CNN does not know geography

[v4lkyr]

Y U NO EDUCATE YOURSELF

[TheManUnitedFTW]

at least they got the continent lol

[Urbeflurb93]

What was the fucking plan, CNN?

[minutemuse]

How the fuck did it get over there?! ROFL

[AthosAmo]

I personally believe that the problem is that most U.S. Americans dont' HAVE maps.

[kjean1965]

LMFAO...don't you just love America......a nation of fucking numb-skulls!

[Nyckelring1916]

Afuganistu-tan apparently got sick of being pushed around by her "friends" and decided to run away.

[heretustay]

... Aaaannd, they're using papyrus. Fail CNN.

[SnowLeopardStudioz]

Are you syria??? That's Syria!

[NewEnglandMike]

afghanistan: now located in syria

[vocam12]

They also located yemen in the same place. Maybe it's a signal for something ))

[Demoist]

Look Islamabad, Pakistan May 11 2005.....

CNN KNEW ABOUT OSAMA!

[Claudius5000]

I didn't know the tectonic plates worked like that

[namniekib]

I love the cheap video game sound effects emphasizing the wrong country!LOL!

[icqraid]

Syria has a time share. lol

[dap889]

LOLOLOLOL WOW^_^

[YvesGingras]

Liberal CBC does not known geography either :

watch?v=ZhWtaNQUF88

[swat22camden]

lol thats syria

[terransage]

I wonder if Lebanon and Israel noticed that Afghanistan sneaked up on them from out of nowhere.

[unholyedsoul]

I remember on CNN they shown Thailand covering the whole of South East Asia. I was like where the heck is Vietnam, Burma and Cambodia etc!! I don't know if it was for emphasis but you can't alter a map!

[magilojoh]

I confess to being one of the equally dumb americans-if ppl didn't point this out I would not have noticed. Thank you.

[scoobyrds]

I forgot which station it was but there was one where they put France stretching from itself to like Poland.

[CallumJ230]

its so funny when people try to be smart and they fuck it up

[RealisticMeg]

Oh I laughed like a hyennah.

[BIJMOZ]

LMFAO NO WAY!

[Drahthaar422]

CNN has a history of not knowing geography. Ever watch Rick Sanchez?

[anonymityismyname]

LOL OMG

46sec in hahaha... who did that.

[MrFxleo]

hahahah.

[BruceDeitrickPrice]

I just put a relevant article on RantRave called "Four Reasons Why Educators Hate Geography." It's actually a fascinating mix of motives that has brought us to our present low. Please Google title.

[calefjo]

It only takes a moment of carelessness to make such a mistake, but it was so easy to correct. The fact that no one caught the problem before hand is an indication of how little they know of the area.

[mohsen81]

HAHAHAHAH ... keep watching CNN ..LOL ..Change the fucking channel :D

[LeGrosChatBreton]

LOL AMERICA !! LOL

[maddie7243]

Oh this is horrible compared to fox!!!!! What blasphemy!!!! At least fox does research!!!!

[jayfrans]

CNN the most trusted name in news... uhum uhum

[jesperc20]

What do you need geography for anyway? Its only important if you're a pilot.. or a weatherman.. or a sailor.. or a seismologist.. or a geologist.. or a reporter.. or traveling in general... or care about the world outside your neighborhood. Which luckily.. most people don't!

[100crawma]

that is because cnn hires fucktard leftist

[qyahzn213]

HAHAHAHAHAHAHA!!!!! I KNEW THAT IN THE 4th grade lol!!!!

[happyseralstudent012]

Who failed the 5th grade... CNN did

[2PaperTigers]

way to go cnn

[gr82bright]

I'll bet Rick Sanchez did the map.

[SummerKingdom]

LOL AMERIKA

[liamuk08]

I burst out laughing, it couldn't be funnier if it zoomed into Canada, I doubt any viewers would notice.

[MrSillymonkey5]

Americans wouldn't notice

[xman822]

it wouldnt surprise me if amercans also had invaded the wrong country by mistake! hahahaha

[xman822]

hahahahaha morons!

[ShadowKeyKnight]

Lol Afghanistan has beaches? xD I havent known! ^^

[mrrossn]

It would be nice if it was there, it would be a hell of alot easier to get there, flying around france is a pain in the ass.

[mooothecowsaid]

lmao

[ha991s]

LMAO! This is worse than when that man tests American locals on worldly knowledge by renaming Australia to Iraq and asking which is the best place to attack from!

[Imrankniazi]

Haha...How are the beaches in Afghanistan? Did you folks have a good surfing season this summer?

[Kazakhstan12345]

CNN is so dimwit!!!

[Cietru]

OMG!

[Steinovitz]

The worlds biggest refugee population forcibly outside their own country are the Palestinian, not the Afghan. Another "mistake" of CNN. Or perhaps they simply don't recognize the Palestinian population, as the UN officially does? Sounds more like Fox News to me, but then again most of the time it's hard to see the difference between Fox and CNN.

[killanotterinasecond]

idiots

[abosteeef]

hhhhhhh --- so this is the CNN -- there is a big and huge difference between Syria and Afghanistan .... Aljazeera is The best

[alhaeyklynx]

i can not believe it ...wt a stupid n idiot ...

[LMLM1983]

cnn:syria afganistan who cares their all brown sandpeople.

btw ac is part of the illuminati bloodlines hes a vanderbilt

[Cheedillow]

How the fuck did they fuck up so royally??

[alanlima26]

... big world ...

[zenhyperz]

after this mistake, cnn probably sketch the map of afghanistan on editor's ass.

[malekai777]

No they didn't????? :0

[TonyN737]

Hey, maybe it was Nick Robertson, the Brit whose voice you hear, he filed the report, maybe he highlighted Syria? I doubt it 'cause they make it look like he's on location, but ya never know, maybe a stringer did his location work for him.

[TonyN737]

HAHA! Oh my God, do they not have editors at CNN??? Stupid Lefties.

Oh yeah, the Brits are so smart, right? I lived there for 2 years, they don't know anything outside their little villages. Being from New Jersey I asked a lady running a souvenir shop if they had anything on Jersey Island, she "What's that?" She'd never heard of it! That's like me saying I've never heard of Hawaii!

[Cheedillow]

@TonyN737

Not really given that Hawaii is an American State and that Jersey Island is a tiny Island off the Coast of France.

And I presume you weren't living in London, which is a completely different story.

[Niklasmannen]

How can they fail that much. xD I like cnn tough.

[IndianaJones015]

IIIIIIIIIIIIIIIIIIIIIIII

[constantinflorenta]

Ha Ha HA HA HA American idiet

[NGmetalix]

learn to spell first

[Prior23]

"ideit" Can you say irony?

[bharathMAX]

Hahahahahahahaha

oomh ican't stop laughing

see this ishte difference betweenCNN and BBC

US AND UK

AMERICANS AND EUROPEANS

LEARN FROM BRIT....

[Nullifidian]

And that difference would be...?

I was once listening to the BBC Radio news in 2006 when they were talking about the centenary year of Samuel Beckett, the "American playwright". I'd say confusing Syria with Afghanistan is no worse than confusing Ireland with the U.S.

[62345005]

Seriously?! BBC confusing Ireland with America is much worse that CNN confusing Syria with Afghanistan.

[Savedleech]

Whats america?

[MoltenArtGlass]

now thats funny.

[thejonnybomb]

2 million? Dont we have like 20 million Mexican economic refugees in the US..

[leanonme1]

no no

we have 20 million immagrants(spelling lol)

a refugee is someone who runs for their lifes because of war

[Holret]

not only americans confuse an "Invasion" with immigration, now they confuse it with "refugees". Their intelligence never stops to amaze me.

[gussy1d5]

i saw that on tv too and i was like uh, that country it's not shaped like afghanistan

[FuyukoHP]

Mistakes are common. Simply because we are human beings, not GOD!

[Blackhuak]

it said "to these afghan refugees in IRAN"

[ranbonzy]

Blackhuak,

They talk about Afghan refugees in Iran and Pakistan...

Only mistake is showing Syria as Afghanistan...

Once I saw FBI had named Madagaskar as Ssri Lanka on their website. After a week they changed it.

[vinaXvendetta]

doh!

[gaybot9000]

LOL the fancy graphic made it look like they REALLY meant it too. "this is afghanistan. IT IS! SERIOUSLY!"

[sirsir0987]

who cares about this one mistake? I think Anderson Cooper has proven in Jeopardy how DUMB he really is. If you know what I mean

[AKafghan08]

this is a HUGE mistake buddy!

[itsmesan08]

i love anderson cooper!!!

[AudiJen5000]

but most Canadians are moose hunting socialist hippies. Go Team!

[Nymphetamine066]

Most canadians havent even seen a moose.

[EnglishBull08]

im a Canadian, i see moose every day lol. but i live in the province with the highest moose and the most heavily populated per km to.

[Nymphetamine066]

Where abouts is that? My dad grew up in Huntsville Ontario so when we go up there we see moose alot and bears.

[EnglishBull08]

Gros Morne National Park, Newfoundland. I've been to Huntsville before lol, when I went to Olympia Sports camp for 9 weeks.

[siriusbore]

Nick Robertson needs a globe.

[sparlaydekana]

The additional troops(promised by obama) will probably be landing in syria. Ingenoius planning...

[jhr459]

Won't Afghanistan be glad to know they have a coast now!

[jamisixtey]

this could not have been a mistake

[NekroStevo]

That's a ridiculous error!!

I thought the Palestinians constituted the single largest refugee population in the world.

[silverlionlb]

lol

[tabbaci]

well its a setup i guess...maybe they trying to make the american people more stupid by showing Afghan to be part of Middle East which is not....

[atestaccount]

Most Americans couldn't even locate Canada on a map (and they share a border to that country), so what makes you think they'll notice the difference at 1:10 in the video (when they graphic points to Syria and calls it Afghanistan).

Seriously there used to be a comedy TV show where they used to ask random Americans on the sidewalk about international geography questions and 70% of the people asked couldn't point out where Canada is on a map.

[ArmtarGostache]

You understand that they probably have many people to answer correctly, but dont show them because that would be boring, right? Judging an entire country by those people is like me saying all canadians are moose hunting socialist hippies.

[EvelynGB]

lol... ooops!

[PolexiaAphrodisia]

O that's a really bad mistake!!!! They should hire me, I know where Afghanistan is

[TricksterElf]

I smell something.......and I don't think it's not Afghanistan! lol

[nasir440]

palestinian refugees counts more than 6 millions. Most still live in camps under UN supervision, no travelling documents.

[bluekrackmunky]

And this is why you don't trust the news.

[ngrcia]

They show Syria and call it Afghanistan but are talking about Iran! What the $*@#!

[sunnyxlove1990]

lol what a dumb mistake

[aafaking]

4.3 million palestinian refugees...

afghanistan is not the biggest refugee crisis, cnn needs a fact checkup and they need to stop relying on time alamanac for kids

[SupremeMajinBuu]

Well, Palestine isn't actually a country, but still, I get your point

[aafaking]

You're right. palestine isn't a country. but there are still people of the Palestinian ethnicity who are refugee.

If someone takes over your land than kicks you out forcefully, you're still a refugee.

[CMandJB]

That's a great video!--produced by students of the liberal education system. You had good intentions CNN. "A" for effort!

[aafaking]

liberal and conservative, regardless it was a mistake... it had nothing to do with it..

retarded anti-liberal "A" for STUPIDITY

[AaronApolloCamp]

90% of bloopers at CNN occur in the graphics department for some reason.

[TheBadChihuahua]

As dumb as a turd.

[Kabuki0Kozou]

Hey afganestan is like way away from that point in the map

[ARocketInUranus]

Something smells...lol

[ktombak]

lololol that was funny.

[everiaal]

Their lack of knowledge in geography isn't their only mistake. They claimed Afghanistan has the largest refuge population in the world, 2.1 million. Did they forget the Palestinians who have 4.7 million refugees scattered across the world? Or perhaps they don't acknowledge that fact? After all, Time Warner does own CNN, and we all know what Time Warner stands for.

[rothkoaintdead]

Wow

Creative jobs at CNN!

Apply today!

[xxabulletxx]

Wow

[Lexplexsd]

wow.. Afghanistan is on the  Mediterranean .. ahahhah

[LivTheFuzz]

OMG!!! I'm Syrian...and THAT IS NOT Afghanistan!! That is Syria! Wow I never expected cnn to make such a big mistake.

[Navyvet04]

Coolcat440, Your profile says you read the Bible but yet you scream at me and call me "jackass" and use the f-word,- now, now that's not very "christian" of you now is it? It sounds like Mr. "CoolCat" has lost his/her "cool"!!! I bet you're some stupid, dorky teenager whose idiot parents never taught him/her right from wrong-Please don't cry now Mr. "Cool cat"!! Have a nice day

[taplaki]

its good they didnt show Poland,thats not a big mistake ;)

[Navyvet04]

Xiro87,

And just which little sad, piss-ant socialist country are you from again?

[Navyvet04]

Of course CNN doesn't know simple geography, they're liberals educated in our "fine" socialist, dumbed-down public education system! But boy, they sure know thier global warming.

[Lithium102]

It's spelled "their".

[BlitzXSC]

and you sure know denial.

[MadScientistTwoEight]

To be sure, it's spelled "they're". It's a contraction of "they" and "are".

[COOLCAT440]

lol so they made a mistake...dont make me show you how many times the conservitives fucked up...iraq war enough said...jackass

[tadokatoa]

hahaha its to good to be true!!!

[azadorius]

HAHAHAHAHAHAHAH !! xDDD That's SYRIA, you dumb ass american dickheads. Hahaha when not even american media can get it right, then its really bad. This, my fellow youtubers, are direct evidence of the stupidity of americans.

[aoecake]

Haha Americans are so stupid that even not their biggest news channel can point out a country they are at war with on the friggin map! Well i heard like 50% of the pop couldnt pick out USA on the map either.

[jkf1993]

yes americans are stupid because when you get your asses in trouble we'll have to bail you out

[aoecake]

What trouble? There is no big problems in Norway.

[jkf1993]

WHEN WHEN WHEN what? WHEN

[Xiroi87]

Yes, and that was WW II and that was more than sixty years ago!!

Since then you've caused so much trouble just by yourselves all over the world that the least you could do was to keep your mouth shut about "we always help you out". That was then, this is now and the only ones you're really helping are your huge corporations.

[jkf1993]

...trouble? we havent caused any trouble

[Xiroi87]

LOL! Sure, you're the most peaceful and respectful country on this planet.

Just check your facts and find out how many countries have been invaded or bombed by the US since the end of WWII.

[aoecake]

Hahaha, suure, go home to your mom. How old are you? 14-15? or just stupid?

[dimitra26ath]

you haven't caused a trouble?are you serious?you screwed the world with your arrogant militaristic state!

[emiloprisa]

every war that any state in this world has willingly participated in was in accordance to its national interest. no one saved no one.

[tikihut1252]

ha dumb shit

[giub99]

aaaaaaahaha, that nerdo anderson cooper; tool.

[monandjay]

Holy Shit

[bapyou]

@ leesetters:

Look, idiot, it's clear that you don't know any Muslims at all. The Muslim religious injunction against drinking is followed only by "hard" religious Mulsims. The fact is, most Muslims are just not that observant. They are Muslim in culture but not very observant. So: Do Muslims ever drink alcohol? You bet. I've hung out with Muslims who drink alcohol. You don't know what you're talking about. You get all of your information from television? They only show Muslim nuts on TV.

[Bozewani]

OMG, why is Afghanistan in Syria?

and it is depressing to learn about the fate of refugees, my heart goes out to them.

But come on CNN, Afghanistan borders Pakistan, Iran, Turkmenistan, China, Uzbekistan and Tajikistan, not Israel, Lebanon, Turkey, Jordan and Iraq.

[bapyou]

I am not a religious person. I was baptized in the Roman Catholic Church, but my family did not emphasize religion at home, so I have drifted away from the church. I am not married at present. My wife was/is a sweetly devout Muslim & I never had any problem with her relgious practice. I loved her for the human being that she is, not her religion. Unfortunately, she decided to end our relationship. My estimation of her as a human being, however, has not changed.

[bapyou]

So, the source of your anti-Muslim venom is the experiences that you had as a child? That's understandable. You just need some new experiences. I met my Muslim friends doing business with them in my neighborhood. Simple as that.

[bapyou]

So, Islam is a cult? There are a few unforutnate, uneducated souls who have taken Islam and disfigured it into a set of beliefs that resembles a cult. The vast majority of Muslims have nothing to do with this lunatic fringe, however. Most Muslims are like my friends and my wife: Decent people who go to work, pay taxes, and just want to live a simple, decent life. The extremists make the news because they are exciting. In today's world people living a simple, decent life are not newsworthy.

[bapyou]

In fact, for a short time, I was married to a Muslim. My wife was (and remains) the sweetest, gentlest soul that I've ever known in my life. She works sometimes 12 hours a day making close to minimum wage. Most of this money she sends home to her family in overseas. She once sent $500 to a childhood schoolmate of hers whose house - my wife had learned - had collapsed during an earthquake a few years ago.

[bapyou]

OK, I'll do that & get back to you. I guess I can go up the street from my apartment where there's a small Indonesian store and restaurant. They sell a a lot of things there, but I doubt that they sell any "poison punch". In fact, I've joked and laughed many a day and night with these people, all of them Muslims. They've all, at various points in time, expressed to me their hatred of extremist Muslims. They all listen to music, dance, laugh, drink. I never saw any behavior resembling a cult.

[bapyou]

OK. Where do I get some poison punch?

I'll do anything you say. Just like a cult member following the orders of a cult leader. (You seem to know quite a bit about operating a cult.)

So: Where do I go to get some "poison punch"?

[bapyou]

"Have some punch."??

That sentence means nothing.

Just like your claim that Islam is a cult.

[bapyou]

You're wrong. Islam is a religion. It is not a cult.

[bapyou]

Look up the word cult. It doesn't fit the definition. It's a religion, sir. You are incorrect.

[bapyou]

Ha ha. Syria = Afghanistan. Ha ha.

Three cheers for America's geographic ignorance!

Ignorance seems to be what America is all about.

[bapyou]

sljemee: Islam is not a cult. Islam is a religion.

[clinds]

Wow, how could you excuse that CNN? I mean, all of you covered the invasion after 9/11, didn't you?

[aviomaster]

FUCK USA .

[schranztech]

Stupid CNN

[HomerSimpson180]

LOL AHAHAHHAhhahaH wow poor Americans as long as u try ur best

[wallofred]

haha that was syria

[BitterCycle]

CNN and other mainstream "news" organizations can't get any of their "facts" straight, period. This guy right here along with olbermann are idiots.

[ejwilson7]

Hear, hear! Olbermann needs to stfu already.

[globalpie]

omg seriously! hahaha

[Megustafood]

watch fox news!!

[dariobeat77]

fuck fox news!

[Seanofqc]

How in the name of Hugo Weaving couldn't there be a journalist at CNN who could have said "Guys, that's Syria, not Afghanistan"

[JosephDanksta]

thats CNN for you.

[DJRaybo]

wow...my country's media is so retarded.

Someone hopefully was...slapped across the face.

[loren185]

AAAAAhahahah ale korwa Jankeskie bereny

AAAAAhahahah what a yenkee morons.

[madddoxxxx]

umm, its always being claimed that media have a huge influence on the believes of 'their' people. now here's some very fine evidence.

[lDayGodl]

lulz

[neontwilight]

hahaaaa

[BASilAndSAPhronyummy]

In my opinion American kids are spoonfed information, told to only do well in school, not actually to learn. It felt like everything was centered around tests. Heck, kids don't even know what a TRANSISTOR is! People from other countries do school the more traditional way, the way that allows you to actually LEARN and not live around tests and homework.

[ThumbWarDestroyer]

...in my day, we had to walk 15 miles for our information! And we had to eat it off of the concrete...kids today are spoiled. Spoonfed geography information. Transistors! Traasistors! TRRRAAAANSISToOORRRSSS!!!!

[mattbradleyu]

wtf