So Miranda Was Carrying Stolen, Classified Material. How SHOCKING He Was Detained.

[MADem]

76. He isn't even using the "right" map!!! Talk about "too clever by half..."

The original "mocking map" looked nothing like that, and was annotated.

He's referencing the post about Evo Morales' plane. An article was written about that imbroglio, and it included a map of the ring road around Moskva from Google, which showed the airport where Snowden was at (A) and the airport where Evo's plane was (B). The purpose of the illustration was to show that it would be no simple task to get Snowden from one airport to the other, because many miles separated the two.

In an effort to completely distract from the material presented about the flight of Morales' plane, which was the actual purpose of the thread, a cadre of people latched onto that map and began mocking the OP because it didn't display Morales' flight path (which was available in the article; there was a link to it, showing exactly how the plane flew, where it turned, etc.).

Classic "pick a discrepancy and beat it to death." It's become a meme which is basically saying "Change the subject! Change the subject!" Any time you see a map of Moscow, the poster offering it is saying that they can't refute the point made, and they want the people on "their team" to mock and disregard based on that small discrepancy in that post, many weeks ago.

It's not a very mature method of arguing a point; the further we get from the Morales "I need GAS" business, the more it seems like an act of desperation.