Imus and Cavuto Air Their Grievances, Once Again

Neil Cavuto, aka “the Godfather” of Fox News looks like Eddie Munster.

Once Imus got that out of his system, he was able to focus on this morning’s conversation with the aforementioned host of Fox News’s “Your World,” which has topped the ratings at 4pm for more then eight years, and of “Cavuto,” the Fox Business Network’s 6pm show that Cavuto puts a lot of effort into, despite Imus’s observations to the contrary.

Yesterday’s primary elections around the country were, in Cavuto’s opinion, mostly a bad sign for incumbents, save for Arkansas’s Democratic Senator Blanche Lincoln, who managed to squeeze out a victory.

“This has been a very tough year for incumbents in both parties, and there’s still sort of this ‘throw the bums out’ mentality out there,” said Cavuto. But he cautioned the minority Party against over-confidence.

“There’s a sentiment among Republicans that they’ve already won this thing, and taken the House or Senate,” he said. “Remember, you need 40 seats to take over the House, you need ten seats to take over the Senate. The math, at this point, just judging on the polls, doesn’t quite have them there.”

Meg Whitman, or “the E-Bay lady,” as Imus calls her, won the Republican nomination for governor in California. Rather than analyze her prospects for victory, Cavuto challenged Imus’s nickname for her.

“It’s a dismissive, condescending, flippant thing,” Cavuto said with feigned outrage.

Unlike other years, when the business acumen of people like Whitman and former Hewlett Packard CEO Carly Fiorina could hurt their chances of winning an election, Cavuto predicted the current economic climate might actually work in their favor. That point is particularly relevant since both women are running for office in California, which is in billions of dollars of debt and might need to be bailed out by the federal government.

Cavuto had little insight on Helen Thomas’s recent “retirement” in the wake of saying Jews should go back to Poland and Germany, other than to point out that she has been making outlandish comments for years.

“It’s amazing to me how if a Conservative journalist said anything even approaching the stupidity of those remarks, that person would have probably been executed right now,” said Cavuto, who had no idea whether Fox News’s Chief White House Correspondent Major Garrett would get Thomas’s seat in the White House press briefing room, even though he is an executive at the network.

“Roger will just take care of it,” Imus needled. “Like he does everything else.”

At which point Cavuto was reminded of something (or someone) else Roger might want to “take care of”…

-Julie Kanfer