Monday, January 31, 2011

Egypt: the Iraq of the Middle East

via Crooks and Liars

I was talking about the media's coverage of the protests in Egypt over the weekend, and thinking about all the new and creative ways Fox News is going to come up with to retard the issue to fit into their own special time-out corner of the news world. "I bet these assholes who watch Fox News (no offense grandma) can't even find Egypt on a map." is what I didn't say, but should have because that would be a great setup to this joke.

Perhaps this graphic is a hint at the strategy they're going to go with: just pretend Egypt is Iraq. Because, as everyone knows, Iraq = evil. Case closed. Bomb these fuckers. This guy feels me:




Considering how mislabeling is pretty standard practice at Fox, it's kind of hard to dismiss this map error as an honest mistake.

This is how it works: if someone does something you don't like, call them a Democrat. Or call them Iraq, because those two categories are basically synonymous vis a vis hating freedom, right?  --- >



Fox News has become infamous for their habit of distorting and editing video to make their ideological point, but we should not forget to mention the Fox News graphics department, who today managed to make the Freudian slip of labeling Sen. Joe Lieberman as the Republican from Connecticut. This is the same department that once labeled Max Baucus a Republican and Mark Sanford a Democrat. via PoliticsUSA



brought to you by

5 comments:

Anonymous said...

Fox News couldn't find a their own balls with a map of Jupiter and an illustrated text book about vaginas.

said...

That doesn't sound like it's even a real thing. I am suspicious.

cargo sports said...

Who's outfit is worse, Fox News Man, or the guy in the background to his right? Regular Guy #5

said...

Wow. Cargo shorts, man purse with skinny strap, sandals with black socks, girlfriend with fat ass, XL t-shirt. It doesn't really get much worse than that.

Anonymous said...

That pic of Skeletor drinking a manhattan needs to be on this site somewhere.

Post a Comment