The Politics of Timey-Harding

This was one of the first scandals where that dynamic was playing out, that it was Teflon Bill. It's always about trying to conceptualize some average American who doesn't actually exist. And I wonder what the last thing that you could call a major, a major scandal or a major political scandal was before this. The O.J. Simpson trial wasn't exactly a scandal, but man, was it a narrative.