Politics

Following the tragic deaths of nine black church-goers in Charleston at the hands of an alleged white supremacist, NBC host Chuck Todd featured a segment with only black murders who were regretful of using guns.

Republican presidential candidate Rick Perry suggested over the weekend that he was not concerned with the high rates of uninsured Texans because "that's not how we keep score" on health care.

Fox News host Tucker Carlson argued over the weekend that President Barack Obama should have to give up his armed Secret Service security detail if he was going to be pushing for gun control.

Real Time host Bill Maher suggested on Friday that Charleston terrorism suspect Dylann Roof was a fan of conservative media outlets.

South Carolina state Rep. Norman "Doug" Brannon announced on Friday night that he would introduce a bill to remove the Confederate flag from the state capitol, citing the death of Sen. Clementa Pinckney during the terrorist attack in Charleston earlier this week.

Once again, Jon Stewart found himself unable to wisecrack to open another Daily Show episode, as he addressed Wednesday night's terrorist attack at a historic black church in Charleston.

Republican Sen. Ted Cruz accused other GOP presidential contenders of political cowardice on Thursday regarding the heavily-criticized "religious freedom" laws passed in Arkansas and Indiana earlier this year.

Republican presidential candidate Rick Santorum asserted on Thursday that a massacre at a historically black church in South Carolina was part of a larger "assault on our religious liberty" in the United States.

Hosts and pundits on Fox News took less than a minute after President Barack Obama addressed the murders of nine members of a historically black church in South Carolina to complain that he had politicized the incident by calling for less gun violence.

Republican presidential candidate Lindsey Graham reacted to a mass shooting at a historically black church in home state of South Carolina by suggesting that the shooter was "looking for Christians to kill them."

Conservative pastor E.W. Jackson, a former Republican candidate for lieutenant governor in Virginia, told Fox News on Thursday that all clergy should be armed because a white South Carolina shooter attacked a historically black South Carolina church for it's "biblical views," not because of racism.

Jon Stewart tried to get back to business on Wednesday's Daily Show, only to find he couldn't discuss the maneuvering surrounding a proposed multi-national trade deal without some artificial stimulation -- specifically, the "emergency presidential campaign Trumpinator 2016."

Fox News hosts Dana Perino and Eric Bolling clashed during Wednesday's episode of The Five, with Perino accusing Bolling of trying to curry favor with Donald Trump in order to appear on his reality show, Media Matters reported.