George Conway: We need to stand up for Terry Moran

[highplainsdem]

We need to stand up for @terrymoranabc.bsky.social

— George Conway 👊🇺🇸🔥 (@gtconway.bsky.social) 2025-06-08T17:26:07.369Z

[Baitball Blogger]

1. Would have been helpful if he suggested a few actions for us to take.

Like a link to the station so we can air our thoughts.

[ShazzieB]

5. I agree.

When I read "We all need to stand up for Terry Moran, " my first thought was "Okay, how?"

I can't believe he just left us hanging like that.

[ultralite001]

11. Damn straight...

Give us the deets...

[Hekate]

2. I have no idea what this is about, highplains. So, what fresh hell, and all that...

[question everything]

3. The reason

Here's what the tweet reportedly said: "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."

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."

In a statement about Terry's tweet, an ABC News 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 — as a result, Terry Moran has been suspended pending further evaluation.”

https://www.yahoo.com/news/abc-news-correspondent-suspended-trump-184658758.html?fr=sycsrp_catchall

[Hekate]

7. Thank you

[ms liberty]

10. Thank you for asking! I was out of the loop, too!

[sinkingfeeling]

4. You can comment to ABC News here:

https://abcnews.go.com/contact

Submit programming feedback form:
https://support.abc.com/hc/en-us/requests/new?ticket_form_id=360003079511

I just submitted mine.

[calimary]

6. This!!!

At least there’s this, even though it doesn’t seem like much. We should STILL flood them with comments, especially critical ones.

[LiberalLovinLug]

12. Done!

[Karasu]

8. Stephen Miller is a literal white nationalist and this has been public knowledge well before this regime came to power.

Calling him a "world class hater" is really using the kindest, most unnecessarily soft language possible. Fuck ABC for bowing to fascism.

[samsingh]

9. They need to pool their resources and invest in a TV channel or a newspaper

then they can be objective

[MLAA]

13. Here's what I sent to ABC.

I find it disturbing that you would discipline / investigate Terry Moran for saying Steven Miller is hateful. It is a journalist’s responsibility in a Democracy to be free to speak the verifiable truth. Our media and our citizen’s freedom of speech is under attack by the Trump Admin as witnessed by 60 minutes settling with Trump when they did nothing wrong, law firms folding under illegal threats, news organizations being afraid to address the current administrations obvious steps towards facism, fomenting of hate/discrimination and use of masked unidentified ICE agents. Media outlets are allowing their fear of retaliation and potential loss of profits to make themselves active participants / co-conspirators in the destruction of American principles, norms and institutions. Don’t join them, ABC.

[andym]

14. Here is something you can base your responses to ABC News on

I was struck by the contrast between two recent events: ABC News suspending veteran correspondent Terry Moran for his comments on Stephen Miller and Donald Trump, and the enduring legacy of Edward R. Murrow's takedown of Senator Joe McCarthy, as captured in yesterday's live performance of "Good Night, and Good Luck" on CNN.

Murrow’s historic achievement was not based on opinion, but on a simple, powerful principle: that a journalist's strongest accusations should be supported by evidence, especially the subject's own words. He used McCarthy’s own rhetoric to expose his hateful methods to the American people.

By this standard, Mr. Moran's statements were not baseless. His characterization of Stephen Miller is substantiated by organizations like the Southern Poverty Law Center, which has published detailed reports on Miller's extremism. Similarly, President Donald Trump's extensive history of remarks that have been widely condemned as hateful is a matter of public record.

The issue, therefore, is not a lack of evidence, but ABC's decision to prioritize a superficial sense of impartiality over its duty to confront documented extremism. True journalistic fairness does not mean avoiding warranted criticism. ABC News should reinstate Mr. Moran and allow him the opportunity to defend his statements with the wealth of public evidence available. To do otherwise is to betray the very principles of courageous, fact-based journalism that Murrow championed and that ABC News should continue to embrace.

[LetMyPeopleVote]

15. I stand with Terry Moran

[LetMyPeopleVote]

16. SPLC has a great analysis on why Terry Moran was right about Stephen Miller

Terry Moran's post about Miller is correct.

“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

Link to tweet

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