Fox's Cavuto Doesn't “Know Why” “Some People Don't Like” Fox
Cavuto Tells Imus: “Some People Don't Like Us; I Don't Know Why.” From the June 5 edition of Fox Business' Imus in the Morning:
NEIL CAVUTO (Fox News host): Ironically enough, with overall union members in this state, [Walker] remains, oddly enough, a popular figure, much like Chris Christie in New Jersey. So with the union leadership and some of the passionate, outside Wisconsin state operatives, it's very, very different.
DON IMUS (host): Where are you, Neil? I hear a horn honk.
CAVUTO: I'm in Madison, Wisconsin.
IMUS: No, I know that. But I mean --
CAVUTO: Oh man, oh man. There's a lot of that, a lot of that. No, seriously. But I mean, there's a lot of that, and when they see Fox News here or me here -- I mean there's a -- some people don't like us; I don't know why. [Fox Business, Imus in the Morning, 6/5/12, via Media Matters]
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