Pompeo can't find Ukraine on a map

[demi-conservative]

It's not like this isn't being reported widely, including Pompeo's obscentity-laced rant and the blank map and the insinuation that a reporter with more years following foreign policy than Pompeo and a Cambridge masters in European studies who was just getting back from Tehran was pointing at Bangladesh.

If Pompeo had them confused, there's not a lot of options.

Of course, the obvious answer is that he's lying, but that wouldn't be generous.

Maybe he didn't speak with his aide before tweeting, either.

https://www.cnn.com/videos/politics/...tn-sot-vpx.cnn

The obvious and most likely possibility is that the reporter lied about correctly finding Ukraine on a map.

With a 'he said' 'she said' situation, the true journalism approach is to do as Juvenal did.

[demi-conservative]

By the way, Juvenal, an ex-CIA head not knowing where Ukraine is, that's impossible. He must have sat through at least a hundred briefings on Ukraine and Crimea, dumbass.

[Cow Poke]

It's not like this isn't being reported widely...

That's always the best standard of journalism.

[Cow Poke]

You would think the same was true for POTUS; unfortunately, it’s not. International geography is a challenge for Americans because you have a lot of states and nobody thought to arrange them in alphabetical order. No brain power left over for anything else.

Not only that, some of them have STRAIGHT lines and some of them have SQUIGGLY lines. And on a lot of maps, they're different colors, even!

[Mountain Man]

Not only that, some of them have STRAIGHT lines and some of them have SQUIGGLY lines. And on a lot of maps, they're different colors, even!

Heck, most people are doing good just getting to the Walmart a mile from their house, and that's with GPS. Heaven help them if they had to get there on their own!

[lilpixieofterror]

You would think the same was true for POTUS; unfortunately, it’s not. International geography is a challenge for Americans because you have a lot of states and nobody thought to arrange them in alphabetical order. No brain power left over for anything else.

Memorizing 50 states, their capitals, 195 countries, and their capitals, isn’t hard.

[lilpixieofterror]

Heck, most people are doing good just getting to the Walmart a mile from their house, and that's with GPS. Heaven help them if they had to get there on their own!

I driven across the country just by memorizing the route and paying attention to the signs and directions. It’s not rocket science.

[Juvenal]

That's always the best standard of journalism.

This is the blundering ignorance I refer to as "goobering," poke.

The suggestion was that it was well known because it was widely reported, and you've twisted it into a suggestion that it's true because it's widely reported.

"Clean-up on aisle CP."

Find your way to the exit, please. After you respond, certainly.

[Cow Poke]

This is the blundering ignorance I refer to as "goobering," poke.

The suggestion was that it was well known because it was widely reported, and you've twisted it into a suggestion that it's true because it's widely reported.

"Clean-up on aisle CP."

Find your way to the exit, please. After you respond, certainly.

Yes, we wouldn't want to mess up your incredibly scholarly thread, Juvie. TREMENDOUS journalism on your part. GOOD job!

(you've created a big enough mess that you're gonna need a bigger cleaning crew)

buhbye!


PS: I'm actually a little surprised that you'd stoop to the petty act of banning somebody from your thread, but...

[Mountain Man]

I driven across the country just by memorizing the route and paying attention to the signs and directions. It’s not rocket science.

Years ago, I used to keep a stack of maps in my car for getting around in unfamiliar places. Which reminds me of a story I once heard:

"Dad, how did people used to get around before GPS?"
"They used maps."
"Duh, I mean before Google Maps."

[firstfloor]

Venus is very bright in the early evening. Here, it is a few degrees above and left of the moon, roughly south-west.

[NorrinRadd]

Venus is very bright in the early evening. Here, it is a few degrees above and left of the moon, roughly south-west.

Are you sure that isn't Nibiru?

[firstfloor]

Are you sure that isn't Nibiru?

I’m sure, but I’m not so sure that you’re sure.
Just asking I was, whether it was as bright where you are.
BTW, if you see Jupiter, you can pick out the larger moons with a decent pair of binoculars.

[Ronson]

You would think the same was true for POTUS; unfortunately, it’s not. International geography is a challenge for Americans because you have a lot of states and nobody thought to arrange them in alphabetical order. No brain power left over for anything else.

The only trouble I have with geography is with some of the smaller countries in Africa, like Guinea and Ghana ... and Guyana (I know, South America).

I had some trouble when Yugoslavia first broke up but I think I have them all memorized now.

[DivineOb]

Rick Wilson weighs in.

I seriousness to the topic, I think the evidence is stronger that Pompeo did make a mistake but not necessarily with UCrane. In his deceitful response (wherein he lies about the fact that UCrane had been previously cleared as a topic) he implies that the reporter mistakenly identified Bangladesh as UCrane. Given the distance between the two it beggars belief that she actually did so (I suck at geography and I was able to pick it out of an unlabeled map). In reality he likely meant to say she accidentally identified Belarus, which is adjacent to UCrane.

What a liar he is.