Posted on 10/18/2007 6:07:36 AM PDT by 3AngelaD
Broadcast network news division chiefs walked the corridors of their newsrooms yesterday, little flecks of foam about their mouths, muttering Macbeth's "life's but a walking shadow" gag, upon learning that Idaho Sen. Larry Craig's very first network TV interview since his June arrest for allegedly soliciting sex in an airport men's room had attracted only 5.7 million viewers to NBC's "Matt Lauer Reports" Tuesday night.
The Golden Age of Washington Political Sex Scandals Goosing Network News Numbers -- over.
Lauer had given his all for the prime-time interview about what he called "the most famous bathroom stop of the last 10 years."
He asked the tough questions: Were you aware at all, Senator, of the reputation of that specific bathroom?
Lauer begged the family-values conservative to forgive him before asking whether, while maybe not gay, the senator might be bisexual.
He demonstrated for viewers at home the fancy footwork described by the arresting police officer in that bathroom.
He spoke movingly on the "Today" show about how tough the interview had been to do.
And still, only 5.7 million viewers bothered to watch. A tragic statistic, considering NBC is averaging 6.3 million viewers in that very time slot with "Singing Bee" and "The Biggest Loser."
And a disaster, compared with the nearly 24 million who'd tuned in to watch Connie Chung interview Rep. Gary Condit about his affair with intern Chandra Levy back in '01, in the TV dog days of August, no less...
Heck, even Lauer's interview with tear-shedding, nose-wiping, gum-smacking, bosom-heaving train wreck Britney Spears managed to attract nearly 9 million viewers just about 16 months before Lauer's sit-down with Craig and his wife, Suzanne.
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What can be done to turn this around? I suggest the MSM redouble their efforts to push the Leftist agenda.
The MSM needs to try a wider stance and lean a little more to the right.
What's the big surprise here, imagine the audience for whatever information we haven't already heard about this sordid litle affair. Let's get back to Lindsay and Britney, you know, the stuff that really matters!
Word on the street is that lite in the loafers Lauer has a little marriage trouble of his own. Could he be a closet stall stalker also? There’s a huge gay population here in south florida where he visits often to see his mother. There has been whispers for years.
I guess I missed the Britney bosom heaving...
He should have asked Matt how he knew about bathrooms having "reputations".
Lauer should have snorted some coke off of Craigs rear end, now that would get ratings!
“What can be done to turn this around?”
All I can imagine is that scene from “A Clockwork Orange” where Malcolm McDowell is strapped into a chair and his eyes are pried open so he has to watch the image on the screen.
LOL... Matthews would have his wife do it if it increased his ratings.
Yes. There's a serious "ick" factor here. I just want this sad, sick little man to go away.
-ccm
I watched this interview by Lauer of Larry Craig.
You know, maybe it’s just me. But I could never sit and lie like the two rugs Craig and his bogus wife were.
They lied over and over and frankly I thought Lauer did a good job.
I don’t know how that Mrs. Craig can live with herself, lying to the public and surely her children know she’s a blithering liar. Not to mention Craig himself who was so obviously a homosexual that this heterosexual lady picked it up right away.
Evidently Craig has decided the best thing to do is lie and lie and keep right on lying. So hey, the Clintons do this all the time and it works for them.
I don’t for a minute any one with two working brain cells believed for one minute that so many coincidences would befall one perfectly normal heterosexual man. That interview was almost painful in its bathroom detail.
First he coincidentally chooses a bathroom that has a notorious reputation as a homosexual rendezvous. Second he gets a piece of toilet paper stuck on his shoe, poor Craig this man so besot with all these bad coincidences in one godawful day. Of course he had to remove the toilet paper from his shoe....we all understand that, don’t we?
Third his foot accidentally went over to the other guys stall and while I’ve never been in a men’s room, I’ve sat on plenty of toilets in plenty of stalls and damn if my foot ever got CLOSE to going over to the other guy’s (girl’s) stall.
Fourth, he just happened to be standing in front of the stall with the undercover cop and looking through the slit, just to check if someone’s in there. I usually look under for feet but hey, the fine senator was busy and in a hurry.
On and on and on. When the cop passed him a note telling him to come out, that he was under arrest, Craig said NO. Well an innocent fellow would likely have come on out and expressed his outrage all over the place that a man can’t take a crap without being arrested, go on.
And all those other rumors about Craig...well just coincidences. Craig lied and said he is neither a homosexual or a bisexual.
Sheesh. Lookit, if the guy would just openly and candidly admit his homosexuality and let the voters decide his fate, I’d certainly be open to such an event.
But to lie like a piker whilst peeing upon our feet with his wide stance and telling us it’s raining....frankly I am insulted.
But maybe it’s just me.
Rant over on this creepo.
Nobody believes them any more...Not even the foaming at the mouth LeftiPervs who use the MSNBC propaganda arm freak shows to push their Death Cult agenda.
ROTFLMAO!
Bet that drove Lauer back to his coke dealer.
I did not see it but I read a post of somebody who said Craig’s wife was giggling away as if she were at a party.
“Third his foot accidentally went over to the other guys stall and while Ive never been in a mens room, Ive sat on plenty of toilets in plenty of stalls and damn if my foot ever got CLOSE to going over to the other guys (girls) stall.”
I’ve wondered the same thing. My whole life, I’ve never gotten close to touching someone in a dirty public restroom. You would have to deliberately stretch your foot way out. It seems like your pants would prevent your legs spreading that far anyways. It all seems so extraordinarily out of the ordinary. Plus if you acidentally rubbed your foot up against another guy while sitting on the toilet, wouldn’t you immediately apologize out of sheer embarrassment?
Hey...his (and the Clintons) position is....just deny.
Deny, deny, deny and if no one can prove different, well we’ll just have to agree to disagree and move on, right?
See, it’s not a bad strategy. I’m sure that Craig knows he’s not fooling anyone. I don’t especially like Lauer but his disbelief was frequently expressed and he asked good questions.
Like I say...lie and deny and what they gonna do?
Well there’s things such as juries and often liars committed some kind of crime that got them arrested on through to trial. But this does NOT happen to the Clintons, ever save the Paula Jones case.
So far as I know there’s no law against a senator lying like a rug on national tv and in the end, it will be on his voters to decide, I suppose is the logic.
Now logic would have it, to those voters, that now not only is their congress critter a homosexual having sex with strangers in bathrooms, but now he lies to your face with such utter crap and he wants you to believe him.
Hey, some people might buy it. Some people might just say...go on, lie...let’s just live with the lie.
Time for lunch, I’m starting to get stupid.
Let’s just all agree, libs, conservatives, political elites, media elites and the middle class now carrying this country on its back whilst raising the soldiers and citizens of tomorrow...that Larry Craig and his fine wife are lying about his homosexuality.
Beyond that...who knows? But before I pull every last hair on my head out to its root, let’s just agree that the man and his wife are lying.
The only time I did anything close to that, was to hand under an extra roll of toilet paper to the next stall when the lady next to me said hers was empty. We did not touch hands.
Still, I'm glad I wasn't arrested.
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