conservative media in the past few months has been the idea that liberals now hate Barack Obama.” Similar to how Liberals used to pounce on any story that seemed to suggest even Republicans had turned against George W. Bush, any quote from any left-leaning pundit or politician that’s negative towards the current President has quickly turned into huge headlines for the conservative press.

Former President Bill Clinton was not sympathetic in regarding the current crop of Republican presidential hopeful’s opposition to acknowledging climate change. Speaking on the opening day of the Clinton Global Initiatives’ seventh annual meeting in New York, he cautioned that the top contenders aversion to science is “patently absurd” and becoming a liability.

The two headline guests on Face the Nation today were Bill Clinton and Dick Cheney, and while the two men did not appear together on screen, Clinton was given the chance to respond to recent compliments the former vice president gave to his wife Hillary Clinton, suggesting his comments were politically motivated.

Former president Bill Clinton argued on Face the Nation today that President Obama has, in essence, made himself his primary opponent leading up to the 2012 presidential election, and emphasized the role of compromise in contemporary politics. Host Bob Schieffer asked Clinton if he agreed with James Carville (a former Clinton advisor) in saying that now is the time for President Obama’s team to panic and shake up their entire reelection strategy.

In a heartfelt tribute to the victims of Flight 93, Presidents George W. Bush and Bill Clinton visited the field in Shanksville, PA, where passengers on that flight managed to get the plane to land, evading its ultimate destination. Both Presidents gave their perspectives in solemn addresses, President Bush reminded the audience that the event was a reminder for our nation to “serve the cause of freedom,” while President Clinton concluded that the heroes of that flight reminded us that “humanity is what matters most.”

Noted burger and donut lover Bill Clinton has–brace yourself–become a vegan. Is nothing sacred? In an interview with CNN’s Sanjay Gupta, the former president and junk-food lover has cleaned up his act, dropping twenty pounds and transforming his diet. Gupta reports Clinton “now considers himself a vegan…and he says he’s healthier than ever.” The candidate who worked his way through New Hampshire–and boxes of donuts–had a huge health scare that resulted in heart surgery and advice to step away from the barbeque and french fries.

Judge solely by the amount of attention she has received this week, it’s fair to say that Tea Party darling and aspiring media figure Christine O’Donnell has been successful at promoting her new book Troublemaker. But if you draw a distinction between the quantity and quality of media attention, well then perhaps its a different story all together. This morning O’Donnell showed up on NBC’s TODAY and was fairly interrogated by Savannah Guthrie who questioned O’Donnell’s previous explanations for why exactly she walked off of the set of Piers Morgan Tonight earlier in the week.

This morning, former president Bill Clinton addressed members of the International Association of Fire Fighters in midtown Manhattan, sharing his thoughts on that handsome Texan, Rick Perry, and the views he has regarding the role of government — and the blame it is due for overstepping this role.

Former President Bill Clinton made headlines Tuesday when he said that, if he was in charge, he would raise the debt ceiling himself under the 14th Amendment, and “force the courts to stop me.”

The idea of raising the debt limit using the 14th Amendment isn’t new, but President Clinton’s declaration significantly alters the political dynamic, giving President Obama either a powerful wild card to play in the negotiations, or an enormous headache.

Former president Bill Clinton said he’d solve the debt crisis Old School Style: just raise the roof. In an interview with the National Memo, Clinton said he believed a deal would be struck before August 2, but if he were in charge, and both sides failed to reach an agreement, he would simply raise the debt ceiling himself using powers granted under the 14th amendment of the Constitution. The amendment says that the validity of the public debt shall not be questioned. Clinton said he’d “force the courts to stop me.”

Former President Bill Clinton told CNN’s Wolf Blitzer he’s not a fan of how many reporters continue to describe the Democratic argument for increasing taxes on the rich as “class warfare.” Pointing out that the disparity between rich and poor Americans has grown immensely in the last thirty years is not waging class warfare, Clinton argues, and instead when the country is in trouble, everyone should be prepared to sacrifice.

Former President Bill Clinton, in an exclusive interview with ABC’s Jake Tapper, proposes a ten-year plan to address the nation’s economy, but fears Republicans won’t buy into the plan because GOP “ideological conviction” won’t allow them to compromise. “When I passed my budget in 1993, they routinely said it would bring on a terrible recession, [that] it was the end of capitalism as we knew it,” he said. “And we had the best eight years in our history. But they just kept saying it. You’ve got to give them credit. The evidence doesn’t deter them. It’s an ideological conviction. So, I don’t know that it can be resolved until there’s some break in the action.”

Bill Clinton knows quite a lot about quite a few things: Saxophones, the definition of the word “is,” and, it turns out, the popular animated children’s series My Little Pony. The former president sat down with NPR’s “Wait, Wait… Don’t Tell Me!” to play their “Not My Job” game, which included an in-depth quiz on his knowledge of, well. Sparkly happy ponies:

We decided to quiz the former president and Rhodes scholar about the My Little Pony show. The famously well-informed leader answers three questions about Pinkie Pie, Fluttershy and Twilight Sparkle.

Barack Obama impersonator Reggie Brown first hit my radar in April, but with a much-publicized performance at the Republican Leadership Conference, he figures to be on many more screens in the near future. Initially accused (by liberal blogs) of telling “racist jokes,” then by RLC President Charlie Davis of “racially insensitive jokes,” the truth beyond those accusations has emerged. In an exclusive interview with Mediaite, Reggie responds to his critics, talks about his past and future, and issues a friendly challenge to fellow Faux-bama Fred Armisen.

Whatever his political status may be today, there was a time in which Jon Stewart‘s claim to being merely a court jester was indisputable, way back when he was a fixture on the half-music, half-talk, pre-reality MTV. During his tenure as host of The Jon Stewart Show, the idea of him even entering the White House was a punchline in and of itself– a punchline early and often employed in this 1994 interview with gangly underground talk show host Conan O’Brien.

Since the initial rise of Anthony Weiner‘s sexting scandal three weeks ago, the impulse to compare his demise to that of other politicians caught in sex scandals has roped in politicians from all across the political spectrum. Now that he’s gone, some have come to the conclusion that what he did was no worse than what some politicians that stayed in office managed to do. Tonight, Bill O’Reilly proposed just this, comparing Weiner to Sen. David Vitter and President Bill Clinton.