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    Default Fox News military analyst quits network, calling it a 'propaganda machine' for Trump

    This story's getting a lot of play on most outlets. The version below comes from the Chicago Tribune:.

    Fox News military analyst quits network, calling it a 'propaganda machine' for Trump

    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 Trump's 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 he's 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 administration's dealings with Russia. He accused the network of "scaremongering" with lurid warnings of deep-state machinations.


    Peters did not mention any names, but Fox's 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 Fox's opinion hosts "don't 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.

    Peters was suspended by Fox for two weeks in 2015 for using a crude word to describe then-President Barack Obama during an appearance on the Fox Business Network.


    The retired Army colonel said he did not apply his criticisms to Fox Business, who he called "the grown-ups," and Fox's news reporters.




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    So if Fox is a propaganda machine for Trump..
    What do we call msnbc,cnn,abc,nbc,cbs,etc..Surely not the truth?

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    Go to 3:00 minutes and hear Peters say he's going to vote for Hillary even though he doesn't like her



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    Isn't FOX now a subsidiary of Disney? Maybe Goofey will take his place...
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    Y'know, if Peters really felt in his heart that Trump is bad for the country and that Hillary is corrupt, he should have voted for no one.
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    Quote Originally Posted by Captain Huk View Post
    Isn't FOX now a subsidiary of Disney? Maybe Goofey will take his place...
    NO Not FOX News or Fox Business .

    The Walt Disney Company is set to become the proud owner of a vast swath of Rupert Murdoch’s movie and television empire, having agreed to pay $52.4 billion to acquire most of 21st Century Fox, They wanted the movies from 21 Century Fox., and TV shows like The Simpsons, And Fox Sports to go along with their already ESPN sports.
    And besides why would they want Fox News, They already own ABC Network and its ABC News outright, and have now for many years.

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    What entertainers do on their 'programs' is not hard news.
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    Quote Originally Posted by Laura19 View Post
    Go to 3:00 minutes and hear Peters say he's going to vote for Hillary even though he doesn't like her

    I did not know that about him. Pretty excellent post Laura.
    Goodbye and good riddance to Ralph Peters.
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