We liked Ben Stein a lot more when he was in those Clear Eyes commercials and made money being an adorable nerd in movies and TV shows, but we should have known better of a former Nixon staffer. After a few merely idiotic missteps recently, Stein shat the bed with his ignorant, sexist comments about the Dominique Strauss-Kahn affair in American Spectator. And New York state assemblywoman Deborah Glick thinks Stein should publicly apologize. more ›

We knew George Steinbrenner was a character, but who knew he was an FBI informant too? And yet that appears to be exactly what the late Boss was. According to government files released yesterday Steinbrenner actively worked with the FBI on national security cases in an attempt to improve his chances of getting a pardon for illegal campaign contributions to Richard Nixon's re-election campaign. more ›

W. Mark Felt, Sr., the number 2 man at the FBI during the Watergate scandal, died yesterday from Alzheimer's disease at a hospice near his home in Santa Rosa, California, the Washington Post reports. Felt was an instrumental player in the stunning downfall of President Nixon, but his identity as "Deep Throat"—reporter Bob Woodard's anonymous source for the Post's bombshell series of scoops on the Watergate affair in 1972—was unknown until three years ago, when Felt's family unmasked him in the pages of Vanity Fair. According to the Times, even Woodward was shocked at this; he had gaurded the secret so zealously that even his partner Carl Bernstein did not meet Felt until earlier this year. Felt never revealed why he leaked details on the Watergate break-in and cover up to Woodward, but the Times obituary points out that in May 1972 Feld had been passed over by Nixon as Edgar Hoover's successor to run the bureau. more ›