It wasn't, actually - I was thinking more of another case of a loose tongue costing someone dearly.To be honest I do find that hilarious, albeit on a completely trivial level. My dislike for Ed Balls is as intense as for any politician I could think of and I take great delight in the fact that not only was he searching Twitter for his own name to see what people had to say about him, he was careless enough to accidentally tweet his own name instead of search. Fully deserved mockery in my opinion.
That of course takes nothing away from the terrorist attack that was attempting to destabilise elections in Pakistan (I guess that's what you're referring to?) - but it's nobody else's fault that Ed Balls chose that particular day to demonstrate his apparent idiocy.
I wouldn't have made the connection myself but for an "on this day" Facebook post last week!