Current Events > Fox military analyst says network makes him ashamed

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https://www.seattletimes.com/nation-world/fox-military-analyst-says-network-makes-him-ashamed/

A military analyst for Fox News said Tuesday that he was quitting the network because he believed it had turned into a propaganda machine for President Donald Trumps administration.

Ralph Peters, a retired U.S. Army officer, said he told Fox at the beginning of the month that he did not want his contributor contract renewed.

Over my decade at Fox, I was long proud of the association, Peters wrote in an email that was distributed to colleagues at Fox News, and first reported by BuzzFeed News. Now I am ashamed.

Fox said in a statement that the network did not want attributed to a specific spokesperson that Peters was entitled to his opinion, despite the fact that hes choosing to use it as a weapon in order to get attention. Fox said it was proud of its opinion programming and prime-time hosts.

Peters said he believed Fox had degenerated from providing a legitimate and much-needed outlet for conservative voices to a mere propaganda machine for a destructive and ethically ruinous administration.

He criticized prime-time hosts for profoundly dishonest assaults on the FBI, the Justice Department, the courts, the intelligence community and special counsel Robert Mueller, who is conducting an investigation into the Trump administrations dealings with Russia. He accused the network of scaremongering with lurid warnings of deep-state machinations.

Peters did not mention any names, but Foxs leading prime-time host, Sean Hannity, has been the most vocal defender of the president while talking of a deep state and casting doubt on justice officials. Trump has been an avid watcher of Fox, most notably its morning Fox & Friends program. The network is consistently the top-rated cable network each week with a prime-time lineup of Tucker Carlson, Hannity and Laura Ingraham.

The network had an intramural debate of its own last week when news anchor Shepard Smith, who just renewed his contract, said in an interview with Time magazine that Foxs opinion hosts dont really have rules and can say whatever they want. He said the opinion lineup is there primarily as entertainment. That led Hannity and Ingraham to fire back, saying their shows have made news.

Peters said it appalled him that hosts who made their reputations as super-patriots now advance the agenda of Russian President Vladimir Putin by making light of Russian involvement in the 2016 U.S. presidential election.

But I thought Fox was the real news!?
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that guy must just be a liberal sjw cuck am i right you guys!?
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TheVipaGTS posted...

that guy must just be a liberal sjw cuck am i right you guys!?

Yeah, we all know how liberal the army is!
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So where was this clown's conscience when Fox told the same lies, propaganda, and innuendo (of which he himself has contributed) during his 10 years there?
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How is he just now realizing Fox News is pretty much just a propaganda machine pushing a clearly biased agenda under the guise of being "fair and balanced" always being disingenuous and pandering to what their audience wanted to hear over what the truth was.
Even before Trump was running for president that's what they were.
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Even this moron realizes whats going on
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Bullet_Wing posted...

I love this part of his letter

As a Russia analyst for many years, it also has appalled me that hosts who made their reputations as super-patriots and who, justifiably, savaged President Obama for his duplicitous folly with Putin, now advance Putin's agenda by making light of Russian penetration of our elections and the Trump campaign. Despite increasingly pathetic denials, it turns out that the "nothing-burger" has been covered with Russian dressing all along. And by the way: As an intelligence professional, I can tell you that the Steele dossier rings true--that's how the Russians do things.. The result is that we have an American president who is terrified of his counterpart in Moscow.

Remember, this guy was actively disciplined by Fox for calling Obama a pussy on air.

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Trump's corruption and disaster after disaster redpilling people to how faux Fox News is.
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bump
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well yeah, anyone with eyes can see it.
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Super Saiyan 3 Goku posted...

So where was this clown's conscience when Fox told the same lies, propaganda, and innuendo (of which he himself has contributed) during his 10 years there?

Most of that stuff flattered the institutions he held dear: our military and intelligence apparatus. He was fine with Fox's previous bullshit, but now they're downplaying Russia and besmirching FBI and CIA agents, and that's the bridge he won't cross.
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bump
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hope the money was worth it.
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This is another classic case of "Republican discovers he DOES have conscience after his corrupt party attacks something personal to him in their ongoing rampage against humanity"
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Day CE bump
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when people that work for fox quit because they can no longer stand their propaganda for trump, you know there's a problem.
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Obviously George Soros and Hillary Clinton paid him off
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Kind of surprising the usual suspects havent shown up. Wonder why
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Im laughing at how all the CNN parrots are shitting on Fox News, as if CNN and Fox arent both owned by billionaires with an agenda
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a42ozslushie posted...

Im laughing at how all the CNN parrots are shitting on Fox News, as if CNN and Fox arent both owned by billionaires with an agenda

I haven't heard of CNN regular talking hosts putting out conspiracy theories about the "deep state" etc

sktgamer_13dude posted...

Kind of surprising the usual suspects havent shown up. Wonder why

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Ruvan22 posted...

a42ozslushie posted...

Im laughing at how all the CNN parrots are shitting on Fox News, as if CNN and Fox arent both owned by billionaires with an agenda

I haven't heard of CNN regular talking hosts putting out conspiracy theories about the "deep state" etc

Them not doing that is also part of conspiracy! Get red pilled!
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I mean Fox News has always been trash, but since when did it become pro-Trump? Was this a recent development? I thought they were still salty that he fucked over the establishment Republicans?

RoboLaserGandhi posted...

I mean Fox News has always been trash, but since when did it become pro-Trump? Was this a recent development? I thought they were still salty that he fucked over the establishment Republicans?

like two years ago?
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The right is eating itself again
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It's a perverse daisychain. Trump is sucking Putin off, while Fox is sucking Trump off. I apologize for the mental imagery that evokes.
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