Formerly perky, flaming Liberal CBS News Anchor Katie Couric will be leaving the network this June when her contract expires.

The faded Media Darling’s 75 million dollar contract will not be renewed by  new CBS News Chairman, Jeff Fager.

Couric took over the legendary anchor seat at the CBS Evening News, after bolting from NBC’s Today Show in 2006.

She replaced disgraced former anchor, Dan Rather, who was fired after falsifying National Guard Documents in an effort to keep President George W. Bush from being re-elected.

Sources say that Couric is testing the waters in an attempt to land her own nationally syndicated program.

Veteran CBS anchor Scott Pelley, currently a “60 Minutes” correspondent, is the odds-on favorite to replace her.

Couric’ extraordinary journalistic endeavors include having a colon/rectal exam on national TV (Now, there’s an image I did not need.) and, of course, the edited interview from September of 2008 with former Alaska Governor Sarah Palin, which Liberals still salivate at the mere mention of, and hold up as some sort of Edward R. Murrow moment.

Ms. Couric, in obtaining my degree in a Radio, TV, and Film, I studied Mr. Murrow.  Sweetie, you ain’t him.  Not even close.

Sarah Palin, on the other hand, is doing quite well for herself.  On 3/23/11, she did a great interview with Greta van Susteren on Fox News where she reflected on her trip to Israel and Obama’s Kinetic Military Action in Libya.

Just for fun, I conducted a purely unscientific survey, in order to calculate all the horrible damage Liberals claim that Katie Couric’s little interview did to Sarah Palin.

I went to their individual Facebook pages, because if Ms. Couric is so wonderful, that should be reflected in the national barometer of popularity known as Facebook, shouldn’t it?

Well, now that I’ve stopped laughing, here’s how the numbers stacked up, in terms of Facebook fans:

Katie Couric  58,016

Sarah Palin  2,846,468

Now, let’s get scientific.  According to mediabistro.com, the evening news ratings for the week of March 14, 2011, were as follows:

NBC                 ABC                   CBS

• Total Viewers:   9,140,000    7,950,000     5,990,000

• Ages 25-54:        2,810,000    2,240,000      1,890,000

At the same time, in the world of Cable News , for the fourth straight week, Fox News Channel was the number two channel in all of cable in primetime, behind only USA network, averaging 2.114M total viewers.

The fact that Katie Couric failed to live up to expectations at CBS is not entirely her fault .  It is the fault of the political ideology which she shares with every other broadcast news anchor.

R. Emmett Tyrrell, Jr., founder and editor-in-chief of The American Spectator magazine, wrote the following in an editorial on February 21, 2011:

Over the past two years the Democrats showed their true colors. Faced with an entitlement crisis, they actually rang up additional trillion-dollar deficits. We now face the entitlement crisis and a budget crisis, and the Liberals have no answer for it beyond tax and spend. They still have support in the media, but even here they are faced with opposition from Fox News, talk radio, and the Internet. Even the Europeans are facing up to the cost of the welfare state, but the Liberals can only spend and tax, though their taxes appear futile against our towering debt.

As a political movement Liberalism is dead. Its acolytes do not have the numbers. They do not have the policies. They have 23 seats in the Senate to defend in 2012 (against the Republicans’ 10) and Republican control of still more state houses and legislatures will give them even more seats in the House of Representatives in the future. Liberalism, R.I.P. Even Liberals do not call themselves Liberal today. They identify themselves as Progressives. It is fooling no one.

And yet, Liberals, anonymously identifying themselves as ” Moderates” or  “Fiscal Conservatives”, still continue to infiltrate every Conservative Internet Website that they can, in order to try to  stop America’s Political Pendulum from its enevitable swing back to the Right.

Richard Land, President of the Southern Baptist Convention’s Ethics and Religious Liberty commission wrote the following in a March 4, 2011 article titled Americans Don’t Want a ‘Truce’ on Social Issues, posted on wsj.com:

Consider recent polls from the Pew Research Center’s Forum on Religion & Public Life and the Public Religion Research Institute (PRRI). They reveal that tea party supporters, while motivated by the fiscal crisis, are also overwhelmingly socially conservative: Sixty-three percent oppose abortion, found PRRI, and 64% oppose same-sex marriage, found Pew.

PRRI also found that 22% of voters identify with “the conservative Christian movement” but only 11% identify with the tea party. This dovetails nicely with the fact that 32% of voters in the 2010 election described themselves in exit polls as pro-life, pro-family conservatives. They voted 78% for Republican candidates, delivering House Republicans their new majority.

…The millions of social conservatives and tea party voters firmly believe that Congress can walk and chew gum at the same time. They expect pro-life, pro-family legislation and they want deep cuts in federal spending, including an end to ObamaCare and its replacement with pro-life, free-market health-care reform. They expect commitments to this effect from their presidential candidates.

Take a quick look at this from gallup.com, posted on 12/16/10:

…While the political pendulum in Washington can swing widely, Americans’ political ideology, like their party identification, tends to shift more gradually. Such a shift has been underway in recent years. While the changes are not large, they are unmistakable. Moderates are growing fewer in number while the percentages of conservatives and liberals have expanded. Conservatism has gained ground among Republicans and independents, while the growth in liberalism is strictly among Democrats.

And that, gentle reader, is why Katie Couric has gone down in flames and Sarah Palin is still standing.

As Rush Limbaugh always says:

Conservatism wins.