Earlier this week, ABC News canned senior national correspondent Terry Moran for posting on social media that White House domestic policy adviser Stephen Miller is “richly endowed with the capacity for hatred,” a “world-class hater,” and “You can see this just by looking at him because you can see that his hatreds are his spiritual nourishment. He eats his hate.” This did not sit well with Comedy Central’s Jon Stewart, who claimed on Wednesday’s The Weekly Show podcast that ABC is “a fucking joke” for firing Moran.
Towards the end of the show, Stewart turned to audience-submitted questions as producer Brittany Mehmedovic asked him, “Do you think ABC should’ve fired Terry Moran over his Stephen Miller tweet?”
An angry Stewart replied, “Of course not, so stupid. No, for God’s sakes. Should they have fired him? Shouldn’t have paid the $50 million, they shouldn’t have fired him. They’re literally—every day on Fox News, they’re taking stuff out of context, or their people are saying utterly vicious things about Democratic politicians and all kinds of other things. The entire thing is because ABC clings to this façade that they somehow exist in a bubble outside of all of this. It’s a joke. They’re a fucking joke, and—”
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