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(26,572 posts) Tue Mar 20, 2018, 07:20 PM Mar 2018

Fox News Analyst Quits, Calls Network a Propaganda Machine [View all]

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

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Fox News Analyst Quits, Calls Network a Propaganda Machine [View all] swag Mar 2018 OP

It took him over ten years to figure out what FoxNews really was ????? Yikes! Freethinker65 Mar 2018 #1

Kind of a s l o w motion wake up, doncha think? mpcamb Mar 2018 #4

Peters isn't one of the smart ones.. nt vkkv Mar 2018 #8

I think he may have seen a little shenanigans for a good cause (his own) OK. Gore1FL Mar 2018 #15

Good for him! Still hard to believe he didn't know what he was walking into. Va Lefty Mar 2018 #2

Not only did he not know what he was walking into, he stayed in it-- pangaia Mar 2018 #17

Good for him. Hope he gets a big contract with one of the real networks! nt Honeycombe8 Mar 2018 #3

I don't leftynyc Mar 2018 #20

By these examples, the Retired Gen has done a complete 360 turn around. riversedge Mar 2018 #5

LOL, what was your first clue? Skittles Mar 2018 #6

What screw-up !! It him A DECADE to figure that out ??? vkkv Mar 2018 #7

More rats leaving the sinking ship Yo_Mama_Been_Loggin Mar 2018 #9

Fornicate him. 47of74 Mar 2018 #10

Over my decade with Fox, I long was proud of the association." skypilot Mar 2018 #11

EXACTLY THIS!!! LovingA2andMI Mar 2018 #16

Well hey, good for him. Silver1 Mar 2018 #12

This is the equivalent of a Mafia Godfather Mr.Bill Mar 2018 #13

Don't trust him here BUT bluestarone Mar 2018 #14

So brave of him to submit a letter that low indormation faux viewer will never read...that one of RestoreAmerica2020 Mar 2018 #18

Hes just figuring this out now??? W T F Mar 2018 #19

Ahh....it was OK when FOX bashed and TRASHED Obama on a daily basis..... Bengus81 Mar 2018 #21

For Trump to be impeached AND actually removed from office it will take people like this Tom Rinaldo Mar 2018 #22

And he's returning all the money while renouncing the lies in which he was complicit. Orsino Mar 2018 #23