Chris Matthews has renewed his contract with MSNBC to stay on another four years. That means we'll be treated to Chris's totally unbiased (wink) political coverage during the 2012 election! Meanwhile, a new cable news personality is being born on CNBC. Perhaps ready to trust in someone other than Jim Cramer, CNBC has signed on Howard Dean as a regular contributor for business news. Dean, like Read more

Thursday's roast on The Daily Show made it into Friday's White House press briefing. Press Secretary Robert Gibbs was asked if the White House believed it was the obligation of journalists to call out lies as Jon Stewart did to the CNBC host. While he wasn't sure if President Obama saw it (though he did talk him about watching it beforehand), he "thoroughly enjoyed" it. Watch his full response Read more

Lordy! I thought Jim Cramer was going to crack last night on The Daily Show when CNBC's ongoing kerfuffle with Jon Stewart came to a head. His voice wavered as Jon accused him of one-sided journalism — dishing out financial advice while not acknowledging the dirty work that goes on behind the markets. How would old man Cramer know? Well, he used to run a hedge fund and manipulated the market Read more

Jim Cramer and Joe Scarborough are fed up with comedian/ideologue Jon Stweart. — Talking Points Memo Hillary Clinton stops by the Turkish version of The View to talk about marriage and fashion. — Jezebel Trying cocaine, down there, is all the rage with teenagers. — Lemondrop What language would you like to learn if you could? — SavvySugar Obama creates post for international women's Read more

Last night Jon Stewart treated CNBC host Rick Santelli to an eight-minute-plus verbal/video smack down. A while back Santelli stood up for Wall Street when he said Americans don't want to bail out loser homeowners. Upset that Santelli canceled on the Daily Show, Jon gave CNBC the hypocrisy montage treatment, showing how the network's advice proved to be wrong over and over again. Jon said, "If Read more

Yesterday fired-up CNBC reporter Rick Santelli laid into the president. He implored Obama to ask Americans whether they really want to "subsidize the losers' mortgages." The traders on the Chicago trading floor cheered for Santelli and booed at the mention of Obama's plan. Today the White House officially addressed the rant, and Santelli by name. Press Secretary Gibbs asserted: I think we left Read more

A big oops on CNBC the other day when anchor Joe Kernan said, "Disney was the big winner . . . 'Pirates' plunders the box office, making $132 million in its first three days at the box office. The previous three-day record was 'Aquaman' at $120-plus, which beat out the $115 million which was set back by 'Spider-Man' back in May of '02." Too bad Aquaman is only real in the HBO Entourage world. Read more