Fox News displays Iranian flag during report on Iraq.
By on Aug 8th, 2008 at 11:00 am
Fox News displays Iranian flag during report on Iraq.
On Fox News earlier this week, host Brett Baier reported that “Iraqi lawmakers have left for vacation without agreeing on a provincial election law.” But during his report, an onscreen graphic showed the Iranian flag. MSNBC’s Dan Abrams noted last night that “it looks like the folks at Fox are following John McCain’s lead confusing Iraq and Iran,” adding that “it can get confusing because after all, both countries do start with an ‘I.’” Watch it:
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Duh, because they’re fcuking morons!!!!!!!!!!
August 8th, 2008 at 11:02 amYes, the Republicans. The Brave, The Proud, The Ignorant.
August 8th, 2008 at 11:04 amMorons leading morons into the Conservative ditch.
August 8th, 2008 at 11:04 amAaaa, relax, guy. Iran, Iraq, what’s the diff?
August 8th, 2008 at 11:07 amFox News new motto is:
Fox News, pride in ignorance.
-GSD
August 8th, 2008 at 11:08 amGive ‘em some credit, at least it’s not the Illinois flag…or the Idaho flag…or the Iowa flag…. :-D
August 8th, 2008 at 11:09 amdennis?
dennis…?
:)
good luck.
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August 8th, 2008 at 11:11 amIran…Iraq…it’s all the same to them — they both mean “location somewhere halfway around the world filled with scary brown people”. Just as it’s all the same to McCain when he says things like “Iraq-Pakistan border”.
August 8th, 2008 at 11:12 amIf this happened once or twice, then you laugh it off as a mistake…
when it happens habitually, and on key subjects that just happen to mirror republican talking points, then you point the finger higher and higher….
August 8th, 2008 at 11:13 ammisshusseinmolly Says:
Iran…Iraq…it’s all the same to them — they both mean “location somewhere halfway around the world filled with scary brown people”. Just as it’s all the same to McCain when he says things like “Iraq-Pakistan border”.
August 8th, 2008 at 11:12 am
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If McCain/Cheney get their way, that’s just what Iran will be – an 800-mile-wide no-man’s land between Iraq and Pakistan.
August 8th, 2008 at 11:15 ammr Pee; Are you still here?
what’s the matter…your circle jerk for the day was canceled?
August 8th, 2008 at 11:17 amLike Obama says, these guys take pride in being ignorant. As do our local trolls.
August 8th, 2008 at 11:18 amBy the way, Krugman has a good op-ed today at NYT about this same subject, the willful ignorance of Republicans and the pride they take in it.
August 8th, 2008 at 11:19 amThemis Says:
MSNBC, of course, is perfect and never makes mistakes, especially mistakes by low level employees who push the buttons to put up the pictures the reporters don’t see.
would you like a little cheese
with that whine?
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poor baby.
:)
good luck.
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August 8th, 2008 at 11:21 amThemisfullofcrap Says:
MSNBC, of course, is perfect and never makes mistakes,
Wow, way to contribute to the topic of this thread.
August 8th, 2008 at 11:22 amAnd your debate skills are tremendous.
Who ever said you had no intelligence?
You, my friend, are THE master debater!
It’s okay. I used to make the same mistake… when I was 7.
(I had neighbors on each side of the house from both countries which could get quite interesting while those countries were at war).
I’m not 100% convinced that this was a mistake, though. Fox being a proud purveyor of Psyops on the American people, and all.
August 8th, 2008 at 11:22 amThemis Says:
Let us not overlook the long, long, long, list of Obama Geography gaffes. http://www.gop.com/BarackGaffes/
themis,
copying someone else’s homework?
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poor baby.
;)
August 8th, 2008 at 11:23 amHey ‘Themis’,
You don’t really want to go there. If you counted all the ‘mistakes’ that Faux has made; (D) for any (R) caught in a scandal, anything said by the Faux and Friends crew of Bimbos and Himbos, the Photoshopped pictures, etc., you would have to have a large server to hold all that crapola.
August 8th, 2008 at 11:26 am#15 Themis:
Wow, mistakenly calling Sioux City instead of Sioux Falls—-that’s a doozy.
By the way, the “Banking Committee Gaffe”? Yes, he said it was his committee when it wasn’t. It was actually his BILL.
I sense a whole lot of nervous laughter from you cons over these “gaffes” while you watch your boy McSame stumble.
August 8th, 2008 at 11:26 amIt isn’t ignorance. That is on purpose.
August 8th, 2008 at 11:27 amGuess they aren’t smarter than a 5th grader.
August 8th, 2008 at 11:27 amThemis Says:
Obama: “Israel is an ally of ours. It is the most important ally we have in the region, and there is no doubt that we would act forcefully and appropriately on any attack against Iran nuclear or otherwise.” (NBC’s, “Meet The Press,” 5/4/08)
Well, at least Israel and Iran both start with “I.
John Mcain, of course, is perfect and never makes mistakes, especially mistakes by low level employees who push the buttons to put up the pictures the reporters don’t see.
i couldn’t resist watching
themis fighting with himself.
bi-polar much, dude?
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thank you.
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August 8th, 2008 at 11:27 amFaux News; the few, the ignorant, and PROUD of it.
August 8th, 2008 at 11:28 amupside, I’m pretty sure you’re right — Themis doesn’t want to go there. But it seems he’s got no place else to go.
August 8th, 2008 at 11:32 amWe all make mistakes, typos and gaffes. It’s NOT the same as purposefully saying the wrong thing, and insisting you are right. That is the VAST difference between Obama and McCain.
August 8th, 2008 at 11:33 amThemis,
“Saddam Hussein aids and protects terrorists, including members of al Qaeda.” -Bush
“We know that Iraq and al-Qaeda have had high-level contacts that go back a decade” and “we’ve learned that Iraq has trained al-Qaeda members in bomb-making and poisons and deadly gases.” -Bush
Well, at least they both start with a lie.
August 8th, 2008 at 11:34 amWell, all those towel heads are alike right?
http://progressiveworldreview.com
August 8th, 2008 at 11:37 amunbelievable Says:
We all make mistakes, typos and gaffes. It’s NOT the same as purposefully saying the wrong thing, and insisting you are right. That is the VAST difference between Obama and McCain.
EXACTLY
August 8th, 2008 at 11:38 am666lattes Says:
Themis,
“Saddam Hussein aids and protects terrorists, including members of al Qaeda.” -Bush
“We know that Iraq and al-Qaeda have had high-level contacts that go back a decade” and “we’ve learned that Iraq has trained al-Qaeda members in bomb-making and poisons and deadly gases.” -Bush
Well, at least they both start with a lie.
themis, lie? INCONCEIVABLE.
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August 8th, 2008 at 11:38 amSome thoughts about Faux, 1/2 the alphabet used, please finish.
Absolutely arrogant
August 8th, 2008 at 11:44 amBellowing bullsh*t
Conservative crap
Definitely demented
Egotistical employees
Fascist falsehoods
Garrulous goading
Hateful harangues
Idiotic ideas
Juvenile journalism
Knowledgeably kooky
Licentious Ladies
Moron mouthpieces
Paul W Says: Well, all those towel heads are alike right?
At the beginning of the Invasion of Iraq, a college friend emailed me a joke about the ‘towel heads’. I emailed him back, asking him to not send me that kind of thing because I found it offensive. Of course he accused me of having no sense of humor, because I didn’t find degrading other people to be witty.
I then asked him how funny would be a picture of his daughter holding a bottle of Bourbon and a gun standing outside of a trailor park saying “I don’t need no stinking edumacation”, making fun of her because she was Southern. Odd, he didn’t think THAT was funny at all.
August 8th, 2008 at 11:51 amLooks like Themis is taking a beating here…. just like McBush can expect in the coming debates with Obama.
August 8th, 2008 at 11:53 amjust like McBush can expect in the coming debates with Obama.
“Oh boy, this is gonna be great!”
McIdiot spewing talking points from flash cards, and Obama lining em up, on knocking them off the block.
August 8th, 2008 at 11:55 amLooks like this is the Troll Friday Follies; The Repug talking points haven’t been sent out yet. Still trying to clean the donut crumbs off the keyboards. Try to do better, K? This isn’t even sporting!
August 8th, 2008 at 11:56 amlike the rejects who watch faux news on a regular basis know the difference. they could have flashed a picture of mickey mouse on the screen and no one would have noticed.
August 8th, 2008 at 11:58 amFox is the worst, but I believe the corporate media in general is no longer capable of competently reporting the news.
They have closed down their foreign bureaus, replaced real journalists with news bimbos ,himbos and sputtering, yelling, hyperventilating dwarves like Wolf Blitzer and Chris Matthews and have replaced seasoned professionals behind the scenes with 20 something dimwits.
I noticed this morning while CNN had footage of Russian tanks rolling into South Ossetia, Fox continued to drone on with the current missing toddler/wife/fiance/coed story along with cat stuck in tree type stories.
It occurred to me that they couldn’t do the Georgia story because the dimbulbs on Fox & Friends would confuse a Russian attack on Georgia with Russian tanks being in Atlanta.
August 8th, 2008 at 12:02 pmIt seems one of the most important requirements for reporting news now is looking good in a short skirt so the camera and get a crossed legs shot in.
MSNBC’s Dan Abrams noted last night that “it looks like the folks at Fox are following John McCain’s lead confusing Iraq and Iran,” adding that “it can get confusing because after all, both countries do start with an ‘I.’”
… so does Israel. That could get real confoozing…..
Cheers,
August 8th, 2008 at 12:08 pmIt seems one of the most important requirements for reporting news now is looking good in a short skirt so the camera and get a crossed legs shot in.
It’s the IDIOCRACY, and it’s real, it’s happening now.
Joe Bauers, an Army librarian, is judged to be absolutely average in every regard, has no relatives, has no future, so he’s chosen to be one of the two test subjects in a top-secret hibernation program. He and hooker Rita were to awaken in one year, but things go wrong and they wake up instead in 2505. By this time, stupid people have outbred intelligent people; the world is (barely) run by morons–and Joe and Rita are the smartest people in America.
Seriously, do yourselves a favor and rent this movie. Funny as shit in a realistically scary as hell way.
August 8th, 2008 at 12:09 pm“Carl’s Jr: FCUK YOU, I’M EATIN’!”
-Idiocracy
Which is right next to to Buttfcukers (formerly Fuddruckers).
Which is down the street from St. God’s Hospital.
Around the corner from the Museum of Fart.
August 8th, 2008 at 12:11 pm“You got your law degree at a Costco?”
August 8th, 2008 at 12:12 pm-Idiocracy
unbelievable said:
At the beginning of the Invasion of Iraq, a college friend emailed me a joke about the ‘towel heads’. I emailed him back, asking him to not send me that kind of thing because I found it offensive. Of course he accused me of having no sense of humor, because I didn’t find degrading other people to be witty.
If I had been poking fun at people who wear turbans then your point would be well taken. But my joke was directed towards the bigots who actually believe that all those wearing turbans are in fact, alike.
http://progressiveworldreview.com
August 8th, 2008 at 12:15 pm“I saw your chart. Your shit’s all fcuked up and you talk like a fag.”
August 8th, 2008 at 12:15 pm-Idiocracy
DieNowForPeace,
“Welcome to Costco. I love you!”
My friend in MD first saw Idiocracy while he was on a trip in Seattle and after driving back cross-country, was scared shit-less. It is definitely happening.
August 8th, 2008 at 12:20 pmMemo to TP: File that under Stupidity.
Fox News = Gumby University.
August 8th, 2008 at 2:40 pmThese mistakes happen so often on Fox it is not even news anymore.
August 8th, 2008 at 3:31 pmToo many lies mixed with too much propaganda, they get it confused…
August 8th, 2008 at 3:34 pmSilly people, Fox does not care. They are all brown people and believe in that Muhammed dude. Close enough for Republican propagandists work.
August 8th, 2008 at 4:34 pmIt’s so easy to get everything confused on Fox , isn’t it?
August 8th, 2008 at 7:33 pmOnce again Fox “News” proves they are too dumb to research, and too dumb to notice blatant errors. Perhaps we should look closelky to see if they are wearing Mexican flag pins.
August 8th, 2008 at 8:12 pm