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25. ABC is too cowed to state the obvious about Stephen Miller
Tue Jun 10, 2025, 01:01 PM
Jun 10

ABC is ignoring Miller's long history of racism and bigotry

ABC is too cowed to state the obvious about Stephen Miller www.publicnotice.co/p/abc-terry-...

Ray Beckerman (@raybeckerman.bsky.social) 2025-06-10T11:53:24.227Z




“[Stephen] Miller is a man who is richly endowed with the capacity for hatred. He’s a world class hater,” ABC News correspondent Terry Moran tweeted early Sunday morning.

It was an unusually frank, and unusually accurate, mainstream media assessment of Miller, and of Trump — who Moran also called a “world-class hater.” As White House deputy chief of staff, Miller’s far-right bigotry has guided Trump’s brutally authoritarian anti-immigrant policies.

Mainstream media has a duty to inform its audience that those policies are in fact hateful. But it rarely does so. Moran is to be commended for speaking truth to power. Speaking truth to power is, after all, what journalists are supposed to do.

Unfortunately, ABC News, like much of corporate media, does not want to speak truth to power, or, it seems, to anyone. Trump and Miller were offended by Moran’s (accurate) description, and White House Press Secretary Karoline Leavitt said the administration reached out to ABC on Sunday morning demanding action.

“Hopefully this journalist will either be suspended or terminated,” Leavitt huffed to Maria Bartiromo.
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.....ABC claims it suspended Moran because it “does not condone subjective personal attacks.” But calling Miller “hateful” is not a slur and not even really an insult. It’s a statement that Miller is motivated by bigotry and animus. And there is a lot of evidence that he is.

In 2019, during the first Trump administration, the Southern Poverty Law Center’s Hatewatch released an investigation into Miller which revealed that he had shared emails with far right outlet Breitbart. The emails included links to white nationalist websites like VDARE and American Renaissance, and expressed Miller’s relentless animosity towards non-white immigrants.

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Waiting on the emails on his wife's affinity for Musk Johonny Jun 9 #1
We will an IQ test and DNA results for him first. multigraincracker Jun 9 #2
the Voight-Kampf test would be more appropriate DBoon Jun 10 #27
Just a small plug.. If you are already donating to ACLU, consider adding a bit for Southern Poverty Law Center... hlthe2b Jun 9 #3
I have been a donor to the SPLC LetMyPeopleVote Jun 9 #4
I just bdamomma Jun 9 #7
A very important OP malaise Jun 9 #5
Sadly ironic from a guy who, as I understand it, was raised in the Jewish faith. mwmisses4289 Jun 9 #6
more over... Javaman Jun 9 #8
Very true. Marcuse Jun 9 #10
Does anyone have a link to Terry Moran's post? flashman13 Jun 9 #9
Here LetMyPeopleVote Jun 9 #12
Thanks - So Moran was suspended for speaking truth to power. flashman13 Jun 9 #16
+1 dalton99a Jun 9 #23
Please let ABC News know your thoughts on Mr Moran's suspension andym Jun 9 #11
Not sure white nationalists like someone who is ethnically Jewish, even if he's self hating IronLionZion Jun 9 #13
Stephen Miller Is an Immigration Hypocrite. I Know Because I'm His Uncle. LetMyPeopleVote Jun 9 #22
Reincarnation of Heinrich Himmler rickyhall Jun 9 #14
Miller looks more like Goebbels LetMyPeopleVote Jun 9 #21
ABC is dead to me. spanone Jun 9 #15
I remember Moran from Court TV in the early 90's. BattleRow Jun 9 #17
Recall him from Court TV, too. Always thought he did a great job of explaining things. That allegorical oracle Jun 9 #19
ABC is too cowed to state the obvious about Stephen Miller LetMyPeopleVote Jun 10 #25
Stephen, wake up and read a history book. Joinfortmill Jun 9 #18
Deadline: Legal Blog--Stephen Miller is incorrect about what due process protects -- just ask the Supreme Court LetMyPeopleVote Jun 9 #20
Prof. Ruth Ben Ghiot-Stephen Miller is a cancer on our country LetMyPeopleVote Jun 10 #24
Yep. He's a Nazi underpants Jun 10 #26
ABC fired Terry Moran LetMyPeopleVote Jun 10 #28
"Terry Moran hit the nail on the head. Stephen Miller does have hate in his heart." LetMyPeopleVote Jun 10 #29
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