Fox News Executive Retires A Month After Controversial Olympics Column

John Moody weighs in on Fox News in April 2017.
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Fox News Executive Editor and Executive Vice President John Moody, who’s been with the news network since 1996, has retired just one month after the network yanked a controversial column he penned about diversity in the Olympics.

A Fox News spokesperson confirmed Moody’s retirement Friday, telling TPM: “John Moody has retired from Fox News.”

A person close to the situation told CNN that Moody was already planning to retire before the backlash over his column, which slammed the U.S. Olympics for its efforts to attract a diverse group of athletes for the Winter Games. 

“Unless it’s changed overnight, the motto of the Olympics, since 1894, has been ‘Faster, Higher, Stronger.’ It appears the U.S. Olympic Committee would like to change that to ‘Darker, Gayer, Different.’ If your goal is to win medals, that won’t work,” Moody wrote in the column that was deleted after it drew outrage early last month.

A network spokesperson said it was removed from the site because it did not “reflect the views or values” of Fox News.

At the time, a Fox News insider told TPM that the column was published without going through the “proper vetting process” because of Moody’s standing at the company.

“In terms of John Moody, he has zero editorial oversight on any platform, his title is a formality and he hasn’t performed that function for years,” the network insider told TPM last month.

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  1. There is no way that hair is natural.

  2. “reflect the views or values”

    When this first happened and they said that, I fell on the floor laughing, because his comments reflected every view and value those motherfuckers at FoxNews have expressed since the first minute of broadcast.
    Oh, and when I heard that he “retired”, the first question that popped into my head was:
    “Dead Girl, or Live Boy?”

    Oh, and a little OT, although it does have to do with another racist, sexist, bigoted, homophobic former Fox fuck. And I wonder if anyone will ask his daughter about this at her next press lie-o-rama?:

  3. Someone on another site call him a member of the “Hair Club For Morticians”. LOL!

  4. It was a stiff wind a-blowin’…

  5. The go to excuses to be so screwed up in the brain dept and called out for it…
    Family issues
    Planning on leaving
    planning to retire
    Health reasons
    Found a better job.
    I just wanna go away and hide. lol
    Wonder what the javanka team will use or come up with.

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