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.

On Sunday’s Meet the Press New York City Mayor Michael Bloomberg said that “we need to stop demonizing Wall Street and all work together for the good of the country.” At least he got one part right. Because if Wall Street has been demonized, it’s safe to say the Pope’s favorite number is 666. There’s been a lot of talk in President Obama‘s administration, but very little action when it comes to Wall Street and their antics, which were partly responsible for the home foreclosure crisis and completely responsible for the risky investments that led to billion dollar bailouts shortly thereafter. It’s past time for President Obama to get aggressive.

GOP hopeful Newt Gingrich, campaigning in Ohio, was a guest on Fox & Friends Tuesday morning, and hit on topics ranging from his disdain for attack ads to a possible rise in the polls for Rick Santoum. Host Steve Doocy, however, started the segment off by asking if Gingrich would ever follow in the footsteps of Mitt Romney and belt out a pro-America tune anytime soon.

Mitt Romney surrogate and former New Hampshire governor John Sununu went head-to-head with Newt Gingrich campaign adviser Bob Walker on MSNBC Monday morning as the two disagreed on the state of the ongoing GOP race.

On Fox News Sunday today, Rick Santorum continued to draw a strong conservative contrast between himself and Newt Gingrich. Chris Wallace played a clip of an ad Santorum released recently, claiming that he not only “talks a good conservative game, he lives one.” The line is accompanied by a picture of Santorum surrounded by his immediate family. Wallace asked Santorum if that was a veiled attack on Gingrich’s troubled family history.

Former New York Mayor Rudy Giuliani appeared on Face the Nation today to talk about the Republican presidential race and something about the Super Bowl. Giuliani didn’t endorse any particular candidate in the race, and while he admitted he personally admires all of the candidates in the field (though I’m guessing that doesn’t include Ron Paul), he’s concerned with how much they have been attacking each other during this primary season.

In the past week, Mitt Romney has rebounded and claimed the lead once again in the Republican presidential race. And with no debates for weeks, Newt Gingrich may not be able to shift voters’ opinions for a third time. So once again, the media is back to pushing the “inevitable Romney” narrative it’s had to temporarily shelve on a few occasions. On This Week today, George Will not only agreed that Romney is inevitable, but added that the GOP race is already over.

The lie that emergency contraception is the same as the “abortion pill” RU-486 has just completed the jump from the minds of Republicans like Michele Bachmann, to Fox News opinion programming, to the broader mainstream media. On Sunday morning’s This Week, host George Stephanopoulos sat mute as columnist George Will repeated the lie that the Obama administration’s Preventive Services Mandate would force religious employers to “provide…abortion-inducing drugs.”

Saturday Night Live brings us a glimpse into a not-so-distant future, a future when Barack Obama‘s second term leads us into a nightmarish socialist dystopia. Luckily, Newt Gingrich‘s vision for a moon colony became a reality.

With Iowa, New Hampshire, South Carolina, and Florida in the rear view mirror, the candidates took to Nevada to keep racking up points on the delegate count. There is no doubt now, with all networks confirming, that Mitt Romney will come out of this campaign the victor, with 41% of the vote, with 11% of precincts in according to NBC News.

A man who brought a Rep. Ron Paul sign to a Newt Gingrich rally is now suing the former House Speaker and his security team for, among other things, assault. Eddie Dillard, it was reported last week, arrived at a Gingrich event in Florida and was deemed to be too close to the stage where Gingrich was speaking, sporting a “Ron Paul” sign. He told reporter campaign security staff told the crowd to step on his toes.

One thing that remains clear from this discussion on The O’Reilly Factor: Bill O’Reilly and Geraldo Rivera do not agree on solutions to help the poor. The two began a conversation prompted by Mitt Romney “misspeaking” about his concern about the poor, and took a turn towards solutions for them, before O’Reilly and Rivera began to disagree on requirements for birth certificates.

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.

Is this GOP race as good as over? That’s what Friday morning’s episode of Morning Joe sought to find out. Also… is Newt Gingrich a post-apocalyptic cyborg from the future?

On Thursday’s Colbert Report, Stephen Colbert reported that Newt Gingrich was playing Survivor’s Eye of the Tiger at his campaign events without the band’s permission prompting them to sue the former Speaker of the House. “The power anthem from Rocky 3…an obvious parallel for Newt. He’s an underdog, a born scrapper, and he’s fighting for the chance to be smacked around by a black guy!”

When Marianne Gingrich‘s “EXPLOSIVE” interview aired on ABC News last month, many an eyebrow was raised and many an “O Rly?!” uttered after Marianne quoted her ex-husband as having asked for an “open marriage” by sharing that “Callista doesn’t care what I do.” Callista is, of course, Gingrich’s current wife, with whom he had an extramarital affair while with Marianne. Naturally, this leads to three questions: 1) Was the request for an “open marriage” simply Gingrich’s attempt to weasel his way into having his cake and eating it, too? 2) Do you think I could ever get my hair to look like Callista’s? Does she she use like an avocado mask or something? And, finally, 3) Does this mean Newt and Callista are in an open marriage now?

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?

Sarah Palin has been increasingly vocal as the Republican process has gone on in telling Republican primary candidates to refrain from vicious attacks on each other and keep their criticism strictly on the President. On The O’Reilly Factor tonight, the former Vice Presidential candidate told Bill O’Reilly that she wanted to see the candidates stay away from vicious attacks, saying her experiences on a presidential ticket made her understand why voters appear more “disenchanted” now than ever.

Last Tuesday was not a good election for Newt Gingrich. After sweeping South Carolina, he presumptive frontrunner lost Florida to Mitt Romney, badly. And he didn’t even call Romney to congratulate him. Despite his private failing, though, Charles Krauthammer told Bill O’Reilly tonight that Gingrich’s speech this time around had significantly less “whining,” and that could bode well for the former Speaker all the way to the convention.

This morning on Starting Point, Mitt Romney seemed to get a bit of his foot in his mouth when he tried to explain that his focus was on the middle class by saying that he is “not concerned about the very poor.” Obviously, this has caused a few eyebrows to raise including those on the face of Rush Limbaugh. However, Limbaugh was upset for a different reason that most people talking about this quote. Sure, he feels that Romney should be concerned about the very poor but, more importantly, he’s upset Romney’s not concerned about those damned entitlement programs.

On NBC’s Today Show Wednesday morning, host Matt Lauer underscored just how nasty this 2012 Republican primary campaign has gotten, and how quickly, when he asked former Massachusetts Gov. Mitt Romney to confirm whether he had received a congratulations call from former House Speaker Newt Gingrich following Romney’s victory in the Florida primary. Romney revealed that Gingrich did not call last night…or after Romney victories in Iowa (apparent victory, anyway) and New Hampshire.

In a fiery tête-à-tête, Senior Adviser to pro-Newt Gingrich Super PAC, Winning our Future, Rick Tyler lit into Rachel Maddow and other MSNBC panelists for suggesting Newt Gingrich was sending a dog whistle in his speech criticizing President Obama for singing. “That’s baloney!” Tyler exclaimed. “MSNBC needs to get off this race-baiting kick, if you want to talk about race, the Republican Party was started by Abraham Lincoln. Six of the nine planks in the 1856 platform were civil rights platform. If you go back to the Democratic platform, it’s a racist platform. We can go down this road!”

MSNBC’s Rachel Maddow lambasted Newt Gingrich’s speech in Florida tonight, criticizing him for singling out President Obama’s singing. “Newt Gingrich brought back the food stamps president thing — and then tonight, he went to ‘President Obama ought to stop singing, ought to stop being the Entertainer-in-Chief.’ Sort of caricaturing him in a way that calls out to minstrelsy!”

Former Alaska Governor Sarah Palin responded to Mitt Romney‘s win in Florida on Fox News by criticizing his extensive spending on negative advertising in the state. “$17 million spent in one state, that purchased a lot of darts and arrows that were flown in one direction and lots of darts and arrows was thrown back. A lot of that negativity didn’t paint the party and cause in very attractive colors. I think that hurts the electorate, diminishes the energy to head into a general. Hopefully everybody will start to focus on what is important as we go forward.”

Newt Gingrich, who is never above pandering or slandering, claims he now supports a plan akin to the DREAM Act which died in Congress last year. While the original DREAM Act sought to provide a way for undocumented young immigrants to have a pathway to citizenship, Gingrich supports a faux DREAM Act that would do so by mandating military service.