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.

In a segment partially pegged to Rick Santorum’s disputed remarks in Iowa Sunday, in which he’s alleged to have said he didn’t “want to make black people’s lives better” with “somebody else’s money,” Now with Alex Wagner panelists Matt Lewis of The Daily Caller and GBTV’s S.E. Cupp defended Santorum and Newt Gingrich against charges of bigotry and homophobia. Even giving Santorum a pass on those remarks, though, my colleagues’ respective defenses don’t hold water.

It’s finally happening. After months of lead up and presumably a ton of therapy following the “spilt wine incident,”, Glenn Beck is moving to Texas. Part of the GBTV operation will be staying back here in New York and you know what that means; it’s time for them to sing and dance about how glad they are he’s gone. That’s just what the folks at The B.S. of A. have done!

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 MSNBC’s Now with Alex Wagner, conservative political analyst SE Cupp slammed Barack Obama‘s alleged comment that Americans were being “a little bit lazy.” Alleged, because that’s not what he actually said. Nonetheless, Cupp said “I won’t go so far as to make the argument this means he’s un-American,” Cupp said. “But we know how badly Jimmy Carter‘s malaise speech went over — when you indict the American public for the societal ills and bad economy, they don’t take kindly.”

A couple days ago, while writing about Glenn Beck’s new GBTV venture, I made some bold proclamations about Beck delving into what may be the future of broadcasting. Yeah, I know. That Glenn Beck. However, I’ve believed for a while that the idea of people subscribing to the content they like directly from the providers and not having to pay for packages from the likes of cable company middle men is the direction we’re heading so, I stand by those proclamations. This, of course, also means that I need to back those words up and actually check out what this brave new world looks like. So, when Glenn Beck launched GBTV last night with a 52 minute special, I watched it. Now I’m going to describe the thing to you in detail because, really, if the future involves Glenn Beck ragging on George Soros for an hour, I don’t blame anyone for wanting to hold back in the present for a little while longer.

Whatever you think about Glenn Beck or Meghan McCain, it’d be pretty hard to find someone who thinks the Fox News host’s vomit-jokes about McCain’s skin cancer PSA was a good PR move. Even Don Imus, who considers Beck a “buddy,” said today that he would “have a word” with the guy on the subject. If they do discuss it, Beck should listen to Imus. He’s a person who knows a lot about the trouble one can get into for dissing a young woman’s personal appearance on the radio.

After a weekend of blogging and tweeting attacks from Current TV Chief News Officer (is it just me, or does that sound like a job posting for TASS?) Keith Olbermann, conservative pundit S.E. Cupp struck back this morning with a Special Comment of her own. Responding to Olbermann’s relentless barrage of insults about her intelligence, her honesty, and her parents, Cupp turned the former Countdown host’s signature segment against him.

Last Thursday, future Current TV host Keith Olbermann touched off some controversy when he tweeted, about conservative pundit S.E. Cupp, “On so many levels she’s a perfect demonstration of the necessity of the work Planned Parenthood does”

After several days of Twitter fighting, and online buttals and rebuttals, Olbermann has opted to lie about his intent, rather than apologize.

The Red Eye crew took umbrage at Keith Olbermann‘s recent Tweet about conservative columnist and talking head S.E. Cupp. But, as host Greg Gutfeld points out, this is pretty much what we’ve come to expect from Olbermann.

Maybe he’s trying to drum up attention for the launch of his Current TV show, but Keith Olbermann is embroiled in another nasty Twitter fight, this time with Glenn Beck protege´ SE Cupp. Responding to a tweet about Cupp’s Planned Parenthood remarks on The Joy Behar Show, Olbermann tweeted “On so many levels she’s a perfect demonstration of the necessity of the work Planned Parenthood does”

On Thursday night’s Rachel Maddow Show, eponymous anchor Rachel Maddow tore into Pulitzer-winner Politifact for the site’s takedown of her claims about Wisconsin’s budget. This immediately horrified me, as I have referenced Politifact’s take several times this week. Upon further review, though, I think I’m in the clear, and somehow, both Maddow and Politifact are wrong. Stay with me here.

During Wednesday morning’s edition of Fox & Friends, co-anchor Brian Kilmeade offered compelling evidence that the pro-union protesters in Wisconsin are swimming against the tide of popular sentiment, in the form of a Gallup poll which Fox claimed showed 61% of Wisconsonians favor restricting collective bargaining rights. The actual poll says the opposite. (h/t Media Matters)

While protests have become the latest global media trend, it is with those closest to home, in Wisconsin, that they have the most wiggle room in their coverage (and spin). Mediaite Political Editor and White House Correspondent Tommy Christopher visited S.E. Cupp on her new program today to evaluate media bias in the Wisconsin story, from MSNBC’s budget analysis to Fox News’ claims doctors are giving protesters a likely illegal hand.

A week after the revelry and serious business that is the Conservative Political Action Conference, the crew of Red Eye took a look back at their visit to Washington and their talks with attendees. Talking politics, of course, was paramount, but they still had time to ponder the goings-on at the public bathrooms, what they would say to Justin Bieber should they meet, and to reminiscine about how their night out seems to have rendered a number of the women of CPAC mute.

In an interview with conservative pundit SE Cupp, former Senator (and possible presidential hopeful/wishful) Rick Santorum ticked off several reasons why he believes GOP supernova Sarah Palin is skipping this year’s Conservative Political Action Conference (CPAC), chiefly citing “financial benefit,” but also that she’s “the mother to all these kids.”

Is this a shot across Palin’s bow for 2012? Either way, it’s an unfair, sexist premise that has no basis in fact.

Abstinence advocate and pseudo-motivational speaker Bristol Palin received some bad news this week when Washington University in St. Louis revoked her invitation to speak at their “Sexual Responsibility Week.” Given that the university had previously welcomed personalities such as Van Jones to campus, many are arguing that the younger Palin’s exclusion from the event was political, and last night/this morning the Red Eye crew stood up for her ability to teach on the matter.

Bill Maher has in one phrase probably done more damage to the global warming movement than climate change skeptics could have ever imagined to themselves. Trying to argue that believing in global warming was elementary for any educated person, he quoted Osama bin Laden saying in one of his underground (literally) videos that “the phenomenon is an actual fact.”

In a comparison that is sure to upset nearly everyone involved, Fox News contributor and Newsday columnist Ellis Henican compared the mysterious whistleblower site Wikileaks to the mysterious right-wing aggregation site the Drudge Report on Fox News Watch yesterday. His comparison was in response to the description of Wikileaks as a “collection bin,” but this is probably a more remarkably apt analogy than Henican initially realized.

This week’s Real Time round table was a little less political than usual. Bill Maher had John Avlon, S.E. Cupp and Newark mayor Cory Booker on the show to talk about a variety of topics, but somehow Elena Kagan‘s nomination of the Supreme Court became a much more metaphysical topics as Maher challenged Cupp, who is openly atheist, to call all people of faith “delusional,” which she refused.

The latest book from a conservative pundit takes aim at the media and praises Christianity…but with a twist. It’s written by an atheist.

S.E. Cupp‘s Losing Our Religion came out last week, and we talked to the frequent FNC and CNN guest about how the media covers religion, how Pres. Barack Obama handles Christianity and why an atheist would pick this topic to cover.

Juan Williams knows how to get under Sean Hannity’s skin. The liberal (for Fox News) commentator squared off last night on Hannity’s “Great American Panel” against the host, S.E. Cupp, and a confused Blake Shelton on Sarah Palin‘s popular appeal and despite his opposition to her political stances, Williams was honest enough to admit he sees her charm. Williams, addressing Hannity, noted that “clearly she’s a warm, attractive – and I know that you think extremely attractive – human being,” prompting a flabbergasted Hannity to reply “I think she’s smarter than Barack Obama!”

Because even calendars — calendars, of all things! — have to be politicized, somehow: the Clare Boothe Luce Policy Institute has put together a calendar highlighting one conservative woman for each month of the year. Carrie Prejean and Michele Bachman are on the list; don’t you want to know the rest?

I’m looking at you, S.E. Cupp. Do some research. Here’s what she said, in response to the whole manufactured Letterman-Palin kerfuffle: This is the enduring legacy of the Obama campaign. I’m not saying this to be inflammatory, I blame Barack Obama because he allowed his surrogates in the media and Hollywood and everyone else on [...]