A Chat Between Friends Resorts to Name-Calling and Ugliness. For a Change.
It was out of the goodness of his heart that Neil Cavuto agreed to fill in for the ailing Jerry Lee Lewis this morning, but one wouldn’t think there was much goodness in his heart at all after the way Cavuto went after Imus today.
Following a scintillating discussion about Charles’s jacket, Cavuto, who hosts two shows and does lot of other important stuff at Fox, complimented Meghan McCain on her appearance with Imus earlier this morning.
Cavuto was then accused of being a guest-stealer, and retaliated that Imus was mean to Chris Wallace yesterday. “Ol’ triple chin, as we call him,” Imus corrected Cavuto. Informed that Wallace was “a giant” in the journalism world, Imus replied, “No, no. That’s Mike Wallace.”
To be fair, it had been a rough morning for Cavuto to this point: he’d been forced to listen to Imus shill for one event or another all morning long.
“You’re a nonstop commercial,” he said. Though 100 percent the money for the events and products Imus promotes goes to the Imus Ranch, Cavuto’s not convinced, and accused Imus of taking half.
“Maybe we’ll close the Ranch, and the little children can go to a camp and eat the junk food that made them sick in the first place,” Imus suggested, then wondered what to buy Bill O’Reilly for his 61st birthday today.
Annoyed, Cavuto asked why Imus continues to have the likes of New York Times Op-Ed Columnist Frank Rich on this program when Rich habitually goes after Fox News in his weekly column.
Prince Al-Waleed: Charles McCord look-alike?“You never even question when he takes a snide swipe at Fox,” said Cavuto, who was particularly upset about a recent accusation Rich made that Fox has tried to hide its connection to the Saudi royal family, when in fact Cavuto interviewed Prince Al-Waleed bin Talal earlier this year and disclosed that information.
“I dare say, maybe you would’ve, as a friend, brought up with Mr. Rich, ‘I think Neil raised all these issues you’re talking about,’” said Cavuto. “But you didn’t. You folded like a cheap suit.”
While Imus delighted in calling Al-Waleed “Prince Ragweed,” Cavuto further observed the I-Man’s tendency to buy “hook, line, and sinker” everything his more liberal guests say, while chastising his more conservative-minded ones.
“You’re a soft, little, namby-pamby, good-for-nothing, two-bit phony, wanna-be Edward R. Murrow who couldn’t get it done, so now you’re sitting there with your little microphone, ‘I’ve got my ranch, I’m doing nonstop commercials, I must be big because my entire show’s commercials,’” Cavuto said, breathlessly.
To which Imus replied, “Yeah, but other than that?”
-Julie Kanfer
Neil Cavuto 
Reader Comments (1)
FANTASTIC!!! This example of free speech and humor woluld not be seen on any 'UNBIASED" network--thanks for having the self-assurance of allowing the audience to share in this banter and "mean-teasing" between media personalities with the healthy ego to give and take. Keep it up, embarass ABC, CNN, MSNBC, NBC AND "RATHERNOT"....