Cable News Untruth-a-thon

So today's attempted Underground and bus attack in London (how bad a terrorist do you have to be to injure NOBODY on a Tube train? Seems like a pathetic copycat crime to me) has prompted another round of cable shouting. And on MSNBC, a British journalist described the mood on the streets of the city. He said, and I'm paraphrasing, "Well, you know, this isn't Madrid. I don't think the British people are going to want to throw Tony Blair out of office because of this. They're standing behind him."

Sigh.

OK, real slowly: Spain did not throw Aznar out of office because of a terror attack. They did it because Aznar lied about the terror attack, claiming the Basque separatist group ETA was responsible in a bid for political gain. The public found out about it in the run-up to the election and decided that they didn't want a chief executive who lies to his own people and uses tragedy as a means to consolidate power. In some countries, see, people don't like that.