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Fox News anchor Neil Cavuto is showing no remorse for an on-air crack about Osama bin Laden wearing a Kerry button that infuriated John Kerry's campaign. Cavuto told viewers last week that his "thin-skinned" and "humorless critics seem to have selective memory." Recalling all the Democrats he's had on his show, Cavuto dismissed "threats from Democrats who now say they will boycott my show. I say, go ahead. Boycott me. Fair and balanced, I'll continue to invite you, and I'll let my viewers know when you decline -- each and every time you do."

Late last week Mrs. Edwards agreed to be a guest for our show Monday night. (Note: we also have an open invitation to Mrs. Cheney and she has been a guest on our show on more than one occasion.) Since Mrs. Edwards is not the candidate, the interview I intended to have with her was not one about policy, but more about the excitement of an election, what her plans are for Election Day, whether (if her husband and Senator Kerry win) she has an idea of what the job is to be married to the vice president, what are...

(CBS) Democrat John Kerry's campaign staff was steamed by an on-air wisecrack by Fox News anchor Neil Cavuto. Cavuto, who has contributed money to President Bush, suggested that Osama bin Laden was wearing a Kerry button. The Fox anchor made the crack Friday following the broadcast of the terror chief's videotaped message to the American people. When one of Cavuto's guests said that the bin Laden tape was not an endorsement of Kerry, the anchor remarked: "He's all but doing that. I thought I saw a button." The Boston Globe reported that Kerry aide John Sasso threatened to kick a...

DES MOINES -- John Sasso, a senior adviser to John F. Kerry's presidential campaign, threatened to ban Fox News staff from the candidate's plane Friday night when Fox initially refused to apologize for a talk show host's comment that a new videotape showed Osama bin Laden with a Kerry button. ADVERTISEMENT Kerry advisers quickly backtracked, however, concluding that an escalating conflict with a major cable channel just days before the election would do nothing to help the Democratic nominee. Kerry senior adviser Mike McCurry spoke to Fox executives Friday and yesterday and was told that the Fox News host, Neil...

I just want to see if I've got this straight: We're being very careful in Najaf not to damage a shrine being used by gunmen trying to kill us? Last time I checked, shrines were for praying, meditating and maybe even mulling. But not once, to my knowledge, for murdering. For months now, the revered Imam Ali Shrine has become a fortress: a Koran-bless Alamo. Only the Alamo wasn't a church. Just like this place is no longer a shrine.

It's the interview everyone will be talking about! Neil Cavuto sits down with the vice president on "Your World" Friday at 4pm and 1am ET. Plus, see more of the special interview on "Cavuto on Business" Saturday at 10:30am ET. At left, Neil gives FOX Fans the inside scoop on what he'll discuss with Cheney.

One thing I've learned about the Europeans is they always come back. Oh, sure, they bash our arrogance. They even bash our ignorance. They say we're not cultured or refined. They call our presidents who shoot from the hip empty in the head. They said the same of Ronald Reagan. They say much the same of President Bush. But in all these retrospectives on Reagan and his life this past week, one remarkable fact stands out -- even the Europeans come around. And Reagan is the perfect example. When he first came into office, the French press, in particular, called...

Three cheers for Fox News Channel's business ace Neil Cavuto. He's one of the few business journalists this year that has had the brains and backbone to expose the Democrats' hysterical distortions about the U.S. economy. If you missed Kerry's appearance on Cavuto's program this past week, the Massachusetts Democrat will no doubt be happy. Kerry tried to turn the show into one of his smug lectures, but Cavuto kept asking those pesky questions. Peskiest question of all: Why does Kerry keep attacking the 5.7 percent unemployment rate when Bill Clinton was bragging about a similar rate when he...

No offense to the 9-11 Commission, but I'm sick of the 9-11 Commission. I know it hasn't even released its report on what led to the tragic unfolding of events that day, but I'm no longer obsessing over that day. I'm focused on "this" day, "these" days. I am focused not so much on threats, real or imagined, before Sept. 11, but on threats very real and far from imagined post-Sept. 11. I find it incredibly ironic that during a week past and present administration officials were being grilled on what they knew and when they knew it, the militant...

When I was in college, there was this one guy on my dorm floor, Steve, who was the certifiable expert on everything. Talk about the Yankees? "The win's in the bag." A Steven Spielberg movie coming out? "Money in the bank." Carter-Reagan 1980 (yes, I'm dating myself)? "Carter, without question." Needless to say, Steve didn't exactly bat a thousand, but that didn't stop him from batting around his opinions. What amazed me was how many people in my dorm at the time took Steve's word as gospel. Maybe because Steve was loud. Maybe because Steve was big. I don't know....

Commentary: Cavuto's straight talk is wooing viewers NEW YORK (CBS.MW) - Ask Neil Cavuto, the managing editor of business news for the Fox News Channel, to name his dream interview and he gets right to the point. "The Pope," Cavuto said. "I'd ask, `How long are you going to stay?'" Cavuto said, tongue-in-cheek. That's the kind of feistiness that the media industry has come to expect from Fox (FOX: news, chart, profile), News Corp.'s (NWS: news, chart, profile) cable television network. While Fox is ordinarily associated with such highly opinionated talk show hosts as Bill O'Reilly, Cavuto's work is quietly...

Call him the king of cable business news. Fox financial news chief Neil Cavuto - not CNBC - now boasts the five highest rated stocks and bonds programs on the cable dial. While Fox News' tough-talking star anchor, Bill O'Reilly, generates lots of buzz for the network, Cavuto has built a formidable biz news fiefdom. Cavuto's daily show, "Your World With Neil Cavuto" led the pack in 2003 with more than a million viewers. That's five times the audience of CNBC's recently canned "Business Center," and 54% more than CNN's "Lou Dobbs Tonight," which has morphed into a general news...

This is the time of year journalists begin comprising their list of big events. The stories that shaped our lives and the individuals who shaped those stories over the past year. I'm not really big into lists. I have a hard enough time remembering what I had for breakfast. I am big into big picture things; sometimes dopey things, but for me, meaningful things. When I look back on 2003, I will remember not just a war or a captured tyrant, I will remember a theme. For my money, in my mind, and in my heart, this was the year...

Now that we've eaten turkey, I want to talk turkey. I want to talk holiday spending. I want to talk big holiday spending. Because, mark my words and save this column, holiday sales are going to be huge. Huge. Why? Because contrary to media reports, most of us are still bummed out. I think we're ready to bust out, and we're going to be busting out in malls and stores across this country these next four weeks or so. What has me so upbeat? Little things, really. Little things like Tom. Tom's a friend of mine. He's a nice guy,...

In all this coverage of the pope's golden anniversary, one alarming little item passed my desk. Apparently he knows when he's going to die. I don't know how he knows, but suffice it to say he knows. He's told his closest confidantes this and seems largely motivated by this. Now there are a lot of people who don't flip over the Catholic Church and think even less of the pope for presiding over numerous scandals. I'm biased, of course, as I'm Catholic. I think he's done a remarkable job and, along with Ronald Reagan, probably even spearheaded the collapse of...

I think I know the real reason why Gray Davis didn't survive the recall race in California. Forget about that energy crisis, or the mounting budget deficits or all those hikes in state-college tuition. Those were big problems, but nothing compared to old Gray himself. I'm sorry to say this, and no offense to the outgoing governor, but Gray was gray. Gray was bland. Gray was dull. Gray couldn't inspire a cricket, which clearly explains why he didn't inspire a majority of California voters. I once had a friend like Gray. His name was Chip, which you'd think would imply...

<p>The French and Germans brag about their club. It's called the European Union. And they really brag about their currency, the Euro.</p> <p>It's a cool club, a happening club and they say, the only club. Kind of like jocks and cheerleaders, versus nerds and losers. If you're not in, you're out. And if you're lucky enough to get an invite, RSVP pronto!</p>

There's nothing like being down at Ground Zero, where the once mighty twin towers stood, to appreciate the enormity of what happened there. I remember covering events down there right after the attacks, did so again a year after the attacks, and yet again, from a roof-top perch overlooking a vast empty pit this past week, two years after the attacks. It is a sobering experience. Just looking at the faces this year of children reading off the names of moms and dads killed in those attacks reminds you of the pain that continues from that day. But I'm not...

<p>Everyone is using the Sept. 11 (search) anniversary to say we shall never forget. I have a somewhat different take: I "want" us to forget.</p> <p>I want us to forget about feeling secure here and remember we are vulnerable here.</p>

Watch out, Mr. President Neil Cavuto September 6, 2003 Let me get a bias out of the way, right away. I don't like big government. I don't like a government that coddles me, protects me, and then sends me . . . a big bill. I think Gerald Ford had it right decades ago when he insisted that a "government big enough to give you everything you want is a government big enough to take from you everything you have." I used to think Republicans hated big government, too. I'm not so sure now, not when I hear Republican National...