Growing Pains actor Kirk Cameron spoke with MSNBC’s Martin Bashir Thursday, live from CPAC promote his new documentary Monumental, a “search for the real treasure of America” and how faith is its guiding principle.

Appearing on MSNBC’s Martin Bashir Friday afternoon, Goldie Taylor and S.E. Cupp shared their thoughts on what was next in the GOP nomination battle and the negative campaigning to come. Mitt Romney‘s gaffe-laden week drew host Martin Bashir’s attention. “I guess this week is going to be defined for Mitt by his appalling singing voice and his views on the poor,” Bashir observed. “The way Mitt Romney sounds, I don’t want to be anywhere near his fruited plain!” Taylor exclaimed.

Jesse Jackson, Sr. is worried for the safety of the President. The Reverend made his way to Martin Bashir‘s show today, where he was asked to comment on Republican disrespect of the president. And while the conversation began on the topic of acceptable political discourse, literally within the same sentence Jackson turns around and warns of the possibility that “somebody shoots an AK-47 in the White House.” Huh?

Rep. Jim Moran (D-VA) stopped by MSNBC yesterday, where he weighed in on Rep. Allen West‘s recent comments urging President Obama and other Democratic leaders to take their message “to the North Pole, but get the hell out of the United States of America.”

Bill Maher tried to capture what he saw as the Republican reaction to President Obama’s State of the Union address this week with words, calling Republicans “sourpusses” and describing their reaction as “unprecedented.” But he only truly captured what he was trying to say by making this face– at once childish and elderly– as his panel descended into disarray, with Rep. Dana Rohrabacher trying to explain his party’s attitude and Kennedy making the point that parties don’t matter, while a mum Martin Bashir looked on.

The media has been abuzz for the past two days over the allegedly confrontational conversation between Arizona Governor Jan Brewer and President Obama. Some analysts saw dark racial undertones in the way Brewer challenged the president, and on his show tonight, Bill Maher waded into this controversy and got into a loud argument with the panel over whether Brewer was being “disrespectful” towards Obama.

In a tense exchange on MSNBC, Martin Bashir questioned Congressman Joe Walsh about the sticky subject of his wife $117,000 in child support and interest.

“One of the things you’ve said is you will not place another dollar on the back of your children, right?” Bashir asked. “Absolutely!” Walsh agreed. “Can I ask you then, because something our viewers are concerned about, haven’t you already done that by inadequately paying child support that you owe to your wife and children?” Bashir asked. “Hey Martin, that’s an awkward segue on TV!” Walsh exclaimed.

Tea Party Express founder Judson Phillips got into a spirited donnybrook with MSNBC host Martin Bashir over Newt Gingrich’s comments about President Obama being the “food stamp president.” Judson told Bashir that Gingrich is succeeding with throwing red meat to the party base.

With the 2012 primaries in South Carolina extremely close to their conclusion, many are expecting Newt Gingrich to pull out a win in this key state. On MSNBC tonight, Martin Bashir hosted coverage for the hours before the election returns came in, and with guests Goldie Taylor and Grace Wyler, explored the chances that this could mean the nomination for Gingrich. While the panel agreed this would be a good night for Gingrich, whether he could keep up a positive image in the face of so much controversy appeared to be the bigger issue.

During a tense exchange about Texas Governor Rick Perry on MSNBC’s Martin Bashir, South Carolina Senator Larry Grooms laid a verbal smackdown on Bashir that left the anchor speechless.

A couple of nights ago, during CNN’s New Hampshire coverage, there was an incredibly uncomfortable moment when Piers Morgan asked Andrew Breitbart a question while jokingly saying that he was “notoriously evil to people.” Breitbart misunderstood Morgan’s very British use of the word evil and reacted angrily. It was very tense but, fortunately, Morgan explained the misunderstanding an hour later in an email, the two made up, and Breitbart tweeted that they were “all good.” The end.

…until last night when Breitbart went on FBN to talk about how horrible Morgan is.

Right now, the biggest video going around in the political world, besides a sweet bootleg of Downton Abbey season two, is a clip of Newt Gingrich calling Mitt Romney and his PAC “liars.” And why wouldn’t it be? In a political landscape where people try so hard to disguise their attacks that “experienced” has now become an insult, someone actually saying what they think is kind of refreshing. Well, the Blunt Talk Express continued today as a reporter asked Gingrich to clarify his comments. Gingrich responded simply that the reason he called Romney a liar was because of, y’know, all those lies he tells.

Tea Party Nation’s Judson Phillips appeared on Monday’s Martin Bashir and boldly declared, “The Tea Party will never rally behind Mitt Romney.” “Really?” host Martin Bashir exclaimed. “Never?!” “Never!” Phillips reiterated. “I think I told you this before, we’ve done surveys on our site where it shows one third to one half of the Tea Party members will not vote for Mitt Romney if he is the nominee in the general election — which is probably going to encourage Team Obama to send out people to vote for Romney in the primaries.

While two years of Republican health care “Lies of the Year” had mostly alienated Politifact from conservative good favor, now those who were happy to cheer on the acknowledgement of “Death Panels” as ridiculous and the “pants on fire” status of people like Glenn Beck and Speaker John Boehner are outraged at what some are calling reputation-ending factual errors in the site’s newly-unveiled award. Yes, Politifact has turned on the Democrats and it has produced a somewhat ugly response. But blasting Politifact for lying about Democratic honesty misses a crucial point: even if the Democrats were lying about Medicare, there were many more interesting and significant lies told in 2010.

Goldie Taylor and S.E. Cupp mixed it up over the payroll tax cut on Martin Bashir‘s show Tuesday. “Is poppycock one word or two?” Taylor snarked. “What $1,000 dollars would do for working class Americans is pay for rent, pay for groceries, keep the damn lights on! And I’m sick and damn tired of the talking points that get pushed out on this thing.”

On Martin Bashir Wednesday, MSNBC contributor and rising cable news star Goldie Taylor thought Ron Paul was finishing strong and had a ‘real shot’ to win the Iowa caucuses. “I’ve been saying for months that Ron Paul had a real chance in Iowa of upsetting the entire field,” Taylor observed. “He has the money. He has the organization. He has the supporters. Even Mitt Romney said that every time he steps foot in Iowa, the only thing he sees is people with Ron Paul signs!”

MSNBC contributor Krystal Ball slammed Rick Perry‘s new ad blasting gays in the military saying it was a sign his campaign was on the ropes.

As speculation about scandal-besieged Republican candidate Herman Cain‘s political future continues to abound, MSNBC host Martin Bashir called upon the former Godfather Pizza CEO to resign from his church over his alleged 13-year affair with “good friend” Ginger White. “If Mr. Cain is to drop out of the Republican race, isn’t it time he also considered resigning his position as an associate minister at Antioch Baptist Church in Atlanta?” Bashir asked. “If Mr. Cain withdraws from politics, then he must surely resign his position in the church, because one thing is for certain– hypocrites can lie in the pew, but they should never lead from the pulpit.”

The clear Analogy of the Day winner is the Washington Post‘s Jonathan Capehart who compared Newt Gingrich’s resurgence to the continuous resurrections of famed movie killer Jason Voorhees.

Monday afternoon, during his “United States of Anger” segment, Martin Bashir led Karen Finney and William Cohen in a heated hammering of Republican front-runner Newt Gingrich, set off by his telling Occupy protesters to take a bath. The trio pulled no punches, calling out Gingrich for everything from his adulterous past to his perceived thin skin.

Appearing on MSNBC’s Martin Bashir Wednesday, Barney Frank ripped into Newt Gingrich. “There are two ‘L’ words that have to do with Newt,” Frank exclaimed. “Lobbyist and liar!” “Mr. Gingrich was reprimanded for lying,” he added. “He has a history of doing that and this is nonsense that he was being paid $1.6 million and maybe more to talk about history.”

A silly aside from Herman Cain in a GQ interview landed him in hot water with Democratic strategist Krystal Ball on MSNBC’s Martin Bashir Monday. Ball was offended by Cain’s joke that Michele Bachmannwould be tutti-frutti ice cream. “It’s very disrespectful. He picks on the one woman running and calls her tuty fruity. say what you will about her policies, that’s plain disrespectful!”

Martin Bashir spoke with TheGrio‘s Goldie Taylor on his MSNBC show Thursday about Herman Cain‘s controversy over his calling Nancy Pelosi “Princess Nancy” and bluntly asked her if the Republican candidate “was a clown or a candidate?”

There’s been a lot of hyperbole and biased reporting throughout the Herman Cain sexual harassment scandal. Fortunately though, there’s been one voice of reason and objectivity out there in Martin Bashir, a man who’s covered the story with sophistication and poise.

Ok, that might not be true. I think I’m just distracted by Bashir’s British pronunciation of “harassment.” HARE-essment. Harassment. God, that’s classy sounding.

MSNBC commentator Karen Finney waded into the muddied waters of sexual politics and miscegenation on Monday’s Martin Bashir. “It’s going to be fascinating to see how this story unfolds over the next several days and particularly interesting to see how our friends on the right handle the accusations from these women in conjunction with how they handled Anita Hill.” When pressed she noted the “black sexuality” infused into the story before noting the new “power dynamic” at play, saying, “This is an older man, this younger women. White women, Black man.”