March 9, 2011 12:29PM 

# CNBC ♥ Milton Friedman 

By [David Boaz](https://www.cato.org/people/david-boaz) 

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Business network CNBC outflanks Fox Business Network by running a new promo ad featuring Milton Friedman’s 1979 interview with Phil Donahue, wherein Friedman challenges Donahue’s views about capitalism and “greed”:

Lefties [don’t like it](http://www.consortiumnews.com/2011/030711.html). They don’t like it at all; they [want you to write CNBC and complain](http://www.democraticunderground.com/discuss/duboard.php?az=view_all&address=439x587351). Yet they’re forced to [concede](http://www.consortiumnews.com/2011/030711.html) that the video shows “the Right’s financial guru besting a liberal talk show host.” (Milton Friedman [called himself a liberal](http://reason.com/archives/2006/11/22/milton-friedman-archliberal), or a libertarian, not a conservative or rightist.)

Let’s just hope MSNBC doesn’t find out!

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