The Fox News picture of Iraq labelled as Egypt is a fake

[oberliner]

From Huffington Post:

Fox News Can't Find Egypt On A Map? (PICTURE)

Twitter has been abuzz today over an image from Fox News showing a map of the Middle East. What's the hubbub? Well, for starters, the map shows Egypt as being where Iraq should be, and, we guess, some other anonymous other country in Egypt's spot.

But the bigger news is that the image is a fake. It was originally circulated two years ago, presumably to show that Fox News doesn't know where Iraq is on a map.

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

[niyad]

1. unfortunately, it is probably still true

[KurtNYC]

2. We must apologize to Fox! Who's with me ?

:hide:

[Bigmack]

25. ........ nt

[EV_Ares]

3. Well with all of the screwups they have, I could believe it. They can't even get

the politicians right regarding a "D" or a "R". Of course they are known to show a "D" under their name if it is a scandal on the republican. Goes to show you their cult audience intelligence.

[Fuzz]

4. "Just one problem: this image was circulated two years ago, and who knows if it was real or

Photoshopped in the first place."

From the blog where HP got the story.

[Obamanaut]

24. HP gets 'news' from blogs? Who knew. And they are always accurate sometime? nt

[Dennis Donovan]

5. Where's the proof it's fake?

My understanding of it is that it WAS real, it's just not recent (in light of Egypt being in the news as of late).

Unrec'd for lack of proof (other than an anonymous post on Huffpost)...

[wtmusic]

6. I'm shocked. nt

[Gold Metal Flake]

7. While we are waiting for this to be settled, lets look at some confirmed Fox Chyron lies.

Specter years before he switched.

[leftstreet]

9. +1

Thanks for putting those all in one post!

[upi402]

15. Mark "Gay-love" Foley was an (R) not (D) as Fox repreatedly showed

Great pics, thanks!
They know full well that images stick. And that if you tell a lie loud enough, and often enough - it becomes a truth.

Phuck Phox "news"! How they like the taste of their own medicine?

[apocalypsehow]

8. Of course it was, and all the childish 'haruuumphing' about it was not one of the finer hours

around here.

For starters, if you've ever been to an actual TV studio you know that what's "really" behind the announcers/anchors is nothing but a blank green screen: the images you see are superimposed for the viewing audience. "FOX News" - like CNN and MSNBC - simply chooses software written by someone else to project a "map" on the screen. But pointing out the obvious is not nearly as much fun as pretending our ideological opposites are mind-numbingly stupid, and even now some will continue to cling to the "I still think it's real!!!11" meme because they are heavily invested in the latter.

[WinkyDink]

21. Read the article, not just the OP.

[Moral_Imagination]

10. Its not fake

http://mediamatters.org/mmtv/200907270040

[Obamanaut]

11. But what about all the gleeful threads the last couple of days on this? Any

of the OPs gonna ask admins to delete or lock them?

[pintobean]

12. +1 and kick

[Dennis Donovan]

18. Look upthread - it's not fake:

http://www.democraticunderground.com/discuss/duboard.php?az=view_all&address=439x316399#316628

[struggle4progress]

13. HuffPost has been edited and no longer calls map "fake"

... But the bigger news is that the image is, in fact, old news. It was originally circulated two years ago ... So while the map itself may have been a legitimate gaffe on Fox News' part (and not the work of a miscreant with mad Photoshop skills) it's at the very least, an old gaffe ...
http://www.huffingtonpost.com/2011/01/31/fox-news-cant-find-egypt-map_n_816540.html

[Obamanaut]

23. So they were for it before they were against it? nt

[oberliner]

33. Very annoying

They should note that they changed the article and apologize for writing that it was fake if it was not.

[MyrnaLoy]

14. Still Fox News is

Fair, Balanced, and Stupid. I use the words,fair and balanced, very loosely.

[Uzybone]

16. Why make shit up?

the people "speaking truth to power" seem more and more to choose the tactics of the liars to make their points.

[WinkyDink]

22. Read the article. ZERO proof of fakery.

[RUMMYisFROSTED]

17. Sure it is.

[Electric Monk]

19. THREAD FAIL, try again (and see posts 10 & 13) nt

[WinkyDink]

20. "Fake" is NOT what it says! "the map itself may have been a legitimate gaffe on Fox News' part"

It's merely OLD.

[oberliner]

32. "But the bigger news is that the image is a fake" was quoted from the article

I see that they have since changed the text of the article.

They have done so without noting that they have made corrections.

That is annoying.

I apologize for posting this thread and for buying into what Huffington Post initially wrote - which is that the image was a fake (their words).

[donheld]

26. This thread is a fake

[snot]

27. Come on, kids! I thought we were supposed to be the ones who care about the truth.

[Prometheus Bound]

28. Shame on you for your misleading headline. The pic is not a fake.

As your article makes clear.

[oberliner]

31. The article says: "But the bigger news is that the image is a fake."

That's what I was going off of.

As I wrote elsewhere, I apologize that I bought into that without more careful fact-checking.

[Prometheus Bound]

34. OK, sorry for the criticism.

[Rex]

29. Even bigger news!? The Huffington Post can't get a story right!

Watching them carry water for Rupert Murdoch is pathetic. Love the RWing talking point...it shows who is and who is not.

[oberliner]

30. Very sad

My apologies for buying what Huffington Post was selling.

I keep thinking they are liberal for some reason.