When I was in the military there was a term that described Peters and his ilk. It is still applicable now.

REMF

(Military acronym used to refer to certain support personel especialy chickenshits and brass who deliberatly seek to avoid duty in the field, especially combat duty.)

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Originally posted by Jimineer:
Add Ben Stein to the list.

He should know better, being of the Jewish faith. I once saw a movie about what happened to Jews in Germany 70 years ago. It was called Shindler's List.

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Originally posted by 12131:
Betcha this piece of shit is the type who stabbed folks in the back to advance his military career. Fucking asshole.

In previous years I would have never thought that of him (Peters). However with is recent behavior of unconstitutional virtue signaling and his burning bridge exit from Fox, it seems I have misread the man. He was probably always a Blue Falcon that managed to hide it from the public.

Maybe we will get lucky and the prick will leave.

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Originally posted by Ricardokid11:
Maybe we will get lucky and the prick will leave.

Oops, guess he did!

Yeah, sure, President Trump is hurting the country.

Time and opportunity reveals all for what they think. Ralph has revealed he doesn't understand the value of individual liberty and true equality. His perspective is not tethered to true principles enough. I think he is an evolving Leftist.

More whining.

https://www.washingtonpost.com...m_term=.1a41946f4a01

Why I left Fox News

By Ralph Peters March 30 at 6:00 AM

Ralph Peters is a retired Army officer, a former enlisted man and a prize-winning author of historical fiction.

You could measure the decline of Fox News by the drop in the quality of guests waiting in the green room. A year and a half ago, you might have heard George Will discussing policy with a senator while a former Cabinet member listened in. Today, you would meet a Republican commissar with a steakhouse waistline and an eager young woman wearing too little fabric and too much makeup, immersed in memorizing her talking points.

This wasn’t a case of the rats leaving a sinking ship. The best sailors were driven overboard by the rodents.

As I wrote in an internal Fox memo, leaked and widely disseminated, I declined to renew my contract as Fox News’s strategic analyst because of the network’s propagandizing for the Trump administration. Today’s Fox prime-time lineup preaches paranoia, attacking processes and institutions vital to our republic and challenging the rule of law.

Four decades ago, as a U.S. Army second lieutenant, I took an oath to “support and defend the Constitution.” In moral and ethical terms, that oath never expires. As Fox’s assault on our constitutional order intensified, spearheaded by its after-dinner demagogues, I had no choice but to leave.

My error was waiting so long to walk away. The chance to speak to millions of Americans is seductive, and, with the infinite human capacity for self-delusion, I rationalized that I could make a difference by remaining at Fox and speaking honestly.

I was wrong.

As early as the fall of 2016, and especially as doubts mounted about the new Trump administration’s national security vulnerabilities, I increasingly was blocked from speaking on the issues about which I could offer real expertise: Russian affairs and our intelligence community. I did not hide my views at Fox and, as word spread that I would not unswervingly support President Trump and, worse, that I believed an investigation into Russian interference was essential to our national security, I was excluded from segments that touched on Vladimir Putin’s possible influence on an American president, his campaign or his administration.

I was the one person on the Fox payroll who, trained in Russian studies and the Russian language, had been face to face with Russian intelligence officers in the Kremlin and in far-flung provinces. I have traveled widely in and written extensively about the region. Yet I could only rarely and briefly comment on the paramount security question of our time: whether Putin and his security services ensnared the man who would become our president. Trump’s behavior patterns and evident weaknesses (financial entanglements, lack of self-control and sense of sexual entitlement) would have made him an ideal blackmail target — and the Russian security apparatus plays a long game.

As indictments piled up, though, I could not even discuss the mechanics of how the Russians work on either Fox News or Fox Business. (Asked by a Washington Post editor for a comment, Fox’s public relations department sent this statement: “There is no truth to the notion that Ralph Peters was ‘blocked’ from appearing on the network to talk about the major headlines, including discussing Russia, North Korea and even gun control recently. In fact, he appeared across both networks multiple times in just the past three weeks.”)

All Americans, whatever their politics, should want to know, with certainty, whether a hostile power has our president and those close to him in thrall. This isn’t about party but about our security at the most profound level. Every so often, I could work in a comment on the air, but even the best-disposed hosts were wary of transgressing the party line.

Fox never tried to put words in my mouth, nor was I told explicitly that I was taboo on Trump-Putin matters. I simply was no longer called on for topics central to my expertise. I was relegated to Groundhog Day analysis of North Korea and the Middle East, or to Russia-related news that didn’t touch the administration. Listening to political hacks with no knowledge of things Russian tell the vast Fox audience that the special counsel’s investigation was a “witch hunt,” while I could not respond, became too much to bear. There is indeed a witch hunt, and it’s led by Fox against Robert Mueller.

The cascade of revelations about the Russia-related crimes of Trump associates was dismissed, adamantly, as “fake news” by prime-time hosts who themselves generate fake news blithely.

Then there was Fox’s assault on our intelligence community — in which I had served, from the dirty-boots tactical level to strategic work in the Pentagon (with forays that stretched from Russia through Pakistan to Burma and Bolivia and elsewhere). Opportunities to explain how the system actually works, how stringent the safeguards are and that intelligence personnel are responsible public servants — sometimes heroes — dried up after an on-air confrontation shortly before Trump’s inauguration with a popular (and populist) host, Lou Dobbs.

Dobbs has no experience with the intelligence system. Yet he ranted about its reputed assaults on our privacy and other alleged misdeeds (if you want to know who spies on you, it’s the FGA — Facebook, Google and Amazon — not the NSA). When I insisted that the men and women who work in our intelligence agencies are patriots who keep us safe, the host reddened and demanded, “Patriotism is the last refuge of the — you fill in the blank.” As I sought to explain that, no, the NSA isn’t listening to our pillow talk, Dobbs kept repeating, “Patriotism is the last refuge of the — fill in the blank.”

Because I’d had a long, positive history with Dobbs, I refrained from replying: “Patriotism is the last refuge of the talk-show host.”

I became a disgruntled employee, limited to topics on which I agreed with the Trump administration, such as loosened targeting restrictions on terrorists and a tough line with North Korea. Over the past few months, it reached the point where I hated walking into the Fox studio. Friends and family encouraged me to leave, convinced that I embarrassed myself by remaining with the network (to be fair, I’m perfectly capable of embarrassing myself without assistance from Fox).

During my 10 years at Fox News and Fox Business, I did my best to be a forthright voice. I angered left and right. I criticized President Barack Obama fiercely (one infelicity resulted in a two-week suspension), but I also argued for sensible gun-control measures and environmental protections. I made mistakes, but they were honest mistakes. I took the opportunity to speak to millions of Americans seriously and — still that earnest young second lieutenant to some degree — could not imagine lying to them.

With my Soviet-studies background, the cult of Trump unnerves me. For our society’s health, no one, not even a president, can be above criticism — or the law.

I must stress that there are many honorable and talented professionals at the Fox channels, superb reporters, some gutsy hosts, and adept technicians and staff. But Trump idolaters and the merrily hypocritical prime-time hosts are destroying the network — no matter how profitable it may remain.

The day my memo leaked, a journalist asked me how I felt. Usually quick with a reply, I struggled, amid a cyclone of emotions, to think of the right words. After perhaps 30 seconds of silence, I said, “Free.”


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Originally posted by Jimineer:
Add Ben Stein to the list. He may have already been against ARs, I’ve never heard his position before. He said they are no good for self defense in the Home anyway. He’s probably in the Joe Biden camp on choice of self defense weapons.

Either way he is a turd.

Ben Stein knows economics. I am not sure why anyone would ask him about guns, or why he would feel the need to comment publicly.

I would sit at the feet of Larry Vickers, or someone similar, to learn about guns, but I wouldn't ask him about economics.



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Originally posted by Sigmund:

Ralph Peters...a prize-winning author of historical fiction

He apparently writes contemporary fiction as well.



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What does the opinion of anyone serving or having served in the military have to do with the 2nd Amendment? It carries no more legitimacy than any other US Citizen.

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Originally posted by Graniteguy:
What does the opinion of anyone serving or having served in the military have to do with the 2nd Amendment? It carries no more legitimacy than any other US Citizen.

Oh, I don't know; having eaten chicken sandwiches since I was a young boy I consider myself an expert on animal husbandry, nutrition, avian flight and feather pillows. Shouldn't I?

I guess I could just have said I agree with your thought.

Honestly I always thought Peters was a little off his rocker. He spent enough time studying the Reds that he sees one behind every bush.

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Originally posted by mbinky:
... studying the Reds that he sees one behind every bush.

Maybe he IS one.



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I don't disagree with Peters' assertion that Trump supporters should not be mindless automatons that agree with everything he says or does, but compared to the other networks that are 24/7 hate Trump, what choice do we really have but FNC? I'm actually sorry to see him leave, as I thought that for the most part Peters gave a very sensible discussion on world events.

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Originally posted by BMR:
I don't disagree with Peters' assertion that Trump supporters should not be mindless automatons that agree with everything he says or does,

WHOA slow your roll young Padawan. I do not agree with everything Trump says. It's more like I disagree with everything the left says about Trump. There is a difference.

Peters? I wouldn't follow him to the head if he was in charge of building it. He'd still probably piss on my boots.

^^^I'm not saying you do, but there are plenty of Trump supporters that do agree with everything he does. Remember how we scoffed at the Obamatons who loved everything their dear leader did? Heck, going back to the 1980's, I could differentiate myself from the Democrat party in that I didn't agree with everything the GOP president did, as the Democrats did with their "rock star" presidents. That's what distinguishes us from Democrats, we don't look at the president we vote for as being infallible. But at least when our side criticizes the President, it's constructive criticism, not hatred like the left has.

Here's the latest from this weasel. Still busy burning bridges with FOX. It's ironic that he mentions prostitutes in his denunciation of FOX.



Former Fox analyst Ralph Peters: Fox viewers have 'utterly skewed view of reality'


Many people believe, as Ralph Peters does, that President Trump was a "gift to Fox," and "Fox in turn is a gift to Trump."
The difference is that Peters worked at Fox News for years.

Peters, a retired US Army lieutenant colonel, was a Fox military analyst until March, when he resigned and burned the proverbial bridge. In a letter to his colleagues, he accused Fox of "assaulting our constitutional order and the rule of law."

Peters' statements shocked the TV news industry at the time.

On CNN's "Reliable Sources" on Sunday, he had more to say. "People that only listen to Fox have an utterly skewed view of reality," he said. He described the relationship between the president and his favored news network as a "closed loop," but that was hardly Peters' most strident critique of his former employer.

"Fox isn't immoral, it's amoral," he said. Later in the interview, when Reliable Sources aired clips that show Fox News hosts defending Trump's decision to strip former CIA director John Brennan's security clearance, Peters was asked if he thought his colleagues at Fox are "proud of their performance."

"The polite word is 'prostitutes,' so I'll just leave it at that," Peters fired back.

Peters garnered attention on Sunday for his stunning denunciation of Trump.

"Trump gives us something new to worry about virtually every day, but it's important not to lose sight of the overall picture," Peters said. "This is a distinctly un-American president who really doesn't seem to like America very much, certainly doesn't respect it. And he's a president who appears to be enthralled to a foreign power, a hostile foreign power."

That foreign power is Russia. Peters, who was a Russia analyst earlier in his career, has previously said he believes that Vladimir Putin "has a grip on President Trump."

On "Reliable Sources," he said he was speaking out because he believes Trump and his aides are a "real threat to our republic."

"What we need is people who will speak honestly and say what they believe and not worry about who it offends," Peters said. "I'm just sick and tired of people hedging and hemming and hawing. This is a president of the United States who is a danger to the republic."

Peters was harshly critical of former President Barack Obama during his tenure at Fox.

He once called Obama a "total p***y" on the air -- and was suspended for two weeks.

But his criticism of Trump is different. He said on Sunday that Trump "does not respect our system of government," does not understand it, and does not respect the Constitution.

Peters resigned from Fox back in March. He wrote in a note to a handful of colleagues at the time saying he "long was proud" of his association with Fox, but now he's "ashamed," calling it a "propaganda machine" for the president.

A Fox News spokeswoman said Sunday that the network's previous statement about Peters still applies: "Ralph Peters is entitled to his opinion despite the fact that he's choosing to use it as a weapon in order to gain attention. We are extremely proud of our top-rated primetime hosts and all of our opinion programming."

Peters, during Sunday's interview, said that he is not seeking attention or "the chance to be on television. It's because we all need to do our part. These are parlous times."

He said he left Fox News because "as a former military officer who took an oath to the Constitution, I could not be part of a channel that to me was assaulting the Constitution, the constitutional order, the rule of law."

He also said, "I don't want to be the go-to guy for Fox-bashing forever. But what Fox is doing is causing real harm to our country right now."



https://money.cnn.com/2018/08/...-fox-news/index.html

I don’t watch any news at all. No matter the network, it’s horse shit, in my opinion. That said, I think Peters has a screw loose.

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My error was waiting so long to walk away.

#JustWalkAway works both ways > Good Riddance.