"Jiminy God!"

Published: August 28, 2007, 11:10 am

Tags: politics, barney frank, larry craig

Suzanne Craig's eyes reddened and filled with tears as she listened. After her husband's denial, she said, "I'm incensed that you would even consider such a piece of trash as a credible source." To which Craig added, "Jiminy God!" Before moving on to the next question, Craig turned to his wife and said, "Sorry, Hon." That is from today's Idaho Statesman, describing a scene in May when the paper played for Larry Craig and his wife a tape of an interview with a 40-year-old man who claimed to have had sex with Craig in Washington, D.C.'s Union Station. The paper actually spent five months investigating rumors about Craig dating to his college days, and wrapped up its inquiry in May, without reporting anything. Without this week's Minnesota restroom revelations, the Statesman's story might never have run. And when I pictured Suzanne Craig listening to that tape, I briefly wondered if the story ever should have run, and if the

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