Post by Nictoshek on Mar 1, 2010 17:08:37 GMT -7
CNN host places Hawaii off the coast of South America
By Raw Story
Monday, March 1st, 2010
CNN host Rick Sanchez may have been trying to overdramatize this weekend's earthquake in Chile by placing Hawaii off the coast of Ecuador for his more geographically-challenged viewers.
Or maybe he just doesn't know where the South Pacific island state is located.
Shortly after the 8.8-magnitude temblor, fears grew about a tsunami hitting Hawaii, and that's when Sanchez displayed a map of South America.
"And this is Hawaii," he said, pointing to the Galapagos Islands some 500 miles off the coast of Ecuador. The actual Hawaiian islands are another 4,000 miles northwest of where Sanchez indicated.
The Galapagos being much closer to Chile than Hawaii, it may have been an attempt to overestimate the danger and keep his viewers tuned in.
