Fox FAIL map

Now we know why America’s rightwing gets things so desperately wrong with the Middle East: They have no idea where anything is! The above map is from the from Faux News' The Live Desk on July 27.

The map was probably put together by a behind-the scenes nincompoop in the graphics department, but it was fed to editorial and production nincompoops for use by their on-air morons. You could say it’s a perfect storm of stupidity.

What I find especially interesting is that this is indicative of the way such things are shared nowadays: I found out about this not from a blog or news article, but from a Tweet on Twitter from Brad from the 773 Podcast who linked to Media Matters (where I got the screen grab). They, in turn, found out about it from another Twitter user. I read somewhere that increasingly Twitter is becoming the medium of choice for sharing web links. I use it to share things I wouldn’t normally blog about, and sometimes things I would.

And, for the record, I’ve known where Egypt is for almost as long as I can remember.