Bill O’Reilly turned his attention to Roland Martin‘s suspension from CNN and thought the pundit’s chickens were finally coming home to roost. “This is ironic because Martin himself often brands people as bigots on the air. Glenn Beck, Rush Limbaugh and me, your humble correspondent, among others. He has called organized religion ‘desperately sexist’ and branded tea party leaders as stupid. Karma may have caught up with Martin.”

FOX News Channel’s The Five marked their 2nd highest rated show with viewers 25-54 since launch on 7/11/11 drawing 481,000 and 1.8 million in total viewers. According to Nielsen, The Five – a program nearly six months old beat four networks combined in the demo: CNN, MSNBC, CNBC and HLN. See attached for excel sheet.

The Five’s highest rated show was on 11/8/11, but the show only aired for 21 minutes due to Herman Cain’s PC.

The crisis in Syria had to take a backseat to Keeping Up With The Kardashians matriarch Kris Jenner on CNN Thursday, who appeared on the cable news network to promote Zestra, an “amazing” female sexual arousal gel. “I live a complicated life,” Jenner told a visibly squeamish Don Lemon. “We’re all busy and crazy. so I’ve stumbled across a product called Zestra that’s the most amazing product to spice up your love life.”

DNC chair Debbie Wasserman Schultz visited CNN’s Starting Point to address criticism that President Barack Obama has “flip-flopped” on the issue of Super PACs.

“Isn’t there something contradictory in that, though?” asked host Soledad O’Brien, “Saying ‘I’m against it, but embrace it because the other guys are embracing it.’”

Former Pennsylvania congressman and current Gingrich campaign chairman Bob Walker joined Starting Point‘s Soledad O’Brien on Thursday to discuss how Newt Gingrich plans to win over voters participating in the upcoming straw poll.

A mere minutes after Donald Trump had gone through the many, many ways he thought Rick Santorum was a loser on Fox News, over at MSNBC, he found himself on the receiving end of the same. It is no big secret that Lawrence O’Donnell isn’t a huge fan of Trump, but what may be news delivered by O’Donnell is his belief that Mitt Romney, Trump’s candidate in the Republican primary, thinks Trump is “a buffoon, and unconfirmable joke, America’s biggest loser.”

Earlier today the news broke that CNN contributor Roland Martin will not be appearing on the network indefinitely for what GLAAD perceived to be a homophobic tweet. Despite his personal ideological bent, the reaction from the conservative media was a swift defense of the longtime CNN pundit. But the conservative reaction to Martin’s suspension is no surprise because the conservative movement has long abandoned the left/right divide for a new war front: that between individuals and the media elite.

Japanese roboticist Masahiro Mori once made the observation that “the more humanlike his robots became, the more people were attracted to them, but only up to a point. If an android become too realistic and lifelike, suddenly people were repelled and disgusted.” Henceforth, the concept of uncanny valley came into our public consciousness. Perfectly illustrating this concept, CNN presents us with a disturbing news report introducing us to “the robot mule” — not a Tim Burton movie, but in fact, a DARPA invention that can carry heavy equipment for US troops.

On the heels (but not too closely on the heels) of Monday’s call by GLAAD that CNN analyst Roland Martin be fired for tweets he made during Sunday’s Super Bowl, the network has announced that Martin has been suspended. Martin initially explained the tweets, which GLAAD said encouraged violence against gay people, as tweaking soccer fans, but the network disagrees. In a statement released minutes ago, CNN says “Roland Martin’s tweets were regrettable and offensive.

Fresh off his Tuesday night wins, GOP presidential hopeful Rick Santorum visited Starting Point‘s Soledad O’Brien to explain his strategy… and issue a couple of corrections.

During CNN’s caucus-saturated election night coverage Tuesday, reports of heavy fighting in Syria interrupted the telecast, which prompted Wolf Blitzer to make a comment on the democratic proceedings of the night. “It sounds corny, Anderson,” Blitzer observed. “Every time we see these little actions, caucuses unfold, democracy in action, as we’re speaking, people are dying in Syria because they would like to have a caucus, they’d like to have a primary. They can’t have one. We’re having ours here in the United States. Let’s keep some perspective on what’s going on.”

Today on his radio show, Glenn Beck jumped into the scandal surrounding a tweet sent out by CNN’s Roland Martin during the Super Bowl. GLAAD is calling for Martin’s firing for what they perceived as an anti-gay attack in the tweet. Beck explained that Martin should be fired, but not for what he wrote. Rather, because he’s a “dope” and an “idiot.”

The Super Bowl slacklining sensation Andy Lewis AKA Sketchy Andy spoke with Brooke Baldwin during Tuesday’s CNN Newsroom, and caught her off-guard when he told her he had battle-tested gonads. “Andy, I have to ask a question off the top that a lot of people are wondering. The first thought I had was, wow! The second being ouch! Doesn’t that hurt?”

“I actually just — I just made a video that you can view on YouTube right now. It’s called Andy Lewis: Balls of Steel!” Lewis exclaimed. “You should check that out!”

On Tuesday morning’s Starting Point, host Soledad O’Brien led yet another discussion of the Obama administration’s decision to give non-church religious employers one year to comply with the Preventive Services Mandate, which some claim is an “attack on religious liberty.”

O’Brien did a good job of challenging that false premise, but allowed guest Rep. Marcia Blackburn (R-TN) to slip in the lie that the mandate covers the “abortion pill.”

Jane Velez-Mitchell‘s HLN show, which airs at 7 p.m., ended an era Friday night, as it was the last time “Issues” was used in the title. Starting Monday, it will simply be known as Jane Velez-Mitchell. On her final night with “Issues,” Velez-Mitchell pulled in 74,000 viewers in the 25-54 year-old demo, and 272,000 overall. [...]

In the wake of a new report out over alleged Apple sweatshops in China, CNN’s Ashleigh Banfield spoke with chief business correspondent Ali Velshi about what Apple knew and when they knew it. “Steve Jobs — he seems like the kind of guy who never, when he was alive, would have allowed any of this to go on,” Banfield observed. “Did he know? Did he not know? Did he not care? Do we know?”

On Monday, CNN took a look at how the Daily Show‘s Aasif Mandvi became its “Senior Muslim Correspondent” (hard-hitting pieces on the “Terror Aisle,” for one) and allowed the comedian a chance to promote Today’s Special, a romantic comedy featuring a variety of Muslim characters.

Those of you who didn’t use Madonna’s Super Bowl halftime performance as an excuse to go out and buy another bag of Extreme Buffalo Chili Cheesesteak Pizza Doritos might have noticed that singer M.I.A. — one of the 812 performers who joined Madonna onstage for her medley — saw it fit to give viewers the middle finger during her performance.

John King had an awkward slip-up during CNN’s coverage of Saturday’s Nevada caucus results. King was explaining several factors at play in the night’s voting results, including breaking down votes by each candidate’s respective religion.

With the Super Bowl approaching, CNN took the opportunity to chat with the biggest star in the sport who won’t be playing tomorrow: Tim Tebow, who was gracious and sweet about people criticizing him but appeared a little less prepared to be asked on national television what he looks for in a potential mate. Host Suzanne Malveaux asked him about just about everything– politics, sports, future plans– but the most entertaining part of the interview came when a blushing Tebow found himself answering questions about his love life.

Piers Morgan got to sit down with Rep. Ron Paul last time and ran the gamut of topics– from Mitt Romney to the Congressman’s exercise regimen. Rep. Paul was relaxed and cheerful to be there, but was taken a bit by surprise when Morgan tried to explain Rep. Paul’s position in the race, and found himself comparing Rep. Paul to Sylvester Stallone.

As CNN pointed out this afternoon, not everyone in the so-called 99 percent is simply “not the one percent” — there’s a range of different economic groups and diverse backgrounds within that huge chunk of the population and, as with many ultimately well-meaning movements, certain groups’ specific needs or concerns tend to be shut out or overlooked. Enter a new movement: “Occupy the Hood,” which is, evidently, trying to reach out to minorities sympathetic to but disconnected from the Occupy movement.

Fresh off his endorsement of Republican hopeful Mitt Romney, real estate mogul Donald Trump appeared on CNN’s The Situation Room and faced tough questioning from anchor Wolf Blitzer. Blitzer cited a CNN poll that showed high disapproval ratings for Trump, asking “Is this going to help Mitt Romney — your endorsement or hurt Mitt Romney?”

Mitt Romney was off to a bad start this morning, as he began the day telling CNN’s Soledad O’Brien that he was “not concerned about the very poor.” Jon Stewart happened upon this clip in horror, trying to understand what Romney was getting at. The best he could do was to imagine Romney as a doctor unconcerned about the “very sick because, you know, morphine.”

Mitt Romney, fresh off his win in Florida, appeared on Starting Point with Soledad O’Brien to discuss his strategy going forward. At one point during the interview, O’Brien asked Romney about a recent poll that had him trailing President Barack Obama when it comes to “understanding the needs of average Americans” as well as a Washington Post column by Kathleen Parker that opined voters “can’t connect” with Romney.