MSNBC Geography Fail Places Four of Four Cities in Completely Wrong Spots

Apparently the graphics producers working during Martin Bashir‘s MSNBC show failed geography in school?

During a report on President Obama‘s upcoming Upstate New York bus tour, MSNBC unveiled this doozy of a map, placing four well-known NY/PA cities in the entirely wrong geographical spots:

So… did someone just throw darts at a map of New York and Pennsylvania and randomly decide to place those four cities where ever they fell? Syracuse is probably about 150 miles west of that spot; Binghamton roughly 150 miles southwest; Buffalo 300 miles west; and Scranton is most certainly at least 100 miles east of that mountainous region in central Pennsylvania.

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But, hey, “A” for effort. At least Scranton is in Pennsylvania and the other three are within the borders of New York.

So there’s that.

Watch below, via MSNBC:

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