If it weren’t so depressing, it would be almost funny how quickly the “objective” cable news channels have fallen into line in their coverage of the Wall Street protests. On MSNBC, the protesters are heroes. On Fox News, they’re raving psychopaths. And, while we seem to already have thousands of examples of the networks in lock step formation, here’s another one courtesy of Fox Business Network! You know, just for fun!

“Nothing and no one today has me more fired up than Bank of America,” said Fox Business Network anchor Gerri Willis this afternoon, following yesterday’s announcement that starting early next year, Bank of America will charge debit card users a $5 monthly fee. Willis reports that new caps on the fees banks can charge merchants for processing debit cards have left banks scrambling to make ends meet. But what’s she, a Bank of America costumer, got to do with that? “Well guess what? That’s not my problem,” she says.

Speaking with Fox Business Network ahead of tonight’s speech, Senior Obama Advisor, Valerie Jarrett, told Peter Barnes that the President will “close loopholes” in his much anticipated jobs bill. “We need to make sure that people that are paying their fair share; that those who can most afford to pay a little bit more do,” she said, adding that, “This should not be controversial.”

What’s it like to be one of the country’s most hated men? It probably doesn’t feel that great. So, it’s unsurprising that Bernie Madoff is apparently using the media to rehab his reputation. Unfortunately for him, he’s not getting any help from Fox Business Network’s Charlie Gasparino who, in a new profile, doesn’t depict Madoff as the victim he seems to want to be. Instead he depicts him as, well, a guy who’s using the media to rehab his reputation.

News Corp. chairman and CEO Rupert Murdoch wants you to know his Fox Business Network’s not losing money anymore. On an earnings call Wednesday, Murdoch described the four-year old business channel as reaching “cash break even” status–not losing money, but not making money either. At the time of FBN’s 2007 launch, the network projected breaking even within five years, so executives see the milestone as a victory even as CNBC continues to dominate the cable business news niche. “Fox Business has made great strides,” News Corp. president Chase Carey said on the earnings call.

Judge Andrew Napolitano sees something suspicious in the timing of President Obama’s major executive announcements: they seem to happen whenever Congress isn’t in session. On last night’s Freedom Watch, the Judge and Reason.tv editor Nick Gillespie debated the relative constitutionality of President Obama’s proposed No Child Left Behind overhaul and agreed– it’s about as constitutional as our “kinetic activities” in Libya, and also announced when Congress is on vacation.

Deficit Commission Co-Chair, former Republican Senator and always outspoken critic Alan Simpson shared his thoughts on the S&P downgrade during a phone call today on the Fox Business Network. Simpson declared he found it “stunning that people are disgusted” when everyone in Washington knows what’s really going on and scolded everyone who is complaining now by telling them “what did they think was going to happen?”

Lou Dobbs‘ new new show on Fox Business Network recently celebrated its 100th episode, and in celebration, the host took a bit of a victory lap by appearing on Late Night with Jimmy Fallon. Dobbs and host briefly onded over New Jersey, Bruce Springsteen and their common bond of being television hosts, when Jimmy Fallon asked about some political figures. Dobbs gave GOP front runner Mitt Romney some muted praise for saying the right things, before giving Donald Trump a backhanded compliment.

Small world! Turns out Fox Business Network anchor Charlie Gasparino works out six days a week in the very same city park along the East River where I (before my move to the internet and the requisite relocation across the river into Brooklyn) used to do pushups, pullups, dips and crunches. As Gasparino reveals to [...]

Liberal radio and TV host Thom Hartmann isn’t taking Fox Business Network’s weeklong series of “Makers vs. Takers” segments lying down, branding the theme an extension of the Republican “war on the middle class.” On his TV show, The Big Picture, Hartmann calls out the meme, “a war that pits the rich – or the makers – against the poor – the takers,” but his most revelatory insight is his debunking of the myth that wealthy individuals and corporations “create jobs.”

After decades at CNN, and a year off television, Lou Dobbs returns Monday evening at 7 p.m. with Lou Dobbs Tonight on the Fox Business Network. “”I did miss [TV], and when I discovered I missed it, it made most of my decisions very easy,” Dobbs tells the New York Daily News‘ Richard Huff.

Dobbs, who considered politics after departing CNN a year ago, decided his future–like his past–was in television. The first step begins tonight, with a reintroduction to viewers and working to build the Fox Business brand. “It’s about building back the pace, establishing a comfort level and rebuilding my relationship with the audience. And that’s all on me. I don’t want to let any of my colleagues down.”

As a fierce libertarian, Judge Andrew Napolitano often takes positions that seem contrarian to the conservative and traditional points-of-view espoused by hosts of Fox News prime time shows. But now that he hosts his own show on the Fox Business Network, he can take the show in directions one might normally expect. Case in point: his recent interview with the former sex worker and published author of Diary of a Manhattan Call Girl Tracy Quan over the legalization of prostitution.

Republican Congressman Ron Paul may be Julian Assange‘s most loyal supporter in Congress. Visiting Fox Business’ Freedom Watch– a program on which Assange has been welcome several times– Rep. Paul went to bat for the Wikileaker in the middle of condemning the secrecy of the Federal Reserve, and made a little request of his own: “every conversation of the last ten years with the Federal Reserve people.” Chop, chop, Assange!

Fox Business loves to hear media moguls talk about Fox Business. Last week, they had CNN thinker-upper Ted Turner show up to talk about new Fox Business employee Lou Dobbs. Now they’ve invited their leader Rupert Murdoch to discuss the most pressing matters of the day—like how awesome Fox Business is. “Fox Business, Fox News” are News Corp.’s “best growth engines,” he said. “Seriously.”

The guest list on today’s Freedom Watch, Fox Business Network’s libertarian talk show, was a roundup of the usual suspects– almost. There was Rep. Ron Paul, his son, Senator-Elect Rand Paul, former Congressman Bob Barr and liberal media mogul Arianna Huffington. Needless to say her visit was slightly more contentious than any of the others, with host Judge Andrew Napolitano repeatedly bringing up Huffington’s conservative past and asking, “how can anybody take you seriously?”

Ted Turner has a wide range of interests, so it’s fitting that his conversation with Brian Sullivan was wide-ranging. After discussing solar power, job growth, and the gold standard, he touched upon his former CNN employee and “good friend” Lou Dobbs, who recently signed with Fox Business. He had mainly good things to say, though did acknowledge that Dobbs “was a little over the top on the immigration issue while in his last days [at CNN].”

Last night on Fox Business, Rep. Alan Grayson visited Eric Bolling on Follow the Money, where the two would participate in one of the most awkward and least informative interviews this side of Joaquin Phoenix. There were long silences, indirect insults, and general surreality. “Do you want to ask me any serious questions?” Grayson finally asked. Bolling replied, “I don’t think so, sir. Honestly, it’s almost like I’m talking to a medicated person.”

Neil Cavuto is planning a slumber party, and everyone’s invited. The Fox News host seemed unable to contain his excitement as he told Washington Whipsers about what Fox Business Network’s plans for election night. “I would bring cots,” he warned. “And enough Red Bull to keep you going to at least 2 in the morning.” Steve Forbes and former NYSE Chairman Dick Grasso will be among those joining Cavuto to burn the midnight oil and analyze the election results from a financial standpoint. “Fox Business isn’t about red and blue states, it’s about green,” he said, before clarifying: “Your money.”

We’ve covered (over-covered?) the Juan Williams saga since last week, but here’s one more, maybe final, chapter.

On FBN’s Follow The Money, the show he appeared on last week right before he was fired by NPR, he discussed the circumstances since it all went down.

TV Newser is reporting that Dennis Kneale has been snatched up by Fox Business News. This won’t be the first time the anchor has appeared in front of Fox cameras. Before his time at CNBC, Kneale regularly appeared on Fox News’ Forbes on Fox.

Back in June, a Fox Business Network promo featured only Fox News stars, touting the new financial channel.

Now there’s a new marketing strategy out, in ads playing on News Corp. cable news networks but also across the dial, that features Fox News talent tag-teaming with Fox Business hosts – including one with Glenn Beck and somtime-fill-in Andrew Napolitano.

Money Rocked for Fox Business Network…for about three months.

This week Eric Bolling and FBN rebranded his 8pmET show, that launched June 21, as Follow The Money, leaving Money Rocks behind.

Today on CNBC, Erin Burnett did a segment called “Taxing America,” discussing the 88 days until the Bush tax cuts are gone.

Counting down until the Bush tax cuts expire? That’s such an FBN thing to do.

“Are some Americans simply too dumb to vote?” asked Bill O’Reilly last night on The Factor.

He had on John Stossel to answer this question, but Stossel had a laser-focused on one group of apathy: young people. But what about the other idiots in this country?

The calendar may say the summer’s over, but that doesn’t mean we can’t all try to hold on to those lovely warm months. In Los Angeles, for instance, people are pretending it’s still July by suffering through a terrible heat wave. Meanwhile, the guests on Money Rocks are helping out by continuing to shriek at each other over that whole “Ground Zero Mosque” thing in a segment that got downright ugly.