Reply #105: So you think British police will throw away their jobs for that? [View All]

[muriel_volestrangler]

Get some perspective. One piece of political news, that had happened the day before, and was already at the stage of discussion only by those interested in politics, and you think the British police, already heavily criticised for getting intelligence wrong, are going to put their jobs on the line just because some two bit Republican political consultant thinks he'd like a different talking point for the political columns and blogs? That they'd make up evidence, risking jail time, or getting sacked for getting an arrest wrong, and throw British airports into total confusion, getting literally hundreds of flights cancelled, for the sake of which headline appears in the Hartford Courant the next day?

Can't you possibly think of something else happening in the world that could make an alternative headline? Say, something happening in the Middle East?

I'll say it again - the idea that these arrests were triggered by the desire to displace Lamont from headlines is the second funniest thing I've heard today. It's also slightly sad, at the same time, to see good DUers so tied up in the internal politics of the Democratic party that they've forgotten how the rest of the world works.