While it’s true that Fox News broadcast this particular hilariously wrong map/graphic before the current crisis in Egypt, we cannot discount the possibility that this Fox News meathead error might be accepted as fact by, perhaps, Robert Gates or the House of Representatives or whatever discredited 100-year-old hawk Obama named as Special Envoy To Bombing Muslims today (Henry Kissinger?), which would at minimum cause gasoline to rise to about $25 a gallon.
Because if Egypt turns out to be exactly on top of Iraq, and also next to Iran, the consequences could be dire. For example, U.S. occupation forces in Iraq could be squished, by Egypt being on top of them. Also, democracy! Let freedom rain/reign/ring … but quietly, as not to annoy the Saudi theocratic dictatorship.
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We map. You decide.
Just put the country anywhere. Our viewers wouldn't know better anyhow.
When they find out the Teabaggers are randomly renaming all their countries, I don't think that will calm the rioters down very much.
I just want to know how come these Arab countries ended up on top our oil.
Bush too. Thats why we have spent 2 wars and 11 years trying to change the map.
I haven't laughed this hard for months, now.
Funny that you liberals can't produce the live broadcast of this hoax on youtube
as a video because this broadcast never occurred.
Funny that MSNBC didn't run it, Rachel Maddow never mentioned, Keith Obermann never mentioned, and Chris Matthews never mentioned.
Reason: BECAUSE MSNBC IS PROFESSIONAL, and they don't run PHOTOSHOP INVENTIONS OF FOX NEWS BROADCASTS without some video proof.
New Egypt looks like it's about to be eated by an obese Persia. Isn't there supposed to be an embargo on American foodstuffs to Iran?
I hear they gassed the Kurds back in 1982 or something.
Everyone else has….
There's an even better error (from Newsweek, several years ago) that Atrios pointed out yesterday:
http://web.archive.org/web/20040829145147/http://…
Photo caption: "A show of force: Iran displays its military might at the border with Israel"
We have always been at war with Eastasia.
Fox News ought to hire a third grader to head their geography/map division. They might have a chance of getting it right then.
Bristol needs a job, I hear.
She can't find her arse with both hands. Levi is a better fit. He found her arse.
You mean, "she can't reach her arse with both hands."
Hey lay off Sarah Palin she was trying…when Fox outsourced maps to "Snowbilly, Inc" she was just trying to spell Afghanistan and it came out like that. Also, the edits of the graph were performed by "Teabaggers Choice, tm." president and CEO and world's smarted man: Newt Gingrich.
The solution to this is easier than the operating instructions for a hinge. Rupert needs to send out a memo, telling everyone that he meant to say "get a GPS", and not "a STD" Everyone will get a round of penicillin and they will be back to shining up their Peabody awards in no time.
"Shining up the Peabody"?
That's a new one. Wonder what Tracy Morgan has to say about it…
Oh, I am sure he's polished his so much that he's lucky he didn't yank it off by the root.
Barak? That's a Muslin name.
Alert the Mossad. There is a sleeper-cell in its own government.
Abort! Abort!
Let freedom rain/reign/ring … but quietly, as not to annoy the Saudi theocratic dictatorship.
Shhh… If you wake them up, someone will have to take them by the hand, lead them back to bed, and give the Princes all good night kisses.
I hear there's an unemployed ex-president hanging around whose wife wouldn't mind getting him out of the house. Let's send him!
Yes but then he'll go from kisses to buttsex…hell, that might even work…we'll stop being scared of Iran because the Saudi's wont really, really want us to bomb them anymore. Okay, let's send Bush with lube and Cheney with his patented Gitmo Gympsuit because by god, somebody is gettin' tortured here.
I'm confused; is Egypt still a (D)?
…so that is how Saddam hid his WMD!? He must have used the "Star Gate" to hide them off world!!!
"Give my regards to King Tut, asshole!"
…actually, I'm pretty sure Neo-Cons used this excuse already! The Saddam is a "Goa'uld" defense!
Nobody thought to look under Egypt…
Egypt is a pod country in the latest Hollywood sci-fi epic Invasion of the Allah Snatchers; Kevin McCarthy and Donald Sutherland are on the case.
Also, too, this boneheaded map error totally proves that the Bush doctrine of gunpoint conversion to democracy totally works, give or take a decade. USA! USA!
Most Americans regard geography as an uninteresting game of "Where's Waldo?" played with irregular polygons.
Most Americans wouldn't know what an irregular polygon was if they were slapped upside the head with one.
Which one of those countries is Africa?
Do they speak "european" there?
I don't even know how you can mange to make that mistake. The place-mats at IHOP have more accurate content than this abortion of a map. What source do you cut and paste from to get this kind of fuck-up from? Fox takes ignorance and misinformation to new heights every day; it's a talent, obviously.
Any news channel that describes someone as "Secy Gates" could fuck up an outline map of Wyoming. Secy Gates sounds like my porn star alias……
Fap,fap,fap!
The solution looks pretty simple and clear to me–invade all of them. I can haz straw pollz now?
It makes Moses' march much more impressive.
How embarrassing for Fox, they have Saudi Arabia where clearly New Zealand should be.
Fun Fact: 70% of Fox Viewers can't identify a map if handed a map, told they've been handed a map, told that a map is what they're holding in their hands right now, and then asked if there is a map in the same room they're standing in, including the map they're holding in their hands.
Investigator: [hands subject a map]
Investigator: OK, the item I've just handed you is a map.
Fox Viewer: Uh…
Investigator: So what you're holding is a map.
Fox Viewer: Uh… OK
Investigator: So can you spot a map in this room?
Fox Viewer: Uh…
Investigator: Including the one you're holding in your hands right now.
Fox Viewer: Uh…
Investigator: Is there a map in this room… including the one you're holding in your hands?
Fox Viewer: Ummm… [looking around the room] how much time do I have, again?
Well that's partially a math question, which might be confusing.
Stop tectonic drift!
Reunite Gondwanaland!
Is it possible to put Texas, Arizona, Oklahoma, Nebraska, Alaska, Kansas, and South Carolina on that map as well? Thanks in advance, Fox!
Don't forget Louisiana!
Or Alabama and Miss and by all that is holy, FLORIDUH…..Jesus are you a teabagger er a Rino? Everyone knows the most important places on Earth are Philadephia, Miss. (where white freedumz was established) and Jesus Land in Florida where you can get the REALZ bible experience by paying $20 admission and buying a Jesus puppet at the gift shop/temple. Because Jesus as previously demonstrated loved money being made off of religion, he just didn't like Jews doing it (Glenn Beck's version of the bible).
Not surprise. Fox's sat nav has to recalculate new directions to the bathroom for its brain surgeon employees on a daily basis.
Cartography is merely a theory.
Or a conspiracy. That's why you shouldn't believe in England.
I had this girl in one of my high school classes who honestly thought that Alaska was floating just off the coast of Mexico, you know, down in between Mexico and Hawaii.
I can see Egypt from my house.
Do you live in Cairo, IL? Alexandria, VA?
Must be Memphis, TN. We even have our own ancient, useless pyramid
That's "soon to be a newfangled fancy-ass Bass Pro Shop, Gun Bazaar, and Wildlife Killing Emporium" ancient, useless pyramid, son.
"Does it matter the name of the country or where it is? If it has brown people and is near oil BOMB IT!"
-Donald Rumsfeld-
Whats the difference? All wogs begin at Calais.
Iraq my brain to find Egypt. Did Sarah put it in her cupboard?
Maybe Egypt jumped from the scaffold and fell on Iraq, so as to be spared being drawn and quartered.
Oh, wait – that was Guy Fawkes, 406 years ago. My bad.
This is why we need to give maps to all the people in the Iraq, and Southern Africa, and Roger Ailes' house, and such as.
No wonder Bush never found WMD in Iraq, he was looking in Egypt.
At least Sarah Palin is not making it all about her: http://www.huffingtonpost.com/2011/01/31/sarah-pa…
Attention whores are made, not born.
In her case, I would have to disagree. I think she was born with the gene. She has to be, when she can spin a media boycott of her into being blamed for the unrest in Egypt.
Where's Al-Abama?
Zevon money he's broadcasting on Muhammad's Radio.
Let's send lawyers, guns and money….
And where's Derkaderkastan?
Can’t tell you exactly, but I do know that it is way, way south of Medina, Ohio.
Idaho. Al-Aska!
Next to El-Paso.
Iraq is so last decade. Egypt is the new Iraq.
This is not the Egypt you are looking for.
To My Algonquin, Cherokee and Micmac brothers:
You can have this shithole back now.
Regards,
The Management
Hey, we just now (Monday morning) received a message that was sent last Friday. Did it get stuck in Egypt while the Internets were off?
It's all Ragheadistan to Fox viewers anyway. They're already taxed enough trying to remember where Walmart is.
Yes, especially when you consider how they all shop at and work for 8-12 hours a day there (no overtime or health care, this is Free Marketz!) at Walmart…oh and considering where the supposed "Heartland" is (can there be any more smug or elitist nickname for whogivesashitastan?) they probably live right next door to one, also.
You got keep and eye on those Egyptians. They are slippery!
If Iraq is Egypt, does that mean Quebec is France?
Did they move the Pyramids, too? Or just the Sphinx?
The Sphinx ain't sayin'
My sphincter just moved. Is that a help?
Excuse for Going to War # 2,541: "We went into Iraq to save the Pyramids"
That map sucks. I can't find Sixpackistan.
It's important to keep up with the realignments that have taken place since the fall of Soviet Russia. You will now find it neighboring Buttsechsistan.
Well you'll notice the first thing Mubarek cracked down on was the internetz. If you can't find Egypt in cyberspace, it doesn't fucking matter where it is on a goddamn piece of paper.
Egypt (D)
They figured moving Egypt to Iraq is easier than moving all our troops to Egypt, and putting it between Israel and Iran makes the perfect justification.
Since that is Egypt then why we so concerned about some riots in the streets?
We already invaded it, slaughtered a few hundred thousand people and blew up most of the buildings. We can always do it again and it will be much quicker since so much has been blown up already.
FoxNonsenseChannel is so wicked retahded I laugh til I puke. Really! Today I watched Fox and Friends in the Dingly Dell for five minutes and forgot how to use a spoon.
Sing with me, people:
See the pyramids along the Euphrates…
so has ther been some kind of quiet trade between Iraq and Egypt? "hey, I love your pyramids, wanna trade?", "sure, your oil rocks"….
we don't need no stinkin' maps…
Gates-gate.
if Egypt turns out to be exactly on top of Iraq, and also next to Iran, the consequences could be dire.
So it's really like a bad gay three-way, only Iraq forgot how to assert itself as a Power Bottom, amirite?
I guess I know why the average teenager can't navigate their way out of a paper bag. I just makes a map nerd like me want to cry.
Just think, now that GPS has made knowing how to read a map fairly unnecessary, the skill will soon die forever, like memorizing phone numbers.
Never! I have too much invested in knowing what a township and range are. Not to mention the rods and chains.
Infromational graphics
Sour grapes. You're just jealous because none of YOUR maps get a 137% approval rating among conservatives!
You know, maybe Egypt decided to move- what with all the trouble in their current location.
Maps have a liberal bias.
Egypt is afraid that the U.S.A. may "bring it democratic government" so it's hiding out over at Iraq's; who's telling it all about the wonders of this democracy stuff, youbetcha.
This all just goes to prove that Miss South Carolina was right, some U.S. Americans out there, in our nation don’t have maps.
So the Neocons were right! We invaded Egypt and now the people are clamouring for democracy. Take that peaceniks.
I particularly like the way that Barry and Hillary are urging everyone to be peaceful (that means YOU Egyptian demonstrators!) because using violence to install democracy would never do.
If you want to find Russia just go outside and look from your back porch/ bomb shelter like the Snowbilly Queen does. Is there any chance any of you could suppose that she sees Russia as a side effect of Meth? The damdest part of it all is, she can neither spell Russia nor find it on a map.
Wait a minute… Fox has a foreign correspondant?
Poor fat, slobbish American tourists will now flood 'Egypt' in anticipation of tall pointy structures, gyros, and dancing of the belly, only to find themselves in FUCKING Iraq.
Meh. I like the Egypt in Las Vegas better, anyway. You know, the one with the beam of light that have blinded aliens piloting UFOs in space above Vegas for years.
I personally believe that U.S. Americans are unable to do so because, uh, some . . . people out there in our nation don't have maps and, uh, I believe that our, uh, education like such as in South Africa and, uh, the Iraq, everywhere like such as, and, I believe that they should, our education over HERE in the U.S. should help the U.S., uh, or, uh, should help South Africa and should help the Iraq and the Asian countries, so we will be able to build up our future, for our children.
hahaha. how on earth did they manage that!
I wonder why MSNBC never ran it? I wonder why not a single LIBERAL can produce any video footage of FOXNEWS airing this??? Because the photo you see is a LIBERAL PHOTOSHOP hoax. There is no video of FOXNEWS airing this anywhere. That's why Rachel Maddow, Chris Matthews, and Keith Obermann never commented on this either.
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