Posted on 12/04/2017 3:37:09 PM PST by Kaslin
So, The View finally addressed their embarrassing celebratory reaction to news that Donald Trump instructed ex-National Security Adviser Michael Flynn to contact the Russians. It was under the impression that this occurred when Donald Trump was a candidate during the 2016 election. Cue the champagne popping on the Left. Here’s the smoking gun, right? Nope. ABC News’ Brian Ross, who reported on this story, botched it. It was President-elect Trump instructing Mr. Flynn to establish your usual connections with foreign governments from a new incoming administration. If Mr. Ross’ name doesn’t sound familiar, he was the guy who reported that the 2012 Aurora shooter, James Holmes, might be part of the Tea Party movement. Wrong again, Mr. Ross. Wrong. Again.
This video of Joy Behar cheering the Flynn news this morning is a good case study for how partisans disseminate information. She has only the smallest, most basic idea of what has happened, and she treats it as a game changer anyway. You wonder how "fake news" spreads? Watch: pic.twitter.com/NFVUIMj2K2— Ruthless T. Firefly (@BecketAdams) December 1, 2017
It took several hours for ABC News to correct their shoddy report that tanked the markets last Friday. It was also the day where The View’s co-host, Joy Behar, jumped for glee over the erroneous news. Well, today’s episode was a but more measured (via Mediaite):
…on Monday, Behar started out by saying, “So on Friday’s show, apparently I was guilty of premature evaluation.”
The co-hosts of The View discussed the botched report and how careful journalists need to be in this current political climate.
Guest co-host Ana Navarro said, “He clearly made a mistake, he’s paying the consequences for that mistake, and I think it’s a good standard. Now, it’s the same standard I’d like to hold the President of the United States to.”
Meghan McCain was particularly bothered by not just the celebratory reaction, but also said, “I don’t want to sit on a show where I feel like we’re giving fake news or reacting irresponsibly.”
So, Brian Ross is getting December off for totally screwing pooch on the scoop of the century, tanking market, lying & calling it a clarification.— Mary Katharine Ham (@mkhammer) December 2, 2017
Sure, please lecture me more on the damage Trump’s stupid tweets can do pic.twitter.com/sz10MngI39— Stephen Miller (@redsteeze) December 2, 2017
Anxiously awaiting the correction that Joy Behar will read on air Monday morning. pic.twitter.com/UFuQFquWlN— Dagen McDowell (@dagenmcdowell) December 2, 2017
I was promised treasonous collusion with Russia to steal an election, not diplomatic groundwork by an incoming admin.— Mollie (@MZHemingway) December 2, 2017
If we want to regain trust in the media we need to admit our mistakes, especially when as consequential as this. Retract. Correct. Don’t use weasel words to describe it. https://t.co/jFIavaQ4yv— Jonathan Swan (@jonathanvswan) December 2, 2017
Great job, fellas. Really first class. It's been what, seven hours or so? On a Friday evening? Spectacular. https://t.co/FSAqZimVUw— Ed Morrissey (@EdMorrissey) December 2, 2017
Yeah, this come to Jesus moment comes after Behar’s moronic celebratory antics, but whatever. Ross’ error is once again a reminder for why people a) don’t trust the media; and b) why they hate the media. Also, and Stephen Miller of Fox News noted this, for all the talk about Trump’s Twitter use and how it could usher Armageddon, Ross’ report actually inflicted economic damage, so—we might want to revisit that talking point as well. Trump’s Twitter is not the only thing that can cause a ripple effect. Ross has been suspended for a month without pay over this flimsy story. Here’s the network's correction:
Correction: During a live Special Report, ABC News reported that a confidant of Lt. Gen. Michael Flynn said Flynn was prepared to testify that then-candidate Donald Trump instructed him to contact Russian officials during the campaign. That source later clarified that during the campaign, Trump assigned Flynn and a small circle of other senior advisers to find ways to repair relations with Russia and other hot spots. It was shortly after the election, that President-elect Trump directed Flynn to contact Russian officials on topics that included working jointly against ISIS.
So you’re telling me that an anonymous source has disclosed that Joy Behar has profited from human trafficking, by kidnapping and then selling young children into a (typically short) lifetime of slavery where they are sexually molested and viciously beaten if they dare to put up any resistance?
Oops, my bad. Yeah, I’ll be back with the correction tomorrow...
Yikes. That’s what happens when you read the article and not the comments.
Megan McCain and Anna Navarro are both quoted but neither appear in the photo shown.
Old hag has Trump Derangement Syndrome!
Yeah, well, Joy, you’re a cnut.
Signed,
Cowgirl of Justice
And I have no problem spitting in your face while I’m saying it if you need.
He is not a public figure in the legal sense and there was total malice. They want to charge him with the Logan act as a civilian interfering with foreign policy. Give me a break. He can easily win millions!!!!
I have never seen this show, and I would never know about it if wasn’t for their stupidity being incessantly reported elsewhere.
Mueller gang wants to do that, and that would be malicious prosecution, and that’s actionable. Logan Act would clearly not apply to a transition team member, and anyway, how is it interfering. Did Obama want Russia to impose counter sanctions, and Flynn ruined it? Tough titty. Then prosecute Jesse Jackson or Jimmuh for going on personal missions to Syria and whatnot.
But The View? Just stupid cows talking out their arses, and unable to prosecute anyone. Maybe Trump and Flynn could sue Brian Ross, but the public figure rule makes that hard.
What they lack in stupidity, they make up for with ignorance. It is astounding to watch, like something out of Clockwork Orange.
Or The Puke.
Yes, that’s good too.
good points but this actual malice is so apparent it is obvious. This was a planed and orchestrated lie in my view. The conversation was on fricken tape on a fisa warrant. That is apparent on the face . IT WAS ON TAPE!! GHow do you screw that up[. The whole thing was turned over top the press — tapes and all. No mulligans here.
‘Joy Behar: Yeah, I Totally Jumped The Gun Spreading That Shoddy ABC Report About Russian Collusion’
That fat lying slob couldn’t jump over a gun if her life depended on it.
I giggle every time Rush says “Maude Behar”....... heh heh!
“Joy Behar is the Viagra antidote....”
Go jump out of your Manhattan high rise Joy.
unJOYful should be suspended, as well.
I giggle every time Rush says “Maude Behar”....... heh heh!
Ditto.
Behar needs Rehab.
Behar, read transcripts, listen to tapes? Don’t you need a room temperature IQ and an attention span longer than your pinky? She relied on Ross. If anyone had malice, it was Ross, but even he would have an excuse. He had such a hard-on he bypassed the fact checkers, and just ran with the story, making up a source, “an intimate.” Plus he can say that the unmasking of Flynn was after the campaign ended, and he misunderstood the “intimate”’s account of the campaign period, and thought he meant that Jared told him to talk to the Russians, instead of just look into ways to improve relations with Russia. No malice, other than the pathological, out-of-touch-with-reality kind.
“My shoddy screw up was because of ABC’s shoddy screw up...damn them fake news hacks.....”
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