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Mr. Sparkle

(3,458 posts)
Sun Jun 8, 2025, 11:28 AM Jun 8

ABC News Suspends Terry Moran Over Deleted Post Blasting Stephen Miller as a 'World Class Hater'

Source: Mediaite.com

ABC News has reportedly suspended senior national correspondent Terry Moran over a deleted X post in which he called White House deputy chief of staff Stephen Miller a “world class hater.”

According to CNN’s Brian Stelter, ABC News said Sunday that Moran has been “suspended pending further evaluation” following his post.

“The thing about Stephen Miller is not that he is the brains behind Trumpism,” Moran wrote in the deleted post. “Yes, he is one of the people who conceptualizes the impulses of the Trumpist movement and translates them into policy. 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. 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.”

The White House immediately denounced the comments — with Vice President JD Vance calling them an “absolutely vile smear. “ABC should apologize to Stephen,” Vance wrote in a post on X. “What Terry posted is disgraceful.”

Read more: https://www.mediaite.com/media/news/just-in-abc-news-suspends-terry-moran-over-deleted-post-blasting-stephen-miller-as-a-world-class-hater/

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ABC News Suspends Terry Moran Over Deleted Post Blasting Stephen Miller as a 'World Class Hater' (Original Post) Mr. Sparkle Jun 8 OP
Journalistic ranks will be hollowed out by such strategies bucolic_frolic Jun 8 #1
Truth hurts. sinkingfeeling Jun 8 #2
The journalist was correct. A B C news you suck ...... Miller is EVIL !! As in AntiChrist EVIL !!!! Trueblue1968 Jun 8 #28
The truth hurts, yeah? Ocelot II Jun 8 #3
You've got it. Succinct and complete. dchill Jun 8 #18
The mainstream media, so fucking predictable. (nt) Paladin Jun 8 #4
And SO DAMN DISAPPOINTING!!! calimary Jun 8 #17
And, so weak and pathetic. Magoo48 Jun 8 #45
Beat me to it. I was going to post Deadline's story: highplainsdem Jun 8 #5
George Conway response to Stephen Miller's whining: He described you accurately to a T. highplainsdem Jun 8 #6
Stephen Miller is a walking, talking, posting DISGRACE. calimary Jun 8 #23
Yep, ""What Terry posted is disgraceful" to Miller and Trumpism because it's true William Seger Jun 8 #39
Thank YOU, Terry Moran for speaking the truth, albeit in far too tame terms. hlthe2b Jun 8 #7
If Stephen Miller had lived during Hitler's time, he wouldn't have survived. ShazzieB Jun 8 #40
Yes. I have followed Miller's uncle's interviews since 2016, in fact. While I know Miller is Jewish, he is self-hating hlthe2b Jun 8 #46
I watched "Good Night and Good Luck" last night on CNN with my girlfriend at her insistence. generalbetrayus Jun 8 #41
Absolutely! The Shakespeare quote repeatedly used (Cassius in Julius Caesar) was so apropos: hlthe2b Jun 8 #44
Seriously??? PatSeg Jun 8 #8
To avoid another TSF lawsuit no_hypocrisy Jun 8 #9
Suspended for telling the truth. That's where we are right now. Martin68 Jun 8 #10
"Yes...we must sanitize our mass media from any criticism of Dear Leader!" Mysterian Jun 8 #11
Cowards Bayard Jun 8 #12
Miller is a world class hater, that's the truth IronLionZion Jun 8 #13
They suspended her for talling the truth because Trump admin complained. CousinIT Jun 8 #14
Him. Boomerproud Jun 8 #61
First Amendment on Line 1! loquacious Jun 8 #15
Moran vs. Moron BattleRow Jun 9 #68
DON'T APOLOGIZE!!!! Grins Jun 8 #16
Moran's words rang true to me ...nt Jarqui Jun 8 #19
Spot on, Terry! Wuddles440 Jun 8 #20
I woulda suspended him for understatement. hay rick Jun 8 #21
A revolutionary act provocateur7 Jun 8 #22
No one ever loved Miller so hate rules his mind. Sequoia Jun 8 #24
This message was self-deleted by its author PennRalphie Jun 8 #25
ABC has now made itself irrelevant. They are now just another Trump echo chamber. hadEnuf Jun 8 #26
Fox is an all out enabler. Boomerproud Jun 8 #62
Roger Ailes & Rupert Murdoch destroyed Dark n Stormy Knight Jun 9 #64
Absolutely. hadEnuf Jun 9 #70
So many ABC Affiliates are now Sinclair. maxsolomon Jun 9 #69
Journalists can't have a personal, moral opinion? dlk Jun 8 #27
Miller is even worse than a hater. NEOBuckeye Jun 8 #29
You mean the ABC that sicced Snofolopogous on President Biden? live love laugh Jun 8 #30
Why? What did he say that was incorrect? VMA131Marine Jun 8 #31
Pee Wee German is a little nazi fuck. Donnie is no better. paleotn Jun 8 #32
Why, were Miller's feefees hurt? Yo_Mama_Been_Loggin Jun 8 #33
Democrats should read it in the House and Senate orangecrush Jun 8 #34
No lie detected LymphocyteLover Jun 8 #35
Truth Telling.... Blue Ozarks Jun 8 #36
Screw You ABC dawgdan Jun 8 #37
Journalists suspended for telling the truth. Up is Down. Down is Up LiberalLovinLug Jun 8 #38
Terry Moran bdamomma Jun 8 #42
I wonder to fuel his hate Aviation Pro Jun 8 #43
Disney needs to grow a spine. Beacool Jun 8 #47
Absolutely true though. creeksneakers2 Jun 8 #48
Moran gets suspended BidenRocks Jun 8 #49
In Trump's first term, Miller was bad enough. An evil little fuck, for sure, but more of a cartoon figure with...... PermatexNo.2 Jun 8 #50
What kind of fucking cowards are running ABC? marble falls Jun 8 #51
And legacy media is puzzled about losing viewers. Attilatheblond Jun 8 #52
ABC may be correct... Mike Nelson Jun 8 #53
A rare nugget of truth Hey Joe Jun 8 #54
ABC, you sorry-ass cowards... GiqueCee Jun 8 #55
When I originally heard about this, I was inclined to agree with ABC because Moran is a journalist ... ificandream Jun 8 #56
That's like the kindest, most unnecessarily soft language Moran could possibly have used. ABC is fucking pathetic. Karasu Jun 8 #57
Salon: "World-class hater": ABC's Moran suspended for saying Stephen Miller is full of "bile" riversedge Jun 8 #58
Good grief, people who support Pissolini Dark n Stormy Knight Jun 8 #59
He spoke the truth. nt moniss Jun 8 #60
So true alstephenson Jun 8 #63
For some perspective, the same things happened during the Deminpenn Jun 9 #65
I stand with Terry Moran LetMyPeopleVote Jun 9 #66
He shoulda left his post up there. Capperdan Jun 9 #67
Stephen Miller's Affinity for White Nationalism Revealed in Leaked Emails LetMyPeopleVote Jun 9 #71
Thank you, Terry. Shame on you ABC! electric_blue68 Jun 10 #72
New ABC Logos LetMyPeopleVote Jun 11 #73

Trueblue1968

(18,649 posts)
28. The journalist was correct. A B C news you suck ...... Miller is EVIL !! As in AntiChrist EVIL !!!!
Sun Jun 8, 2025, 01:08 PM
Jun 8

Ocelot II

(126,300 posts)
3. The truth hurts, yeah?
Sun Jun 8, 2025, 11:31 AM
Jun 8

Truer words about both Miller and Trump were never spoken, so the speaker must be silenced. Shame on ABC.

calimary

(87,193 posts)
17. And SO DAMN DISAPPOINTING!!!
Sun Jun 8, 2025, 12:34 PM
Jun 8

Sometimes I can’t help concluding that this place is one of the few places that hasn’t.

calimary

(87,193 posts)
23. Stephen Miller is a walking, talking, posting DISGRACE.
Sun Jun 8, 2025, 12:55 PM
Jun 8

No wonder we find him well-positioned in the trump regime.

hlthe2b

(110,810 posts)
7. Thank YOU, Terry Moran for speaking the truth, albeit in far too tame terms.
Sun Jun 8, 2025, 11:44 AM
Jun 8

Gawd, there is no descriptor that could possibly be both offensive enough and true enough to be lobbed at Stephen Miller. A NAZI at the worst possible reality in this modern age and would be more than a match had he lived in Hitler's time or long enough to (frighteningly) act out his true desires now.

Perhaps Moran was inspired by yesterday's George Clooney Broadway performance of "Good Night and Good Luck" because I have to think he knew what would happen but spoke his truth regardless.

ShazzieB

(21,209 posts)
40. If Stephen Miller had lived during Hitler's time, he wouldn't have survived.
Sun Jun 8, 2025, 01:39 PM
Jun 8

Last edited Sun Jun 8, 2025, 02:22 PM - Edit history (1)

A NAZI at the worst possible reality in this modern age and would be more than a match had he lived in Hitler's time or long enough to (frighteningly) act out his true desires.

No matter how much of a nazi he is at heart, ancestry was everything in the Third Reich, and Miller's is Jewish.



If his great great (not sure how many greats, the meme got that part wrong) grandparents hadn't gotten out of Belarus in the early 1900s, their descendants would have probably been murdered by the Einsatzgrupen, along with all but seven of the 2,000 Jews who remained in their village by the late 1930s. I'm happy that they got out, but they must be rolling in their graves right now over the things their despicable descendant is doing.

Here's what Miller's uncle, Dr. David S. Glosser, had to say about him back in 2018: https://www.politico.com/magazine/story/2018/08/13/stephen-miller-is-an-immigration-hypocrite-i-know-because-im-his-uncle-219351

EDIT: After posting this, I stumbled over a video where Dr. Glosser was interviewed about the above-linked piece he wrote on Polico and decided to add it here. Among other things, it provides a glimpse as to just what Miller's relatives think of him (hint: it's not favorable).

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hlthe2b

(110,810 posts)
46. Yes. I have followed Miller's uncle's interviews since 2016, in fact. While I know Miller is Jewish, he is self-hating
Sun Jun 8, 2025, 01:58 PM
Jun 8

Jew by all evidence. There were likewise a couple in Hitler's inner circle who "passed" questioning for whatever reason.

And if you think Miller only hates POC and Muslms, it was Miller who pushed Trump (albeit it might not have taken much at all) NOT to bend toward those horrified and demanding Trump call out those who spat the "Jews will not replace us" crap in Charlottesville--clearly showing he doesn't give a damn about Jews beyond any exploitation they can offer.

generalbetrayus

(1,100 posts)
41. I watched "Good Night and Good Luck" last night on CNN with my girlfriend at her insistence.
Sun Jun 8, 2025, 01:45 PM
Jun 8

That was an AWESOME performance!

hlthe2b

(110,810 posts)
44. Absolutely! The Shakespeare quote repeatedly used (Cassius in Julius Caesar) was so apropos:
Sun Jun 8, 2025, 01:55 PM
Jun 8

"The fault, dear Brutus, is not in our stars but in ourselves... "

That, plus the knowing comment Clooney-Murrow makes about all his smarter colleagues making their escape to work in Europe (got a chuckle from the audience) made it so cathartic for our times.

PatSeg

(50,668 posts)
8. Seriously???
Sun Jun 8, 2025, 11:49 AM
Jun 8

What this administration is doing is "disgraceful" and needs calling out every chance possible. Shame on ABC!

Mysterian

(5,797 posts)
11. "Yes...we must sanitize our mass media from any criticism of Dear Leader!"
Sun Jun 8, 2025, 12:07 PM
Jun 8

"Dear Leader must be worshipped at all times!"

CousinIT

(11,669 posts)
14. They suspended her for talling the truth because Trump admin complained.
Sun Jun 8, 2025, 12:24 PM
Jun 8

They should have told Trump admin to piss off.

loquacious

(5 posts)
15. First Amendment on Line 1!
Sun Jun 8, 2025, 12:28 PM
Jun 8

This is 1st Amendment territory. Terry has an opinion and the (current) right to express it. Why else do you suppose they call that little man "Pee Wee German."??

Grins

(8,660 posts)
16. DON'T APOLOGIZE!!!!
Sun Jun 8, 2025, 12:33 PM
Jun 8

Jesus, I’m so sick of media and (esp.) Democrats running to apologize every time some Reich-winger’s tender fee-fees are hurt. By the truth!

A better response?

“Yeah. I said it! Prove me wrong.”

Wuddles440

(1,790 posts)
20. Spot on, Terry!
Sun Jun 8, 2025, 12:45 PM
Jun 8

If anything they should reward him for his courage in displaying some journalistic integrity and candor. I'm done with the spineless quislings at ABC.

provocateur7

(4 posts)
22. A revolutionary act
Sun Jun 8, 2025, 12:54 PM
Jun 8

Under a fascist regime, speaking truth is a revolutionary act—paraphrase of unknown author.

Response to Mr. Sparkle (Original post)

hadEnuf

(3,324 posts)
26. ABC has now made itself irrelevant. They are now just another Trump echo chamber.
Sun Jun 8, 2025, 01:02 PM
Jun 8

They can join the ranks of Fox and the rest of the ass kissers.

These people are MAKING Trump into a dictator.

Boomerproud

(8,876 posts)
62. Fox is an all out enabler.
Sun Jun 8, 2025, 07:17 PM
Jun 8

The fact that they have such influence is the reason we're in this mess.

Dark n Stormy Knight

(10,414 posts)
64. Roger Ailes & Rupert Murdoch destroyed
Mon Jun 9, 2025, 05:43 AM
Jun 9

our democratic Republic. They had help, but they fed gullible people the most propaganda.

maxsolomon

(36,978 posts)
69. So many ABC Affiliates are now Sinclair.
Mon Jun 9, 2025, 02:07 PM
Jun 9

It's not a shock they'd punish a reporter for editorializing - that's the dividing line for "straight news reporting".

It's a limit that's built into "responsible" Journalism - and what DU excoriates the NYT for NOT doing on a daily basis.

dlk

(12,802 posts)
27. Journalists can't have a personal, moral opinion?
Sun Jun 8, 2025, 01:02 PM
Jun 8

A strong, outspoken Fifth Estate is crucial now, more than ever.

NEOBuckeye

(2,889 posts)
29. Miller is even worse than a hater.
Sun Jun 8, 2025, 01:13 PM
Jun 8

He’s a racist, bigoted, narcissistic shithead piece of shit. That’s the unvarnished truth, and it should be plastered on billboards with his ugly mug all over the U.S.

VMA131Marine

(5,060 posts)
31. Why? What did he say that was incorrect?
Sun Jun 8, 2025, 01:20 PM
Jun 8

Stephen Miller would have been right at home in the Third Reich.

paleotn

(20,648 posts)
32. Pee Wee German is a little nazi fuck. Donnie is no better.
Sun Jun 8, 2025, 01:23 PM
Jun 8

You want vile, you fake fucking hillbilly your momma tried to trade for pills? I'll give you vile, motherfucker. You and the rest need to be dragged through the gutter on the way to summary execution.

Blue Ozarks

(27 posts)
36. Truth Telling....
Sun Jun 8, 2025, 01:28 PM
Jun 8

is dangerous in the era of trump induced MAGA psychopathy.

Terry nailed it and so, is being punished.

dawgdan

(28 posts)
37. Screw You ABC
Sun Jun 8, 2025, 01:32 PM
Jun 8

Thank you Mr.Terry Moran for telling the truth. ABC news should be ashamed for suspending you for your statement, shame on them.

Beacool

(30,434 posts)
47. Disney needs to grow a spine.
Sun Jun 8, 2025, 02:00 PM
Jun 8

Instead of bending over for the tin-pot dictator wannabe in the WH, and his sycophants. They should have never settled that lawsuit. What did Moran say that was not factual? Miller is an evil man. The type of amoral monster who would have been a member of the Gestapo (if it weren't for the little detail that he's Jewish), gleefully sending people to the camps and to their deaths. In life, what goes around, comes around. May he get what he deserves, sooner rather than later.


 

PermatexNo.2

(45 posts)
50. In Trump's first term, Miller was bad enough. An evil little fuck, for sure, but more of a cartoon figure with......
Sun Jun 8, 2025, 02:22 PM
Jun 8

.......a brief stint using spray on hair to cover his bald spots. But now, like Trump 2.0, it's no holds barred, full blown evil with death camps and a final solution his secret hope.

Attilatheblond

(6,779 posts)
52. And legacy media is puzzled about losing viewers.
Sun Jun 8, 2025, 02:27 PM
Jun 8

Did their management all go to the same 'business' college as the idiot in the White House who said the price of eggs is down 400%?

Mike Nelson

(10,673 posts)
53. ABC may be correct...
Sun Jun 8, 2025, 02:36 PM
Jun 8

... in that Miller as "World Class" is debatable. However, I think Moran means Miller is a gigantic "Hater." Miller is not at all "classy," and his hatefulness is obvious when watching a string of his TV appearances.

Hey Joe

(128 posts)
54. A rare nugget of truth
Sun Jun 8, 2025, 03:01 PM
Jun 8

From a mainstream journalist that will not be tolerated by their corporate overlords. Never mind the constant barrage of hate speech, cruelty and lies belching from this mis-administration on an hourly basis.
Stephen should be sentenced to an eternity of picking tomatoes in hell.

GiqueCee

(2,602 posts)
55. ABC, you sorry-ass cowards...
Sun Jun 8, 2025, 03:32 PM
Jun 8

... you should have had Moran's back, but instead you slithered over to the Dark Side to do the Nazi's bidding. You TOTAL assholes.

ificandream

(11,268 posts)
56. When I originally heard about this, I was inclined to agree with ABC because Moran is a journalist ...
Sun Jun 8, 2025, 03:35 PM
Jun 8

... and a journalist is supposed to be unbiased. And other journalists have faced similar punishments for putting their personal opinion on social media.

But a look at his posting history on Twitter shows this isn't the first time he's spoke out against the Trump Administration. So the Trump Admin. (through its faux press liaison) complained and ABC responded by suspending him. Had ABC warned him in the past, it'd be one thing. But since they didn't, this is another move by ABC (remember the George Stephanopolous suit) where they have bowed to Trump. You'd almost think they were the Fox Faux Network.

For anyone still thinking that Stephanopolous was going along with the ABC lawsuit settlement he was involved in, Stephanopolous, to his credit, slammed Trump just a few days ago. Good work, George.

Karasu

(1,706 posts)
57. That's like the kindest, most unnecessarily soft language Moran could possibly have used. ABC is fucking pathetic.
Sun Jun 8, 2025, 03:38 PM
Jun 8

riversedge

(76,800 posts)
58. Salon: "World-class hater": ABC's Moran suspended for saying Stephen Miller is full of "bile"
Sun Jun 8, 2025, 04:20 PM
Jun 8

Moran was being generous IMHO



"World-class hater": ABC's Moran suspended for saying Stephen Miller is full of "bile"






Dark n Stormy Knight

(10,414 posts)
59. Good grief, people who support Pissolini
Sun Jun 8, 2025, 04:21 PM
Jun 8

gave up their right to criticize others for being vile, nasty, hateful, etc. The hypocrisy of MAGAts is ludicrous!

Deminpenn

(16,933 posts)
65. For some perspective, the same things happened during the
Mon Jun 9, 2025, 09:09 AM
Jun 9

anti-communist frenzy of the late 1940s and early 1950s. The print and broadcast media were completely cowed by the mere thought of being accused of being communists or communist sympathizers and were quite willing to throw their own friends and colleagues who were to the anti-communist wolves.

LetMyPeopleVote

(166,964 posts)
71. Stephen Miller's Affinity for White Nationalism Revealed in Leaked Emails
Mon Jun 9, 2025, 08:12 PM
Jun 9

SPLC has a great analysis on why Terry Moran was right about Stephen Miller. Terry Moran's post is backed up with facts

“In the run-up to the 2016 election, White House senior policy adviser Stephen Miller promoted white nationalist literature, pushed racist immigration stories and obsessed over the loss of Confederate symbols after Dylann Roof’s murderous rampage, according to leaked emails reviewed by Hatewatch

Lyric Rivera | NeuroDivergent Rebel (@neurodivergentrebel.substack.com) 2025-05-13T22:27:31.934Z



https://www.splcenter.org/resources/hatewatch/stephen-millers-affinity-white-nationalism-revealed-leaked-emails/

In the run-up to the 2016 election, White House senior policy adviser Stephen Miller promoted white nationalist literature, pushed racist immigration stories and obsessed over the loss of Confederate symbols after Dylann Roof’s murderous rampage, according to leaked emails reviewed by Hatewatch.

The emails, which Miller sent to the conservative website Breitbart News in 2015 and 2016, showcase the extremist, anti-immigrant ideology that undergirds the policies he has helped create as an architect of Donald Trump’s presidency. These policies include reportedly setting arrest quotas for undocumented immigrants, an executive order effectively banning immigration from five Muslim-majority countries and a policy of family separation at refugee resettlement facilities that the Department of Health and Human Services’ Office of Inspector General said is causing “intense trauma” in children.

In the run-up to the 2016 election, White House senior policy adviser Stephen Miller promoted white nationalist literature, pushed racist immigration stories and obsessed over the loss of Confederate symbols after Dylann Roof’s murderous rampage, according to leaked emails reviewed by Hatewatch.

The emails, which Miller sent to the conservative website Breitbart News in 2015 and 2016, showcase the extremist, anti-immigrant ideology that undergirds the policies he has helped create as an architect of Donald Trump’s presidency. These policies include reportedly setting arrest quotas for undocumented immigrants, an executive order effectively banning immigration from five Muslim-majority countries and a policy of family separation at refugee resettlement facilities that the Department of Health and Human Services’ Office of Inspector General said is causing “intense trauma” in children.


The Southern Poverty Law Center has done a great job of identifying several areas where Miller is guilty of the charges leveled by Terry Moran. This is one section that really made me scared/angry/worried
Miller backs immigration policies Hitler once praised
Miller refers to President Calvin Coolidge multiple times in emails to Breitbart. Coolidge signed the Immigration Act of 1924. The legislation was based on eugenics and severely limited immigration from certain parts of the world into the United States. White nationalists lionize Coolidge, in part for his remarks condemning race mixing.

“There are racial considerations too grave to be brushed aside for any sentimental reasons,” Coolidge wrote in a 1921 magazine article, as quoted on American Renaissance. “Biological laws tell us that certain divergent people will not mix or blend. … Quality of mind and body suggests that observance of ethnic law is as great a necessity to a nation as immigration law.”

In “Mein Kampf,” Hitler portrayed the U.S. law as a potential model for the Nazis in Germany. James Q. Whitman, the Ford Foundation professor of comparative and foreign law at Yale Law School, noted this detail in his book “Hitler’s American Model: The United States and the Making of Nazi Race Law.”

“Absolutely, Hitler talks about the law in ‘Mein Kampf,’” Whitman told Hatewatch. “He suggests that the U.S. was the only country making the type of progress the Nazis were trying to establish.”

Miller brings up Coolidge on Aug. 4, 2015, in the context of halting all immigration to America. Garrett Murch, who also was an aide to Sessions, starts the conversation by emailing McHugh, Miller and three other Breitbart employees, including Hahn, to note something he heard on a right-wing talk radio show:

ABC owes Terry Moran an apology
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