Jon Stewart Weighing ABC terminated Terry Moranemployment.
this Daily performance After reporters published a now-deleted X post criticizing the president, the host had a strong feeling about the Internet’s decision not to renew Moran’s contract. Donald Trumpmanagement.
Stewart responded to a caller who asked if ABC should fire Moran, and Stewart responded to the episode of his “Weekly Show” podcast on Thursday, June 12, “Of course not. So stupid. No, for God’s sake. They shouldn’t fire him.”
Stewart went on to criticize the network, describing it as a “joking.”
“Literally, every day on Fox News, they take things out of the context, or their people say completely vicious things to Democratic politicians and all sorts of other things,” said Stewart, 62. “The whole thing is because the ABC holds tightly on them that they are in some way in all this outside bubble. It’s a joke.”
ABC News said on Tuesday, June 10 that it will not renew Moran’s contract after it suspended tweets about Trump and the White House deputy chief of staff. Stephen Miller.
“We are at the end of our consent with Terry Moran, and according to his recent position, this is clearly a violation of ABC News policy and we decided not to renew it,” a spokesperson for the network said in a statement. “In ABC News, we will all journalists follow the highest level of objectivity, fairness and professionalism, and we remain committed to delivering direct, trustworthy news.”
ABC initially suspended Moran on Sunday, June 8 after White House press secretary criticized the position.
Moran, 65, calls Miller and Trump (78) “world-class haters[s]”X posts that have been deleted since then.
“Miller is a person with hatred ability. He is a world-class hater. You can see this by looking at him because you can see that his hatred is nourishing his spirit. He ate his hatred,” Moran said. “Trump is a world-class hatred. But his hatred is just a means to achieve his end, which ends his own glory [sic]. That is his spiritual nutrition. ”
White House Press Secretary Karoline Leavitt Response to the criticism, wrote on X earlier this month: “It’s no obstacles and unacceptable. We’ve contacted @ABC to ask how they plan to keep Terry accountable.”
ABC News senior national journalist Moran has been before the network leaves since 1997.
