Warren Buffett is back in the news after President Obama’s State of the Union Address and, yesterday, he and his secretary (arguably this election’s Joe the Plumber except she actually “plumbs”), Debbie Bosanek, sat down with ABC News’ Bianna Golodryga to discuss the speech. Buffett was rankled by conservative implications that the President’s attempts to follow the “Buffett Rule” and raise taxes for the extremely wealthy to meet the rest of the nation was “class warfare.” He pointed out that, were it a war, it was pretty unfair since his side, the ultra rich, has the “nuclear bomb.”

On Wednesday’s edition of Morning Joe, Joe Scarborough chewed out Mika Brzezinski for asking oil billionaire T. Boone Pickens how much he made. The panelists were discussing Warren Buffett criticism of how much the rich pay in taxes. “Why don’t you give me the full numbers?” Brzezinski asked forwardly. “You don’t have to answer that question,” interjected Scarborough. “Come on, no, it’s none of your business! You going to tell everybody how much you make?”

Warren Buffett has created a cartoon series to help teach children about making the right financial choices. The show, entitled Secret Millionaires Club, is an expansion of a web series and seems like a really good idea. It’s an important topic, one other children’s shows have begun tackling.

Yes, I fully support this show and everything it aims to accomplish…that being said, I really can’t stop laughing at this clip they released.

I mean, I don’t want to be a jerk, you guys, but it might be possible that Jay-Z isn’t the world’s best voice actor.

Democrats are not the reason the Tea Party exists. But by ignoring the Tea Party — or in many cases, mocking it — until it was far too late, Democrats were ill-prepared to deal with the fallout that led to an unmerciful electoral defeat in the 2010 midterm elections. For instance, at one point Democrats were doing Republicans’ work for them. They figured tying the Tea Party to Republicans would yield a negative reaction from voters. Nope, not really. Instead, the Tea Party energized the Republican base and created the wave that rode the GOP to victory.

Warren Buffett has challenged Rupert Murdoch to tax return disclosure-off. Last week the Murdoch owned Wall Street Journal ran an editorial asking Buffet, the namesake of a proposed guideline that would ensure that those who make more than $1 million pay proportional tax rates, to make public his tax returns. “No doubt the millions of Americans who could end up paying more because of this claim would love to see the details,” they wrote, urging the Berkshire Hathaway CEO to consider the disclosure an “opportunity to educate the public” on “his secret of tax avoidance.”

Earlier, we reported on House Majority Leader Eric Cantor‘s attempt to suggest that billionaire Warren Buffett does not support what Cantor called the “Buffet Rule.”

Press Secretary Jay Carney fielded several questions on the subject at today’s briefing, pointing out, as we did, that Buffett’s remarks were entirely consistent with President Obama‘s “Buffett Rule,” despite “I’m sure, accidental blogging by Republican leaders, and tweeting” that “misconstrued, at best” Buffett’s remarks.

On his YouTube channel, and in a tweet from communications director Brad Dayspring, Rep. Eric Cantor (R-VA) is pushing a CNBC clip that he claims shows that “Warren Buffet Seems To Disagree With President Obama’s ‘Buffet Rule’,” and that he “refuses to endorse the President’s Jobs Bill.”

Unfortunately for Cantor, there’s no “there” there, as Buffett tells Andrew Ross Sorkin that he hasn’t seen all of the details of the President’s plan, so he doesn’t really know if he agrees with all of it. Stop the presses!

Yesterday we brought you a clip from New York Mayor Michael Bloomberg’s appearance on Meet the Press (short story: like so many others, he’s a Chris Christie fan). However, there was another interesting moment in the program. In it, Bloomberg weighed in on the month’s big issue of contention, raising taxes on the rich, and came out strongly against the President Obama’s so-called “Buffett Rule.”

Bloomberg TV’s Betty Liu recently spoke with billionaire media mogul Ted Turner about a number of things he’s probably been mulling over the last few days: President Obama’s new plans to raise taxes for the very wealthy and what the future may hold for fellow very wealthy people Rupert Murdoch. Basically: Very wealthy people things.

“Nobody likes to pay more taxes,” said Turner. “At least, except Warren Buffett likes to pay more taxes. He’s the only one.”

It’s already begun. The looming shadow of President Obama’s “Warren Buffett tax” has begun covering the ground, frightening the cute and cuddly Job Creators back inside their burrows (or their summer burrows in the Hamptons, or that little burrow off the coast of Italy that they bought on a whim but just don’t have any time to go to!) and meaning that we’ll all be stuck in cold, cold recession for at least a few more months.

Ok, everyone, are you sitting down? Is there anyone with heart condition reading? Are your shoes strong enough to withstand your socks literally being blown off your feet?

Is everyone ready? Ok, then. Here comes the bombshell; Rush Limbaugh didn’t like Barack Obama’s remarks this morning about his jobs bill.

One of the biggest topics on the Sunday talk shows today is guaranteed to be reports of a new tax plan being proposed by President Barack Obama tomorrow that would increase taxes on millionaires. The tentative proposal will be called, according to The New York Times, the “Buffett Rule,” after billionaire investor Warren Buffett, who has been vocal in recent months about similar tax increases on the wealthy.

Perhaps in celebration of tonight’s presidential address made to a joint session of congress, Fox News host Bill O’Reilly opted to host his eponymous show live (insert your own “f*ck it, we’ll do it live” joke here). After a rather blasé opening segment with Lou Dobbs, things got much more interesting when O’Reilly welcomed White House Press Secretary Jay Carney onto the show to discuss President Obama‘s job speech.

In Bill O’Reilly‘s “Talking Points” segment last night, the self-described “traditionalist” openly expressed his dissonant views on the recent actions of super-wealthy free market genius Warren Buffet. On one hand O”Reilly expressed deep respect for Buffett’s investment acumen and fiduciary responsibility to his shareholders (of which he is one); and on the other hand he took great exception to the “Oracle of Omaha’s” call for increased taxes on the super wealthy, and his open support of President Obama.

After several days of courting conservatives with a surprisingly strong defense of both Rick Perry and Ron Paul, Jon Stewart went back to his bread and butter today, taking some time to give his fans the sort of red meat that makes the show so popular– mocking various Fox News personalities for claiming that closing tax loopholes could be tantamount to “class warfare.”

After writing an op-ed for The New York Times calling for taxes to be raised on the super-rich, billionaire Warren Buffett spoke to Charlie Rose last night to expand upon his views, and at one point went after the Republican presidential candidates for their commitment to never raise taxes.

Was there another f-word on The Five today? If so, it wouldn’t be terribly surprising. When you’ve got a live show where the debates sometimes get contentious, this stuff happens. No, we’re just amused it wasn’t Bob Beckel this time. In fact, just a couple minutes after Beckel made a joke about not being able to say a word he wanted, it was Eric Bolling who let one slip

When news broke that S&P downgraded the United States economy, Fox Business News’ Liz Claman immediately reached Warren Buffett for comment. The billionaire expressed disappointment and confusion that S&P made the decision to mark down the U.S. from AAA to AA+.

Universally respected super-rich Midwestern gentleman Warren Buffett recently sat down for an interview with CNBC’s Becky Quick reporting from the all-powerful mogul retreat in Sun Valley, Idaho. Buffett was asked to opine on the current deficit crisis and debt ceiling conversation/quarrel/tantrum currently on the minds of politicians and media types alike, and provided a level-headed and reasonably bi-partisan assessment. The money quote? He could end this in five minutes.

Not unlike Steve Jobs’ quasi-admission today that he made a mistake with the iPhone’s location tracking data, Berkshire Hathaway chairman Warren Buffett is finally conceding to what we all already knew – that what Dave Sokol did was wrong.

Mark Zuckerberg, Michael Bloomberg, George Lucas, and a baker’s dozen of other American billionaires are really taking this whole “season of giving” thing seriously. The Wall Street Journal reports that 16 tycoons have just signed on to the “Giving Pledge,” thereby vowing to donate most of their wealth to worthy causes.

Given the current political climate, in which pundits are accusing Democrats for not bragging enough about their achievements—and, in some cases, even shying away from them—Warren Buffett‘s ode to the bailout in today’s New York Times is raising some eyebrows. In his thank-you letter to Uncle Sam, he expresses hearty gratitude for the bailout, without which he “would be eating Thanksgiving Dinner at McDonald’s,” as he said on CNBC’s Squawkbox this morning.

Billionaire Warren Buffett thinks that the Bush-era tax cuts for the superrich have had their day. Buffett, CEO of Berkshire Hathaway and one of the richest people in America,
told Politico’s Mike Allen after a small business program commencement ceremony at LaGuardia Community College, in Long Island City, Queens that it takes time for economic “wounds” to heal. He said he still supports President Obama.

Bill Gates and Warren Buffett rank second and third respectively on Forbes’ list of billionaires. While both have been involved in philanthropy for quite some time, it was only recently that they launched The Giving Pledge, a challenge directed toward the country’s wealthy to give away majority of their wealth to charitable causes. Today, 34 billionaires have signed on.

Doris Buffett is my new favorite person (next to Diane Savino, of course). Like her brother Warren, she is loaded. And she loves giving away her money to help people.