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Article: NBC's Matt Lauer, Making the Least Of an Opportunity
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- The Washington Post
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- October 17, 2007
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One thing, at least, was made painfully clear by Matt Lauer's
interview with Sen. Larry Craig on NBC last night: Matt Lauer is no
Mike Wallace. Lauer was anything but hard-hitting or confrontational
with the Idaho Republican, arrested in June for alleged homosexual
solicitation in a Minneapolis airport men's room.
For Lauer, self-important co-host of NBC's "Today" show, the
interview was obviously seen as a potential career- and credibility-
builder, but even when he did ask an arguably tough question, he
essentially apologized for it. He prefaced a question about whether
the senator might be bisexual by saying to Craig, "You're going to
have to forgive me for this."
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