Being the native Texan here on the No Fact Zone staff, I found the ‘Meet the Press’ map error, featured on “The Colbert Report” on Monday night, to be amazingly funny. And one of my favorite local reporters, Robert Wilonsky from the Dallas Observer, felt the same way (links omitted):
Martin’s analysis, I think it’s called, comes a mere three days after the Meet the Press during which Tom Brokaw served up a “presidential battleground states” map that featured Texas among the toss-ups — say wha?
Problem is, that toss-up thing was a total foul-up: “It was a graphics production error,” Meet the Press executive producer Betsy Fischer tells Unfair Park this morning. “We don’t consider Texas a toss-up state.” Nonetheless, she’s so terribly delighted folks are paying so much attention to the program’s graphics — like, say, Stephen Colbert on Monday night, who finds a few more graphics production errors …
Here’s the video in case any of you missed it.
i still loved the bit about NC and VA.
I wonder who approved THAT map?!
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As a North Carolinian, I can sufficiently say that NC is NOT Virginia, either. Lol.
That map was so messed up it should have never made it to air.
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