"We have met the enemy and they is us" except they weren't really an enemy or adversary and the hysteria in the wider press was .. unhelpful. It could be said

"We have met the enemy and they is us" except they weren't really an enemy or adversary and the hysteria in the wider press was .. unhelpful. It could be said it was so unhelpful it was politically unstabilising. But I'd say that was kind of whiny: the election swung on many things, UFO wasn't the biggest one by far.