In the wake of a furor caused by a horrible tweet he posted, now-former ABC News host Terry Moran has been fired by his former network because of the terrible vitriol he fit into his highly personal post about President Donald Trump and one of his leading anti-immigration advisors, Stephen Miller.
The original post that sparked such outrage was mainly about Stephen Miller, who Moran said feeds on hate to turn MAGA views into effective policies. Beginning, Moran said, somewhat accurately, “The thing about Stephen Miller is not that he is the brains behind Trumpism. Yes, he is one of the people who conceptualizes the impulses of the Trumpist movement and translates them into policy.”
Continuing, the angry ABC News reporter claimed that it is the “bile” and “hatred” Miller represents that is what defines him. He said, “But that’s not what’s interesting about Miller. It’s not brains. It’s bile. Miller is a man who is richly endowed with the capacity for hatred. He’s a world-class hater.”
Concluding his vitriolic post and drawing Trump into it, Moran wrote, “You can see this just by looking at him because you can see that his hatreds are his spiritual nourishment. He eats his hate. Trump is a world-class hater. But his hatred only a means to an end, and that end his his own glorification. That’s his spiritual nourishment.”
Originally, ABC News responded by suspending Moran in an apparent attempt to hope that the furor died down and Moran seemed chastened. Speaking to Axios about the matter, an ABC News spokesperson said that Moran “has been suspended pending further evaluation.” Continuing, the spokesperson said, “ABC News stands for objectivity and impartiality in its news coverage and does not condone subjective personal attacks on others. The post does not reflect the views of ABC News and violated our standards.”
But the furor didn’t die down, and now Moran has been fired for his horrible post. Explaining as much to Fox News Digital, an ABC News spokesperson said, “We are at the end of our agreement with Terry Moran and based on his recent post – which was a clear violation of ABC News policies – we have made the decision to not renew.”
Continuing, the ABC spokesperson claimed, quite absurdly, that the network represents things like “objectivity,” saying, “At ABC News, we hold all of our reporters to the highest standards of objectivity, fairness and professionalism, and we remain committed to delivering straightforward, trusted journalism.”
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Stephen Miller, for his part, had fired back at Moran in an awesome post of his own on X, saying, “The most important fact about Terry’s full public meltdown is what it shows about the corporate press in America. For decades, the privileged anchors and reporters narrating and gatekeeping our society have been radicals adopting a journalist’s pose. Terry pulled off his mask.”
Trump, for his part, had roasted Moran in an interview a few weeks before the original tweet, telling him, “They’re giving you the big break of a lifetime.” He added, “You’re doing the interview, I picked you because, frankly, I never heard of you, but that’s OK. I picked you, Terry, but you’re not being very nice.” Watch him here:
Featured image credit: By Max Goldberg from USA – Trump Cedar Rapids, CC BY 2.0, https://commons.wikimedia.org/w/index.php?curid=51408683