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

[batmanindy]

I turned Faux Noise off three years ago now. I just blocked the station on my cable box. I simply will not watch their version of reality. Life has never been better.

[2Jaded]

FOX is a national treasure, learn to treat it that way!

In the not-too-distant future, FOX will be providing the humor-seeking populace with a well-spring of thigh-slapping comedy. We will be able to view tape of this network much like we watch the Fed's anti-marijuana propaganda film "Reefer Madness".

If the impoverished citizens of the Soviet Union were able to bury Pravda, (a truly devastating and powerful arm of oppression) and everything that it stood for with such dispatch, we can rest assured that FOX too will die a premature death. Because it is predicated on false premises, not even state sponsored propaganda has endured the test of time.

Look on the bright side, the fair and balanced FOX will be good medicine for the calamitous and frightening times for the citizens of the USA that lie just ahead and have started to unfold already.

[truthyguy]

Hey HuffPo, you have this Neil Cavuto under the wrong section. You have it in media.

[mamacat]

It will be interesting to see if Faux Business News does as well as Faux News.

[outsurgency]

Talk about brown nosing.

[outsurgency]

Cavuto is truly an a-wipe, as he so aptly demonstrates here once again.

[tyruler]

LoL!

Cavuto was peeing in his pants trying to butter his boss. Never seen anything more pathethic in "journalis­m."

"I'm here to make FBN succeed" boss! Argh!! What a shill and big I mean B-I-G A$$ WIPE.

Not to mention his smirk about "forgetting" the rival C...CNBC network.

I STOPPED WATCHING THE FAUXNEWS eons ago and will NEVER watch FBN.

All people of reason should boycott FBN to the fullest extent. They are a disgrace to honest journalism standards everywhere.

[ROBOT8]

CAVUTO AND MURDOCH SITTIN' IN A TREE......­.MAKING LOVE......­.....A-NAL­-E! FIRST COMES A WIDE STANCE, NEXT COMES A HAND JESTURE, THIRD COMES TWO GAY MEN IN A LIFE PARTNER MARRIAGE!!­!!!!!!XOXO­XOXOX " BUTT LOVE CAN OVERCOME ALL?

[satyriasis]

Fox News may be garbage but I'll hand it to Moloch Murdoch; he sure knows how to create a successful business model. Dumb down the news, tart it up with super model info-babes, pretend to be balanced, and scare the shit out of middle America relentlessly. Why didn't I think of something like that?

[realitytrumpsbull]

Indymedia=good, old bastards with an agenda
and lots of money=not good.

[eastcoastprogressive]

Both of these individuals are despicable right wing misinforming freaks.

[themodernleader]

The arch gate keeper of news to our benighted citizentry appears before us as an oracle of truth, enlightenment and charity. But the real motive is censorship, control and wealth through management and monopoly of the news.
Such traditional leadership exhibits power grabbing, executing fanatically held ideology, purging divergent views, while showing favoritism, practicing mendacity, reverting to secretiveness, reverting to primitive languave, betraying policy, forsaking subordinates in crisis, proving unworthy and faithless to mission, reverting to secretiveness, sacrificing the future for short term advantage, admitting to no error in judgment or deed and so on.
Our elected leaders must put an end to controlled, monopolistic media and concentrated ownership and authority. Truth is too precious to be left to the few.

[totalliberal]

Did you see that little glitch in the tape where they cut out Cavuto saying "My God sir, you just are a great, great, great man".

Murdoch then slapped him in the face and said. "I'm a diabetic you idiot".

[Advocate123]

It's his boss for the love of god. So what.

Keith Olbermann would do the same thing if he had an Interview with Brock.

Advocate123
http://copiousdissent.blogspot.com

[truthyguy]

Murdoch to Cavuto:
"Neil, please remove your glasses. When your head goes that far up my ass, the frame scratches me."