Liberal MSNBC, Conservative CNBC Are TV’s Jekyll and Hyde

NBC's cable kids are fast becoming the Jekyll and Hyde of TV. Where many of MSNBC's anchors lean left, CNBC's stray right. The latest proof: CNBC Power Lunch host Michelle Caruso-Cabrera has just written You Know I'm Right. Actually, she's more libertarian—Reagan conservative on spending, Clinton moderate on social issues. "I want a government who stays out of my private life and out of my pocketbook," she tells us. Among her money-saving suggestions: End Social Security and Medicare. As for CNBC's bent? "We are a network that is about the little guy," she says. "Every journalist is the voice of the voiceless, right? And many small shareholders are voiceless. That's what we're here for."

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Corrected 10/5/10: A previous version of this article's headline misidentified CNBC.

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