Cenk Uygur Reveals That Roger Ailes’ ‘Black Room’ Enemies Ops Were Known To MSNBC

The Young Turks’ Cenk Uygur, has revealed that in 2011, when he was on MSNBC, he was warned by that network to be careful in what he said about Fox News because of its “black room” operations.

A few days ago, reporter Gabriel Sherman reported about a “Black Room” operation that Fox’s then-chief Roger Ailes established “to conduct PR and surveillance campaigns against people he targeted both inside and outside the company.”

In his video below, for The Young Turks, Uygur explains that while he’s not sure MSNBC actually called it a “black room,” it was known to the network and, apparently, feared.

That begs the question as to why MSNBC never called out this chicanery by a rival. I can assure you that Fox News would have if the roles were reversed.

“We’re nowhere near done with this story yet,” Uygur said.

I certainly hope not.

Watch Uygur below.

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commented 2016-08-13 02:22:47 -0400 · Flag

Dear Antoinette.

Are you sure this pipeline of yours doesn’t have a blockage? A helluva a lot seems to have gone into it, but not a lot seems to make it out.

If you have skuttlebutt to share, let it go, baby!

commented 2016-08-12 13:38:29 -0400 · Flag

Anonymous,

Agree 100%.

commented 2016-08-12 13:06:46 -0400 · Flag

All the major players in the “black room” will be exposed, especially the on-air talent who participated in it, and these men know who they are.

Coming down the pipeline:

1. Naming names.
2. Well-known host will receive huge backlash when his secrets are exposed.
3. Marriages in trouble

commented 2016-08-12 13:03:14 -0400 · Flag

The dirt on Ailes back in 2013 http://www.politico.com/blogs/media/2013/10/why-bill-kristol-left-fox-news-176467

commented 2016-08-12 11:46:41 -0400 · Flag

As far as I know of the “mainstream” broadcast media, only comedy shows regularly call out Fox News for the propaganda tabloid that it is. Otherwise, there’s a double standard that I don’t see discussed: Fox and talk radio habitually and explicitly condition their listeners to dislike, distrust, and disregard competing media, whereas in the “mainstream” broadcast media, criticism of competing networks is still only sporadic and mostly limited to a few shows on MSNBC. On CBS, NBC, and CNN, when do they ever say “you won’t hear this on right wing media”? On Fox they voice that sentiment about their competitors every day. Mainstream broadcast media are a punching bag for Fox, and they mostly just take it, perhaps partly out of fear of Fox’s black room, also perhaps because it is seen as a violation of journalistic ethics, because it is assumed everyone knows FOX = B.S., and because the mainstream broadcast media execs are less liberal than advertised. CNBC is predominantly right wing, though nowhere near as rabid as Fox Business Network. I remember conservative Republican Joe Scarborough a year ago even mildly defending Fox on his show!