Terry Moran interviews Trump, April 29, 2025. Official White House photo.
The Washington Post has reported that Terry Moran will not be returning to ABC. Moran was suspended after a post on “X” that was critical of Trump and Stephen Miller.
As a retired newspaperman, I well understand why news organizations (other than, of course, right-wing propaganda organs such as Fox News) must defend their reputation for objectivity. Those are the rules, and according to those rules Moran went too far.
But we have rules, and we have truth. One of the reasons we are where we are today is that the responsible media, for years (ever since Fox News came on line in 1996), have been unable to tell the truth because of their rules about bias and objectivity. The lords of right-wing propaganda strangled the responsible media with its own principles. Thus the fascist movement could lie constantly and laugh all the way to the bank, and to the White House. The responsible media could not bring themselves to plainly call a lie a lie and then explain the purpose of the lie (which they understood perfectly well but wouldn’t say). The right wing has to lie. To them their lies are beautiful. Ethically they couldn’t care less. The responsible media avoid it at all costs.
The pathetic irony is that Terry Moran told the truth, a truth that is so perfectly obvious to rational, morally sane people that it hardly needs to be said.
There’s another thing. In reporting on Moran’s post on “X,” the responsible media were squeamish about even reporting what Moran said. They’d quote some of the post, but the context was never clear, and it was never clear whether they were reporting the complete post.
I’ve included a screen shot of the complete post.
I am terrified about what is going on in Los Angeles. I’m also terrified that things could be even worse on Saturday, because of Trump’s military parade (which Gavin Newsome rightly called “vulgar”) and the protests. Over the next few days we stand to learn a lot about the intentions of the Trump White House and the current appetite of the American people for putting up with it.
There is a book (looks interesting) called ‘Hatemonger’ about Stephen Miller’s life and rise by a woman named Jean Guerrero that came out in 2020. I saw her talking about it briefly. Apparently he’s a product of Santa Monica (where she says he was radicalized young, sounds almost ‘American History X’) and a graduate of Duke before he went on his sociopathic, sycophantic, merry way and helped Bannon to write Trump’s ‘American Carnage’ speech. So, it follows as if what’s being unleashed on LA is quite personal to Miller and one guess says he’s suffering from some kind of psychological vengeance complex ~ like Hitler pissed off that he was rejected and discarded on the streets of Vienna as an artist, that people considered his kind of Austrians backward and him a thug fresh from prison, and losing the first world war so punitively created the perfect furnace for his hatemongering. I’m scared because of his brand of villainy (that we’ve all seen too well before), I’m asking myself, where’s the satiated end to his wrath and hate lust? A million people? Two million? more? Where’s the stopping line going to be? Four years is a long time for it to get unthinkably much worse ~
Hi Malinda: Yes, yes, and yes. Another question is, since rounding up people with brown skin is never going to satisfy them, then who’s next?
I suppose it’s only logical to think that if they’re already stripping Congresspeople from their power to do any help for the innocent and arresting judges who follow the Constitution, before long it’s going to be open season on Miller and Trump’s political enemies, journalists telling the truth, teachers protecting LGBTQ kids, protesters in general, military refusing to be fascists . . . pretty much anyone courageous enough to do the right thing is going to pay the price. And when Palantir really kicks off with their dragnet and profile sweeps, you have to anticipate it could be almost anyone exercising their first amendment rights in defiance of the regime.
I saw they’re breaking ground on a new maximum security private prison in Georgia to hold 3,000. Seemingly, it’s going to be a lucrative four years for the private prison industrial complex.
Hi Malinda: And around the time you wrote this comment, a U.S. Senator was arrested, put on the floor, and handcuffed at a Kristi Noem “news conference.”