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Mar 20, 2018 19:21:45   #
moldyoldy
 
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.”

He continued: “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.”
The retired colonel did make carve-outs for some colleagues.
He exempted the increasingly political Fox Business Network—which The Daily Beast has reported as even more pro-Trump than its sister channel—as well as some hosts and reporters who have “shown courage” by standing up to the “propaganda mouthpiece.”
But for a negative association, Peters singled out Fox’s primetime hosts for repeatedly running block for Trump by dismissing and agitating against federal law enforcement and Special Counsel Robert Mueller’s investigation into Russian meddling in the 2016 election.
“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,” Peters wrote.
Perhaps ironically, Peters has never been known as one of the network’s moderate or even left-leaning contributors.
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 pu**y” 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.

http://www.msn.com/en-us/news/us/fox-news-analyst-quits-calls-network-a-‘propaganda-machine’/ar-BBKuflm?ocid=spartandhp

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Mar 20, 2018 19:57:01   #
slatten49 Loc: Lake Whitney, Texas
 
I commend retired Lt. Col. Ralph Peters for his principled stance.

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Mar 20, 2018 20:06:28   #
moldyoldy
 
slatten49 wrote:
I commend retired Lt. Col. Ralph Peters for his principled stance.


There have been a few standing up, lately.

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Mar 20, 2018 20:19:29   #
proud republican Loc: RED CALIFORNIA
 
moldyoldy wrote:
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.”

He continued: “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.”
The retired colonel did make carve-outs for some colleagues.
He exempted the increasingly political Fox Business Network—which The Daily Beast has reported as even more pro-Trump than its sister channel—as well as some hosts and reporters who have “shown courage” by standing up to the “propaganda mouthpiece.”
But for a negative association, Peters singled out Fox’s primetime hosts for repeatedly running block for Trump by dismissing and agitating against federal law enforcement and Special Counsel Robert Mueller’s investigation into Russian meddling in the 2016 election.
“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,” Peters wrote.
Perhaps ironically, Peters has never been known as one of the network’s moderate or even left-leaning contributors.
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 pu**y” 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.

http://www.msn.com/en-us/news/us/fox-news-analyst-quits-calls-network-a-‘propaganda-machine’/ar-BBKuflm?ocid=spartandhp
A longtime Fox News commentator on Tuesday let the... (show quote)

So what??? FOX is the only channel that is nicer to President then any other channel...MSNBC AND CNN spew hate about President 24/7..Not giving him any credit for anything...Calling him names, making fun of him, .All i hear is hate,hate,hate towards President who despite all of this is doing great job on his first year of Presidency!!!!...So if that Colonel doesnt get it, then good riddens!!!

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Mar 20, 2018 20:26:48   #
moldyoldy
 
proud republican wrote:
So what??? FOX is the only channel that is nicer to President then any other channel...MSNBC AND CNN spew hate about President 24/7..Not giving him any credit for anything...Calling him names, making fun of him, .All i hear is hate,hate,hate towards President who despite all of this is doing great job on his first year of Presidency!!!!...So if that Colonel doesnt get it, then good riddens!!!


Fox is trump crazy just like you, delusional.

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Mar 20, 2018 21:00:53   #
Hadenough
 
moldyoldy wrote:
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.”

He continued: “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.”
The retired colonel did make carve-outs for some colleagues.
He exempted the increasingly political Fox Business Network—which The Daily Beast has reported as even more pro-Trump than its sister channel—as well as some hosts and reporters who have “shown courage” by standing up to the “propaganda mouthpiece.”
But for a negative association, Peters singled out Fox’s primetime hosts for repeatedly running block for Trump by dismissing and agitating against federal law enforcement and Special Counsel Robert Mueller’s investigation into Russian meddling in the 2016 election.
“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,” Peters wrote.
Perhaps ironically, Peters has never been known as one of the network’s moderate or even left-leaning contributors.
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 pu**y” 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.

http://www.msn.com/en-us/news/us/fox-news-analyst-quits-calls-network-a-‘propaganda-machine’/ar-BBKuflm?ocid=spartandhp
A longtime Fox News commentator on Tuesday let the... (show quote)


Well good for him, he and McCain would do well working for msnbc and cnn. He shouldn’t bite the hand that fed him or burn his bridges. He was probably a dem/lib at heart. I hope the door didn’t hit him in his moldyoldy ass on the way out.

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Mar 20, 2018 21:05:22   #
Hadenough
 
proud republican wrote:
So what??? FOX is the only channel that is nicer to President then any other channel...MSNBC AND CNN spew hate about President 24/7..Not giving him any credit for anything...Calling him names, making fun of him, .All i hear is hate,hate,hate towards President who despite all of this is doing great job on his first year of Presidency!!!!...So if that Colonel doesnt get it, then good riddens!!!


If you have satellite in your area try One American News, OAN equal or better than FOX and way better than msnbc or cnn.

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Mar 20, 2018 21:22:45   #
Boo_Boo Loc: Jellystone
 
And do not forget, he voted for Hillary. "RET. LT. COL. RALPH PETERS: I think Hillary Clinton is despicable. She has committed criminal acts. She's greedy, she's corrupt, and yes, I'm going to vote for her. I'm going to vote for Republicans down ballot, but I am voting for Hillary Clinton because it's a vote against Donald Trump. I don't want Moscow's man in the White House." So, you are right...
he belongs with the likes of McCain (the songbird), MSN or CNN.


Hadenough wrote:
Well good for him, he and McCain would do well working for msnbc and cnn. He shouldn’t bite the hand that fed him or burn his bridges. He was probably a dem/lib at heart. I hope the door didn’t hit him in his moldyoldy ass on the way out.

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Mar 20, 2018 21:42:26   #
moldyoldy
 
Pennylynn wrote:
And do not forget, he voted for Hillary. "RET. LT. COL. RALPH PETERS: I think Hillary Clinton is despicable. She has committed criminal acts. She's greedy, she's corrupt, and yes, I'm going to vote for her. I'm going to vote for Republicans down ballot, but I am voting for Hillary Clinton because it's a vote against Donald Trump. I don't want Moscow's man in the White House." So, you are right...
he belongs with the likes of McCain (the songbird), MSN or CNN.


Discerning.

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Mar 21, 2018 00:43:49   #
Kevyn
 
proud republican wrote:
So what??? FOX is the only channel that is nicer to President then any other channel...MSNBC AND CNN spew hate about President 24/7..Not giving him any credit for anything...Calling him names, making fun of him, .All i hear is hate,hate,hate towards President who despite all of this is doing great job on his first year of Presidency!!!!...So if that Colonel doesnt get it, then good riddens!!!


Holding the president accountable for his constant lying and buffoonery isn’t an expression of hate it is simply reporting the news. If Trump wants better coverage all he has to do is stop lying, stop slandering people and in general quit acting like an ass.

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Mar 21, 2018 01:17:46   #
oldroy Loc: Western Kansas (No longer in hiding)
 
Kevyn wrote:
Holding the president accountable for his constant lying and buffoonery isn’t an expression of hate it is simply reporting the news. If Trump wants better coverage all he has to do is stop lying, stop slandering people and in general quit acting like an ass.


Do you know what lying is outside what your left leaning sources tell you? I think not but then I may not be able to understand much the left media throws around other than their outright lies.

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Mar 21, 2018 02:47:37   #
PeterS
 
proud republican wrote:
So what??? FOX is the only channel that is nicer to President then any other channel...MSNBC AND CNN spew hate about President 24/7..Not giving him any credit for anything...Calling him names, making fun of him, .All i hear is hate,hate,hate towards President who despite all of this is doing great job on his first year of Presidency!!!!...So if that Colonel doesnt get it, then good riddens!!!

You rate media based on how nice they are to Trump? And since you are such a master on mainstream media please list the commentator and what mean things they have to say about your king.

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Mar 21, 2018 02:49:59   #
PeterS
 
Pennylynn wrote:
And do not forget, he voted for Hillary. "RET. LT. COL. RALPH PETERS: I think Hillary Clinton is despicable. She has committed criminal acts. She's greedy, she's corrupt, and yes, I'm going to vote for her. I'm going to vote for Republicans down ballot, but I am voting for Hillary Clinton because it's a vote against Donald Trump. I don't want Moscow's man in the White House." So, you are right...
he belongs with the likes of McCain (the songbird), MSN or CNN.

You mean he belongs with the few conservatives who have integrity and character? Too bad you people insist on chasing them out of your party...

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Mar 21, 2018 07:23:01   #
Big Kahuna
 
moldyoldy wrote:
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.”

He continued: “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.”
The retired colonel did make carve-outs for some colleagues.
He exempted the increasingly political Fox Business Network—which The Daily Beast has reported as even more pro-Trump than its sister channel—as well as some hosts and reporters who have “shown courage” by standing up to the “propaganda mouthpiece.”
But for a negative association, Peters singled out Fox’s primetime hosts for repeatedly running block for Trump by dismissing and agitating against federal law enforcement and Special Counsel Robert Mueller’s investigation into Russian meddling in the 2016 election.
“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,” Peters wrote.
Perhaps ironically, Peters has never been known as one of the network’s moderate or even left-leaning contributors.
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 pu**y” 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.

http://www.msn.com/en-us/news/us/fox-news-analyst-quits-calls-network-a-‘propaganda-machine’/ar-BBKuflm?ocid=spartandhp
A longtime Fox News commentator on Tuesday let the... (show quote)


Good night and good riddance. The swamp rats are being exposed daily and it's fun to watch them fold up and leave their offices. Go Trymp, MAGA!!

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Mar 21, 2018 07:24:13   #
Big Kahuna
 
slatten49 wrote:
I commend retired Lt. Col. Ralph Peters for his principled stance.


I wish Fox had fired him much sooner. He was a swamp rat and it's good to see him gone.

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