They Really Did It--CBS, that is

That's right--according to The New York Post citing a contact at Time, CBS asked Katie Couric to jump ship and take over The CBS Evening News at the end of her current contract. (The Time article requires a current subscription, else I would link to it directly.)

I repeat what I said when I heard about this the first time: The worthies at CBS are crazy. They are absolutely one hundred percent out of what passes for their minds.

1. To begin with, they'll merely confirm what we already know: news anchors are merely news readers.
2. They'll also turn their whole news division into just another liberal feel-good sop to the politics of the moment. For example: last week on Today, Katie Couric kept viewers waiting for two hours while she repeatedly ended her segments with the same "Coming Up" message. You've heard these: the anchor will tease the viewers with a segment that they're going to feature ("But first, these messages") and then don't feature it until their program is practically over, or sometimes don't feature it at all. Well, what Katie Couric repeatedly teased her viewers with did "come up"--and it was a book alleging that Abe Lincoln had homosexual feelings. YAW-AW-AW-AW-AW-AW-AWN! We heard that one back when Tinky Winky the Teletubby was still current! Not a single other news organ picked up on that story, and that will only go to show you how silly it was.

Is this, then, the kind of stuff we can expect from The CBS Evening News with Katie Couric? To paraphrase Claude Akins in The Devil's Brigade: Somebody lend me a hat; I may vomit.