Joy Behar forced to walk back her excitement over false Brian Ross report on 'The View'

She hasn't been this happy since she turned her vibrator on.

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Joy Behar appears on "The View" on March 23, 2017. (ABC)

“The View” host Joy Behar had to eat some crow on Monday after celebrating a story on air that turned out to be inaccurate.

On Friday’s broadcast, the longtime host, 75, was handed a card with breaking news. She read from ABC News' exclusive “report” from Brian Ross that stated: “Michael Flynn promised full cooperation to the Mueller team and is prepared to testify that, as a candidate, Donald Trump directed him to make contact with the Russians.”

Hours later, ABC News was forced to correct that report from Ross, noting that the alleged directive came after Donald Trump had already been elected president, not when he was a candidate. Because of the error, ABC News suspended Ross for four weeks without pay.

Behar read the false report on air, prompting her audience to break into uproarious applause, which co-host Meghan McCain compared to Oprah’s now famous car giveaway. On Monday, Behar tried to make light of the error.

“On Friday’s show, apparently I was guilty of premature evaluation. I hear they have a pill for that,” she said.

(Yes, it's called cyanide)

In a statement read on “The View” Monday, ABC News said the report “had not been fully vetted through our editorial standards process.”

“It is vital we get the story right and retain the trust we have built with our audience,” the statement continued. “These are our core principles. We fell far short of that yesterday.”

“People are slamming this as fake news, I think it’s a mistake,” Behar said, throwing the topic to the panel.

“I will say that fake news and what we did on Friday, that’s what I was being accused of being a part of. I don’t want to sit on a show where I feel like we’re giving fake news or acting irresponsibly.” McCain said.

However, the panel, which included Behar, McCain, Sara Haines, Ana Navarro and Sunny Hostin, seemed to unanimously agree that Ross’ suspension was warranted, but called it an error instead of deliberate, misleading fake news.

“He clearly made a mistake, he’s paying the consequences for that mistake, and I think it’s a good standard,” Navarro said. “Now, it’s the same standard I’d like to hold the president of the United States to.”

Joy Behar forced to walk back her excitement over false Brian Ross report on 'The View'

This is insane

Mexican immigrant deported 20 times gets 35 years in Portland sex assaults

Sergio Jose Martinez, 31, attacked two women in Portland, Ore., on the same day, authorities say.

An undocumented immigrant, with a history of arrests and deportations, was sentenced to 35 years in prison Friday after his sexual assault conviction earlier this year.

KATU News reported that Mexican national Sergio Jose Martinez, 31, attacked two women in Portland, Ore., on the same day. The first was a 65-year-old whose car he stole and a younger woman. He was arrested July 24, the report said.

Prior to the attacks, Martinez had been deported 20 times, had a series of probation violations for illegal crossings into the United States and had a felony burglary conviction, KGW.com reported, citing court documents filed in March.

Martinez faced charges of kidnapping, assault, robbery, and sodomy, KATU News reported. He was released from Multnomah County Jail last December despite the objection of U.S. Immigration and Customs Enforcement (ICE) officials.

ICE had asked local authorities to alert the federal agency prior to Martinez's release, the paper reported.

However, the agency told KATU News in July that “local authorities released Mr. Martinez back into the community the following day without providing any notification to ICE.”

Multnomah County (Ore.) Sheriff Mike Reese and county officials penned a letter addressing the issue, saying “the Sheriff's Office does not hold people in county jails on ICE detainers or conduct any immigration enforcement actions,” KGW.com reported.

(Shouldn't this be grounds for a lawsuit by the victims?)

Not to mention the taxpayers have to foot the bill for his prison term!

Martinez’s sentencing came a day after the acquittal of San Francisco murder defendant Jose Inez Garcia Zarate, an undocumented immigrant, in the death of Kate Steinle.

This is insane

Joke of the Week

Too bad it ain't funny.

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Illegal vs Legal

Jose Ines Garcia Zarate

Is an illegal criminal living in San Francisco. Let's forget about the 5 deportations and concentrate on the 7 felonies. He's not supposed to be in possession of a firearm. He shoots and kills Kate Steinle which he claims was an accident. His story kept changing, "the gun went off three times". "I was shooting at seals" etc.

Accident or not the fact remains she would be alive today if he wasn't here. The end result... he's not charged with first-degree murder, nor second-degree, not even manslaughter. In all likelihood, he'll be deported for the 6th time.

This is Sayquan Green. He used to live in Dallas, Texas. I copied exactly the same infractions from Zarate and pasted them on Sayquan. He is now doing 20 in Huntsville.

Where's the justice?

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Pure Lunacy

Verdict in Steinle case falls short for left-leaning SF Chronicle

 California should have their own theme song:

Someone knocking at the door

Somebody ringing the bell

Someone's knocking at the door

Somebody's ringing the bell

Do me a favor

Open the door

And let 'em in

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Thursday's not-guilty verdict in the trial over Kate Steinle’s murder even has San Francisco's left-leaning newspaper saying justice was not served.

The editorial board at the San Francisco Chronicle on Thursday criticized the acquittal of suspect Jose Ines Garcia Zarate, an ex-convict facing a sixth deportation. 

"No verdict in the trial of Jose Ines Garcia Zarate could deliver satisfactory justice for the killing of Kate Steinle," the newspaper wrote.

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"No verdict in the trial of Jose Ines Garcia Zarate could deliver satisfactory justice for the killing of Kate Steinle."- San Francisco Chronicle editorial

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The newspaper says Judge Samuel Feng was correct in telling the jury that “political dynamics had no bearing in Garcia Zarate’s culpability.” But it also says that the acquittal has potentially dire implications for public safety.

The Chronicle notes that California Gov. Jerry Brown, a Democrat, recently signed into law a bill that "prohibits state and local law enforcement from asking about a person’s immigration status or participating in immigration raids with the feds."

It also notes that in San Francisco County, "federal authorities could be notified of an impending release only if the prisoner had a serious felony record within the past seven years."

(If you live in California you would have to be nuts to go along with this.)

But even that revision from an even less-cooperative local policy "still leaves the city in a vulnerable place," the Chronicle writes.

New Sheriff Vicki Hennessy, it adds, has been pushing for "more autonomy in making judgment calls" -- in a bid to prevent other cases similar to Garcia Zarate's.

Pure Lunacy