James Woods Trolls 5 Year-Old CNN Gaffe, Promptly Owns Self
Academy Award-winning actor and well-known member of the shallow bench of conservative celebrities James Woods apparently spent his Friday reviewing 5 year-old news clips for ways to own CNN, then spends the rest of his day getting owned on Twitter.
In the wee hours of the morning, Woods dug up a screenshot of a CNN graphic that badly misplaced Hong Kong on a map, and tweeted it out with the notation “#ThisIsCNN Hong Kong, Africa…”:
#ThisIsCNN Hong Kong, Africa… pic.twitter.com/2bFdueYOuP
— James Woods (@RealJamesWoods) December 14, 2018
The shot was from an Oct. 5, 2013 CNN report about a deadly outbreak of killer hornets in China, but which relocated Hong Kong to the coast of… South America, not Africa.
Woods was promptly schooled by multiple Twitter users, including our own Evan Rosenfeld:
Quick geography lesson:
– Hong Kong is a special administrative region in China.
– China is in Asia.
– Hong Kong is not in South America.
– South America is not Africa. https://t.co/00OX6OgNJu
— Evan Rosenfeld (@Evan_Rosenfeld) December 14, 2018
Hysterical! @RealJamesWoods (whoever he is) tries to diss CNN for a graphic error, and in the process calls South America – “Africa.” The idiot stepped in his own diss. pic.twitter.com/qDQv9NSJ8I
— Bobby Pearce (@bobbypearce) December 14, 2018
That’s South America pic.twitter.com/T9vdNmf4kH
— Yashar Ali ? (@yashar) December 14, 2018
Woods seems to be enjoying the attention, since he hasn’t deleted the tweet as yet. I’m not saying that Woods isn’t in demand, but let’s just say that Trump isn’t the only cranky Republican who can’t get arrested. At least not yet.
Watch CNN’s errant report on killer hornets above.
[image via screengrab]
