Media personalities who faced consequences for problematic remarks, from Terry Moran to Don Lemon

ABC News dismissed seasoned analogous Terry Moran connected Tuesday for violating web policies with an opinionated societal media post, but helium was hardly the archetypal writer to onshore successful blistery h2o implicit arguable rhetoric. 

While Moran’s arguable comments came connected X, different pundits person been suspended oregon worse for problematic on-air comments. News personalities person been scolded for everything from insensitive comments astir women to shocking remarks astir the Holocaust. 

Here are immoderate of the much high-profile examples successful caller memory:

TERRY MORAN OUT AT ABC NEWS FOLLOWING X POST ATTACKING TRUMP, STEPHEN MILLER

Don Lemon, Terry Moran and Whoopi Goldberg person each been punished for arguable rhetoric.  ((Photo by Stephanie Augello/Variety via Getty Images))

Terry Moran

The longtime ABC News analogous was fto spell Tuesday implicit his now-deleted X station attacking President Donald Trump and apical White House adjutant Stephen Miller.

Moran, who had been with the web for 28 years, was shown the doorway conscionable earlier his declaration with the web was acceptable to expire connected Friday. He was initially suspended aft ABC News executives woke up to the viral backlash that helium caused by offering idiosyncratic thoughts connected Miller and Trump, who helium interviewed successful the Oval Office successful April.

"The happening astir Stephen Miller is not that helium is the brains down Trumpism," Moran began his post. "Yes, helium is 1 of the radical who conceptualizes the impulses of the Trumpist question and translates them into policy. But that's not what's absorbing astir Miller. It's not brains. It's bile."

"Miller is simply a antheral who is richly endowed with the capableness for hatred. He's a world-class hater," Moran wrote. "You tin spot this conscionable by looking astatine him due to the fact that you tin spot that his hatreds are his spiritual nourishment. He eats his hate."

Moran besides went connected to telephone Trump a "world-class hater" successful the station but added that "his hatred [is] lone a means to an end, and that extremity [is] his ain glorification. That's his spiritual nourishment." 

An ABC News insider told Fox News Digital that Moran was well-liked internally but the Disney-owned web was near with "no alternative" but to terminate him. 

NBC NEWS' BEN COLLINS TEMPORARILY BANNED FROM COVERING ELON MUSK ON AIR AFTER ATTACKING TWITTER OWNER: REPORT

Ben Collins

Former NBC News newsman Ben Collins regularly disparaged Elon Musk's takeover of Twitter, present known arsenic X.   (MSNBC)

The erstwhile NBC News newsman repeatedly and openly criticized Elon Musk and his handling of Twitter, raising questions astir whether Collins could study impartially connected the taxable earlier helium was temporarily banned from covering the billionaire successful 2022. 

Collins, who covered "disinformation, extremism and the net for NBC News," did not effort to fell his left-wing governmental leanings, often firing disconnected wide missives connected societal media portion a reporter.

During his clip astatine NBC, Collins regularly disparaged Musk's takeover of Twitter, present known arsenic X. Collins erstwhile tweeted that Musk "is present learning the hard mode what accusation researchers person known for decades: Everybody's pro-free speech. No s--t. Also, erstwhile you tally a for-profit company, you volition conscionable your enactment eventually."

Collins erstwhile snarked, "Elon, person you ever considered that possibly radical conscionable disagree with you and you've been surviving successful a peculiarly well-sealed bubble of money-chasing Yes Men until precise recently?"

Collins near NBC News and is present CEO of The Onion. In an interrogation past period with Vanity Fair, Collins said helium was suspended for "being excessively mean to Elon Musk."

"After that, I realized my clip connected this peacock is short. When I saw The Onion was for sale, I realized that possibly I didn’t person to unrecorded my full beingness successful this doldrumescent hell. I started chasing this thing, and we truly did prevention it from what we would present telephone AI death. Or the throes of a decabillionaire who is disquieted astir achromatic genocide," helium said.

CNN FIRES DON LEMON, LEAVING LONGTIME ANCHOR 'STUNNED'

Don Lemon

Don Lemon recovered himself successful blistery h2o by saying Nikki Haley was past her "prime" astatine property 51, citing Google arsenic his root portion stunning his pistillate co-anchors successful the process.  (CNN)

CNN fired Don Lemon successful 2023 aft the anchor caused changeless headaches for web executives with his rhetoric. 

Lemon recovered himself successful blistery h2o 2 months earlier helium was shown the doorway by saying Nikki Haley was past her "prime" astatine property 51, citing Google arsenic his root portion stunning his pistillate co-anchors successful the process. Lemon offered a mea culpa during the network's editorial telephone the adjacent day, but pistillate colleagues weren’t pleased.

Colleagues were further enraged erstwhile Lemon was spotted astatine Miami Beach aft the insensitive remarks astir Haley. Lemon was past ordered to instrumentality "formal training," but his clip astatine the web was already coming to an end. 

Lemon's "prime" comments were universally panned and not conscionable by conservatives, receiving mockery from Biden spokesperson Karine Jean-Pierre during a White House briefing and adjacent making its mode to this year's Oscars ceremony. Best Actress victor Michelle Yeoh told women successful Hollywood, "Don't fto anybody archer you, you are ever past your prime."

Those remarks were hardly the archetypal clip Lemon’s on-air rhetoric sparked backlash among pistillate viewers.

In 2014, helium infamously asked a Bill Cosby accuser wherefore she didn’t simply wound his penis to forestall an alleged rape. In 2022, helium asked CNN expert S.E. Cupp if she was suffering from "mommy brain" aft she mislaid her bid of thought during a sheet discussion. Later that year, Lemon clashed with his pistillate "CNN This Morning" co-hosts portion arguing that antheral athletes marque much wealth than women due to the fact that "people are much funny successful the men."

During his clip astatine CNN, Lemon besides compared Trump supporters to Ku Klux Klan members, defended Antifa, and fumed implicit radical unvaccinated against coronavirus "taking up the space" successful hospitals, among different news-making moments.

WHOOPI GOLDBERG SUSPENDED FROM 'THE VIEW' FOLLOWING HOLOCAUST REMARKS

Whoopi Goldberg

Whoopi Goldberg was suspended successful 2022 for arguable remarks astir the Holocaust connected ABC News’ "The View."  (Screenshot/ABC)

Whoopi Goldberg was suspended successful 2022 for arguable remarks astir the Holocaust connected ABC News’ "The View." 

Goldberg, who differs from others due to the fact that she is simply a speech amusement big arsenic opposed to a existent journalist, went viral erstwhile she argued that the Holocaust "isn't astir race," stunning her colleagues astatine the table. 

"What is it about?" co-host Joy Behar asked. 

"It’s astir man’s inhumanity to man, that’s what it’s about," Goldberg said.  

"But it’s astir a White supremacist going aft Jews and Gypsies," impermanent co-host Ana Navarro said arsenic Goldberg attempted to talk implicit her. 

"But these are 2 White groups of people," Goldberg said arsenic her colleagues disagreed. 

Jewish groups condemned the comments, accusing Goldberg of minimizing Jewish suffering. She attempted to explicate her remarks during her quality connected "The Late Show," suggesting she ne'er meant to offend anyone. 

"I deliberation of contention arsenic being thing that I tin see," Goldberg told Stephen Colbert.

"You couldn’t archer who was Jewish. They had to delve profoundly to fig it out… My constituent is, they had to bash the work," she continued. "I don’t privation to fake apologize… I’m precise upset that radical misunderstood what I was saying."

ABC News suspended Goldberg for 2 weeks, saying she needed to instrumentality clip to "reflect and larn astir the interaction of her comments."

Behar besides faced important backlash for 2018 comments that mocked then-Vice President Mike Pence’s Christian faith. 

"The View" sheet archetypal criticized Pence's religion erstwhile co-host Sunny Hostin said, "I don’t cognize that I privation my vice president, um — speaking successful tongues and having Jesus talk to him."

Behar chimed in, adding that proceeding from Jesus is really called "mental illness." She yet apologized.

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Martin Bashir

Martin Bashir near MSNBC successful 2013 aft suggesting that idiosyncratic should defecate successful erstwhile Republican vice statesmanlike nominee Sarah Palin’s mouth. (Getty Images)

British writer Martin Bashir near MSNBC successful 2013 aft sparking wide contention for suggesting that idiosyncratic should defecate successful erstwhile Republican vice statesmanlike nominee Sarah Palin’s mouth. While helium apologized the pursuing week, the harm was done.

Bashir initially took disconnected 2 weeks for what was billed arsenic a vacation, and MSNBC took vigor for failing to enactment against him. He near the web upon his instrumentality aft a gathering with then-MSNBC president Phil Griffin.

"I person tendered my resignation. It is my sincere anticipation that each of my colleagues, astatine this peculiar network, volition beryllium allowed to absorption connected the issues that substance without the distraction of myself oregon my ill-judged comments," Bashir said. "I profoundly regret what was said, volition endeavor to enactment hard astatine making constructive contributions successful the aboriginal and volition ever person a heavy appreciation for our viewers – who are the smartest, astir compassionate and discerning of each tv audiences." 

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Fox News Digital’s Hanna Panreck and Joseph A. Wulfsohn contributed to this report.