A Lesson In Geography And Dealing With Fox"News"

Palin is going to learn quite quickly that the good people at Fox will turn on you in a heartbeat.

....perhaps one of the most astounding and previously unknown tidbits about Sarah Palin has to do with her already dubious grasp of geography. According to Fox News Chief Political Correspondent Carl Cameron, there was great concern within the McCain campaign that Palin lacked "a degree of knowledgeability necessary to be a running mate, a vice president, a heartbeat away from the presidency," in part because she didn't know which countries were in NAFTA, and she "didn't understand that Africa was a continent, rather than a series, a country just in itself."

The Huffington Post has the video.

While it can be argued that some people, average citizens, don't know whether Africa is a continent or country, or can even name all the partners in NAFTA, this is yet another signifier that Palin was - and still is - out of her element.

McCain Needs A Geography Teacher

Last night, I was at my local Wal-MArt buying some groceries for the week, and I noticed an 'endcap' with globes for sale: $15.00.

They were actually rather nice, with raised releif mountains, various colors that easily sepereated states and nations, longitude and latitude points, lots of great things that enhanced an already basic educational tool.

It appears that John Mcain could use a geography lesson.

Think Progress and Huffington Post have the video up.

Now, some might claim that "oh, it's just a little mistake", but there's far more at work here than most would soon realize. Both John McCain and Barack Obama are trying their best to get the same job. McCain's one and only point that he can make against Barack Obama is that he has "more" forein policy experience.

But, when you make such a blatant error on what is basic, elementary geography, the American voting public start to think that perhaps you really don't know as much as you are pretending you do.

Does Fox"News" Need A Fact Checker When Discussing Georgraphy?

Michelle Malkin and her 'crew' had a field-day with the photo-shopped picture released by Iran earlier in the week.

Well, now comes the time when the "news" organization that represents them ( read : conservative ideologues ) seems to have problems of their own.

David Shuster @ MSNBC caught this:



Whomever is running the graphics department put the Strait of Hormuz in the wrong place, and they didn't even spell "strait" correctly.



Fox's ignorance often manifests itself in interesting ways. But, the graphics that they use are rarely meant to inform but rather confuse.