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If Ralph Peters had not “announced” with great fanfare his decision to retire from Fox News, would anybody honestly have even realized he was gone?
First be relevant, then make a protest statement …. don’t try to make yourself relevant by making a protest statement.
Ralph Peters’ insightful perspective escapes me. Robert Mueller, the clearly conflicted close friend of James Comey; Robert Mueller, the FBI agent who was aware of and in charge of the Whitey Bulger criminal enterprise; Robert Mueller, who unquestionably staffed his investigation team nearly entirely with anti-Trumpers; should be left alone to do his job?
Fox News is a unanimous pro-Trump network because Laura Ingraham indecently defended the National Rifle Association?
I don’t follow.
The issue I have with Mueller is not that he is investigating possible Trump/Russian collusion, but rather that he is does not appear to be investigating the Obama DOJ/FBI/Intel communities possible malfeasance in creating the Trump/Russia collusion narrative. It is possible both are true, both are false, or one is true and one is false,
I would feel as comfortable with the Mueller investigation as Ralph Peters if it appeared Mueller was doing a thorough investigation of all aspects of “Russian collusion” on all sides of the political aisle, real, made up, or what ever.
Based on what is the publicly available information it appears Mueller is on a one sided fishing expedition in search of anything damaging to Trump, Russian collusion related or not. And any Obama DOJ/FBI/Intel community malfeasance related to the Trump/Russia collusion which preceded the Special Council is not part of Mueller’s job and he will continue to pretend it’s not there.
It certainly comes off as if Ralph Peters Never Trumpism is shading the quality of his analysis. Not that he does not have a point in his critiques but rather that he takes his critique to the same extremes he criticizes of his opponents.
No many Fox viewers wouldn’t have noticed because too many only care to see a 24/7 Trumpalooza. Ralph Peters has long been an intelligent and relevant voice for conservatives. You can’t say that for many on Fox anymore.
Read “Looking For Trouble.” It’s terrific. He’s a smart guy who has no place on the “Duck Dynasty/Diamond and Silk News Network.”
At minimum Fox covers the Obama DOJ/FBI/Intel Community Trump/Russia collusion scandal. You will learn exactly nothing other than a mention of just one more DOJ/FBI/Intel operative being quietly demoted or fired as the MSM quietly allows the DOJ/FBI/Intel community to investigate itself unfettered by those pesky investigative journalists of days gone by.
Ralph Peters has always been an intelligent relevant voice for conservatives, however it appears now Peters anti Trump zeal taints his analysis. According to Peters anything Trump related is Armageddon and even though Trump may be a cluster schtoop not everything Trump does is a necessarily the disaster Peters wants it to be.
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He was pretty annoying.
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He talked about deluding himself. I think he’s done it – but not about what effect he could have while at Fox last year. I think the whole Russia narrative is self-evident nonsense, except to those who have a profound emotional investment in not seeing the obvious. Russia hacked e-mails which hurt Hillary. Nothing else they did had any measurable effect, and it’s only because of bizarre circumstances that the e-mail hack was even significant.
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For Trump to collude, two things would need to be the case. First, Putin would need to think Trump would be a good choice for the most significant conspiracy in my lifetime. Conspirators need to be self-disciplined and able to keep a secret. Secondly, to use Kompromat as leverage you don’t need to have an embarrassing secret. You need one that the person is ashamed of. Shame. Trump isn’t even ashamed about sleeping with a pornstar right after his wife had a baby.
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The whole thing is just a political stratagem which people emotionally disturbed by the election can’t recognize for the Manchurian candidate fever dream it really is. “We have to be sure beyond a scintilla of a doubt that the conspiracy theory isn’t true.” No. That is what Trump said about birth certificates. There’s no obligation to demonstrate it’s not true. The burden of proof rests on those with the loony conspiracy theory.
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Then he says Fox is destroying America by attacking our institutions. Really? The presidency is an institution. Accepting election results as legitimate is too. Every part of the media is attacking some institution or other – and you know what? That won’t destroy the country. It’s how the press is supposed to operate. Journalistic neutrality is a historical aberration created by ideologues. Also it’s just a stupid idea.
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I assume this guy made friends with people while he was working at Fox. Yet he’s now the righteous ‘good American’ and they’re the ones destroying our country. Seriously? What a tool.
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I think everyone has had some friends or family they’ve had real disagreements with since the election. Some people became condescending and contemptuous about things and detonated relationships that were important to them back in 2015. I have no respect for people like that. It’s completely uncharitable.
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It’s also not acting like an adult.
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If Putin wants to restore Russia to 1904, we can rely on Japan to put him in his place.
Regarding the quality of Fox News, I think it probably can be different things to different people. It depends on when you tune in. I’ve got a better impression of Fox than CNN, but I watch four shows: Fox News Sunday, WSJ Editorial Report, The Five, and Howie – who’s better than the human thumb doing CNN’s media analysis by orders of magnitude.
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Plus, I don’t see anything wrong with an offering that includes Diamond and Silk. If you watch Ben Shapiro you can still enjoy Steven Crowder (although I find him hard to take except in small doses.) Hasn’t Fox always been a mix? I don’t think it’s on now, but I remember seeing Gutfeld on an after midnight show.
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I still think Peters seems jerky for talking the way he does about his old coworkers. He’s discovered a political disagreement with them he hadn’t been aware of. You’d think he’s the FBI agent in The Americans finding out his neighbor and close friend was a mole. Nobody’s sending secrets about stealth technology to the KGB. They’re doing cable news with an editorial perspective he disapproves of.
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Both stiff and melodramatic. Reminded me of Comey.
It’s even simpler and less substantive than that. The Russians didn’t hack the DNC emails, someone downloaded them to a thumbdrive, then sent the download to WikiLeaks. It was a DNC insider, possibly someone who was bothered that the DNC was colluding with Hillary to harm Bernie.
Ralph Peters, super duper self–important superspy with a long history of super duper spying on Russian spies, should know all of this.
I disagree. They are acting like jerks and deserve it. Not all of them, but many. If there was anyplace better to go, I think a lot of the more intelligent people on Fox would have left in 2016. Ralph was speaking of the opinion people in any case. I’m pretty sure he has no problems with the hard news people on Fox.
He does know all of that. He also knows that Trump is too stupid to actually “collude” with the Russians successfully but to quote Mr. Peters in his recent op ed: “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.”
Trump is exactly the type the KGB look for and it is not a good idea to overlook that and simply propagandize for Trump 24/7.
If he did, then he should have said so. Instead,
I get that you are anti-Trump, Julia, and evidently so is Ralph Peters. But Ralph Peters was spouting nonsense on Michael’s podcast. His insightful genius escapes me.