33 Replies to “Your Moral And Intellectual Superiors”

  1. Note the Indian Ocean off the coast of South America too.
    I think someone wants to get fired.
    OR Do they want to make the talking head at CBS DFW look like an idiot?

  3. Man oh man. When people say the Yanks are butt stupid about geography,they sure aren’t kidding. The stupid…it hurts.

  4. The country they are pointing to is Columbia. Argentina is on the opposite coast and in SE South America.

  5. I get that people might not know much global geography in their own heads — but honestly, how hard is it to use Google Maps?
    This generation has the unending resources of the Internet wired up to their smartphones, and they seem bound and determined to avoid using ’em for anything else but text-messaging, even if it kills ’em.

  6. Stupidity so basic in an ‘information’ industry must be carefully nurtured and selected. Nurtured for twenty years in the most expensive ‘education’ system that has ever existed, and then selected by the industry if they can confirm that the person would not think for themselves, but more importantly, wouldn’t even try to do so.

  7. A humorous demonstration of the consensus media’s sense of geography – similar to the notion they have that the Athabasca “tar sands” (currently being exploited for oil by evil vile Canadian conservatives) is located somewhere on the outskirts of LA or NYC – I mean it must be given all the bluster it stirs in fanatics from those locales.

  8. I think residents of Columbia will be quite surprised to find they’ve been annexed by Argentina.
    But the first comment by rd is spot on. Calling the Pacific Ocean the Indian Ocean is so much worse, they’re nearly beyond compare.

  10. My wife’s friend used to be in the media and has many stories of the entry level employees who do the data mining and story sourcing coming in drunk-as-skunks or high-as-kites after furious nights of partying to write the news stories.
    Sometimes they do these kind of things for kicks or because the are so hammered they have no idea what they are doing. If the news anchor or editor don’t catch it before it hits the air, the stories are read as-is, and it can take a few angry viewers calls to straighten them out.
    Really great entertainment to see the cognitive malfunctions when the anchors finally get that what is written is not the real story.

  11. And they forgot to label the gulf of Alaska over on the right . . . sheesh!
    I hope I’m never stuck sailing with one of those geniuses.

  12. On a positive note, at least they got South America right. I do like the Indian Ocean label – I expect CBS couldn’t find India on the map either or they would get the hint it doesn’t come anywhere near the Pacific.

  15. Now folks don’t be too rash in your judgement. If we could just move Argentina to Columbia we could avoid Falklands War II.

  16. The Germans must have has a bitch of a time getting the Graf Spee over land, after the Battle of the river plate…

  17. robins111: I think the Graf Spee holed up in Montevideo which is in Uruguay. But according to the geniuses above that would probably be placed somewhere north of Australia, so it’s a fair point.

  18. And now ya know why the media treats Alibama’s “57 states” remark as a never-ya-mind.

  19. So when Obama and Holder, drone strike a few citizens in the USA, the news will breathlessly run the story of their leaders heroic actions against those foreign terrorist in New Mexico, Arkansas or any of the interior states.
    Sheesh the nepotism of these media organizations is appalling, only matched by the pathetic sycophants in management.

  20. I’ve got it… It’s not exactly the faux pas that I expected though.
    Within Colombia, there are at least 8 municipalities named “Argentina”. One of them, Argentina, in the Caquetá department near to Ecuador is close on the map to where the CBS expert placed it.
    Perhaps Google Maps isn’t his friend?
    I’ve got nothing on that new Indian Ocean though. Or labeling South America as, “South America”. It seems a bit obvious to me.

  22. Wow, it’s not like Colombia hasn’t been in the news for the past three decades due to drug lords and the civil war. What the hell do they teach in journalism schools? Besides the theories of Herr Goebbels, I mean.

  23. One side of the river is Uruguay, the other is Argentina..
    All the crew of the Graf Spee went to Argentina by boat

  24. I’ve always wanted to tour South America,
    see those pyramids of Gaza,
    and cruise down the Nile River.

  25. I wonder if these journalists (used in the loosest sense of the word) feel any shame in being exposed as total tools by vigilant audiences or wily school children?

  26. Given the nature of South American politics, perhaps not!
    It was quite the news story when some entering “Humanities” students at Memorial University
    were unable to locate the Atlantic Ocean on a map*, but maybe they have careers in the “News”
    departments of large US TV networks!
    *It is however likely that they could locate said ocean after rolling out of the pop shops on George St. in
    St.John’s and taking a wrong turn.
    Now that I think of it, an American friend was driving up to St. John’s in 2010, for a fourth or fifth visit,
    and I directed him to follow the TCH to its end (which is at the St. John’s City Hall, more or less). “What happens if I miss St. John’s”, he asked. I suggested something about having his scuba gear at the ready.

  29. Marc in Calgary:
    “Within Colombia, there are at least 8 municipalities named “Argentina”. One of them, Argentina, in the Caquetá department near to Ecuador is close on the map to where the CBS expert placed it. “
    I can’t wait for CBS on this one; I work with someone from Armenia (in Colombia).

  31. I too know some folks from Armenia. It’s quite a beautiful surrounding area, more so if you’re a coffee lover, and the city’s just the right size for me. … 🙂

  32. You’d think with the amount of blow going up these peoples noses they’d know where Columbia was on a map. Then again, they might figure their dealer just pulls it out of his ass and all their “research” involves trying to figure out what he eats so they can bypass the middleman. No one 30 years ago would Bolivia if you told them how stupid people would be in 2013.

  33. Homer points to a country on the globe he’s holding and laughs.
    “Look at this country, Urgay”

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