LOL!!! - FOX - DOES NOT KNOW - WHERE EGYPT IS ON MAP

[kpete]

FOX News Doesn’t Know Where Iraq Is

by Joey deVilla on July 28, 2009

In a comment to an earlier article of mine showing FOX News’ tendency to mislabel badly-behaving Republicans as Democrats, “RODAN” pointed me to this map of the middle east shown on FOX News in segment where Neil Cavuto interviewed John Bolton on Monday – note the country marked “Egypt”:



http://www.joeydevilla.com/2009/07/28/fox-news-doesnt-know-where-iraq-is/

The problem is: that’s not Egypt, that’s Iraq!
Here’s a real map of the middle east:

[Earth_First]

1. Awesome!

No wonder why these dolts are so 'misunformed...'

[virgogal]

13. At least CNN got rid of Rick Sanchez who thought Hawaii

was off the coast of South America.

Unbelievable,not to know where Egypt is located.

[yurbud]

20. the east or west coast of South America?

It's sort of true. It's just further north.

[virgogal]

29. West coast. The Galapagos.

[hatrack]

53. Wait! I thought Egypt was the one with the big stone heads!!!!!

:rofl:

[spooky3]

60. I don't think thousands of miles away is what most people think of as "off the coast of" So. Am.

Here's a link:

http://fromtheleft.wordpress.com/2010/03/01/cnns-rick-sanchez-thinks-hawaii-is-off-the-coast-of-south-america/

[yurbud]

92. that link clears it up. I didn't know the Galapagos were so close to S. America.

I thought they were more isolated.

[spooky3]

105. I'd love to go there some day, though I understand tourists are more

restricted now so that they don't destroy the ecosystems there.

[yurbud]

124. yep. pee on one turtle and change the course of evolution.

[KittyWampus]

2. maybe Egypt is the new Iraq.

[Ruby the Liberal]

3. That it priceless

8 years of war and they can't even identify Iraq on the map.

Idiots.

[classof56]

4. So this is real?

Oh. Good. Grief.

I give up. Seriously. :wtf:

Might I just add--thank goodness for all my fellow DUers!

Peace and blessings.

[malaise]

5. Bwaaaaaaaaaah hahahahaha

:rofl: :rofl: :rofl:

[Liberal Veteran]

6. Life has been so much better since Egypt stopped hogging the Nile Delta.

[nadinbrzezinski]

7. Hey it is EASIER to occupy Egypt if you

already have troops there. Think of the savings there.

[Ahpook]

8. They have to have a reason for doing that?

That is no mistake! More likely trying to keep the rubes focused on that particular area.

And with the knowledge they are constantly doing this kind of shit, who in their right mind can justify watching?

[crim son]

80. Or, they didn't have a mapy of Egypt readily at hand

so they altered the map they usually use knowing their viewers wouldn't know the difference.

[Rozlee]

83. LOL! Truth to tell, I wouldn't have known the difference either.

Flunked geography big time. I barely even remembered how to spell it in 3rd grade Spelling Tests except by telling myself: (G)eorge (E)ats (O)ld (G)ray (R)ats (A)nd (P)aints (H)ouses (Y)ellow. But, then again, I'm not a billion dollar media empire that has the funds to hire cartography/geographical experts to write up maps. Or even, for crying out loud, just download the things from online sources. Crikey, that's what they get for spending so much money on their propaganda apparatus and shortchanging their fact-checking.

[underpants]

9. That's gold Jerry GOLD!

[Webster Green]

10. Oops, wrong continent.

How the hell did they come up with that map? When they need a map, do they just have one of their regular dumb-asses draw one? :rofl:

[sabrina 1]

58. They probably hire Freepers' kids as a reward for their

loyal support.

Remember when the Orange Man read from the Declaration of Ind. and thought he was quoting from the Constitution? Who prepared that speech for him I wonder?

[bluerum]

11. morans - of the highest order.

What little credibility they had - they just pissed it away.

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[old mark]

14. The tides go out, the tides come in...and no one knows why...

You do understand that most of those who watch FOX have NO IDEA that that map is wrong, don't you?
:shrug:

K&R
mark

[krispos42]

114. *snort*

:rofl: 'cuz it's true!

[Vinca]

15. That's really funny.

:rofl:

[pacalo]

16. What's as terrible as their stupidity is, after 8+ years of obsessing about Iraq,

they can't locate it on a map.

Stupid + having lots of money to spread lies & misinformation = dangerous.

[grahamhgreen]

99. +1.

[City Lights]

17. We report. You decide.

:rofl:

[Canuckistanian]

18. And look, it's right beside IRAN

And also Saudia Arabia. Why, if Egypt were taken over by them Mooslims, they could make an AXIS OF EVILNESS!

[nadinbrzezinski]

25. They are actually, partially, pushing that line

yes I have been going there on and off all day.

[Canuckistanian]

31. I believe it

The actors have been identified. The script has been written.

Now, all that's required is for the play to begin.

[malaise]

70. It's hilarious but it does look like deliberate misinformation

On the other hand there are folks who hate the thought that Egypt is in Africa.
Nothing is too low for those scoundrels.

[Hannah Bell]

19. That's not a mistake; it's deliberate.

It's a mistake to believe FOX is stupid.

They want their viewers to be stupid.

[Gregorian]

21. So that's what fair and balanced means.

[Junkdrawer]

22. Tigris/Euphrates -- Nile --- What's the diff?

Both are cradles of civilization. Close enough.

[fishwax]

23. OMFG

:rofl:

:eyes:

[Yavapai]

24. Damn that plate tectonics, makes it so hard to keep up!

But wait! Think of all the snowshoes we can sell them when it gets up north of Siberia in a couple years. And Sarah will be able to keep an eye on it for us...

We are gonna be rich I tells ya!

[nadinbrzezinski]

26. Off topic, beautiful African Gray

[NuclearDem]

27. HERP DERP

[wryter2000]

91. Hey, herps are smarter than that

^
|
Smarter than Sean Hannity.

[jdp349]

130. DERP

[Curmudgeoness]

28. This has to be intentional. I am not sure why they would want to

look so ignorant, but it will make it easier to condemn the Egyptian revolutionaries if people think that they are located next to Iran (notice how big the letters on in Iran).

Well, we will be able to identify all the idiots who get all their news from Fox, like we couldn't before this.

[Plucketeer]

127. Strategy......

Label the wrong country as Egypt, and Mubarak hops over there to maintain his hold! Problem solved. :crazy:

[saras]

30. They're not "wrong", they're "controversial"

And all you stupid liberals won't acknowledge it - you just call them dumb and refuse to debate the issue.

Hopefully unneccessary :sarcasm:

I also think it's intentional - for every debate where someone drags out a map and settles it, there are going to be ten where the wingnut just walks away saying the liberal just refuses to admit to being wrong.

[mascarax]

32. Maybe they (Fox) think Egypt moved & that's why everyone is so mad!

Or Iraq changed its name?

Methinks they used the map before because the countries emphasized don't include Egypt.

[Initech]

33. D'oh!!!!

:rofl: :rofl: :rofl: :rofl:

[gratuitous]

34. Gah! You libruls are so nit-picky

Gee whiz, you know, they're practically still naming countries. And how long has Egypt even been around, anyway?

[opihimoimoi]

35. Leave No GOPer Idiot Behind......Failed.....They promise Excellence...but deliver ROOKIES

[ladym55]

36. Lordy

I've been making bad jokes about the local media idiots not being able to find Egypt on a map ...

If they are relying on Faux Noise, they are REALLY screwed.

[GSLevel9]

37. if that's not a photoshop...

that's very embarrassing.

[MrMickeysMom]

48. I was going to ask the same thing...

and if it wasn't, this would be something Keith would have had on tomorrow night, for sure.

[AmandaMae]

38. wow, that's a new level of stupid, even for Fox

[Beaverhausen]

39. that's dated from July 2009

[lukasahero]

110. I'm pretty sure Egypt hasn't moved since then

;)

[burrowowl]

40. You have got to be kidding!

Unfortunately, it looks like you are not. I mean like the Nile, the Suez Canal and they couldn't figure out where Egypt is?
I guess our children have not been learning for a long time.

[olegramps]

86. The majority of kids in public school are doing just fine.

However, I am a bit concerned about those in religious schools that think that Jesus rode around on dinosaurs and that the world was created about 5000 years ago.

[fascisthunter]

41. Fox Should be Shut Down

[The Wielding Truth]

123. Here! Here! False news is so harmful to an informed electorate.

[Tunkamerica]

42. In all fairness, the person who typed it didn't know.

as much as we'd like to believe these entities are just evil homogeneous hive minds... they're actually made of of real people. And I bet the mistake was fixed the next time that map was put up. Looking stupid is no fun no matter what station you work for.

[Ahpook]

52. They have done this before

Matter of fact, someone on DU loaded it up.

That network is so full of shit, I wouldn't even listen to their weather forecast. Probably lie there as well!

[grahamhgreen]

62. makes you wonder about the qualifications of who they hire - and why.

[KansDem]

120. Yeah, kind of irritating they hire nimrods at Fox...

...while educated folks live day to day either un- or underemployed...

[WinkyDink]

79. We aren't talking about local TV from a basement somewhere.

[bkkyosemite]

43. Too Tooo funny!

[Politicalboi]

44. I keep posting this video

Faux really needs to watch 2 year old Lilly to tell them where to find Egypt.

http://www.youtube.com/watch?v=r43yCiKlbCo

[Iwillnevergiveup]

65. Maybe something could be learned here, too

Start small.

http://www.youtube.com/watch?v=nUrZGsNhaiU&NR=1&feature=fvwp

[complain jane]

45. Surprised there wasn't a (D) after it as well.

[NoGOPZone]

47. LOL, by thoughts exactly. nt

[K Gardner]

100. ROFL !!

[Chipper Chat]

46. OK, I'm waiting for this FOX bulletin:

"More protests erupted this morning on the banks of the Tigris River - very close to where Nephreteri drew the baby Moses from the water."

[pam4water]

49. Does this mean we are going to invade Egypt by mistake?

[AsahinaKimi]

50. Oh the STUPID BURNS!

Wonders how FOX NEWS MOVED the Pyramids to IRAQ??

:rofl: FOX NEWS MAKES CRAP UP!

[Diclotican]

51. kpete

kpete

Wel, I was showing this to some of my friends, here in the early morning.. And they sort of was shocked about the whole thing.. And also made some funny coments about americans and geography....

Diclotican

[kpete]

87. thanks

for passing it around
and peace, kp

[Horse with no Name]

54. LOL I didn't either

I dated a guy from Greece whose mother was from Egypt and he had to tell me. Of course I was much younger!

[on point]

55. Faux airheads also erroneously called it the largest Muslim nation (Indonesia is)

And for that matter Pakistan is also larger.

Once upon a time being a journalist also meant being literate, educated, well informed and able to engage in the critical thinking needed to spot errors.

Now it just means being willing to mouth and believe the lies fed to you on the teleprompter.

[donheld]

1984

we've always been at war with eastasia...

[HippieCowgirl]

56. Denial - it's not just a river in.... Iraq.

[Tx4obama]

57. Last night on SNL

in the Week End Update segment, Hosni Mubarak/Fred Arisen says something like "... I've been president for 30 years, what would I do, where would I go - is there 'another Eygpt' that needs a president?"
Looks like FoxNews found 'another Egypt' ;)
LOL

Video clip here: http://www.mediaite.com/tv/egyptian-president-hosni-mubarak-explains-himself-on-snls-weekend-update/

[Scottybeamer70]

59. Huh?

Is our childrens lurning yet?
Bet they can see Russia from the Tigris that just moved to Egypt!:rofl:

[grahamhgreen]

61. WFT - Morans!

[NuclearDem]

63. I know right? It's a series mistake

[AllyCat]

64. And this is why Faux viewers remain dumb

They believe everything. and nothing.

[struggle4progress]

66. Well, that's stupid! Everybody knows Cairo is in Ohio somewhere

:D

[KamaAina]

97. Illinois, actually

down at the southernmost tip where the Ohio joins the Mississippi.

Then again, Fux probably doesn't know that, either. :dunce:

[struggle4progress]

126. Cairo is near Lima

Cairo .. is .. in Allen County, Ohio .. It is included in the Lima Metropolitan Statistical Area ...
Cairo, Ohio
http://en.wikipedia.org/wiki/Cairo,_Ohio

[enuegii]

67. This was funny...about a year and a half ago.

Have they done it again?

[itsrobert]

102. +1

Fox makes mistakes all the time. Let's concentrate on their current ones.

[indimuse]

68. predictable! hehe..

...

[DeSwiss]

69. Don't cha just love those Liberty U. grads?!?! - K&R n/t

[Buddha2B]

71. COME ON!!! REALLY ????

FFS, do these people have any credibility??

Seriously in Australia, our Conservatives aren't that dumb. (Just greedy and proud of it).

[HughBeaumont]

72. K & R. Fox doesn't know a lot of things.

Like, how to spell . . .


Or which party a candidate's from . . .


Or that Duluth has no Washington Monument . . .


Or how to add . . .


Or how a person actually looks . . .


Or that the Holocaust wasn't a goddamned contest . . .

[Pool Hall Ace]

106. Wow, why would they give that nice-looking man an egghead, a bell pepper nose,

and yellow teeth?? Totally crazy. :crazy:

[HughBeaumont]

108. This may shed some light . . .

http://mediamatters.org/research/200807020002

Class act, this channel is .. .

[FlyByNight]

73. Not only does Fox dumb down their viewers...

...they dumb themselves down. Although, not to sound completely cynical, I can't help but think this is not accidental or due to simple stupidity.

Fox "News" is a cancer.

[ScottLand]

74. Hey, if FOX says it's Egypt, then by god, it's Egypt!

The faux sheep don't watch it to fact-check it.

[paparush]

75. Fox truly is a source of stupid.

[Obamanaut]

76. It's two years old, they may have discovered an error by now. nt

[Desertrose]

95. ....or not. nt

[earthbone]

77. Lets put this in prespective .

if you watch fox news on a regular basis then for you the middle east is in Ohio somewhere and Egypt is in France.

[valerief]

78. :headshake: and :facepalm:

:wtf:

[H2O Man]

81. Same planet, though.

Pretty accurate for Fox.

[tomfodw]

82. The REAL problem is...

...Fox doesn't know where Iraq is, either! And we've only been AT WAR in Iraq for almost a decade! A war that Fox has cheerleaded since before it started!

[EnviroBat]

84. Maybe Sarah told them that she could see Egypt from Iraq...

[newtothegame]

85. Why is anybody on DU watching Fox News??

:shrug:

Or listening to Rush Limbaugh? Or Glenn Beck or Sarah Palin?

We need to ignore these folks. Instead, DU is the best place on the net to come and get minute-by-minute feeds of everything these idiots say.

[RegieRocker]

88. Surprise, Surprise......not

[krispos42]

89. !

[yellowcanine]

90. Some of the comments are funny......

Dizzlexic July 28, 2009 at 11:07 am

I have to give them some credit. It must be really hard to draw a map with your head up your ass.

[Blue Owl]

93. What would you expect

from a bunch of dumb propaganda-spewing fucks?

[bobburgster]

94. OMG! That is just unbelievable!

Even for Fox that sets a new all time low. Had to share with my facebook friends;)

Thanks for posting it.


Go Fox! Bahhahahaha!
:applause:

[Johonny]

96. l o l

[L0oniX]

98. LOL

[tjwash]

101. What's wrong? All those swarthy middle eastern countries look the same anyway

:sarcasm:

[sellitman]

103. Their viewers are too stupid to care.

:silly:

[Beaverhausen]

104. I can't believe you all are missing that this is from JULY 2009!

[lukasahero]

what difference does that make?

it's still appalling however old it is since Egypt has been in the same place, on the same (other) continent for a very long time.

[Beaverhausen]

118. Because everyone reading this thinks this was on the TV in the last few days

and not from 2 years ago.

This makes us look stupid if you ask me.

[lukasahero]

135. The OP distinctly gives the date of the article

:shrug:

No deception, no stupidity - except on the part of the morons at Fox.

[krispos42]

116. We must have missed it in the ruckus of all the town-hall disruptions

It's still funny. :-)

[librechik]

107. the stupid leading the blind n/t

[47of74]

109. The Blind Leading the Blind comes to mind here...

"He (Jesus) also told them this parable: “Can the blind lead the blind? Will they not both fall into a pit?" (Luke 6:39)

And that's exactly where Faux News is leading people, right into a deep pit.

[ElsewheresDaughter]

111. Paging Miss South Carolina to The Fox News room floor please...Hurry !.

[obxhead]

112. Someone should tell our troops they've been killing Egyptians for

the last 8 years. Quite a mistake.

[Tsiyu]

113. "We report...you decide!"

Iraq or Egypt? Your call, folks!

[stanwyck]

115. Wait. According to Palin, Africa is a country - not a continent, so

maybe it was her day to be the Fox Analyst -- her job, right? And she analyzed Egypt into Iraq's location.

[proReality]

117. Geez! My chin just hit the floor.

Doesn't FOX own a map with lines and words on it that they could have checked?

Or is there a mole in their presence, doing little things like this to show people how totally ignorant the majority of those employed at FOX truly are?

[KansDem]

119. You would think the Suez Canal crisis of the 1950s and Egypt's involvement in it...

...would have tipped them off at Fox, but apparently not.

[pschoeb]

121. In a convoluted way, accidently correct

In Arabic, Iraq connotes fertile land

The original name of Egypt is Kemit, which mean black land and connotes fertile land, our English word Egypt is from a Greek transliteration of the ancient word for the Temple of Ptah at Memphis, which later the Greeks used for the whole land. The word Copt and Coptic form from various layers of transliteration from the word Kemit.

[benld74]

122. The ? "Is YOUR news channel Learning?"

[tomm2thumbs]

125. dumfux - complete dumfux

this is the beast that is feeding the world of GOP ignorants who hover at their door hunting scraps of hate-news.. more stupidity and lies and opinion journalism dressed up as news.

[goforit]

128. Awe struck.....WTF??? I know they change history, Now geography?

[bulloney]

129. So now Faux Snooze is revising geography the way they're revising history?

[pintobean]

131. Ooops

[slackmaster]

132. Hoax

http://www.huffingtonpost.com/2011/01/31/fox-news-cant-find-egypt-map_n_816540.html

[ObaMania]

133. Unless there's video of this..

.. it could just be a clever Photoshop piece.

Guess we'll never know.

[Yavin4]

134. Maps Have a Liberal Bias

Everyone knows that.