Bill O’Reilly Torches Fired ABC News Reporter Terry Moran as a ‘Moron’ Who ‘Masqueraded’ as a Journalist: ‘Look at Him Now!’

Bill O’Reilly torched fired ABC News reporter Terry Moran as an anti-Trump “moron” who “masqueraded” as a journalist.

O’Reilly joined Billy Bush on Bush’s Hot Mics podcast on Monday, where the mention of Moran’s name set him off.

“Terry Moran’s a moron,” O’Reilly declared as Bush brought up how aggressively President Donald Trump targets his political enemies.

“Really? He was so polite to the president,” Bush said.

“I don’t care what he was. He masqueraded as a reporter. This is what bothers me about guys like Moran. He masqueraded. He told everybody at ABC, I’m a reporter. That’s my job. I’ll bring you facts. Well, look at him now. He’s a raving leftist,” O’Reilly argued.

Moran was fired this year by ABC News over a post made about United States Homeland Security Advisor Stephen Miller. In the deleted post, Moran called Miller a “world class hater.”

Moran later defended the tweet, saying, “It was more the moment that we’re in, which he represents in such a vivid and to me quite disturbing way. I do, I will say this, I looked at it, I thought, okay, what is that? And I thought that’s a description of the public man that I’m describing.”

Bush went on to call Jim Acosta the “worst” among journalists, labeling him a “s**thead,” claiming he was “very rude” to him when he appeared on CNN.

“Here’s why it’s different. Moran was a correspondent put up by his news agency as somebody who’s gonna bring you fair and accurate information. Acosta was never that. Acosta was always a commentator,” O’Reilly said.

O’Reilly continued:

I don’t care whether you hate Trump. It doesn’t matter to me whether you hate Biden or you hate Trump or whatever. Just be upfront about it. Don’t try to tell me that you’re doing something. That’s what got 60 Minutes and all that trouble. So 60 Minutes with the tick, tick, tick, tick, tick, okay, but you hate the guy. And you’re skewing your reports to make them look bad. That’s wrong!

Watch above via Hot Mics with Billy Bush.

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