Fox News Analyst Quits, Calls Network a Propaganda Machine

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Source: The Daily Beast

Maxwell Tani
03.20.18 4:20 PM ET

A longtime Fox News commentator on Tuesday let the network have it in a scathing letter to colleagues announcing his departure.

In an email to Fox News staff, first obtained by BuzzFeed News, strategic analyst Ret. Lt. Col. Ralph Peters claimed he decided not to renew his contract earlier this month because of how “ashamed” he is of Fox.

Peters attributed his decision to Fox’s defense of President Trump amid alleged Russian collusion in the 2016 presidential election, declaring that the network was increasingly “wittingly harming our system of government for profit.”

“Fox News is assaulting our constitutional order and the rule of law, while fostering corrosive and unjustified paranoia among viewers,” he wrote in the email. “Over my decade with Fox, I long was proud of the association. Now I am ashamed.”



Read more: https://www.thedailybeast.com/fox-news-analyst-col-ralph-peters-ashamed-of-network-quits-the-propaganda-machine?ref=home

[Freethinker65]

1. It took him over ten years to figure out what FoxNews really was ????? Yikes!

[mpcamb]

4. Kind of a s l o w motion wake up, doncha think?

Still may only put him toward the middle of the road.

[vkkv]

8. Peters isn't one of the smart ones.. nt

[Gore1FL]

15. I think he may have seen a little shenanigans for a good cause (his own) OK.

When the nonsense got dialed up to 10, under Trump it was loud enough for his conscience to hear.

I wonder if there are more coming.

[Va Lefty]

2. Good for him! Still hard to believe he didn't know what he was walking into.

[pangaia]

17. Not only did he not know what he was walking into, he stayed in it--

either blind as a bat or didn't give a shit.

[Honeycombe8]

3. Good for him. Hope he gets a big contract with one of the real networks! nt

[leftynyc]

20. I don't

Fuck this piece of crap who certainly didn't see anything wrong with fox's behavior during the Obama years.

[riversedge]

5. By these examples, the Retired Gen has done a complete 360 turn around.

......In the past, Peters has used his Fox News airtime to bash Muslims and advance extremely hawkish national-security policies. He was infamously suspended by Fox News for two weeks in late 2015 after he described President Obama as “a total pussy” on-air.



And yet he had become increasingly critical of Fox News and the network’s viewers under the Trump administration.

Last month, he acknowledged that his support for gun control in the wake of the Parkland shooting was unpopular with the Fox audience, and said that keeping assault weapons off the street was “a moral issue” that was about “dead children.”

During an interview with Fox News host Tucker Carlson last year, Peters compared the primetime anchor to a Nazi apologist for defending Putin’s actions in Syria.

“You sound like Charles Lindbergh in 1938, saying, ‘Hitler hasn’t attacked us,’” Peters said.

[Skittles]

6. LOL, what was your first clue?

good lawd

[vkkv]

7. What screw-up !! It him A DECADE to figure that out ???

I've known since 1996 that Fox was a GOP propaganda machine.

This Peters fellow is supposed to be smart ??

FUCK HIM AND HIS HIGH HORSE OF MORAL SUPERIORITY,

[Yo_Mama_Been_Loggin]

9. More rats leaving the sinking ship

[47of74]

10. Fornicate him.

He's trying to burnish his anti-Orange Toxic Megacolon street cred so that he can be the reasonable conservative of the day go to for other news organizations. Fornicate him. The moment a Democrat gets back in he'd be finding fault with everything the Democrat does, and cheering Faux Spews loudly when they attack.

[skypilot]

11. Over my decade with Fox, I long was proud of the association."

Fuck this guy.

[LovingA2andMI]

16. EXACTLY THIS!!!

F*** This Guy!

[Silver1]

12. Well hey, good for him.

Fox News is a powerful brainwashing machine, and it takes courage to step back and come out publicly against that monstrosity, knowing full well the repercussions, and especially when you're in the thick of it like he is.

So, lets assume his morality and ethics are what's driving his decision. He is one of the first of hopefully others to come. Whistleblower? Yes, I hope so! Welcome to the sane side Mr. Peters.

[Mr.Bill]

13. This is the equivalent of a Mafia Godfather

announcing he is quitting the mob because those guys are a bunch of criminals.

[bluestarone]

14. Don't trust him here BUT

If he can hurt fox news AND RUMP, I'm willing to watch him do it!! Use him against them!!

[RestoreAmerica2020]

18. So brave of him to submit a letter that low indormation faux viewer will never read...that one of

...their own defected, well quit....that he couldn't work one more day with a lying hateful propaganda machine that spews out lies about non white, nonchristian, lgbt, immigrants, refugees, women...well everyone, really. To bad he didn't read letter on air to his viewers ...now that would have been bold.

[W T F]

19. Hes just figuring this out now???

It’s nice that he finally came around, but a lot of damage has been done to this country because of of Fox “News”.

[Bengus81]

21. Ahh....it was OK when FOX bashed and TRASHED Obama on a daily basis.....

Called Obama a PUSSY,on air in 2015. Fuck this asshat...........

[Tom Rinaldo]

22. For Trump to be impeached AND actually removed from office it will take people like this

People who are soiled by the mud they've waded in for years who finally conclude continuing on that path now any further is one bridge too far. We already have the knights in shining armor on our side already. It will take more guys like this defecting also.

[Orsino]

23. And he's returning all the money while renouncing the lies in which he was complicit.

Right?