As Mark Kleiman suggests, isn't it sort of a big deal that Fred Thompson was acting as the Nixon administration's mole during the Senate Watergate hearings? As a former Senate investigator describes it, "Fred was working hammer and tong to defeat the investigation of finding out what happened to authorize Watergate and find out what the role of the president was."
Isn't this as big a deal as, say, a haircut, or a Sopranos-spoof, or a dog strapped to a car roof? Well, okay, it's clearly not as big a deal as those things, or else the media would appear to give a damn, but maybe it's a slightly big deal? Something worth mentioning?
