Cavuto Kisses Major Murdoch Butt, Pretends Not To Know CNBC's Name

Neil Cavuto interviewed his bossman (and now Dow Jones bossman) Rupert Murdoch this afternoon to discuss today's official takeover of Dow Jones. The interview was almost 30 commercial-free minutes long, and they touched on everything from Murdoch's plans for the Wall Street Journal to his views on the New York Times' competition to his perspectives on the economy and the recession he believes is coming (read choice quotes here).

But the highlight of the interview came near the end, when Cavuto asked Murdoch about the synergy between his newest acquisition, the Wall Street Journal, and his latest TV project, Fox Business Network. With the drool nearly pouring out of his mouth, a fawning Cavuto branded himself "part of the players trying to make your Fox Business Network succeed" and then proceeded to pretend he wasn't sure about CNBC's name:

CAVUTO: How important will the Wall Street Journal, will Dow Jones collectively be to building up FBN?
MURDOCH: Oh I think they'll build each other up, they'll help each other. At the moment, there's a standing agreement with our competition. But that will run down, or run out, and we'll be able to put the two together more and more.
CAVUTO: Alright, the standing agreement you're talking about is where Wall Street Journal reporters have a contractual agreement with C-, CNBC — I think that's the name of the network?
MURDOCH: Yes, but it doesn't stop a lot of the reporters from coming on onto Fox, and they have.

Not sure if Cavuto was lobbying for a bigger Christmas bonus (you know Fox loves Christmas), but bossman didn't seem all that amused. Watch:

Neil Cavuto kissed up bigtime to bossman Rupert Murdoch this afternoon by pretending he had never even heard of the Fox Business Network's main competition, the CNBC network. http://link.brightcove.com/services/link/bcpid1336660360http://www.brightcove.com/channel.jsp?channel=1178199204

From Fox News Channel, 12/13

Comments

[fact finder]

Cavuto's head is not over sized because of brains.

[longnow]

I think Mad Money and Fast Money are the best
of business news. Who will leave CNBC once those
contracts run out? We all know what Cavuto is
why bring things down with an accurate description. How the hell did he wind up
on Air America?

[gnorrfa]

at murdoch's bris they saved the nasty bit for a cavuto lip transplant.

[jaschrod]

I stopped watching Cavuto a long time ago. He is just a little fat nerd with no original thoughts.

[Danny]

Murdoch who?

[badmormon]

Why would Murdock allow such a sycophant hosemaster to interview him unless he's concerned somebody from the real media would ask him an "unapproved" question. Gordon

[yorkie]

CAVUTO IS A QUACK WHEN IT COMES TO BUSINESS AND MOST THINGS SPEWING FROM HIS BRAIN! MURDOCH IS BENEAHT CONTEMPT PERIOD. I HOPE HIS NEW BUS CHANNES FLOPS BIG TIME AS IT IS SO FAR DOING! I URGE ALL TO BOYCOTT OFX FAKE NEWS AND ALL FOX SHOWS AND THIER SPONSORS! THEY MUST BE ALSO GRIMICING AS BIG REAL CAPITALIST WARREN BUFFETT BACKS CLINTON AND FOR HIGHER TAXES ON THE UPPER INCOMEE FOLKS! I SAY RIGHT ON! WHAT A DISASTER IN MEDIA OWNERSHIP LAWS ETC THAT IT'S BEEN SINCE 2000. WE CAN'T AFFORD ANOTHER 'GRAND OLD POTTY' IN OFFICE ANYHWERE!

[MAC2]

Wow he did as bad here as he did with the little hobbit from Texass. They really are double a ball compared to what network was that Cabuto fumbled with......­..........­........

[Navy26Yrs]

Is Fake News still on the air? I blocked it two years ago.

The FCC vote is the big news, not Cavuto's admiration for this dried up prune of an Aussie. G'day a**wipe.

[Ginzaman]

They're all a bunch of overpaid idiotic journalist wannabes stumbling over themselves so the Almighty Murdoch (no relation to the Almighty Oprah)won't fire their ass.

[chaszz]

What is the matter with the public? It's named FOX, stupidheads! FOX, FOX, FOX! As in the duper, the conniver, the lead character in "The Fox and the Grapes" and numerous other morality fables where the fox fools and cheats the other animals.

On, er, damn it and excuse me! I forgot most of Fox's audience can't read and doesn't know any history....

[samuraijack]

Cavuto Schumuto, who cares? This dildo is half a douchebag short of the idiocy of Hannity. Now that little fuck Hannity is truly an idiot. Jack Out.

[wsblake]

Cavuto is a pissant Rethug stooge. Everytime I see him I picture that quote from Farehneit 911 when he says that he's " damn proud to be biased" about the American invasion of Iraq. Of course like the rest of the Rethug bigmouths on TV he's a chickenhawk at heart who lets his mouth do his fighting for him.

[WackoinWaco]

My cable company recently added FBN to its lineup. I tried watching it out of curiosity to see what all the hype was about. Talk about crap! It is unwatchable, except for the T&A provided by the female anchors. Typical Murdoch. Isn't he the guy with the newspaper that has naked women on page 3? His formula has been applied to television, where various bottle blondes parade across the screen in short skirts and low cut sweaters. This jerk is a threat to our national sanity. Schmucks like Cavuto need to crawl back under their rocks for the winter!

[grannysharp]

such nasty comments on such a serious matter. Murdock has the American media bought and paid for hard enough to get the real truth and now we can just kiss that good by.