Gawd dammit, CNN, take a geography class, will ya?

[MrScorpio]

[derby378]

1. Aw, HELL no

[Posteritatis]

2. Well, obviously Hong Kong migrated over there to get away from the damn things. (nt)

[petronius]

3. I've never understood how people make that mistake: does the person

who made the graphic really believe that s/he knows where HK is, and was just too confident to bother checking? Is there some automated process to make those graphics, that had a glitch?

It's mind-boggling, really, that anyone could be that ignorant. (And dangerous, really - if it's about people-killing giant hornets, we need to know EXACTLY where to stay away from... )

[rhett o rick]

5. I understand and agree. nm

[2naSalit]

4. Oh man1

The late night funnies are going to have a field day with that one.

[derby378]

7. So is Brazil

[Fumesucker]

6. That typhoon must have been worse than expected n/t

[Junkdrawer]

9. There's giant hornets, Then there's GIANT hornets...

Just don't want a nest of those suckers to grab ya....

[JHB]

8. A gaffe is an accidentally-told truth

I was going to comment about low-level staff salaries and "you get what you pay for", but come to think about it, it's on par for the executives and on-air talent too.

[Brother Buzz]

10. CNN Can't Locate Hawaii either

[Bonobo]

11. Best comment:

"Hong Kong's location is controversial and I applaud them for presenting all sides of the debate."

[Enrique]

12. Continent News Network

they scooped everyone on Hong Kong moving to S. America.

[Art_from_Ark]

13. Sao Paulo, Hong Kong...

One furrin city is just like another, right?

[4bucksagallon]

14. It all has to do with plate tectonics but too involved for this post. LOL!

If you have seen these hornets let's all hope they stay in China. They're huge, can chase you for long distances, and give you multiple stings unlike your honeybee.

[Jim Lane]

15. They're trying to win over Fox News viewers.

People watching Fox News have come to expect the occasional geographic hilarity of this sort, so CNN thinks it has to compete.

See the FNC sample below. As one blogger put it, "It appears that, in the Fox News view of the world, Missouri conquered Arkansas, and Alabama and Mississippi either swapped spouses and houses, or are in the middle of some geographic square dance, and the satellite caught them in the middle of a do-si-do into each other’s old territory."