In a scathing, scorched-earth email, retired United States Army Lt. Colonel Ralph Peters resigned his position as a Fox News strategic analyst denouncing the "propaganda" network and President Donald Trump.
Along the way, Peters also had choice words for the network's primetime hosts - Tucker Carlson, Sean Hannity and Laura Ingraham.
Here's a portion of the resignation letter via Buzzfeed:
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.
Fox is so far off the deep end that contributor Ralph Peters who once called Obama "such a total pussy" on air, bashed Muslims, and said Christians are the only "real refugees" has had enough https://t.co/FuqWFIUiNi pic.twitter.com/smtvTbAsBh— Katie Sullivan (@KatSulls) March 20, 2018
Dang, Ralph Peters quits Fox News in a blaze of glory https://t.co/QY4Y4g0fEN— Tom Kludt (@TomKludt) March 20, 2018
Retired Lt. Col. Ralph Peters is leaving his post as a Fox News analyst because the network has become a “propaganda machine” that is "wittingly harming our system of government for profit.” Fox News is the fake news you seek. It’s the propaganda arm of the Republican party— ♻️ Christopher Zullo (@ChrisJZullo) March 20, 2018
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