Massachusetts candidate for US Senate Elizabeth Warren continues to pioneer the art of grassroots publicity, as another one of her volunteer meetings has spawned a viral sensation. This time, it wasn’t the size of the crowd, but rather, the candidate’s calm handling of a profane heckler that’s making the viral internet rounds. As Warren tries to engage the man, he calls her a “socialist whore,” before attempting a comically flubbed storm-out.

For someone running in her first-ever election, Democratic candidate for US Senate Elizabeth Warren certainly has a knack for attracting attention. From her viral video rebuke of dismissive “class warfare” rhetoric, to her feudlet with incumbent Scott Brown over his modeling career, her fledgling candidacy is gathering momentum at the polls, and in the war chest. [...]

Massachusetts candidate for US Senate Elizabeth Warren has, once again, been unwittingly drawn into a silly nontroversy, with another innocuous attempt at self-effacement. This time, she referenced her Oklahoma roots by telling an interviewer that she’s “going for the hick vote, here.”

The remark prompted Mass. GOP spokesman Tim Buckley to demand “an explanation about just who Professor Warren was referring to when she spoke of winning the ‘hick vote.’”

American Bridge 21st Century, a “a progressive research and communications organization committed to holding Republicans accountable for their words and actions,” posted a story on Wednesday night accusing Massachusetts Senator Scott Brown of plagiarizing lines from a speech given by Elizabeth Dole in 2002. The organization posted screenshots of Brown’s now-taken-down “Student Resources” section on his website, and compared it with the transcription of Dole’s speech, found in her book, Elizabeth Hanford Dole: Speaking from the Heart.

In a somewhat scary development for first-term Sen. Scott Brown (R-MA), Democratic challenger Elizabeth Warren‘s campaign has just released its first fundraising numbers since she joined the race, and the trend is stark. Warren raised $3.15 million since August 30, while Scott Brown, who already had a substantial fundraising lead on Warren, took in only $1.55 million. Warren’s haul and her performance in early polls have at least one conservative wondering if Republican fundraising committees should cut bait on Brown.

Massachusetts Senator Scott Brown has been taking heavy criticism over a joking reference to Democratic opponent Elizabeth Warren‘s physical appearance, including from House Minority Leader Nancy Pelosi. The cast of ABC’s The View weighed in on the controversy today, and took Brown’s side. The discussion included a loose grasp of the facts, and an interpretation of Brown’s comment, from Whoopi Goldberg, that even the most imaginative press flack couldn’t have thought up.

In an exclusive interview on This Week today, House Minority Leader Nancy Pelosi weighed in on the minor controversy between Massachusetts senator Scott Brown and Democratic challenger Elizabeth Warren over what can only be described as “No-Clothes-Gate,” and criticized the senator for being “clueless” about how he may have disrespected Warren with his commends.

You’d think that, with the sheer amount of advice and media training candidates are given, they’d have learned, by now, to think just a little bit more before they offer sound bites that will then be repeated over and over, particularly as they gear up for a campaign or election.

First, some background: During the Massachusetts Senate debate earlier this week, the moderator referenced the fact that Republican Senator Scott Brown had posed nude in college in order to pay for his education. The debate participants were then asked they had done to help pay for their respective schools. Democratic candidate Elizabeth Warren reacted to the moderator’s comments by joking that “I kept my clothes on” while in college.

The potential face-off between United States Consumer Financial Protection Bureau special adviser Elizabeth Warren and Massachusetts’ Sen. Scott Brown (R) has captured the attention of Wall Street. According to a report by Politico, banking lobbyists have already begun discussing Warren’s run and strategizing just how to take on the woman Time magazine called a “new sheriffs of Wall Street” and whose impassioned comments regarding “class warfare” were recently the topic of a popular, much-distributed video.

Watch out Scott Brown, your likely Democratic challenger for Ted Kennedy‘s former Senate seat seems to be touching a nerve, evidenced by a recent video that has quickly gone viral. Elizabeth Warren is the presumptive Democratic challenger running for Senate in Massachusetts, and a video taken of a campaign appearance has spread like wildfire among the progressive community thrilled to see an aggressive yet plain-spoken defense of the very liberal values that have been under attack under is seen as the guise of “class warfare.”

President of Americans for Tax Reform, Grover Norquist may have just revealed another way to win his support that might be less politically painful than having to sign his taxpayer protection pledge. All you have to do is look great in a bathing suit! During his appearance on ABC’s This Week, Norquist suggested Republicans will take back control of the Senate in 2012 because all of the open seats will either be in Red states or because Massachusetts Senator Scott Brown and his bathing suit will be running for re-election.

Rachel Maddow opened a segment last night by running a clip of Senator Scott Brown thanking GOP presidential candidate Mitt Romney for his support in his special election victory speech. She follows up by alleging that Romney had claimed to have been living in his son’s “unfinished basement,” which has led one of Romney’s lesser known opponent, Fred Karger, to ask the state of Massachusetts to investigate if Romney was legally able to vote, or did he commit…voter fraud! (Duh, duh, duh!)

Fooled by the gruesome photo of a dead Osama bin Laden that’s been making its way around the internet? So was Senator Scott Brown. Senator Brown had told Boston’s Fox 25 that he agreed with the White House’s decision to not release the photo so as not to further incite retaliation by extremists, noting that [...]

Yesterday, ThinkProgress posted a video of Massachusetts Senator Scott Brown asking billionaire David Koch for campaign money for his 2012 re-election. Well, it could be worse. At least he was talking to the real David Koch.

Republican Senator Scott Brown revealed to 60 Minutes that he was the victim of sexual abuse as a child. In the extended interview last night with Lesley Stahl, Brown was asked whether he believes these revelations will be politically harmful to him in the future, to which he responded “whatever happens, happens.”

Sen. Scott Brown has a new book coming out soon entitled “Against All Odds.” In it, he will show a new side to a public persona mostly made up of “out of nowhere” victories and hunky magazine pictorials. This new side will include him delving into a challenging childhood that, he now explains, included horrendous abuse at the hands of stepfathers as well as a camp counselor. Brown will give details of this in an upcoming 60 Minutes interview, some of which is now available online.

Spider-Man: Turn Off the Dark has taken its share of criticism and ridicule as its suffered from several setbacks and pushed back its opening several times. The play got some good news this week with some high-profile endorsements as the show continues its previews, and word of a new finale. All of these delays have left reporters, who are seeing the show between now and the scheduled March 15 opening, in a strange spot. What can they reveal about the much-anticipated, extremely expensive production? Here, a rundown of how some writers are handling the long wait for opening night, and how delays are making them part of the story:

Wikileaks’ Congressional opponents are recharging their batteries, and while Julian Assange has bigger legal fish to fry in Europe, he could soon be facing the consequences of breaking U.S. law by outing foreign intelligence sources. One of the senators behind the legal push, John Ensign, debated vocal Wikileaks ally Judge Andrew Napolitano on Freedom Watch on Friday, and while he made clear who he was protecting, he had a hard time defining “journalists”– and why Assange doesn’t count.

Make no mistake: Senator Scott Brown is a smart man. He is a practicing lawyer who’s had a very successful career and was elected to replace Senator Ted Kennedy earlier this year. So it is a bit odd that during tioday’s Senate Armed Services Committee meeting over the “Don’t Ask, Don’t Tell” policy, Senator Brown asked a witness to explain “what does expedited mean?” Surely he knows the definition. Or was he playing to a potentially confused audience of 50 or so CSPAN viewers (a demographic that almost certainly understand what “expedited” means)?

In March, Senator Scott Brown sent his supporters a fund-raising email that claimed MSNBC star Rachel Maddow was planning a Senate run. Maddow responded by taking out a full-page ad in the Boston Globe to confirm that she wasn’t planning to run, then called Brown a liar on air. Somehow, though, the rumor of Maddow’s candidacy still hasn’t died.

This afternoon, Virginia Congressional candidate Krystal Ball appeared on Fox News to discuss the photo scandal that has plagued her campaign with Megyn Kelly. In it, Kelly discussed the response Ball issued yesterday, calling out her critics attacks as “sexist and wrong.”

Sarah Palin mans most of her political media empire from the not-so-lofty perch of her Facebook page– a one-stop shop for all of Palin’s latest news, editorials, policy and political moves. Given it’s status as the most reliable hubbub of Palin activity, it takes an extraordinary amount of maintenance to keep it tidy. Today, Slate took a backstage look at what goes into keeping the most democratic part of the page, the wall, nice and clean.

Something about Rachel Maddow makes her especially attractive to Republican campaign fundraising pleas. Back in March Scott Brown issued a call to supporters asking them to donate to his fund so he could fight off a (fictional) Senate run by Maddow. Now Florida’s Marco Rubio is attempting something similar.

Sen. Scott Brown isn’t the only Massachusetts politician speaking out against comedian Kathy Griffin for calling his daughters “prostitutes” on her Bravo show.

Now longtime Democratic Congressman Rep. Barney Frank is defending Brown and calling out Griffin for her “terrible comment.”

Republican Massachusetts Senator Scott Brown has somehow, through no effort of his own, found himself in a feud with the cable network Bravo and comedienne Kathy Griffin. The Republican Senator’s office released a statement today censuring Griffin for a joke she made in which she called his daughters, Ayla and Arianna, “prostitutes.”