Neil Cavuto Slammed As 'Ignorant' By Rep. Eddie Bernice Johnson In Fiery Debate (VIDEO)

Fox News' Neil Cavuto and Democratic Rep. Eddie Bernice Johnson had an intensely heated debate about the deficit on Cavuto's Wednesday Fox News show.

The interview came after President Obama laid out his plan to cut the deficit in a Wednesday speech. Johnson is part of a group of progressive Democrats advocating a "People's Budget," which, she told Cavuto, focuses on raising taxes on the wealthy and in investing in education, among other things.

"All of us know that just cutting and doing nothing else is doing nothing more than running jobs out of the country and getting rid of jobs that are here," she said.

"But Congresswoman, we're broke," Cavuto responded, adding that it might be time to "dig out." Johnson said that the country needed to invest in the future through education. Cavuto cut in again. "If I die and leave to my kids just a lot of bills and debt...I've screwed their future."

"You're screwing the future now," Johnson shot back. "...I hate to break it to you, but all I do is follow numbers," he said. I am Fox's nerd here, and we are broke...broke broke broke broke broke."

As the two argued more, Johnson lost patience with Cavuto. "You know what?" she said. "Your problem is, is that you just don't listen; you just scream and you're screaming the same thing these fools are screaming here," she said.

"But ma'am, you're saying the same thing," Cavuto said. "I'm just asking you to say something different."

The interview ended with acrimony on both sides. "You can sit there and be as ignorant as you'd like to be, but it's not going to solve it," Johnson said to Cavuto. "...We're going to hell in a handbasket," he replied.

"I think you're already there," she said. "When you refuse to have vision, you're already in hell."

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Comments

[PecosSue]

05:25 PM on 04/20/2011

This is just another example of the liberal thinking that if a lie is spouted often enough and loud enough people will believe it. Liberals just want to keep spending until our country is bankrupt. There are other ways to improve education like annual teacher testing, keeping teachers on a proficiency not tenure basis, eliminating the unions that foster an attitude of complacency and getting the taypayers more involved because, after all, we pay their salaries. We are their bosses and we want results not the old liberal fix of spend more money.

[arcsound]

08:24 AM on 04/19/2011

I cannot believe that this woman is actually a member of Congress. Bless Neil for having the patience of a saint to keep trying to dialogue with such an ignorant demagogue. You Puff-n-Stuff folks are more far gone than I thought if you thought Congressman Johnson "took the high road" and won the argument!

[Brant Kelsey]

04:57 PM on 04/18/2011

Progressives, Regressives, whatever........Reagan's Policies correspond directly with China's emergence into the World Market place and its march toward total domination: Regan's kickbacks to the Elite in terms of the "trickle down" Inception: Did create investment in Domestic Enterprise: Remember also it was conjoined with patently illegal and dubious exploits involving Iran, Nicaragua, Panama, Guns, Dope, Lies, Oliver North. Please, Please: don't even attempt to extol anything remotely wonderful about Reagan. Back to the story! So Along comes Clinton, who by the way Helped Regan/Bush by providing Arkansas airstrips: For well drugs and guns. Bush's CIA connections made this just smooth. OK so Clinton follows Bush. Clinton "pretend" raises taxes on the Rich. Increases the "rate" but knows legislation has already been laid to provide them with the needed Exemptions. Cool? However, Clinton follows up with NAFTA. What does that do? Gives the Go Ahead to begin exporting Industry. Local economies begin to perish as jobs and Industry are exported to more PROFITABLE markets. READ as Slave Wages. Profits are too seductive to even allow a semblance of conscience to what they've done at what may have at one time been defined as their HOME.

Their Home is now the Globe and beyond: to own the water. to own the Air. To extricate as much money from the lower economic 98%: WHY? I presume to attempt to keep their Homeland in tact. However, implicitly, there is THEIR Unimaginable Wealth. Which suggests they will find NEW HOMES.

[booker52]

03:19 PM on 04/18/2011

Those on Fox don't really want the truth, they just want to talk over their "guests" or try and force them to say that the host is correct.

[Wanjiru]

11:01 PM on 04/17/2011

What a condescending pr!ck this man is - why is he speaking to the Congresswoman as if she's a child? How does ANYONE watch this channel? "I would love to have a house in Tahiti"?
Wow!
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[arcsound]

08:26 AM on 04/19/2011

Right. The pot calling the proverbial kettle black as the ever shrill Ms. Johnson tells Neil that he is "ignorant" and "shouting". Get a clue.

[Wanjiru]

07:26 AM on 04/24/2011

May well be an insurmountable concept for you to grasp, but when a journalist/newsman invites a guest on their show to share their opinion on whatever subject, the onus is on the HOST (i.e. the newsman) to allow said guest to share said opinion, without yelling at them, cutting them off and being belligerent - as is FOX News' method of doing business!

Don't waste the guest's time by inviting them on your show if all you want to do is to hear the sound of your own voice!

That's called being courteous and professional - again - concepts that I am sure completely escape you.
.

[Lahonda]

03:37 PM on 04/17/2011

Fox is almost openly promoting the strategy that corporations are better at taxing US citizens than the government. Tuition, prisons, health care, mercenaries (ala Blackwater), transit, medical research, food inspections, voting machines and soon enough, we'll be exposed to the new self-regulating bank!

Right after the US gives up more of its leadership positions to right wing zealots on payola.

[Lahonda]

03:25 PM on 04/17/2011

Fascist journalism at its finest.

[arcsound]

08:27 AM on 04/19/2011

More like fantasy representation at its best..... Ms. Johnson is living, breathing proof that one should never vote for Democrats.

[alertbay]

10:28 AM on 04/17/2011

Well, if there was any doubt, this should be sufficient demonstration that fox is an advocacy operation and not a journalism operation. Unless of course, you consider yellow journalism a legitimate form for the 21st Century as it existed in the 19th.

[merlin1246]

10:45 AM on 04/17/2011

lol. For a moment I thought you were talking about the NY Times or the Washington Post; both prime examples of yellow journalism, much like HuffPo.

[floridaray]

11:50 AM on 04/17/2011

You are thinking of the NY Post

[merlin1246]

03:01 PM on 04/17/2011

NO, I was calling out the NY Times, a fountain of blighted yellow journalism that has discredited itself time and again in recent years, and to which no one remotely concerned with the truth would ever subscribe. As an example, the routine hit jobs does
supporting elitist liberal gun control initiatives. The New York Times pieces stayed far away from this point. It is no wonder, because no place - not a single one -- that has banned guns has seen its murder rate fall. In the US, murder and other violent crime soared in DC and Chicago after their handgun bans were enacted back in 1977 and 1982, respectively. Conversely, after the Supreme Court recently struck down their bans and gunlock law, murder and violent crime rates in DC and Chicago have fallen. The same pattern has occurred across the world, even for island nations that don't have neighbors to blame for gun smuggling

[Brant Kelsey]

05:18 PM on 04/18/2011

Fox doesn't have a monopoly on "yellow" journalism: Each of our well ronounced Media "OUTLETS" Do have a very voracious barking dog in the Hunt. Please don't forget that. Fox practices as a "News Organization". However, while defending themselves in Court (florida) they willingly confess they are "entertainment". Whatever. They are simply more malevolent in their approach. They routinely lie, inflame, foment fear, use false video, supplant audio, and patently contrive. Relevance is their sole discretion. As it is in others. Though the Fox agenda is more transparent: It is also divisive, destructive, and on its face, could be traced to overt actions of violence either intentionally or irresponsibly generated. No place for Murdoch in NEWS. He is detested by members of his own country: And FOX without question, as it presents Here: Should not be able to have it both ways: They should not be able to defend itself in Court by claiming they are an Entertainment Network on one hand: While on the other continuing to pervade so pernicious a message, clothed in the benign garb of a News Organization.

All you Freedom of Speech at any cost adherents can raise your ire: But if I were King, Fox would be off the Air for all but entertainment purposes. Though are "representatives" at the Federal Level go to great depths to divide US as a country: As they are corrupted. FOX is the destructive dynamo espousing vitriol, passions, isolation, Fear, and perhaps violence. They Should Be Gone.

[alertbay]

11:06 PM on 04/18/2011

Well I'm not much of a "Freedom of Speech at any cost adherent(s)". Were I King I'd instantly silence those alleged Christians who desecrate the funerals of fallen soldiers with their vile, un-Christian, sloganeering.

As you doubtless know, the long history of journalism in America has always had a significan element that was pure advocacy; indeed, this advocacy has sometimes been positive, the abolitionist press, and sometimes absurd, the anti-Masonic press to name only two.

What I found offensive with respect to this exchange, and fox in general, is their pretense to objectivity (an impossbile goal I realize) and then their corporate presentation of a position that is idiocy. If Cavuto believes his position, he's an idiot; but of course, he's not an idiot, he's just bought and paid for so he presents idiocy in the guise of serious journalism. We are not broke, and no serious economist says that we are, similarly, no serious student of the subject of our budget would claim that it is does not need some work; but the acme of pointlessness is achieved when an alleged journalist descends into a shouthing match. We've a lot of work to do, and a host of possible solutions to explore. Let's explore then and stop shouting.

[william95]

09:08 AM on 04/17/2011

Cavuto can't find the money! Of coarse he can't because he believes that money belonging to middle class America should be shovelled upward by the trillions into the pockets of his millionaire and billionaire masters who don't need it.

[merlin1246]

10:19 AM on 04/17/2011

lol

[ranchero42]

10:39 AM on 04/18/2011

See? It's all about Cavuto following the only talking points the boss allows. Eddie Bernice Johnson had him pegged right - nowhere to go and relying on troo//ies to clean it up after the fact. Thank goodness the numbers of FoxPuppets trying to change the subject has been remarkably low so far.

[Brant Kelsey]

05:27 PM on 04/18/2011

Sorry. When I think of Sean Hannity, which is rarely, unless I've fallen and I can't get up. I think of a program I recently saw, on "parking meter Nazi's" in varius geographies around "our" land. Seem when in the throes of perhaps a dubious occupation they are confronted with the Havoc they sometimes create in lives of the "offenders"......Frequently it's all about.."Well I'm only doing my Job". Which takes me to the various other worldly endeavors: Of those Just Dong Their Job. Whether it's Himmler or the Pope, or the Koch's or Sean Hannity. A great deal of amoral and offensive; for many deadly consequences are derived from THEM just doing their job.

[jobscabin]

09:06 AM on 04/17/2011

Nice exchange! Someone has to shout back at Fox News in order to get the point across: the country is not broke. The wealth of our country has been "wicked up" to the uber-rich. Their incomes have risen over 250% since the Trickle Down economy was put in place. And during this time the working class income has been flat line. Shout that so the viewers of Fox can see "something different".

[merlin1246]

10:19 AM on 04/17/2011

lol

[mrpell]

10:22 AM on 04/18/2011

If money trickles up as you would seem to indicate give me the names of 6 crack heads or welfare queens that I should thank for all the jobs they provide.

[ranchero42]

10:43 AM on 04/18/2011

That's all you got? No FoxPuppets update yet? This one is getting old - keep checking 'The Blaze' until Glennie clues you into the the 'new' thought process.

[ranchero42]

12:18 PM on 04/18/2011

Glad to see you're in that 'never change' frame of mind. All the other fish in your barrel close friends from good families?

[David Olson]

06:14 PM on 04/16/2011

I always have wondered what happened to jerry mathers from leave it to beaver.

[xsm941f]

01:15 AM on 04/17/2011

Starring Barbara Billingsley, Hugh Beaumont, Tony Dow and Neil Cavuto as the Beaver.

[xsm941f]

01:18 AM on 04/17/2011

Oops. Forgot Chris Christie as Lumpy.

[achleyboy]

05:58 PM on 04/16/2011

What vision is that? We have shut down the Gulf for oil drilling, Obama has said you want to use coal, go ahead but it will be expensive, won't let us drill anywhere for oil or natural gas, will probably put restrictive regs in place for nuclear power and now brags about wanting to buy our oil from Brazil. So I guess the energy source of the future is wind. That is some vision. Or our education-national scores have gone down but costs have gone up. There is some vision. Oh but now teaching gay history in California is vision. I got Obama's campaign slogan,"Nothing from Nothing leaves Nothing"(apologizes to Billy Preston).

[sippewissett]

04:50 AM on 04/17/2011

Your posting is so full of lies that you demonstrate you are a Faux Nooz viewer.

[merlin1246]

10:24 AM on 04/17/2011

"So I guess the energy source of the future is wind."
>>>> If they could harness the "wind" here, our energy
crisis would already be over. And don't let all these Huff (and puff)
posters here bother you; they only insult themselves through their banal
and fact-less comments. They hate facts, because facts get in their way.
So sad.....

[Alexodia]

12:48 PM on 04/16/2011

Cavuto a nerd is a person who is extremely smart but lacks common sense. =) I think you fit definition 1 just fine but I'd be laughed out of any economic experts office if I said you were number 2. Though That depends if the economist is honest or intelligent themselves.

noun /nərd/
nerds, plural; nurds, plural

A foolish or contemptible person who lacks social skills or is boringly studious
- one of those nerds who never asked a girl to dance

An intelligent, single-minded expert in a particular technical discipline or profession
- he single-handedly changed the Zero image of the computer nerd into one of savvy Hero

[FOXYROSE]

09:38 AM on 04/16/2011

"Investing" in education is always the Dems battle cry - well, where I live the cost is now approx. 17,000 per student and the rate of dropouts is higher than ever. When is enough, enough - perhaps it should be 50,000 per student and our property taxes can triple - would that be satisfactory. The educational system is this country doesn't work, hasn't worked for decades.

[Alexodia]

12:38 PM on 04/16/2011

We have a bad education system.

[Bluebloodsbastardson]

01:36 PM on 04/16/2011

yep a Republican breeding ground

[sippewissett]

04:52 AM on 04/17/2011

Let's blame the Dems for your problem. After all there has never been a Repug president with a "No Child Left Behind" initiative. Cut the partisan rhetoric. You are not helping to improve our education system with your rants.

[Bev McClellan]

08:59 AM on 04/16/2011

Give it up Neil - same ol, same ol soundbites are really getting old!

[merlin1246]

10:32 AM on 04/17/2011

dumb comment. Present facts.