“I hate that,” says CNBC’s Mandy Drury of the latest nickname placed upon her: Mandy Candy. In part II of our Media Beat interview, the “Street Signs” co-anchor tells us what she really thinks of those nicknames, plus her take on American politics and how she broke in to business news: “I almost fell into it by accident.”

• Part I Yesterday: Mandy Drury on the “Big Personalities” at CNBC

• Part III Tomorrow: Mandy Drury on Balancing Moneytalk and Motherhood