Larry Craig And Wife Suzanne To Be Interviewed By NBC's Lauer

TV Newser reports NBC's Matt Lauer has successfully solicited (pun intended) the first network news interview with Sen. Larry Craig (R-ID) since he pleaded guilty after being arrested in a men's bathroom.

Even better, Lauer will interview Craig's wife, Suzanne. A political woman hasn't stood by her scandal-struck man like this since...well, um...I guess since Wendy Vitter did this July for her escort-service husband Sen. David Vitter (R-LA) (watch the highly uncomfortable press conference). Suzanne Craig has never spoken out about Larry's bathroom bust.

Craig's stepchildren, Shea Howell and Michael Craig, are the only other members of his family who have spoken to the media on behalf of their father. They gave an interview to "Good Morning America" on Sept. 4, shortly after details of their father's arrest became public. Michael Craig claimed his father was "a victim of circumstance, in the wrong place at the wrong time."

According to NBC's press release, Matt Lauer's interview with Craig will air next Tuesday during a "Matt Lauer Reports" prime time special. Excerpts will also run during the "Today Show" on Wednesday morning.

Comments

[jungpatawan]

Prepare to be grossed out even more as Suzanne tries to convince America what a heterosexual tiger ol' Larry is.

Suzanne: Bathroom sex? Oh, my, yes, Matt. And in the kitchen. The den. The laundry room. Oh, and the rumpus room. Most especially the RUMPus room! If you get my drift.

Matt Lauer: AHH! OHH! My EYES! Jesus God they're BURNING!

JP

[hugs4u]

Hopefully he will demostrate his wide stance for the rest of the repukeicans to learn.

[CammyV]

Matt...bew­are the wide stance and keep your feet away from the Senator's.

[RHR]

Huge waste of time.

No new revelations. Not even the Book of Revelations.

Pitiful.

[SouthJerseySteve]

Of course Mrs. Craig will just smile and say nice things about her husband. That's what Republican wives are foreced to do because it isn't Christian to let the wives express their own thoughts--or is it Islamic women? I can't tell the difference anymore.

[dadw5boys]

Matt trying to get another FREE ROUND OF GOLF with Bush.
What some guys will do for a free round of golf.

[mrcontinental]

Indeed, he's the ultimate mooch.

I find Matt extremely disturbing on so many levels, it's almost scary. Kinda makes you want to go back and read some of those "there are aliens among us" stories.

[rras]

Now this should be an Emmy winning interview. I think that I'll switch away from CNN just long enough to watch the Today Show for that earth shattering interview.
I was wondering if Matt has anything to add to what we know about this weird Republican other then how he's help paint a clearer painting of what Republicans are really like when you pull away the cover of politics.

[tombollocks]

Lock the bathroom door, Matt. You know Larry has seen those beach photos of you, and at his age, why, you're barely legal!

[CommanderWhitehead]

Jiminy-Lor­d...what some folks will do to maintain their own particular life style.

Life as an ordinary, unemployed, (closeted homosexual) is apparently utterly intolerable to this character. And he will hang on with "last grasp" of a dying hypocrite, until the end of the end.

(And he should not be pitied!)

[VOTER]

Will Matt's interview be from the new NBC Craig's Room?

[youcannotbeserious]

to quit the Senate and go home to his wife is worse than the scrutiny he faces apparently. Think about it. He goes to work with a roomful of crusty old men. Guys like Trent Lott, Ted Stevens, Bob Byrd.

It seems doubtful Craig has relations with his wife since they have no kids together. He got an instant family when he married her.

Its a marriage of convenience for financial reasons.

[Tom95134]

"Its a marriage of convenience for financial reasons." BULLSH!T!!

It's a "cover marriage" that was suppose to deflect any interest in Craig from the media because he was single. Complete with family. It's a perfect example of, "Don't ask, Don't tell" thinking.

Craig may not consider himself gay because he can perform with a woman but he is living the same life that many married men live who enjoy those occasional nights out with "the boys" or seem to come home from a week's business travel but aren't quite jumping into bed with the wife.

[DallasNE]

Why do men like Craig and Vitter subject their wives to such agony. There can be no love in those marriages, especially Craig. Financial security should not be a reason for living one's life in purgatory yet they stay. These women are as weak as their spouse.

[Felicty]

That's because a whore is a whore is a whore regardless of the price involved.

These women knew what they were marrying in to.

[Tom95134]

"There can be no love in those marriages.­.."

Your're wrong. There may be a great deal of love in those marriages. At the same time there is some level of drive that sends the man to other men on occasion. It would be a lot easier for people to understand if they could just divorce "love" from "sex". Love implies a caring relationship between two (or more) people while sex is simply RECREATION. That's why it's so much fun.