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Col. Ralph Peters just quit Fox News.

Fenton said:
Holy crap ? :roll:

He was suspended from Fox in 2015 for calling Obama a " total ***** ", but now is attacking the network for being a " propaganda machine ".

Good riddance
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for two weeks. you make it sound like he was gone. He wasn't.
 
Josie said:
That's what all of the cable networks are.
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Not exactly.... CNN and MSNBC try to have some degree of journalistic integrity. Fox once tried as well, but its quite tiring defending this President and maintaining journalistic integrity. It seems it is difficult to do both. Fox chose to give up on the journalistic integrity.
 
slick said:
If he had committed treason he never would have regained such senior positions in congress and regained the rank
of general in the United States Army. Even you ought to have known that.
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Traitors regained senior positions across the south only a few years after the war ended. If you had even basic historical knowledge you'd know that.

Leading troops in combat against the United States, especially in an attempt to preserve slavery, is treason.
 
Tigerace117 said:
Traitors regained senior positions across the south only a few years after the war ended. If you had even basic historical knowledge you'd know that.

Leading troops in combat against the United States, especially in an attempt to preserve slavery, is treason.
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He became a congressman of the United States of America after the civil war, he became a general in the union army after the civil war
there is a great statue of fightin joe in the Halls of Congress. These honors are not bestowed on traitors, don't be so thick.
 
This guy was there almost 10 years...He must some good behind the scenes info on those lying assholes at Fox...I hope he writes a book
 
slick said:
He became a congressman of the United States of America after the civil war, he became a general in the union army after the civil war
there is a great statue of fightin joe in the Halls of Congress. These honors are not bestowed on traitors, don't be so thick.
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Yep, plenty of traitors crawled their way back into positions of authority after the Civil War ended and gleefully went on brutally oppressing Americans.

Said honors were bestowed on dozens of traitors thanks to the cynical decision of politicians to try and control the southern vote by letting the traitors get off scot free.
 
Tigerace117 said:
Yep, plenty of traitors crawled their way back into positions of authority after the Civil War ended and gleefully went on brutally oppressing Americans.

Said honors were bestowed on dozens of traitors thanks to the cynical decision of politicians to try and control the southern vote by letting the traitors get off scot free.
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To bad you weren't there at that time to straighten things out. Instead it was that silly guy named Lincoln with his 'Malice toward none & charity for all'
nonsense right? Fighting Joe Hooker was a American hero soldier & statesmen who was Teddy Roosevelt's superior officer when Roosevelt battled
successfully at San Juan Hill.
 
slick said:
To bad you weren't there at that time to straighten things out. Instead it was that silly guy named Lincoln with his 'Malice toward none & charity for all'
nonsense right? Fighting Joe Hooker was a American hero soldier & statesmen who was Teddy Roosevelt's superior officer when Roosevelt battled
successfully at San Juan Hill.
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Actually, Lincoln was dead at this point. Your beloved traitors murdered him. Look what "with malice toward none" got him--- a bullet and a century of the South brutally oppressing the African Americans he freed.

Like all former Confederates, Wheeler was a traitor who murdered American servicemen in a desperate attempt to preserve slavery.

Oh, and by the way....

https://en.m.wikipedia.org/wiki/Joseph_Hooker

Joe Hooker fought for the Union during the Civil War.
 
Tigerace117 said:
Actually, Lincoln was dead at this point. Your beloved traitors murdered him. Look what "with malice toward none" got him--- a bullet and a century of the South brutally oppressing the African Americans he freed.

Like all former Confederates, Wheeler was a traitor who murdered American servicemen in a desperate attempt to preserve slavery.

Oh, and by the way....

https://en.m.wikipedia.org/wiki/Joseph_Hooker

Joe Hooker fought for the Union during the Civil War.
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My mistake I meant Fightin Joe Wheeler not Joe Hooker, who was soundly defeated at Chancellorsville which was considered
Lee's greatest battle. Fightin Joe Wheeler was far better a soldier by leaps & bounds.

https://www.houstonchronicle.com/lo...Wheeler-Former-Confederate-Became-6342938.php

Most of the Southern officers got their military start in the ranks of the U.S. Army. Robert E. Lee had been Superintendent of the U.S.
Military Academy before the war. The Georgia-born Wheeler, also a West Point graduate, fought in a handful of skirmishes against
Indians before joining the Confederacy following secession. He was wounded three times and had a number of horses shot from
under him. Wheeler was eventually promoted to Lieutenant General and fought a skillful, if ultimately unsuccessful, defensive battle
against the Union forces.

After the Civil War, Wheeler became a planter and lawyer before going to Washington as a long-serving member of
Alabama's delegation to the U.S. House of Representatives. At the outbreak of the war against Spain, Congressman Wheeler
offered his services to the military. The offer was accepted and Wheeler was once against commanding troops - this time in the U.S.
Army. He led the Cavalry Division during the heavy fighting in Cuba. His unit was composed of relative amateurs such as the 1st U.S.
Volunteer Cavalry - better known as Roosevelt's Rough Riders - and regular troops like the Buffalo Soldiers of the 9th and 10th cavalry
regiments. (Yes, a former general in the Confederate Army later commanded black troops. Let that sink in a bit.)

After the battles in Cuba, Wheeler briefly commanded a brigade of U.S. troops in the Philippines. He later retired
as a Brigadier General in the U.S. Army. "Fighting Joe" Wheeler died in 1906 and is one of a few high-ranking former
leaders of the Confederacy to be buried in Arlington National Cemetery.

Some one you incorrectly refer to as treasonous buried in Arlington National Cemetery.How did that happen?
He was among the great soldiers!

New Soldiers may come
& Old Soldiers may go
But there nay be another
Like old fighting Joe
 
slick said:
My mistake I meant Fightin Joe Wheeler not Joe Hooker, who was soundly defeated at Chancellorsville which was considered
Lee's greatest battle. Fightin Joe Wheeler was far better a soldier by leaps & bounds.

https://www.houstonchronicle.com/lo...Wheeler-Former-Confederate-Became-6342938.php

Most of the Southern officers got their military start in the ranks of the U.S. Army. Robert E. Lee had been Superintendent of the U.S.
Military Academy before the war. The Georgia-born Wheeler, also a West Point graduate, fought in a handful of skirmishes against
Indians before joining the Confederacy following secession. He was wounded three times and had a number of horses shot from
under him. Wheeler was eventually promoted to Lieutenant General and fought a skillful, if ultimately unsuccessful, defensive battle
against the Union forces.

After the Civil War, Wheeler became a planter and lawyer before going to Washington as a long-serving member of
Alabama's delegation to the U.S. House of Representatives. At the outbreak of the war against Spain, Congressman Wheeler
offered his services to the military. The offer was accepted and Wheeler was once against commanding troops - this time in the U.S.
Army. He led the Cavalry Division during the heavy fighting in Cuba. His unit was composed of relative amateurs such as the 1st U.S.
Volunteer Cavalry - better known as Roosevelt's Rough Riders - and regular troops like the Buffalo Soldiers of the 9th and 10th cavalry
regiments. (Yes, a former general in the Confederate Army later commanded black troops. Let that sink in a bit.)

After the battles in Cuba, Wheeler briefly commanded a brigade of U.S. troops in the Philippines. He later retired
as a Brigadier General in the U.S. Army. "Fighting Joe" Wheeler died in 1906 and is one of a few high-ranking former
leaders of the Confederacy to be buried in Arlington National Cemetery.

Some one you incorrectly refer to as treasonous buried in Arlington National Cemetery.How did that happen?
He was among the great soldiers!

New Soldiers may come
& Old Soldiers may go
But there nay be another
Like old fighting Joe
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Gee, miraculous how easily you can defeat an opponent when a cannonball knocks the opposing general senseless.

No, he was literally a traitor. Your own link literally points out that he fought against the United States. That, in this or any war, is treason, and you having a crush on how well a traitor fought does not negate his treason.

I hate to break it to you, but it wasn't exactly like he had a choice which men he got; the US Army during the Spanish American War was largely a joke, and if we had gone up against any power except the Spanish, who weren't even so much a joke as they were a corpse which just hadn't decided to fall down yet, we would have been crushed.
 
This is one of the sharper knives in the box

Fletch said:
So to which non-propaganda outfit does he plan to take his talents? CNN? MSNBC? Not sure why he wouldnt stay at Fox and be a counter voice to what he sees as propaganda but whatever.
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No, you don't understand. Lt. Col. Peters' problem was with the opinion side of the Fox News talent, & in his opinion, the unwarranted & baseless & scare-mongering attacks by Fox & Trump on the US intel community, the Legislative & Judicial branches of government, & the attacks on Special Investigator Mueller, a veteran & I believe a decorated veteran. I've followed Peters' writing career - he's an excellent writer of fiction, travel. He was a mustang, rose through the US Army ranks to OCS, became an area specialist on the USSR, learned Russian (& some other languages & cultures, I believe). You can look him up on whatever reference you like.

TMK, he's well respected in the intel community & he speaks his mind. If Fox News & Trump have lost Peters, they're in trouble. Peters doesn't need to work, & he's certainly @ retirement age. He could sit back & rest on his laurels, but I doubt that he's going to do that. He'll probably continue writing - whether he'll go on consulting with some other TV network seems unlikely to me. But you never can tell.
 
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