CSPAN - 070828 - Larry Craig Statement

Here is Senator Craig, unfiltered, running a bit long-winded in his speech to acknowledge the news story of his guilty plea for disorderly behavior in an airport mensroom.

Craig has been implicated in gay scandals before, and this has an ironic twist in that the senator has a history of hostility towards gay rights legislation. On page 213 of the Anatomy, Northrup Frye defines Augenblick, an important plot event in tragedy that is well illustrated in this clip. Here's Frye's quote:

Tragedy seems to move up to an Augenblick or crucial moment from which point the road to what might have been and the road to what will be can be simultaneously seen. Seen by the audience, that is: it cannot be seen by the hero if he is in a state of hybris [arrogant and mistaken presumptions about his own power and capabilities, see "hubris" for dictionary definition], for in that case the crucial moment is for him a moment of dizziness, when the wheel of fortune begins its inevitable cyclical movement downward. - MF