Major Geography Fail!

[1monster]

From a Texas CBS affiliate:

[cantbeserious]

1. Texas Stupid Is As Texas Stupid Does

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[femmocrat]

2. That is how they learned geography from their Texas textbooks.

It is their own world-view.

[madamesilverspurs]

3. No doubt

that map graphic was produced by a graduate of the Texas school textbook industry. . .

[unblock]

4. that's "la argentina, colombia". lol, a little learning is a dang'rous thing!

actually it's not even pointing to the right spot, la argentina is closer to medellin.

http://www.worldandcitymaps.com/south-america/colombia/department-of-risaralda/la-argentina/

[Apophis]

5. Were they using Apple maps?

[Scuba]

6. Hey, Sarah Palin thought Africa was a country. These guys are no worse ....

... of course they're not running for VP of the United States either.

[petronius]

7. Awesome, thank you!

Screwed up the country and the ocean, but at least they got the continent right.

(Saving for future cartography lectures - hope to god I never see one of my students make a mistake like this...)

[Canuckistanian]

8. I love the Indian Ocean beaches when I go to Argentina

[Brother Buzz]

9. Partial credit for locating Argentina on the correct continent

But I guess it's negated by moving the Indian ocean.

[Bosonic]

10. The additional mislabeling of the Pacific ocean as the Indian ocean

pushes this image into the fake category for me.

I'd have to see video of the newscast to believe a collection of people could be this ignorant and/or negligent.

[El Supremo]

11. But they got this one right. >>