All the talk of hope in this morning’s interview with pastors Joel and Victoria Osteen appears to have flustered Robin Roberts.

“We just try to help people stay encouraged, not to get bitter, not to just resent things, but really stay hopeful,” Victoria told her.

“I like to tell people to get their hopes up,” Joel added.

By then Robin was seeing cross-eyed, dizzy with hope.

“And you’re hopeful that, uh, this Hope Bible for Today,” she said, “and it has, uh, and we were talking about it a little in the commercial break, um, that if you haven’t read the Bible it can help you kind of have a better understanding of certain scriptures and things like that.”

Oy.

GMA’s web editors couldn’t shake the h word either. One wrote the headline for the site’s homepage:

The Osteen’s Night of Hope

The problem? There are two Osteens — as Victoria is quick to point out. The apostrophe must be placed after the s, to indicate there are multiple Osteens.

While we’re ripping the ABC show, let’s examine its name, Good Morning America.

When you’re addressing someone — be it a friend, a board of directors or a country — your greeting (hi, good morning, goodbye) and the person or group being greeted must be separated by a comma.

Hi, Dan!

Welcome, esteemed members of the board.

Good morning, America.

I’m trying to “really stay hopeful,” to keep my “hopes up” that the producers will one day correct this glaring punctuation error.

But the truth is, I’m not quite as hopeful as the smiling Osteens.