This “mini-Katrina” of a Fox News gem is a few days old, but we want to ensure that everyone on the Internet sees it. What’s more interesting is how Iran, Israel, Syria, and Jordan hover as parallel planes 10,000 miles above the Earth’s surface. Also, there is no country named “Jordan,” come on, that can’t be real. [Washington Independent]
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And that unlabeled one to the left, across the little sea from Saudi Arabia–I think that’s Arkansas.
Egypt has “changed” a lot since I was in school, taking elementary world geography.
iraq got gypped!
Iran, Iran so far away…
Wait, what’s Egypt doing there?
We here in Canada City joke that we don’t need an Army to defeat US America. We just take Canada City off the maps (that many of your slower brethren can’t read anyway) and you’d never find us.
Jordan is a country. It was named after that basketball player guy.
Just aim for the towels on their stupid heads, and your doing God’s work.
Also–on the left, it looks suspiciously like the Western U.S. Did they superimpose IRAN and the rest of the Middle East over Nevada, Utah, Arizona, and California?
Or are THEY really THAT CLOSE? Augggghhhhh!!! It’s THEM!
Pardon me, I have to go shout down my congressman about this.
Actually, they named it “Jordan” after they realized that naming a country “Kayleigh” or “Dylan” was really dorky.
Holy crap! Miss Teen South Carolina was right!
That’s what happens when you use Murdoch’s houseboys as unpaid interns.
They also misspelled sexy and spelled it secy instead. Dummies.
DING DING DING
This geography bee has a winner!
[re=378782]NoWireHangers[/re]: I can assure you that “Jordan” is a real place. I’ve been to its capital, Michael.
Next you’re gonna tell me there is a “South” Africa…and that white people live there in racial equality to Zulu neighbors
Alexander the Great discovered Nebraska there right next to Saudi Arabia, which was awesome because then he founded the Huskers and they became world champions 5,000 years ago right after Adam and Eve started Eden, so all Middle Easterners are really Midwesterners.
Hopefully, following this miniKatrina, there was a nanoHolocaust in the Fox News graphics department, when the tech who made this map was thrown into the cage where they keep Glenn Back.
It was one year ago today that Russia attacked the sovereign U.S. domain. We are all still Georgians. And Iraqis are now Egyptians; Never say this war wasn’t worth it.
Somebody at FOX must have taken pity on Bush and gave him a behind-the-scenes job.
Stupid does as stupid is.
Today we are all Huskers. That’s why our stadium on a football Saturday is the third largest city in the state. Hy-uk, hy-uk, hy-uk.
Jordan is a far sight better than Jazmyne.
I just showed this to my 8 year old twin nephew and niece and they said in unison: Egypt is in Africa and it is south of SA! Their parents are nerds but it is a wonder that Fox was not bombarded with calls about the “error”. The miseducation of American wingnuts continues.
Should be tagged with “Err, err.”
Sure you hate them for not knowing enuffabout geography or science, but damn it, they knowz relijun and intelligent design better than all of us. So please, give credit where credit’s due.
Clever of Iraq to disguise itself as Egypt. Deceptive camouflage. If you startle Iraq, it will also flash the eye spots on its tail.
I don’t get it, what’s the problem? Fox News exists in an alternate, parallel reality, everybody knows that.
Before Egypt moved out of Africa, how much did it sell the Nile River for…?
What we need is MORE countries with stripper names.
Mission Accomplished!
Phew! We’ve dodged a bullet. If Dubya were still President, he’d be on TV right about now gloating about we’ve finally destroyed Iraq’s pyramids.
oooooh ooooh oooohhhh… on the trooopical island of egypt…. they do a little hula dance… and the african swamis make brazilian origamis and sing booga booga mau mau and don’t wear any pants.
everybody sing!
So wait, they can’t possibly create geographic maps from scratch for every graphic, right? They don’t have like a stock set of maps that they can use as the basis for new graphics? That’s the kind of mistake I expect the local 4th place affiliate’s nightly news team to make (maybe, on the weekend). How hard is it to find a map of the middle east? Ooh, look, in .31 seconds google images returns 19 million CORRECT maps.
A frighteningly accurate depiction of a Faux Newz geography ‘fact checker’.
You’re right, Jim: there is no Jordan. The correct name for that piece of terrain is “The East Bank,” and it will be a province of Israel in the not-too-distant future.
[re=378811]Kingbee[/re]: sexytime!
Geography is for sissies.
[re=378782]NoWireHangers[/re]: [re=378792]The Station Manager[/re]: First is was Mount Obama, now this.
It’s been that simple all along? Change the name of America’s desert shithole to Vermont and – voila! – problem solved?
[re=378775]Humpback[/re]: Looks more like Missouri.
[re=378778]Fox n Fiends[/re]: We stole Iraq’s name when we invaded and moved it to South America
[re=378831]Norbert[/re]: um, “it”. damn.
It is a puzzle, people- you are supposed to fix it on your TV screen like Winky Dink
Yes, Alex I’ll take “Middle East Maps By Fox News” for 1 katrillion dollars please.
Jordan is not a country, but a rather nice cabernet made by a former basketball player from Chicago: Barack Obama.
I personally believe that U.S. Americans don’t have maps. And the Iraq, such as.
Voting districts. National boundaries. What’s the difference?
I mean I know the Bush administration would like to forget about what a mess we made in Iraq, but this seems a bit extreme.
*or*
Fox News: we report, you decide… where to put Egypt.
Eh, I need more coffee before I can come up with something better.
When the head of the graphics department was asked about this gaffe he replied:
“But I do know one and one is two,
and if this one could be with you,
What wonderful, wonderful, wonderful world this would be.’
Sure, there’s a country named “Jordan.” Next, you’ll be trying to tell us there’s a country call “Chad.” What you think we are? Morans?
At least Fox news didn’t make its usual mistake of labelling them all Democrats.
If you use that map to get to Pismo Beach, make sure you turn left at Albuquerque.
[re=378820]aflurry[/re]: I was going to make some little joke about towelheads and fez, but I can’t top that. Alright, I’m signing along – win!
I feel bad for the person responsible for creating those tiny little graphic boxes with the tails, for added accuracy. Their life must seem meaningless now.
[re=378778]Fox n Fiends[/re]: Win
So, the Fox News research department is manned by former Bush Intelligence Officers. Is this really a surprise?
[re=378792]The Station Manager[/re]: I thought that Michael simply had Nike buy him a country and named it after himself.
[re=378875]FMA[/re]: Don’t be silly, everyone knows the proper name of the country is “Charles.”
Does anyone else think that these mistakes are some technician at Fox News trying to troll Media Matters and all those other places that TiVo cable news 24/7?
I mean, it’s being charitable on intelligence but…oh, who am I kidding. They probably really think Mark Foley’s a Democrat and that Egypt == Iraq.
Did they take the pyramids down and rebuild them one stone at a time like they did Ramses monument when they built Aswan High Dam?? Maybe they will find all of the gold the Pharoahs left behind. (Oil, fuck dat shit, we goin there for the GOLD IDOLS mo’fos!)
Talk about MESS’O'Potamia…. Jon Stewart will have a field day with this!
Thank you, Fox News: You Report, We Deride.
[re=378823]rev_matt_y[/re]: And you know those 19 million maps linked to by Google Images are accurate how exactly? Don’t say you’re not of an alien race sent here to destroy us. The jig is up. Put your hands behind your head and slide the keys to your spaceship, slowly, across the floor.
At least the map factually depicts Jordan as the TruckNutz of Israel.
[re=378910]TGY[/re]: And those are some mighty fine nutz. I been there I oughta know.
Tom DeLay’s evil gerrymandering finally comes to fruition.
Given Fox’s Miss Teen South Carolina gone bitter and fat PUMA viewership, all’s they need to do is label the whole place “BlackNappyHoGayMuslinistan” to avoid further typos all will be forever shiny happy.
The dood at Fox who puts the “D” next to every Republican pol caught in a sex scandal is branching out.
[re=378896]Simba B[/re]: No. It’s a clever marketing campaign. Fuck enough shit up and suddenly EVERYONE will be watching them for the next retarded mistake.
I told Faux News not to let Craig Ferguson draw their maps, but they don’t listen to me.
So how did the Israelites cross the Suez canal to get to the holy land?
Fox apologizes for their earlier gaffe, and has released the following image to clarify their map of the middle east.
http://img.photobucket.com/albums/v111/infinitepresent/foxmiddleeast2.jpg
[re=379011]Paul Tardy[/re]: To get to the other side?
[re=378905]hobospacejunkie[/re]: They must be right, because it’s very hard to alter a digital photograph.
I can see Egypt from Iracks house.
Let’s just call Oil country. With US bases and warships spread out through out.
[re=378842]zenferret[/re]: You’re right. I was looking at it upside down.
This map debunks that “crossing the Red Sea from Egypt to Israel” claim “they” always make.
Bloodthirsty AIPAC Neocons & their ‘Useful Idiots’ at FOX
[re=378798]blinky_twinkie[/re]: Joe? Joe Smith? Is that you?
why is lebanon a black hole?
Ken Sara: You didn’t notice that Iraq was labeled Egypt? Just how hot is it in D.C.?
Surely at least a couple of you know that Jordan is a Hashemite Kingdom in the Middle East — a constitutional monarchy with representative government. The reigning monarch, King Abdullah II, is the head of state, the chief executive and the commander-in-chief of the armed forces. The king exercises his executive authority through the prime ministers and the Council of Ministers, or cabinet.
Furthermore, Fox had it in the right place, regardless of losing Egypt.
If they are going to put Egypt where Iraq was, shouldn’t they put Iraq where Egypt was? That would be fair and balanced. In any event put Iraq somewhere or how can we ever be between Iraq and a hard place.
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