Retired Army Lt. Col. Ralph Peters breaks up with Fox News after 10 year relationship...

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Here is the email he sent collegues at Fox News - Bolds are however mine

On March 1st, I informed Fox that I would not renew my contract. The purpose of this message to all of you is twofold:

First, I must thank each of you for the cooperation and support you've shown me over the years. Those working off-camera, the bookers and producers, don't often get the recognition you deserve, but I want you to know that I have always appreciated the challenges you face and the skill with which you master them.

Second, I feel compelled to explain why I have to leave. Four decades ago, I took an oath as a newly commissioned officer. I swore to "support and defend the Constitution," and that oath did not expire when I took off my uniform. Today, I feel that Fox News is assaulting our constitutional order and the rule of law, while fostering corrosive and unjustified paranoia among viewers. Over my decade with Fox, I long was proud of the association. Now I am ashamed.

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.

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.

I do not apply the above criticisms in full to Fox Business, where numerous hosts retain a respect for facts and maintain a measure of integrity (nor is every host at Fox News a propaganda mouthpiece--some have shown courage). I have enjoyed and valued my relationship with Fox Business, and I will miss a number of hosts and staff members. You're the grown-ups.

Also, I deeply respect the hard-news reporters at Fox, who continue to do their best as talented professionals in a poisoned environment. These are some of the best men and women in the business..

So, to all of you: Thanks, and, as our president's favorite world leader would say, "Das vidanya."
https://www.rawstory.com/2018/03/ra...ffirming-steele-dossier/#.WrFzZAXZ6bU.twitter
 
And just in case you think he is some Democratic limp wrist -

Fox News has suspended two contributors for using profanity to describe President Obama's strategy for dealing with terrorism.

Ralph Peters, a Fox News analyst, called President Obama "a total pussy" while appearing Sunday on Fox Business Network to comment on the president's Sunday night speech from the Oval Office.
https://www.usatoday.com/story/mone...ph-peters-stacey-dash-profanity-air/76953680/
 
Finally someone grows some morals over there.
 
I like how he's just figuring this out now after 10 years. Get fucked idiot.
 
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.


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Has he been asleep for the last decade? Did he completely miss the W. Bush years?

Its not like this just started
 
Fox News is RT level propaganda at this point. Traitors just like the Putin sucking swamp pig in the White House.
 
He had to have been familiar with their approach as rabid propagandists

Definitely. But it's reached a new level as the typical conservative propaganda collided head on with Alex Jones type conspiracy "deep state" nuts and morphed into something new and worse.

Basically he just doesn't want to sit around and bash the FBI all day - which means he has no place in conservative media during the Trump administration.
 
Anyone who watched this guy knows he is all about Israel. Thats where his loyalty lies and the reason he hated obama so much.
 
Definitely. But it's reached a new level as the typical conservative propaganda collided head on with Alex Jones type conspiracy "deep state" nuts and morphed into something new and worse.

Basically he just doesn't want to sit around and bash the FBI all day - which means he has no place in conservative media during the Trump administration.
Makes sense. Trump & Co. are playing with fire going after these agencies. I can see that not playing well with government careerists.
 
So basically he hates trump on a personal level and can’t handle the fact that not everyone else feels the same way. Lol
 
I bet Ralph likes his break-up sex rough. Hannity's anus will never be the same.
 
For some reason this guy always stuck with me years later for shouting “Serbian Pigs” during the Kosovo War on Fox. My Dad and I still joke about it.
 
So principled that he waited until his contract was up of course. I guess maybe he's so principled that he wanted to complete his contract he had agreed to. Would have been more impactful if he would have said this to Hannity's face live on air.
 
took him long enough, 1, and 2 it's the exact same strategy just left leaning on other networks.....

so awesome?
 
Anyone who watched this guy knows he is all about Israel. Thats where his loyalty lies and the reason he hated obama so much.
Don't see your point. Fox news is pro Israel too.
 
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