• May 27, 2012

Fox News Geography: Egypt Has Moved Again

by Jack Stuef  4:00 pm February 7, 2011

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Previously, you will remember, Egypt was Iraq. That Sharia sure gets around, eh?

Oh, and then Glenn became his favorite Dungeons & Dragons toy. Millions and millions of people saw this show and took it seriously.

The sorcerer's apprentice. Wait, no, that's too good of a movie to compare this guy to.

This is the nation’s most popular think tank. It will be back making laws soon. [Salon/Simon Maloy]

{ 153 comments }

RedneckMuslin February 7, 2011 at 4:04 pm

Coould you imagine how wacky GB would be if he was using dry erase boards and sniffing the fumes?

Oblios_Cap February 7, 2011 at 4:16 pm

he couldn't get much worse.

Boredw/Gravity February 7, 2011 at 4:26 pm

Yes he can, and he will.

Cicada February 7, 2011 at 5:19 pm

Little known fact: Glenn's chalk is made of a blend of cocaine and orphan tears.

Veritas78 February 7, 2011 at 5:19 pm

You know who else sniffed things?

LionelHutzEsq February 7, 2011 at 5:46 pm

Jesus?

trampndirtdown February 7, 2011 at 9:36 pm

Well I did hear that he sniffed Mary Magdalene, it was an exclusive on Huffpo.

zhubajie February 7, 2011 at 7:37 pm

Probably he was!

Oblios_Cap February 7, 2011 at 4:04 pm

So all we need to do is go over to Egypt and ask 'em "how you doin'?" and they'll all want to hook up with us?

Problems solved!

arihaya February 7, 2011 at 4:04 pm

if New York is the New Egypt then who is the new Cleopatra?

Kirsten Gillibrand?

PocketsTheClown February 7, 2011 at 4:18 pm

And, what, Gowanus Canal is the new Nile, but the reeds are scrap metal and, um, "leaky pipes." I LIKE IT.

Beowoof February 7, 2011 at 4:19 pm

I do believe she meets all of the qualifications for MILF.

SorosBot February 7, 2011 at 4:39 pm

PhILF?

Negropolis February 8, 2011 at 6:34 am

One can only hope and pray for that to be the case. And, she'd be a helluva lot more attractive than the actual Cleopatra.

DashboardBuddha February 7, 2011 at 4:04 pm

That's not a real map, right? That was photoshopped, right? Please say so, even if you have to lie to me.

BarryOPotter February 7, 2011 at 4:15 pm

That was my initial reaction. Please tell me this was taken WAY out of context (and by "context"I refer to the bat-shit insane ideaorhhea spewing from Puffy McBecklesworth's beak.

chickensmack February 7, 2011 at 4:19 pm

Sweet Messiah, please tell me that you coined ideaorhhea just now.

Fuck, no. Google found it somewhere else.

But it's still delectable.

bureaucrap February 7, 2011 at 4:05 pm

So it really was Glenn (or shall we say Glennda) who tried to shove hansel and gretel into her oven. Knew it all along.

ManchuCandidate February 7, 2011 at 4:06 pm

Explains why the lyrics to New York New York changed

Start spreading the news, I’m leaving today
I want to be a part of it – Egypt Egypt
These riot-bound feet, are longing to stay
Right through the very heart of it – Egypt -Egypt

I wanna wake up in a place, oppresses your ass
And find I’m chased by riot police – bopped on the head

These oppression blues, are melting away
I’ll start a big protest for it – in old Egypt
If I get beat up there, I’ll get shot anywhere
It’s up to you – Egypt Egypt

Rarian Rakista February 9, 2011 at 12:39 am

So is NY considered East Egypt or West Egypt?

SayItWithWookies February 7, 2011 at 4:07 pm

And why do I keep hearing Paul Dukas?

straighteight February 7, 2011 at 4:08 pm

This is from when Gandalf finally got a real job and trimmed off his hippie hair and beard and joined the Heritage Foundation, thus transforming himself into Gandalf the Brown.

SorosBot February 7, 2011 at 4:22 pm

But Radagast was the brown wizard, and he was even more of a hippie than Gandalf, spending most of his time wandering in the woods and talking to the animals.

AngryGeometer February 7, 2011 at 5:32 pm

What was Radagast's deal, anyway? IIRC, and I probably don't, he was almost as powerful as Gandalf and Saruman, but he didn't do jack shit for mankind, because he was too busy getting high, or trying to start a viable third party, or something. Wasn't he basically the Ralph Nader of Middle-Earth?

SorosBot February 7, 2011 at 5:49 pm

He only really cared about protecting the animals; he did send the eagles to rescue Gandalf and join in the final battle, but that was about it.

DoktorZoom February 7, 2011 at 5:38 pm

You know who I really hate? Tom God-Damned Bombadil. I'd just really like to haul off and punch that asshole in the face.

Fuckin' Tom Bombadil.

Cicada February 7, 2011 at 5:55 pm

I thought I was the only one!

trampndirtdown February 7, 2011 at 9:42 pm

But he was a merry fellow and had those cool yellow boots.

HistoriCat February 8, 2011 at 12:42 am

And the hot wife (girlfriend? don't remember).

jim89048 February 7, 2011 at 7:15 pm

So this map is actually of Middle Earth then?

SorosBot February 7, 2011 at 4:08 pm

Beck's probably never played Dungeons and Dragons, at least not for long; he's the type whose temperament would get him quickly kicked out of a group after throwing temper tantrums whenever things don't go his way.

It's strange, between several online videos and websites I visit, last Thursday's Community, and now this post at Wonkette, I've noticed a whole bunch of references to D&D over the past week or so. Is there some kind of D&D resurgence going through the zeitgeist right now?

DoktorZoom February 7, 2011 at 5:33 pm

For some, it never went away.

(I'M A BARD!)

kenlayisalive February 7, 2011 at 6:58 pm

I believe there must be. I was randomly discussing Gary Gygax last night.

LakeAfflicted February 8, 2011 at 12:09 pm

Dick Cheney = lawful evil
Glenn Beck = chaotic evil
Joe Lieberman = neutral evil

mereoblivion February 7, 2011 at 4:09 pm

Are you shah? Sultanly!

Beowoof February 7, 2011 at 4:23 pm

He is auditioning for the Caliph, when the Kock Brothers take over is complete.

DoktorZoom February 7, 2011 at 5:35 pm

Caliph Clavin, or Montgomery Caliph?

trampndirtdown February 7, 2011 at 9:44 pm

Well we know it won't be Caliph Huxtable.

Negropolis February 8, 2011 at 6:36 am

The Caliph ate me baby!

genxr February 7, 2011 at 4:09 pm

Only one thing to do now… protest against the ground zero church.

HolyMaracas February 7, 2011 at 4:09 pm

Seriously, how many wingtards does it take to find Egypt in the map?

Boredw/Gravity February 7, 2011 at 4:29 pm

Only one, but he needs a third-grader to show it to him.

danceswithpalin February 7, 2011 at 5:38 pm

None because it is not in the Constitution so it doesn't exist.

Negropolis February 8, 2011 at 6:37 am

Win

DoktorZoom February 7, 2011 at 5:44 pm

Frankly, this looks like a job for Cartographers for Social Equality.

Also, 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 education like such as in South Africa, and the Egypt, everywhere like such as…

zhubajie February 7, 2011 at 7:40 pm

Home schooling! It's not just Creation Science, Flood Geology, pi=3 because I Kings says so! It's Glen Beck geography as well!

LesBontemps February 7, 2011 at 4:09 pm

It's just that the Park 51 Community Center is making NY all musliny.

DerrickWildcat February 7, 2011 at 4:09 pm

BOMB THEM NOW…while they're still confused.

Allmighty_Manos February 7, 2011 at 4:10 pm

The funny thing about all this is that as recently as 20-years ago Beck would have been too crazy for a 2 AM shortwave program. Wait that isn't funny at all.

mrblifil February 7, 2011 at 4:10 pm

The font on those chalkboards looks suspiciously anachronistic.

SorosBot February 7, 2011 at 4:18 pm

Chalkboards themselves are now suspiciously anachronistic; luckily for Beck Fox's geriatric audience doesn't know that.

Zvi_Bleindmeis February 7, 2011 at 5:43 pm

They are an update from the stone tablets he brought down from the mountain.

jim89048 February 7, 2011 at 7:18 pm

Thought those were gold plates?

SayItWithWookies February 7, 2011 at 4:12 pm

This explains why the Jews always say "Next year in Bridgeport" at the seder.

Beowoof February 7, 2011 at 4:24 pm

I don't know, wouldn't Brooklyn represent the North American Israel?

SayItWithWookies February 7, 2011 at 4:36 pm

Since Brooklyn's in New York (don't tell them, though) but Israel is not in Egypt, I'm going with Connecticut. Brooklyn can be Goshen, though.

Sophist [APPLESAUCE] February 7, 2011 at 5:54 pm

This reminds me of Ogden Nash's famous couplet:

Ezbet el-Haggana?
No Thonx

meufchelou February 7, 2011 at 4:37 pm

So which would be the Gaza strip? Newark or Bayonne?

Beowoof February 7, 2011 at 5:01 pm

Yonkers.

bflrtsplk February 7, 2011 at 7:43 pm

Camden

WriteyWriterton February 7, 2011 at 11:39 pm

They still don't let us live in Bridgeport. Heck, the Irish let in the blacks and the latinos, and I still have to live on the North Side. Wait, what, Bridgeport in Connecticut? Same difference, amirite?

Negropolis February 8, 2011 at 6:38 am

Strangely enough, yeah, just about.

WriteyWriterton February 8, 2011 at 9:32 am

No surprises, then.

MaxUdargo February 7, 2011 at 4:14 pm

He's becoming lost in an ever more complex and confusing labyrinth of chalkboards. With anybody else, it would be a metaphor. With Glenn it's just… well… a man literally getting lost in an ever more complex and confusing labyrinth of chalkboards.

HistoriCat February 7, 2011 at 4:36 pm

I'm imaging someone on his staff is fed up with his bullshit and is egging on the paranoia. At the right moment, this person will slip Glenn some LSD and watch him freak out. When this happens, cameras had better be rolling.

trampndirtdown February 7, 2011 at 9:34 pm

How are you going to be able to tell when he's tripping?

HistoriCat February 8, 2011 at 12:39 am

I was originally imagining a giant freak-out but obviously no one would be able to tell. Maybe he'll do the mental equivalent of breaking the speed of light – come back in the other direction and start talking sense.

Chet Kincaid February 7, 2011 at 6:41 pm

He's going to re-enact the final sequence of "Enter The Dragon", with Jackie Chan standing in for Bruce Lee. As Jackie wanders through the blackboard maze, Beck will dart out and lob erasers at him, then disappear in puffs of chalk-dust.

sarjo February 7, 2011 at 4:14 pm

"Today in Egypt, pro-Democracy demonstrators achieved what was once thought impossible: they literally moved their country to the Left."

baconzgood February 7, 2011 at 4:16 pm

FUCK!!!!! Those muslims built that mosque at ground zero and now they are closer and closer……Egypt land is in Manhattan? What next? Mexicans in El Paso? What right do they have to immigrate and worship in this country….Oh that's right this country was built on immigration and freedom….but only for white people.

Sorry, I'm still off today. Too hung over.

Beowoof February 7, 2011 at 4:17 pm

Well there is an Egypt, NY just outside of Rochester, I think they may be once again confused over at Fox. See what happens when you Google Egypt but don't know enough to check the box that you want to search outside the US.

GOPCrusher February 7, 2011 at 4:35 pm

And a Cairo, IL.!
And a hotel/casino that looks like a pyramid in Las Vegas!
We must take steps to stop this insidious scourge now!

Angry_Marmot February 7, 2011 at 5:18 pm

Pronounced Kay-roh, thereabouts. There's a Karnak and Memphis, too.

jim89048 February 7, 2011 at 7:22 pm

Or Karo, the original corn syrup!

LakeAfflicted February 8, 2011 at 12:14 pm

True. It's near Mexico, NY. Clearly part of a Messican Muslin conspiracy.

Oblios_Cap February 7, 2011 at 4:18 pm

New York is a State of De Nile?

bflrtsplk February 7, 2011 at 7:45 pm

It's where you catch De Fish.

SmutBoffin February 7, 2011 at 4:18 pm

Does this show even have a producer? Like, who greenlights this crap, day in and day out?

Stage Asst.: Hello, Producer, sir or madame! Glenn wants to do a segment where he dresses like Mubarak and humps a pyramid that says 'OBAMA ADMIN.' What should we do?
Producer: Sure, whatever. Let that walking, talking tweener do whatever the fuck he wants. [Hits crack pipe.]

AngryGeometer February 7, 2011 at 5:35 pm

I'm pretty sure the show is produced by Zero Mostel's rotting corpse.

ifthethunderdontgetya February 7, 2011 at 4:18 pm

Yoda Beck will make you afraid.

Afraid be will you!
~

Sophist [APPLESAUCE] February 7, 2011 at 6:10 pm

Fear leads to anger. Anger leads to hate. Hate leads to buying a shit-ton of coins from Goldline.

Radiotherapy February 7, 2011 at 4:19 pm

It's just Da Nile of sanity.

GodShammgod February 7, 2011 at 4:19 pm

What's next, a map of California labeled "Mexico"?

Beowoof February 7, 2011 at 4:27 pm

How would baggers know? They don't want any of that elitest liberal geography education.

bflrtsplk February 7, 2011 at 7:46 pm

That would Colorado.

Worthly Wokette Skum February 7, 2011 at 4:19 pm

1st pic looks like Beck giving Egypt a prostate exam.

bumfug February 7, 2011 at 4:19 pm

I thought Israel got Long Island in the 7 Day War.

BaldarTFlagass February 7, 2011 at 6:09 pm

I think that was South Florida, actually.

bflrtsplk February 7, 2011 at 7:47 pm

The war only lasted six days. On the seventh day, they rested.

DerrickWildcat February 7, 2011 at 4:20 pm

Connecticut: We're looking at you!

WhatTheHeck February 7, 2011 at 4:22 pm

The N.Y. jets now play their games across the river, in Sudan?

DoktorZoom February 7, 2011 at 5:47 pm

Jersey, Sudan, whatever. Opening credits of The Sopranos would look similar, just dustier.

BaldarTFlagass February 7, 2011 at 6:15 pm

Woke up this mornin',
Got a crescent moon in your eye.

bflrtsplk February 7, 2011 at 7:48 pm

And the music would be different.

Sue4466 February 7, 2011 at 4:24 pm

Wow, I knew from the news accounts that Egypt was going through some changes, but had no idea those were geographical. Egypt, really on the move!

Extemporanusâ„¢ February 7, 2011 at 4:25 pm

In Glenn Beck's defense, that map was given to him by ex-Governor Paterson.

arclight2012 February 7, 2011 at 4:26 pm

CRAZIER, GLENN! This is good, but we know you can do a lot better! BRING IT ON!

MistaEko February 7, 2011 at 4:26 pm

It's here, It's there. Weird costumed guy not fully explaining things. Is Egypt now The Island?

Oblios_Cap February 7, 2011 at 4:26 pm

So that's what Beck U.'s academic regalia looks like! I keep hearing "Pomp & Circumstance" every time I look at that picture of Glenn.

Angry_Marmot February 7, 2011 at 5:21 pm

That's just the Clockwork Orange soundtrack playing in the background.

BlueStateLibel February 7, 2011 at 4:27 pm

I for one welcome my new Egyptian overlords to the north of Jersey! Maybe we can turn the pyrmaids into casinos (very popular in upstate Egypt).

WriteyWriterton February 7, 2011 at 11:42 pm

Allah fuggedaboutit, if you do.

smokefilledroommate February 7, 2011 at 4:30 pm

Just a shepherd with his flock of chalkboards headed to Mount Albany..

SorosBot February 7, 2011 at 4:36 pm

Well since Radagast will apparently be in The Hobbit (and be one of two charters played by one of the Doctors), after that comes out it won't be just us hardcore book nerds who know who he is.

qwerty42 February 7, 2011 at 5:06 pm

What about the blue wizards? they just disappear?

trampndirtdown February 7, 2011 at 9:41 pm

Oooh which Doctor?

SorosBot February 7, 2011 at 10:05 pm

Seven; and Ten is playing Thranduil.

trampndirtdown February 7, 2011 at 10:19 pm

Well Ten has the ears for it.

valgal2342 February 7, 2011 at 4:44 pm

That sure is a big stiffy in his hand.

Ducksworthy February 7, 2011 at 5:07 pm

Actually that stick is the trunk of a sugar maple sapling that was attacked by a honeysuckle vine. Probably killed it.

freelancer February 7, 2011 at 4:52 pm

So, my guess is that this is how an Egyptian walks.

meufchelou February 7, 2011 at 4:59 pm
freelancer February 7, 2011 at 5:08 pm

Breaking footage of the Muslim Brotherhood turning violent against other protestors. They have such an old world style to their dress and facial hair.

Redhead February 7, 2011 at 5:02 pm

You really expect Beckers to be able to differentiate between Egypt, New York and Egypt, the country that is currently all over the news because it's in turmoil and full of people he doesn't like and Palin doesn't trust?

Tundra Grifter February 7, 2011 at 5:04 pm

So, Megyn, now we really know who lost Egypt!

DoktorZoom February 7, 2011 at 5:49 pm

Or misplaced it, at least.

trampndirtdown February 7, 2011 at 9:54 pm

I really don't like that Megyn bitch, I hope she pops off about Stewbeef picking on her. Another Daily Show Faux News fight would be good for my soul.

Guppy06 February 7, 2011 at 5:05 pm

No no no, Egypt takes our money, while New York gives money to Dixie. It's really more of an Arkansas than a New York.

fuflans February 7, 2011 at 5:09 pm

me too and i thought the exact same thing.

Gleem_McShineys February 7, 2011 at 5:23 pm

Yeah, well, who put da Nile over dere?

DoktorZoom February 7, 2011 at 5:53 pm

Nile goes up, Nile comes down. You can't explain it.

Come here a minute February 7, 2011 at 5:30 pm

The Egypt Thruway is closed, man!

Jukesgrrl February 7, 2011 at 5:41 pm

I think Beck took the brown acid.

PublicLuxury February 7, 2011 at 5:37 pm

You're all missing the point. Egypt could be anywhere. We are all Egypt.

Toomush_Infer February 7, 2011 at 5:49 pm

It's the mirrors…and the smoke….

LionelHutzEsq February 7, 2011 at 5:52 pm

Thank God for the crack FOX News fact checking staff who provided Beck with his maps, and verified for Megyn Kelly that no one ever on FOX ever called anyone a NAZI.

voodooeconomics February 7, 2011 at 6:01 pm

Look at Glenn and right away he could be Abrahan down from Mount Ararat, or whatever the hell that is, where he received the 10 Commitments from the Tea Party Pharisees.
Robe, in a light brown color..check
Staff for climbing mountain..check
Tablets with crap written on it..check (like the other one written in God's hieroglyphs.Fuck, if you can spell that word without looking it up you are the big G.O.D himself)

BaldarTFlagass February 7, 2011 at 6:03 pm

It's like in the end of that 2010 movie with Roy Scheider, when the monolith went to the surface of Jupiter and started multiplying at an exponential rate, eventually making the planet collapse. You have been warned.

Sue4466 February 7, 2011 at 6:04 pm

Seriously, why would Fox invest in buying a map? it's not like their viewers would notice the mistake.

imissopus February 7, 2011 at 6:05 pm

That Sharia sure gets around, eh?

It sharia does.

DoktorZoom February 7, 2011 at 6:06 pm

Sharia and sharialike.

BaldarTFlagass February 7, 2011 at 6:18 pm

Maybe a crack suicide squad of Beck's loyal followers can hijack a couple of hot air balloons and crash them into the pyramids and the Sphinx.

WriteyWriterton February 7, 2011 at 11:43 pm

There's not enough crack in the world for that suicide squad.

chascates February 7, 2011 at 7:39 pm

Rod, turn thyself into a serpent and end all our misery.

ttommyunger February 7, 2011 at 7:47 pm

I has teh sads because I know this wormy fuck is a millionaire adored by millions of actual American Citizens and I know for a fact he couldn't make muster in any unit I ever served in. Would not last a week!

cheaphits February 7, 2011 at 8:00 pm

Remember when Beck went to Wasilla? Maybe the deal is that if he helps recruit enough mush-brains to get S. Palin elected President, Beck gets to be Secretary of State.

I do believe,

We are on the eve

Of destruction.

problemwithcaring February 7, 2011 at 8:02 pm

NY is the state where in which they film this abortion of show. Just to be clear, that is a mislabeled map of these people's own fucking home state. Let that sink in, folks.

uh-oh February 7, 2011 at 8:25 pm

Any vaguely country-shaped thing will do, in all fairness.

Panty_Buns February 7, 2011 at 10:28 pm

Eek! I live in New York. What if the Egyptian government is overthrown, Sarah Palin becomes President, and is on the same geographical page with Glenn Beck? She might order air strikes on New York thinking it's Egypt.

BklynIlluminati February 7, 2011 at 10:45 pm

As long as I get a pyramid i'm ok with this

NadePaulKuciGravMcKi February 7, 2011 at 11:27 pm

glenn beck sarah palin michele bachmann

all Israel all the time
controlled media
federal reserve
Israel first!
9/11 scam
AIPAC

Beowoof February 7, 2011 at 11:45 pm

I like the robe, he looks like a Hogwarts wannabe, and I know this guy is on Team Voldemort.

Negropolis February 8, 2011 at 6:43 am

Tahrir Square, Times Square. You say tomato, I say apple. Same difference, right?

BombyMcGee February 8, 2011 at 8:56 am

I turned on his show yesterday for the first time in a while, and was astounded at the sheer number of chalkboards covered in crazy. It reminded me of the scene in "Seven" where they break into Kevin Spacey's apartment and find all his obsession-filled notebooks.

Terry February 8, 2011 at 9:06 am

Spacey's character in that movie probably made more sense than Beck.

guangho February 8, 2011 at 9:26 am

I think what he means is that the Muslims at Sing Sing and Attica need to rise up against the Democrat dictators in Albany and rule New York along with the common people from Elmira to Mott Haven. Lets hear it for the proletariat!

Or he could think that NY is the new Egypt with Coney Island as Sharm al Sheik.

swift_4 February 8, 2011 at 10:13 am

Aw, crap. If that's Egypt, I live in Saudi Arabia. That's not so wicked pissah.

I guess I park my car not far from Qatar.

LakeAfflicted February 8, 2011 at 12:20 pm

Where does this leave Djibouti???

Rarian Rakista February 9, 2011 at 12:41 am

I always read LOTR as a post-post-post apocalyptic novel where the ring was only magic in the Arthur C Clarke sense of it being indistinguishable from it.

Dr_pangloss February 9, 2011 at 10:00 am

Oh FOX is there anything you can't fuck up? These guys couldn't do a proper map grafic with a map, a dildo and a PhD.

Seriously Egypt looks nothing like NY you fucktards!

Liz February 11, 2011 at 3:01 am

My first thought was, "Man, will Radagast be pissed," so fear not, you are not alone.

… I'm not even that big of a LOTR nerd. The weirdest things just stick in my brain. XD

DoktorZoom February 8, 2011 at 8:57 am

Like those dirty hippies even recognized the sacred institution of marriage…

HistoriCat February 8, 2011 at 9:19 am

I'm suddenly thinking porn version of LOTR – Lord of the Cock-rings, maybe? The four hobbits getting down with Tom's wife, the hot human/elf action. And of course the dramatic conclusion when it turns out that Sauron has 38DD breasts and she has a four-way with Frodo, Sam, and Gollum.

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