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Response to Critics of “Ranking the Presses”

Throughout the Clinton-Lewinsky scandal, media pundits and commentators puzzled and despaired that Americans were not more outraged at their president's behavior (Kurtz 1998).Opinion poll after poll showed that most Americans believed the president had an affair with the White House intern and lied about it, gave Clinton very high approval ratings, and disapproved of the House members conducting the impeachment trial.How could Americans give high ratings to an admitted lecher, liar, and adulterer?What were Americans' values?Was Clinton the new "Teflon President?"Why? My colleagues and I at the…