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https://www.vox.com/2018/3/20/17144758/fox-news-ralph-peter-quits-trump-letterFox News analyst quits, rips network as a propaganda machine in letter to colleagues
He signed off: As our presidents favorite world leader would say, Das vidanya Russian for goodbye.
By Jen Kirbyjen.kirby@vox.com Mar 20, 2018, 5:35pm EDT
A Fox News analyst quit in a scathing letter that accused the network of degenerating into a mere propaganda machine for a destructive and ethically ruinous administration.
Retired Lt. Col. Ralph Peters, a strategic analyst for Fox News, said he was leaving the network and laid out his reasoning in a fiery letter to colleagues, obtained by BuzzFeed News.
Today, I feel that Fox News is assaulting our constitutional order and the rule of law, while fostering corrosive and unjustified paranoia among viewers, Peters wrote. Over my decade with Fox, I long was proud of the association. Now I am ashamed.
He went on:
In my view, Fox has degenerated from providing a legitimate and much-needed outlet for conservative voices to a mere propaganda machine for a destructive and ethically ruinous administration. When prime-time hosts who have never served our country in any capacity dismiss facts and empirical reality to launch profoundly dishonest assaults on the FBI, the Justice Department, the courts, the intelligence community (in which I served) and, not least, a model public servant and genuine war hero such as Robert Mueller all the while scaremongering with lurid warnings of deep-state machinations I cannot be part of the same organization, even at a remove. To me, Fox News is now wittingly harming our system of government for profit.
Peters continued in that vein before signing off: As our presidents favorite world leader would say, Das vidanya Russian for goodbye.
Fox News responded to Peterss letter in a statement, saying he was entitled to his opinion despite the fact that hes choosing to use it as a weapon in order to gain attention.
Link to tweet
Before his angry departure, Peters, a retired US Army officer, was a fairly reliable conservative voice on foreign policy, and he had been extremely critical of the Obama administration. He did not hold back on Obamas US response in Syria; he called the president a pussy on air (and was temporarily suspended for it) and described Secretary of State John Kerry as as fierce as a chocolate eclair.
That said, Peters was never a Trump fan. He told Fox Business in November 2016 he would vote for Hillary Clinton in the election even though she was despicable, corrupt, and greedy because its a vote against Donald Trump. I dont want Moscows man in the White House.
Anti-Trump views werent entirely uncommon on Fox News during the campaign. But since Trumps election, the network has moved closer and closer to the White House line too much so, it seems, for even some of its own reliably conservative commentators.
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Fox News analyst quits, rips network as a propaganda machine in letter to colleagues (Original Post)
babylonsister
Mar 2018
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smirkymonkey
(63,221 posts)1. Maybe more of them will grow a spine, but I'm not going to hold
my breath.
Blue_true
(31,261 posts)2. I believe that eventhough most are deeply conservative, most would, if pushed chose patriotism
over service to their political point of view. Trump and his supporters do not recognize that.
bdamomma
(63,803 posts)3. maybe they (the FOX crew) should
be planted with penalty fee, hit them in wallet, since freaking money means everything to them
Accomplices to crime of propaganda and psychological warfare.