Politics

An Irish politician has apologized after he was seen pulling a female colleague onto his lap during an abortion debate that ran into the early hours of Wednesday morning.

Mark O'Mara, an attorney for former neighborhood watchman George Zimmerman, concluded his defense on Friday by showing a photo of a shirtless Trayvon Martin.

Fox News host Steve Doocy suggested on Friday that it could be "the death of free enterprise as we know it" if a bill requiring Walmart to pay a living wage was approved by the mayor of Washington, D.C.

Fox News host Geraldo Rivera on Friday asserted that prosecutors in Florida had been pressured by MSNBC host Al Sharpton and "race politics" to bring a weak case against former neighborhood watchman George Zimmerman for the murder of 17-year-old Trayvon Martin.

Thursday night on "The Rachel Maddow Show," host Rachel Maddow discussed the Republican Party's bizarre intransigence when it comes to embracing the kookier elements within itself, including birthers, conspiracy theorists and zealots of all persuasions. She welcomed former campaign strategist from Sen. John McCain (R-AZ)'s 2008 presidential run, Steve Schmidt, who said that the GOP hasn't grasped that associating with kooks gives the whole party the "patina of a kook."

Republicans in the House of Representatives on Thursday threatened to strike a Democratic representative's words from the record and then booed her after she shamed them for cutting food stamp funding from the farm bill.

Rep. Louie Gohmert (R-TX) on Thursday objected over and over again in order to keep statements out of the congressional record that accused Republicans of hurting working families by taking food stamps out of the farm bill.

Appearing on "The 700 Club" Thursday, television preacher and former Republican presidential candidate Pat Robertson assured his viewers that gay people are not really gay, they're just confused due to "chromosomal damage" they suffered as children, and urged his LGBT viewers to "come out" as straight people.

Defense attorney Don West slammed prosecutors on Thursday for what he said was an "outrageous" proposal that the jury be allowed to consider third-degree murder because it would mean that George Zimmerman committed "child abuse" when he shot and killed 17-year-old Trayvon Martin.

On Wednesday night's edition of "The Rachel Maddow Show," host Rachel Maddow discussed how the Republican anti-women's health agenda and how it bears no relation to the will of the people, does nothing to help the economy or create jobs, and endangers the lives and well-being of women.

Fox News host Brian Kilmeade brought a small child to tears on Thursday by hitting him in the face with a basketball.

Fox News host Bill O'Reilly claimed on his show Wednesday that abortion regulations are so lax in Texas that some women get abortions because they've sprained a hand.