The New York Post's "Page Six" reports that Rick Kaplan is being lined up to help save Katie Couric's CBS Evening News show.
Kaplan, of course, has more baggage of his own than Samsonite; he was a failure at CNN or MSNBC, and was widely disliked by underlings to boot.
But he does have one great strength in the eyes of what remains of the liberal MSM: he loves Bill Clinton, as noted right here at TCG. And so if that love can be shifted from Bill to Hillary, then CBS might think it was worth it, to bring him on board. That is, Kaplan might not be able to help the Eye Network with its ratings-challenged newscast, but he could help get Hillary Clinton elected, using his perch as a "newsman." And that exciting electoral prospect might matter more to the liberal dinosaurs in NYC than their own financial well-being. After all, they have plenty of money already; what they need, they might be thinking to themselves, is a friend in the White House. If you're a big rich media mogul, and you already have a place on Park Avenue, as well as out in Beverly Hills, plus and a mansion out in the Hamptons, then all you really need is an invitation to the Lincoln Bedroom.
And of course, Kaplan might be thinking to himself that it would be fun to cap off his career as, say, White House press secretary for President Hillary Clinton.
So what's not to like--unless you don't like media bias, or unless you don't like to see a once-great media property being traduced for partisan goals.
