Enough Is Enough

“Over my decade with Fox, I long was proud of the association. Now I am ashamed.

“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 . . . 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.”

—Lt. Col. Ralph Peters, former Fox News strategic analyst, in memo to Fox employees explaining why he quit. See “Fox News Contributor Is Suddenly Self-Aware,” Esquire, March 21, 2018.

• Editorial Comment: The colonel, in my view, is a slow learner. But better late than never.

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