{"id":5924,"date":"2018-03-23T12:28:03","date_gmt":"2018-03-23T19:28:03","guid":{"rendered":"http:\/\/www.bilgebucket.com\/?p=5924"},"modified":"2018-03-23T18:10:45","modified_gmt":"2018-03-24T01:10:45","slug":"fox-news-gop-propaganda-machine","status":"publish","type":"post","link":"http:\/\/www.bilgebucket.com\/?p=5924","title":{"rendered":"Fox News: GOP Propaganda Machine"},"content":{"rendered":"<p>It&#8217;s hard to keep up with the flak generator that is the Trump administration, but this piece of news is straight from the <strong>DUH<\/strong> file.<\/p>\n<p>In a bombshell, <a href=\"https:\/\/www.nytimes.com\/2018\/03\/20\/business\/media\/fox-news-analyst-ralph-peters.html\" target=\"_blank\">retired Army lieutenant colonel and news analyst, Ralph Peters, quit Fox News, a.k.a. the Republican Propaganda Network<\/a>. In a scathing statement, Peters said <strong>&#8220;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.&#8221;<\/strong> Peters went on to lament on how the Fox anchors now shamelessly <strong>&#8220;dismiss facts and empirical reality to launch profoundly dishonest assaults on the F.B.I., 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.&#8221; <\/strong>Wow! And this is from an ultra conservative hawk who thought the clusterf*ck Iraq War was a good idea, and called Obama a pussy. Of course, Fox News has obviously been spewing Republican Party propaganda since it&#8217;s inception over twenty years ago. This is crystal clear to anyone with half a brain. Hence, the <strong>DUH<\/strong>.<\/p>\n<p>We&#8217;re not saying we like Peters now&#8230;far from it. It&#8217;s just that Trump and\u00a0his propaganda channel are now officially so pathetic that staunchly conservative Republicans are abandoning ship or as Peters put it, he could not &#8220;in good conscience&#8221; remain with a network that <strong>&#8220;is now wittingly harming our system of government for profit.&#8221;<\/strong><\/p>\n<figure id=\"attachment_5929\" aria-describedby=\"caption-attachment-5929\" style=\"width: 500px\" class=\"wp-caption aligncenter\"><img loading=\"lazy\" decoding=\"async\" class=\"size-full wp-image-5929\" src=\"http:\/\/www.bilgebucket.com\/wp-content\/uploads\/foxralphpeterspropagandamachine1.jpg\" alt=\"Conservative pundit, Ralph Peters, a.k.a. Captain Obvious, shocks the world by declaring Fox News to be nothing more than a propaganda machine for American CEO\/Dictator Donald Trump and his gang of Republican party lackeys hellbent on destroying the government for fun and profit.\" width=\"500\" height=\"395\" srcset=\"http:\/\/www.bilgebucket.com\/wp-content\/uploads\/foxralphpeterspropagandamachine1.jpg 500w, http:\/\/www.bilgebucket.com\/wp-content\/uploads\/foxralphpeterspropagandamachine1-300x237.jpg 300w\" sizes=\"(max-width: 500px) 85vw, 500px\" \/><figcaption id=\"caption-attachment-5929\" class=\"wp-caption-text\">Conservative pundit, Ralph Peters, a.k.a. Captain Obvious, shocks the world by declaring Fox News to be nothing more than a propaganda machine for American CEO\/Dictator Donald Trump and his gang of Republican party lackeys.<\/figcaption><\/figure>\n<!-- AddThis Advanced Settings generic via filter on the_content --><!-- AddThis Share Buttons generic via filter on the_content -->","protected":false},"excerpt":{"rendered":"<p>It&#8217;s hard to keep up with the flak generator that is the Trump administration, but this piece of news is straight from the DUH file. In a bombshell, retired Army lieutenant colonel and news analyst, Ralph Peters, quit Fox News, a.k.a. the Republican Propaganda Network. In a scathing statement, Peters said &#8220;In my view, Fox &hellip; <a href=\"http:\/\/www.bilgebucket.com\/?p=5924\" class=\"more-link\">Continue reading<span class=\"screen-reader-text\"> &#8220;Fox News: GOP Propaganda Machine&#8221;<\/span><\/a><!-- AddThis Advanced Settings generic via filter on get_the_excerpt --><!-- AddThis Share Buttons generic via filter on get_the_excerpt --><\/p>\n","protected":false},"author":1,"featured_media":0,"comment_status":"closed","ping_status":"open","sticky":false,"template":"","format":"standard","meta":{"footnotes":""},"categories":[61,60,8,85,3,198],"tags":[74,73,1709,22,20,389,27,1585,4,9,1710,115,458,199,21,43,98,596,235,296,1708,19,47,48,694,79,491],"_links":{"self":[{"href":"http:\/\/www.bilgebucket.com\/index.php?rest_route=\/wp\/v2\/posts\/5924"}],"collection":[{"href":"http:\/\/www.bilgebucket.com\/index.php?rest_route=\/wp\/v2\/posts"}],"about":[{"href":"http:\/\/www.bilgebucket.com\/index.php?rest_route=\/wp\/v2\/types\/post"}],"author":[{"embeddable":true,"href":"http:\/\/www.bilgebucket.com\/index.php?rest_route=\/wp\/v2\/users\/1"}],"replies":[{"embeddable":true,"href":"http:\/\/www.bilgebucket.com\/index.php?rest_route=%2Fwp%2Fv2%2Fcomments&post=5924"}],"version-history":[{"count":4,"href":"http:\/\/www.bilgebucket.com\/index.php?rest_route=\/wp\/v2\/posts\/5924\/revisions"}],"predecessor-version":[{"id":5930,"href":"http:\/\/www.bilgebucket.com\/index.php?rest_route=\/wp\/v2\/posts\/5924\/revisions\/5930"}],"wp:attachment":[{"href":"http:\/\/www.bilgebucket.com\/index.php?rest_route=%2Fwp%2Fv2%2Fmedia&parent=5924"}],"wp:term":[{"taxonomy":"category","embeddable":true,"href":"http:\/\/www.bilgebucket.com\/index.php?rest_route=%2Fwp%2Fv2%2Fcategories&post=5924"},{"taxonomy":"post_tag","embeddable":true,"href":"http:\/\/www.bilgebucket.com\/index.php?rest_route=%2Fwp%2Fv2%2Ftags&post=5924"}],"curies":[{"name":"wp","href":"https:\/\/api.w.org\/{rel}","templated":true}]}}