Terry Moran

====1997–2005====

====1997–2005====

[[File:George W. Bush in Rose Garden.jpg|thumb|right|Moran addressing President [[George W. Bush]] as an ABC News White House correspondent, October 2005]]

[[File:George W. Bush in Rose Garden.jpg|thumb|right|Moran addressing President [[George W. Bush]] as an ABC News White House correspondent, October 2005]]

Moran joined [[American Broadcasting Company|ABC]] News in 1997 as the Law and Justice Correspondent.<ref name=Banner>{{cite news|url=https://books.google.com/books?id=N4FRAAAAIBAJ&dq=%22Terry+Moran%22&pg=PA18&article_id=1678,2632041|title=Goodman series axed; Moran promoted|newspaper=[[Ocala Star-Banner]]|publisher=[[Gannett]]|via=[[Newspapers.com]]|page=18|date=December 18, 2000|accessdate=June 30, 2025}}</ref><ref name=":0" /><ref name=Award>{{cite news|url=https://abcnews.go.com/WNT/story?id=129968&page=1|title=ABCNEWS Correspondent Terry Moran|website=[[ABC News (United States)|ABC News]]|publisher=[[Disney General Entertainment Content]]|date=December 17, 2000|accessdate=June 18, 2025}}</ref> Moran served as the primary correspondent assigned to the U.S. Supreme Court from 1998 to 1999.<ref name="auto1"/> In September 1999, Moran was promoted to weekend White House Correspondent for John Cochran who took over for [[Sam Donaldson]] while he had throat surgery.<ref>{{cite news|url=https://books.google.com/books?id=5LZIAAAAIBAJ&dq=%22Terry+Moran%22&pg=PA32&article_id=3414,4902599|title=Cochran starts 4thWhite House stint|author=Knight Ridder Newspapers|author-link=Knight Ridder|newspaper=[[The Vindicator (Ohio newspaper)|The Vindicator]]|publisher=[[Ogden Newspapers]]|via=[[Newspapers.com]]|page=32|date=September 23, 1999|accessdate=June 30, 2025}}</ref> Moran was promoted in December 2000 ABC News' Chief White House Correspondent from December 2000 to January 2001 where he covered the [[President of the United States|presidency]] of [[Bill Clinton]].<ref name=Banner/><ref name=Hewitt>{{cite book|url=https://books.google.com/books?id=LfenXIxX1Y4C&dq=%22Terry+Moran%22+-wikipedia&pg=PT56|title=Painting the Map Red: The Fight to Create a Permanent Republican Majority|first=Hugh|last=Hewitt|publisher=[[Regnery Publishing]]|format=[[eBook]]|location=[[Washington, D.C.]]|page=56|year=2013|isbn=9781621571483}}</ref><ref>{{cite news|url=https://books.google.com/books?id=nclIAAAAIBAJ&dq=%22Terry+Moran%22&pg=PA29&article_id=2812,3604257|title=Tube notes - Television news|newspaper=[[The Vindicator (Ohio newspaper)|The Vindicator]]|publisher=[[Ogden Newspapers]]|via=[[Newspapers.com]]|page=29|date=December 20, 2000|accessdate=June 30, 2025}}</ref> He covered [[Vice President of the United States|Vice President]] [[Al Gore]]'s presidential campaign.<ref name=Award/><ref>{{cite news|url=https://abcnews.go.com/WNT/story?id=129968&page=1|title=ABCNEWS Correspondent Terry Moran|website=[[ABC News (United States)|ABC News]]|publisher=[[Disney General Entertainment Content]]|date=December 12, 2000|accessdate=June 15, 2025}}</ref> While on the campaign trail in buses and planes, Moran reviewed the [[Lincoln-Douglas debate]].<ref>{{cite book|url=https://books.google.com/books?id=jDp5mF3ZjgsC&dq=%22Terry+Moran%22+-wikipedia&pg=PA392|title=The Constitution and Campaign Reform Hearings|author=United States Senate Committee on Rules and Administration|author-link=United States Senate Committee on Rules and Administration|publisher=[[United States Government Printing Office]]|location=[[Washington, D. C.]]|year=2000|page=392|isbn=978-0160645280}}</ref> In September 2000, Moran reported that Gore spent nine days in [[Florida]] making [[George W. Bush]] campaign extensively in the state.<ref>{{cite book|url=https://books.google.com/books?id=0a_OEAAAQBAJ&dq=%22Terry+Moran%22+-wikipedia&pg=PA143|title=Missed Opportunity: Gore, Incumbency, and Television in Election 2000|first=E. D.|last=Dover|publisher=[[Bloomsbury Publishing]]|location=[[London]]|format=[[eBook]]|year=2002|page=143|isbn=978-0313010958}}</ref> Moran would cover the presidency of George W. Bush from January 2001 to late November 2005.<ref name=Banner/><ref name=Hewitt/> In January 2002, Moran claimed he was offended when he overheard two print reporters talking inside the briefing room.<ref>{{cite book|url=https://books.google.com/books?id=Mo1ZAAAAMAAJ&q=%22Terry+Moran%22+-wikipedia|title=Lapdogs: How the Press Lay Down for the Bush White House|first1=Eric|last1=Boehlert|publisher=[[Free Press (publisher)|Free Press]]|location=[[New York City]]|year=2006|format=[[Hardcover]]|page=234|isbn=978-0743289313}}</ref> In a question and answer press conference, Moran asked President Bush about the [[Harken Energy scandal]]. [[Ari Fleischer]], who served as the 23rd [[White House Press Secretary|White House press secretary]], for President Bush, from January 2001 to July 2003, told the President that he thought Moran's editors told him to ask the question though he thought of the question himself.<ref>{{cite book|url=https://books.google.com/books?id=6Yuuj4gA7XMC&dq=%22Terry+Moran%22+-wikipedia&pg=PA27|title=Managing the President's Message: The White House Communications Operation|first=Martha Joynt|last=Kumar|author-link=Martha Joynt Kumar|publisher=[[Johns Hopkins University Press]]|location=[[Baltimore]]|year=2010|page=27|format=[[eBook]]|isbn=978-0801899522}}</ref> One month after the [[September 11 attacks]] (9/11), Moran reported from [[the Pentagon]] where there was a service for the one hundred eighty-nine dead. [[United States Secretary of Defense|Secretary of Defense]] [[Donald Rumsfeld]] and President Bush spoke at the ceremony on ''[[ABC World News Tonight#Peter Jennings's second solo tenure (1983–2005)|ABC World News Tonight with Peter Jennings]]''. Moran mentioned that the President would speak to the nation and the world in a [[prime time]] speech.<ref>{{cite book|url=https://books.google.com/books?id=tWJHAQAAIAAJ&dq=%22Terry+Moran%22+-wikipedia&pg=PA2165|title=Public Statements of Donald H. Rumsfeld, Secretary of Defense, 2001|first=Donald|last=Rumsfeld|author-link=Donald Rumsfeld|publisher=[[Office of the Secretary of Defense]]|location=[[Washington, D.C.]]|year=2001|page=2165}}</ref> In January 2004, Moran reported on ''[[This Week (American TV program)|This Week]]'' that President Bush campaigned as "a unifier, not a divider" in 2000 where Moran concluded with that Bush failed as that. Moran said Bush was a "divisive president" and "divisive figure".<ref>{{cite news|url=https://books.google.com/books?id=_nA0AAAAIBAJ&dq=%22Terry+Moran%22&pg=PA6&article_id=1748,615309|title=When the media meet the canidates|first=Cal|last=Thomas|newspaper=[[TimesDaily]]|publisher=Tennessee Valley Printing Co., Inc.|via=[[Newspapers.com]]|date=January 5, 2004|accessdate=June 29, 2025}}</ref> During President Bush's term, he questioned why the President was taking the nation to war on "a series of false pretenses".<ref>{{cite book|url=https://books.google.com/books?id=-UmEawa2dOwC&dq=%22Terry+Moran%22+-wikipedia&pg=PA27|title=Strategery: How George W. Bush is Defeating Terrorists, Outwitting Democrats, and Confounding the Mainstream Media|page=27|first=Bill|last=Sammon|publisher=[[Regnery Publishing]]|format=[[eBook]]|location=[[Washington, D.C.]]|year=2006|isbn=9781596980365}}</ref> Moran also asked about two impressions; [[Saddam Hussein]] and the Iraqi oil fields which the President said, "Yes. Well. I'm–some people have the right impressions and some people have the wrong impressions."<ref>{{cite book|url=https://books.google.com/books?id=J-DZAAAAMAAJ&dq=%22Terry+Moran%22+-wikipedia&pg=PA2043|title=George W. Bush: bk. 2. July 1 to December 31, 2002|first=George W.|last=Bush|author-link=George W. Bush|contribution=[[Office of the Federal Register]]|publisher=[[U.S. Government Printing Office]]|location=[[Washington, D. C.]]|year=2005|page=2043}}</ref><ref>{{cite book|url=https://books.google.com/books?id=uQBECo-sqjoC&dq=%22Terry+Moran%22+-wikipedia&pg=PA2001|title=Weekly Compilation of Presidential Documents|publisher=[[Office of the Federal Register]]|location=[[Washington, D. C.]]|year=2002|page=2001|volume=38–52}}</ref> John Powers' wrote in his book ''Sore Winners: American Idols, Patriotic Shoppers, and Other Strange Species in George Bush's America'' that Moran had the guts to suggest that President Bush eluded questions on the world's opposition to war.<ref>{{cite book|url=https://books.google.com/books?id=1kHQphW6waUC&dq=%22Terry+Moran%22+-wikipedia&pg=PA190|title=Sore Winners: American Idols, Patriotic Shoppers, and Other Strange Species in George Bush's America|first=John|last=Powers|publisher=[[Penguin Random House#Knopf Doubleday Publishing Group|Knopf Doubleday]]|location=[[New York City]]|year=2005|page=190|isbn=978-0307275097}}</ref> Moran interviewed Vice President [[Dick Cheney]] about [[domestic spying|surveilling]]<ref>{{cite book|url=https://books.google.com/books?id=KYXGOFiSrbsC&dq=%22Terry+Moran%22+-wikipedia&pg=PA41|title=

Moran joined [[American Broadcasting Company|ABC]] News in 1997 as the Law and Justice Correspondent.<ref name=Banner>{{cite news|url=https://books.google.com/books?id=N4FRAAAAIBAJ&dq=%22Terry+Moran%22&pg=PA18&article_id=1678,2632041|title=Goodman series axed; Moran promoted|newspaper=[[Ocala Star-Banner]]|publisher=[[Gannett]]|via=[[Newspapers.com]]|page=18|date=December 18, 2000|accessdate=June 30, 2025}}</ref><ref name=":0" /><ref name=Award>{{cite news|url=https://abcnews.go.com/WNT/story?id=129968&page=1|title=ABCNEWS Correspondent Terry Moran|website=[[ABC News (United States)|ABC News]]|publisher=[[Disney General Entertainment Content]]|date=December 17, 2000|accessdate=June 18, 2025}}</ref> Moran served as the primary correspondent assigned to the U.S. Supreme Court from 1998 to 1999.<ref name="auto1"/> In September 1999, Moran was promoted to weekend White House Correspondent for John Cochran who took over for [[Sam Donaldson]] while he had throat surgery.<ref>{{cite news|url=https://books.google.com/books?id=5LZIAAAAIBAJ&dq=%22Terry+Moran%22&pg=PA32&article_id=3414,4902599|title=Cochran starts 4thWhite House stint|author=Knight Ridder Newspapers|author-link=Knight Ridder|newspaper=[[The Vindicator (Ohio newspaper)|The Vindicator]]|publisher=[[Ogden Newspapers]]|via=[[Newspapers.com]]|page=32|date=September 23, 1999|accessdate=June 30, 2025}}</ref> Moran was promoted in December 2000 ABC News' Chief White House Correspondent from December 2000 to January 2001 where he covered the [[President of the United States|presidency]] of [[Bill Clinton]].<ref name=Banner/><ref name=Hewitt>{{cite book|url=https://books.google.com/books?id=LfenXIxX1Y4C&dq=%22Terry+Moran%22+-wikipedia&pg=PT56|title=Painting the Map Red: The Fight to Create a Permanent Republican Majority|first=Hugh|last=Hewitt|publisher=[[Regnery Publishing]]|format=[[eBook]]|location=[[Washington, D.C.]]|page=56|year=2013|isbn=9781621571483}}</ref><ref>{{cite news|url=https://books.google.com/books?id=nclIAAAAIBAJ&dq=%22Terry+Moran%22&pg=PA29&article_id=2812,3604257|title=Tube notes - Television news|newspaper=[[The Vindicator (Ohio newspaper)|The Vindicator]]|publisher=[[Ogden Newspapers]]|via=[[Newspapers.com]]|page=29|date=December 20, 2000|accessdate=June 30, 2025}}</ref> He covered [[Vice President of the United States|Vice President]] [[Al Gore]]'s presidential campaign.<ref name=Award/><ref>{{cite news|url=https://abcnews.go.com/WNT/story?id=129968&page=1|title=ABCNEWS Correspondent Terry Moran|website=[[ABC News (United States)|ABC News]]|publisher=[[Disney General Entertainment Content]]|date=December 12, 2000|accessdate=June 15, 2025}}</ref> While on the campaign trail in buses and planes, Moran reviewed the [[Lincoln-Douglas debate]].<ref>{{cite book|url=https://books.google.com/books?id=jDp5mF3ZjgsC&dq=%22Terry+Moran%22+-wikipedia&pg=PA392|title=The Constitution and Campaign Reform Hearings|author=United States Senate Committee on Rules and Administration|author-link=United States Senate Committee on Rules and Administration|publisher=[[United States Government Printing Office]]|location=[[Washington, D. C.]]|year=2000|page=392|isbn=978-0160645280}}</ref> In September 2000, Moran reported that Gore spent nine days in [[Florida]] making [[George W. Bush]] campaign extensively in the state.<ref>{{cite book|url=https://books.google.com/books?id=0a_OEAAAQBAJ&dq=%22Terry+Moran%22+-wikipedia&pg=PA143|title=Missed Opportunity: Gore, Incumbency, and Television in Election 2000|first=E. D.|last=Dover|publisher=[[Bloomsbury Publishing]]|location=[[London]]|format=[[eBook]]|year=2002|page=143|isbn=978-0313010958}}</ref> Moran would cover the presidency of George W. Bush from January 2001 to late November 2005.<ref name=Banner/><ref name=Hewitt/> In January 2002, Moran claimed he was offended when he overheard two print reporters talking inside the briefing room.<ref>{{cite book|url=https://books.google.com/books?id=Mo1ZAAAAMAAJ&q=%22Terry+Moran%22+-wikipedia|title=Lapdogs: How the Press Lay Down for the Bush White House|first1=Eric|last1=Boehlert|publisher=[[Free Press (publisher)|Free Press]]|location=[[New York City]]|year=2006|format=[[Hardcover]]|page=234|isbn=978-0743289313}}</ref> In a question and answer press conference, Moran asked President Bush about the [[Harken Energy scandal]]. [[Ari Fleischer]], who served as the 23rd [[White House Press Secretary|White House press secretary]], for President Bush, from January 2001 to July 2003, told the President that he thought Moran's editors told him to ask the question though he thought of the question himself.<ref>{{cite book|url=https://books.google.com/books?id=6Yuuj4gA7XMC&dq=%22Terry+Moran%22+-wikipedia&pg=PA27|title=Managing the President's Message: The White House Communications Operation|first=Martha Joynt|last=Kumar|author-link=Martha Joynt Kumar|publisher=[[Johns Hopkins University Press]]|location=[[Baltimore]]|year=2010|page=27|format=[[eBook]]|isbn=978-0801899522}}</ref> One month after the [[September 11 attacks]] (9/11), Moran reported from [[the Pentagon]] where there was a service for the one hundred eighty-nine dead. [[United States Secretary of Defense|Secretary of Defense]] [[Donald Rumsfeld]] and President Bush spoke at the ceremony on ''[[ABC World News Tonight#Peter Jennings's second solo tenure (1983–2005)|ABC World News Tonight with Peter Jennings]]''. Moran mentioned that the President would speak to the nation and the world in a [[prime time]] speech.<ref>{{cite book|url=https://books.google.com/books?id=tWJHAQAAIAAJ&dq=%22Terry+Moran%22+-wikipedia&pg=PA2165|title=Public Statements of Donald H. Rumsfeld, Secretary of Defense, 2001|first=Donald|last=Rumsfeld|author-link=Donald Rumsfeld|publisher=[[Office of the Secretary of Defense]]|location=[[Washington, D.C.]]|year=2001|page=2165}}</ref> In January 2004, Moran reported on ''[[This Week (American TV program)|This Week]]'' that President Bush campaigned as "a unifier, not a divider" in 2000 where Moran concluded with that Bush failed as that. Moran said Bush was a "divisive president" and "divisive figure".<ref>{{cite news|url=https://books.google.com/books?id=_nA0AAAAIBAJ&dq=%22Terry+Moran%22&pg=PA6&article_id=1748,615309|title=When the media meet the canidates|first=Cal|last=Thomas|newspaper=[[TimesDaily]]|publisher=Tennessee Valley Printing Co., Inc.|via=[[Newspapers.com]]|date=January 5, 2004|accessdate=June 29, 2025}}</ref> During President Bush's term, he questioned why the President was taking the nation to war on "a series of false pretenses".<ref>{{cite book|url=https://books.google.com/books?id=-UmEawa2dOwC&dq=%22Terry+Moran%22+-wikipedia&pg=PA27|title=Strategery: How George W. Bush is Defeating Terrorists, Outwitting Democrats, and Confounding the Mainstream Media|page=27|first=Bill|last=Sammon|publisher=[[Regnery Publishing]]|format=[[eBook]]|location=[[Washington, D.C.]]|year=2006|isbn=9781596980365}}</ref> On November 7, 2005, Moran also asked about two impressions; [[Saddam Hussein]] and the Iraqi oil fields which the President said, "Yes. Well. I'm–some people have the right impressions and some people have the wrong impressions."<ref>{{cite book|url=https://books.google.com/books?id=J-DZAAAAMAAJ&dq=%22Terry+Moran%22+-wikipedia&pg=PA2043|title=George W. Bush: bk. 2. July 1 to December 31, 2002|first=George W.|last=Bush|author-link=George W. Bush|contribution=[[Office of the Federal Register]]|publisher=[[U.S. Government Printing Office]]|location=[[Washington, D. C.]]|year=2005|page=2043}}</ref><ref>{{cite book|url=https://books.google.com/books?id=uQBECo-sqjoC&dq=%22Terry+Moran%22+-wikipedia&pg=PA2001|title=Weekly Compilation of Presidential Documents|publisher=[[Office of the Federal Register]]|location=[[Washington, D. C.]]|year=2002|page=2001|volume=38–52}}</ref> In that same interview, Moran asked about how terrorists would come after Americans for going to war with Hussein and Iraq which he responded, "Well that's like saying we should not be going after Al Qaida because we might irritate somebody, and that would create a danger to Americans. My attitude is, you've got to deal with terrorism in a firm way. And if they see threats, you deal with them in all different kind of ways".<ref>{{cite book|url=https://www.google.com/books/edition/Public_Papers_of_the_Presidents_of_the_U/amDQEn1ctbwC?hl=en&gbpv=1&dq=%22Terry+Moran%22+-wikipedia&pg=PA2043&printsec=frontcover|title=

Public Papers of the Presidents of the United States|first=George W.|last=Bush|author-link=George W. Bush|contribution=[[Office of the Federal Register]]|publisher=[[U.S. Government Printing Office]]|location=[[Washington, D. C.]]|pages=2043–2044|year=2005|format=[[Digitization|Digitized]]}}</ref> John Powers' wrote in his book ''Sore Winners: American Idols, Patriotic Shoppers, and Other Strange Species in George Bush's America'' that Moran had the guts to suggest that President Bush eluded questions on the world's opposition to war.<ref>{{cite book|url=https://books.google.com/books?id=1kHQphW6waUC&dq=%22Terry+Moran%22+-wikipedia&pg=PA190|title=Sore Winners: American Idols, Patriotic Shoppers, and Other Strange Species in George Bush's America|first=John|last=Powers|publisher=[[Penguin Random House#Knopf Doubleday Publishing Group|Knopf Doubleday]]|location=[[New York City]]|year=2005|page=190|isbn=978-0307275097}}</ref> Moran interviewed Vice President [[Dick Cheney]] about [[domestic spying|surveilling]]<ref>{{cite book|url=https://books.google.com/books?id=KYXGOFiSrbsC&dq=%22Terry+Moran%22+-wikipedia&pg=PA41|title=

The Evangelical President: George Bush's Struggle to Spread a Moral Democracy Throughout the World|first=Bill|last=Sammon|publisher=[[Regnery Publishing]]|format=[[eBook]]|page=41|location=[[Washington, D.C.]]|year=2007|isbn=9781596985360}}</ref> and [[waterboarding]] prisoners.<ref>{{cite book|url=https://books.google.com/books?id=KYXGOFiSrbsC&dq=%22Terry+Moran%22+-wikipedia&pg=PA42|title=

The Evangelical President: George Bush's Struggle to Spread a Moral Democracy Throughout the World|first=Bill|last=Sammon|publisher=[[Regnery Publishing]]|format=[[eBook]]|page=41|location=[[Washington, D.C.]]|year=2007|isbn=9781596985360}}</ref> and [[waterboarding]] prisoners.<ref>{{cite book|url=https://books.google.com/books?id=KYXGOFiSrbsC&dq=%22Terry+Moran%22+-wikipedia&pg=PA42|title=

The Evangelical President: George Bush's Struggle to Spread a Moral Democracy Throughout the World|first=Bill|last=Sammon|publisher=[[Regnery Publishing]]|format=[[eBook]]|page=42|location=[[Washington, D.C.]]|year=2007|isbn=9781596985360}}</ref> In March 2003, Moran reported that the reporters at President Bush's speech on the [[Invasion of Iraq]] on the start of the [[Iraq War]] that reporters looked "like zombies".<ref>{{cite magazine|url=https://books.google.com/books?id=mNFNAQAAIAAJ&q=%22Terry+Moran%22+-wikipedia|title=President Bush's speech on the Invasion of Iraq|magazine=[[The Nation]]|publisher=The Nation Company, L.P.|page=12|volume=277|year=2003}}</ref> In February 2004, Moran spoke with [[First Lady of the United States|First Lady]] [[Laura Bush]]. She responded to him on [[Terry McAuliffe]]'s [[AWOL]] charge, "I don't think it's really fair to lie about allegations about someone." Moran would ask how she knew President Bush was on [[Alabama National Guard|Guard Duty]] in Alabama. First Lady Bush responded, "Because he told me he was." [[George W. Bush 2004 presidential campaign|The reelection committee]] pitched her as the president's secret weapon after the [[David Kay#Testimony before House and Senate committees|David Kay fiasco]].<ref>{{cite news|url=https://books.google.com/books?id=d6gkAAAAIBAJ&dq=%22Terry+Moran%22&pg=PA4&article_id=7033,2828725|title=The New Laura Bush|first=Maureen|last=Dowd|author-link=Maureen Dowd|newspaper=[[Pittsburgh Post-Gazette]]|publisher=[[Block Communications]]|agency=[[The New York Times]]|via=[[Newspapers.com]]|page=4|date=February 4, 2004|accessdate=June 30, 2025}}</ref><ref>{{cite news|url=https://books.google.com/books?id=b09aAAAAIBAJ&dq=%22Terry+Moran%22&pg=PA32&article_id=2038,9206128|title=Laura is turning into Bush's secret Weapon|first=Maureen|last=Dowd|author-link=Maureen Dowd|newspaper=[[Observer–Reporter]]|publisher=[[Ogden Newspapers]]|agency=[[The New York Times]]|via=[[Newspapers.com]]|page=4|date=February 4, 2004|accessdate=June 30, 2025}}</ref> On June 22, 2004, Moran reported on the Iraqi prisoners at [[Abu Ghraib]], [[Guantanamo Bay]], and other lesser known prisons where torture was taking place on ''ABC World News Tonight with Peter Jennings''.<ref>{{cite book|url=https://books.google.com/books?id=gbTGQ4zD6RQC&dq=%22Terry+Moran%22+-wikipedia&pg=PA88|title=Fueling Our Fears: Stereotyping, Media Coverage, and Public Opinion of Muslim Americans|first1=Brigitte Lebens|last1=Nacos|first2=Oscar|last2=Torres-Reyna|author-link1=Brigitte L. Nacos|publisher=[[Bloomsbury Publishing#Acquisitions and imprints|Bloomsbury Academic]]|location=[[London]]|year=2007|page=88|isbn=9780-742539839}}</ref> In 2004, Moran was named anchor of [[ABC World News Tonight#Weekends|ABC World News Tonight Sunday]].<ref name =Porter/> During the [[2004 United States presidential election|2004 Presidential Election]], Moran asked "The question for the [[Swift Vets and POWs for Truth|Swfit Boat Veterans]] is, are their charges accurate?" of [[John Kerry]].<ref>{{cite book|url=https://books.google.com/books?id=Mo1ZAAAAMAAJ&q=%22Terry+Moran%22+-wikipedia|title=Lapdogs: How the Press Lay Down for the Bush White House|first1=Eric|last1=Boehlert|publisher=[[Free Press (publisher)|Free Press]]|location=[[New York City]]|year=2006|format=[[Hardcover]]|page=190|isbn=978-0743289313}}</ref> In May 2005, Moran was interviewed by [[Hugh Hewitt]]. Moran said, "There is, I agree with you, a deep anti-military bias in the media, one that begins from the premise that the military must be lying and that American projection of power around the world must be wrong."<ref>{{cite news|url=https://books.google.com/books?id=bA9ZAAAAIBAJ&dq=%22Terry+Moran%22&pg=PA15&article_id=6898,7016420|title=Left-leaning press out of sync|first=Hugh|last=Hewitt|author-link=Hugh Hewitt|newspaper=[[The Victoria Advocate]]|publisher=M. Roberts Media|via=[[Newspapers.com]]|page=15|date=May 30, 2005|accessdate=June 30, 2025}}</ref> In June 2005, Moran reported from [[Fort Bragg]] on President Bush's speech with [[Charles Gibson]] and [[George Stephanopoulos]] in [[New York City]].<ref>{{cite web|url=https://georgewbush-whitehouse.archives.gov/news/releases/2005/06/20050628-7.html|title=President Addresses Nation, Discusses Iraq, War on Terror|website=georgewbush-whitehouse.archives.gov|publisher=[[National Archives and Records Administration]]|date=June 28, 2005|url-status=live|archive-url=https://web.archive.org/web/20170711145020/https://georgewbush-whitehouse.archives.gov/news/releases/2005/06/20050628-7.html|archive-date=July 11, 2017|access-date=June 29, 2025}}</ref><ref>{{cite web|url=https://www.adweek.com/tvnewser/abc-cable-nets-plan-live-of-bush-speech-no-word-from-nbc-or-cbs/|title=ABC & Cable Nets Plan Live Of Bush Speech; No Word From NBC Or CBS |first=Brian L.|last=Name|website=[[Adweek]]|publisher=[[Shamrock Holdings|Shamrock Capital]]|date=June 27, 2005|accessdate=June 29, 2025}}</ref>

The Evangelical President: George Bush's Struggle to Spread a Moral Democracy Throughout the World|first=Bill|last=Sammon|publisher=[[Regnery Publishing]]|format=[[eBook]]|page=42|location=[[Washington, D.C.]]|year=2007|isbn=9781596985360}}</ref> In March 2003, Moran reported that the reporters at President Bush's speech on the [[Invasion of Iraq]] on the start of the [[Iraq War]] that reporters looked "like zombies".<ref>{{cite magazine|url=https://books.google.com/books?id=mNFNAQAAIAAJ&q=%22Terry+Moran%22+-wikipedia|title=President Bush's speech on the Invasion of Iraq|magazine=[[The Nation]]|publisher=The Nation Company, L.P.|page=12|volume=277|year=2003}}</ref> In February 2004, Moran spoke with [[First Lady of the United States|First Lady]] [[Laura Bush]]. She responded to him on [[Terry McAuliffe]]'s [[AWOL]] charge, "I don't think it's really fair to lie about allegations about someone." Moran would ask how she knew President Bush was on [[Alabama National Guard|Guard Duty]] in Alabama. First Lady Bush responded, "Because he told me he was." [[George W. Bush 2004 presidential campaign|The reelection committee]] pitched her as the president's secret weapon after the [[David Kay#Testimony before House and Senate committees|David Kay fiasco]].<ref>{{cite news|url=https://books.google.com/books?id=d6gkAAAAIBAJ&dq=%22Terry+Moran%22&pg=PA4&article_id=7033,2828725|title=The New Laura Bush|first=Maureen|last=Dowd|author-link=Maureen Dowd|newspaper=[[Pittsburgh Post-Gazette]]|publisher=[[Block Communications]]|agency=[[The New York Times]]|via=[[Newspapers.com]]|page=4|date=February 4, 2004|accessdate=June 30, 2025}}</ref><ref>{{cite news|url=https://books.google.com/books?id=b09aAAAAIBAJ&dq=%22Terry+Moran%22&pg=PA32&article_id=2038,9206128|title=Laura is turning into Bush's secret Weapon|first=Maureen|last=Dowd|author-link=Maureen Dowd|newspaper=[[Observer–Reporter]]|publisher=[[Ogden Newspapers]]|agency=[[The New York Times]]|via=[[Newspapers.com]]|page=4|date=February 4, 2004|accessdate=June 30, 2025}}</ref> On June 22, 2004, Moran reported on the Iraqi prisoners at [[Abu Ghraib]], [[Guantanamo Bay]], and other lesser known prisons where torture was taking place on ''ABC World News Tonight with Peter Jennings''.<ref>{{cite book|url=https://books.google.com/books?id=gbTGQ4zD6RQC&dq=%22Terry+Moran%22+-wikipedia&pg=PA88|title=Fueling Our Fears: Stereotyping, Media Coverage, and Public Opinion of Muslim Americans|first1=Brigitte Lebens|last1=Nacos|first2=Oscar|last2=Torres-Reyna|author-link1=Brigitte L. Nacos|publisher=[[Bloomsbury Publishing#Acquisitions and imprints|Bloomsbury Academic]]|location=[[London]]|year=2007|page=88|isbn=9780-742539839}}</ref> In 2004, Moran was named anchor of [[ABC World News Tonight#Weekends|ABC World News Tonight Sunday]].<ref name =Porter/> During the [[2004 United States presidential election|2004 Presidential Election]], Moran asked "The question for the [[Swift Vets and POWs for Truth|Swfit Boat Veterans]] is, are their charges accurate?" of [[John Kerry]].<ref>{{cite book|url=https://books.google.com/books?id=Mo1ZAAAAMAAJ&q=%22Terry+Moran%22+-wikipedia|title=Lapdogs: How the Press Lay Down for the Bush White House|first1=Eric|last1=Boehlert|publisher=[[Free Press (publisher)|Free Press]]|location=[[New York City]]|year=2006|format=[[Hardcover]]|page=190|isbn=978-0743289313}}</ref> In May 2005, Moran was interviewed by [[Hugh Hewitt]]. Moran said, "There is, I agree with you, a deep anti-military bias in the media, one that begins from the premise that the military must be lying and that American projection of power around the world must be wrong."<ref>{{cite news|url=https://books.google.com/books?id=bA9ZAAAAIBAJ&dq=%22Terry+Moran%22&pg=PA15&article_id=6898,7016420|title=Left-leaning press out of sync|first=Hugh|last=Hewitt|author-link=Hugh Hewitt|newspaper=[[The Victoria Advocate]]|publisher=M. Roberts Media|via=[[Newspapers.com]]|page=15|date=May 30, 2005|accessdate=June 30, 2025}}</ref> In June 2005, Moran reported from [[Fort Bragg]] on President Bush's speech with [[Charles Gibson]] and [[George Stephanopoulos]] in [[New York City]].<ref>{{cite web|url=https://georgewbush-whitehouse.archives.gov/news/releases/2005/06/20050628-7.html|title=President Addresses Nation, Discusses Iraq, War on Terror|website=georgewbush-whitehouse.archives.gov|publisher=[[National Archives and Records Administration]]|date=June 28, 2005|url-status=live|archive-url=https://web.archive.org/web/20170711145020/https://georgewbush-whitehouse.archives.gov/news/releases/2005/06/20050628-7.html|archive-date=July 11, 2017|access-date=June 29, 2025}}</ref><ref>{{cite web|url=https://www.adweek.com/tvnewser/abc-cable-nets-plan-live-of-bush-speech-no-word-from-nbc-or-cbs/|title=ABC & Cable Nets Plan Live Of Bush Speech; No Word From NBC Or CBS |first=Brian L.|last=Name|website=[[Adweek]]|publisher=[[Shamrock Holdings|Shamrock Capital]]|date=June 27, 2005|accessdate=June 29, 2025}}</ref>