Craig Crawford

As the dedicated journalist that I am, equipped with the finest research tools and unnamed sources around, sometimes I get all of my information from the CNN news crawl -- those tantalizing morsels that creep across the screen, allowing us to turn the sound off.

Here's one that caught my...

As a gay man who has lived with my soul mate for 25 years I am stunned to hear our president endorse same-sex marriage. I am ready to ask David Blank to marry me. I hope he will accept. If not, we share a jumbo mortgage, and that's a legal...

Pardon this indulgence, but last weekend I said goodbye to my best friend, a stellar journalist who passed on last November after a two-year battle with brain cancer. My blog pals (we call ourselves Trailmixers) gathered last Sunday at Gloucester Harbor, Massachusetts, to remember and celebrate a true...

After 25 years in DC chattering on TV about politics there is still nothing better than where I first started -- on C-SPAN, chatting with callers. Brian Lamb is retiring this year, but not surprisingly the phenomenon he created goes on without skipping a beat -- confirming his genius and...

Broken families pervade our society, and sometimes watching celebrities spotlights disturbing trends that many in private life experience, such as parental alienation and even the rights of grandparents. Such is the case in this radio chat with Bill Hudson about his days as a teen idol with The Hudson Brothers,...

Chatting here on web radio with Democratic Party rural strategists Dave "Mudcat" Saunders and Billy Bova about how working class anger at China could play into the presidential election (58 minutes). Our consensus? The Obama campaign ought to get Vice President Joe Biden out front against Mitt Romney's endlessly telegraphed...

Like the eager school kid who keeps raising his hand to answer the teacher, Romney has worn us down. Chatting here with Keith Olbermann about Mitt's Illinois victory. We're all just tired. Just give it to Romney and let's move on. Call it Mitt Fatigue. The media is tired, the...

From my weekend Limbaugh notebook ...

• Thinking Sandra Fluke will make a fine Clear Channel CEO after the lawsuit


• NYT: Limbaugh Advertisers Flee Show Amid Storm


• Peggy Noonan: "What Rush Limbaugh Said Was Crude, Rude, Even Piggish"


• George...

Chatting with Keith Olbermann about what really happened in Tuesday's Michigan primary. Mitt Romney and Rick Santorum tied where it counts: DELEGATES.

Media momentum fun and games in the GOP presidential race are behind us now. The race for delegates is on and supposed frontrunner Mitt Romney has...

Pardon me for laughing at the so-called GOP establishment whispering to us their fear of Rick Santorum's religious authenticity. Oh, they say, if he wins Michigan we must find another candidate. Huh? Sorry folks, but this is what you get after years building a coalition based on a block of...

The President's polling uptick makes Mitt Romney's case to resistant GOP voters better than he can. When Obama looked beatable right wingers felt smug enough to go pure. But now they must rethink.

Perhaps a Republican former blue-state governor who can triangulate, obfuscate and, yes, even sacrifice...

Rarely in TV news do we see a genuine effort by opposing forces to at least listen to each other. Current TV's Cenk Uygur, a devoted progressive, manages just that in this interview with Rick Santorum's benefactor Foster Friess. Their friendly and respectful disagreements offer some hope that ideological debate...

On Current TV, Countdown guest host David Shuster and I discuss Rick Santorum's recent victories and whether Mitt Romney's massive campaign budget is paying off:

"The silver lining for Romney here is, with Santorum doing so well, the conservative vote is still split -- assuming Gingrich can stay...

Newt's Fantasy Campaign software needs an upgrade if he is to go on. But after badly losing the Nevada caucuses reality seemed to creep into his thinking, suggesting that even he knows his quest has become largely theoretical.

During a rambling late-night press conference Gingrich chose less-than-certain words to describe...

Current TV's "Young Turks" Host Cenk Uygur asks the panel -- Michael Shure, Ben Mankiewicz, Craig Crawford and USC professor Ange-Marie Hancock -- a question from the live chat: With negative ads such a winning strategy for Romney in Florida, how negative will President Obama go, and when? "I'm a...

Could Newt Gingrich's humiliation of Mitt Romney in South Carolina, if repeated in Florida, lead to a brokered convention? Chatting here with Keith Olbermann about the possibilities.

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Mitt Romney pretty much lost it today with an apparent Occupy Wall Street protester, once again revealing a typically tone-deaf, 1960s "America: Love It or Leave It" mentality.

Romney was walking the rope line outside his headquarters in Charleston, S.C. on Thursday when a person off-camera asked, "What would you...

Romney now says big government is anti-American but he wasn't shy about feeding on the federal trough when he got the chance.

As a self-described "capitalist" he successfully lobbied the Federal Deposit Insurance Corp. to forgive his company's debts.

Romney's rescue of a business consulting firm was...

It's a state bordering on 10 percent unemployment having suffered decades of plant closings at the hands of Wall Street predators. Will South Carolina voters be receptive to the argument by Mitt Romney's GOP rivals New Gingrich and Rick Perry that his record in business as CEO of Bain Capital...

The Mitt Romney coronation routine runs afoul of a simple fact: After all the hoopla about Iowa, New Hampshire and South Carolina only 1.3% of the GOP's nominating delegates will have been chosen.

Only until we get to Florida's primary at the end of this month do we reach a...