Therumancer said:
...and then of course we just broke a Russian Spy ring active here in the US... where more people seem to be spending time talking about how hot the girl in the group was rather than the bottom line of the fact that Russia was caught spying on us while all the rest of this stuff was going on....
Let's be fair here - it wasn't like the spy game ended at the end of the Cold War, and there are plenty of American spies in positions in Russia, often in diplomatic positions. I think the reason that Anna Chapman gets the attention is that she seems very unsuited to espionage - not only is she too distinctive in her looks, but she appears to be outright terrible at the spy game. It seems comical in a way, particularly from a country which became renowned for its high quality of espionage in the past.
Imagine that the roles were reversed, and an American spy ring was found acting so incompetently, and one of the captured spies was an elegant blonde or something who was found spending more time on social networking sites than actually doing the job she was meant to do. It's clear that she shouldn't get attention, but because... you know, elegant blonde, she's going to be in all of the news headlines. I think that Chapman will probably use this situation as a way to get attention, which annoys me, because she failed at her job badly, and is still in the media despite those significant failings.
It's almost as bad as that incident a while back where the wife of the chief of the SIS called out her husband's job on Facebook. "HURR HURR DERP YOU'RE THE CHIEF OF THE SIS".
