Do You Think Fox Is A Reliable News Source?

Lt. Col. Ralph Peters used to be a Fox News military analyst and was a regular guest. Fox loved him because referred to Obama as "a total pussy" in 2015. He stopped being a regular guest-- or even irregular guest early this year-- when he told his Fox colleagues why he wasn't interested in appearing on the station any long and why he was "ashamed" that he ever had. He said sticking with Trump despite the Russian collusion Fox was "wittingly harming our system of government for profit." He wrote in an e-mail to Fox employees 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. 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."

Yesterday, Brian Stelter had him on CNN's Reliable Sources (above) and he went even further, going after Fox News with great vigour. "Fox," he said, "isn’t immoral, it’s amoral. It was opportunistic. Trump was just a gift to Fox and Fox in turn was a gift to Trump... it’s a closed loop, so people who only listen to Fox have an utterly skewed view of reality." He also called Sean Hannity and Tucker Carlson "prostitues... what Fox is doing is causing real harm to our country right now."

Not a big Trump fan either: "As a a former Russia analyst, I am convinced that the president of the United States is in thrall to Vladimir Putin."