Katie Couric has a YouTube account (who knew?) and the CBS anchor just posted a cute, silly, very silly video that is unbecoming of a nightly news host.

If she were still doing daytime, then cool.

But how can we take her seriously after watching THIS????

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Screw the Katie Couric "taking over" Larry King's job rumors!

There's an even better one!

Word is that Ryan Seacrest is in 'serious' negotiations to take over Larry King Live when the old fogie retires.

This doesn't surprise media insiders. Larry told The New York Times in April 2007 that Seacrest would be his first choice to take over the show when the time came.

“He’s the classic generalist,” said King. “The only thing I don’t know, and I’ve gotten to know him pretty well, is how versed he is in politics, world affairs. Does he read the paper? Is he interested in Iraq? Because if he is, he’s going to be very good.”

We're so getting Ryan a subscription to the Economist!!

Good luck and hope it works out!

[Image via Mavrix Online.]

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Katie's pissed off our Latino brothers and sisters!

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Saturday night at the White House Correspondent's Dinner was such an amazing night and a unique opportunity! Truly a once-in-a-lifetime experience.

Thanks to everyone at Bloomberg for inviting Perez, and thanks to D.C. for welcoming us with open arms.

We had the best time ever!

We feel very passionate about this upcoming election and the nomination process. We've been writing about politics on our site for a while now, so it made sense and felt right that Perez was at the Correspondent's Dinner.

The big soiree was held at the Washington Hilton and before the actual dinner, we made it to the Bloomberg, Reuters, People/TIME and Newsweek pre-parties.

Thankfully, we just stuck to water all night long or we wouldn't have made it all the way through the evening. The people in D.C. sure know how to drink!

We ran into Ashlee & Pete at one of the pre-parties, and - no - we didn't see Simpson drinking any alcohol.

The dinner itself was so lovely, especially because we were seated next to the amazing amazing Tracey Ullman at the Bloomberg table we were at. We've mentioned her new Showtime series a few times and have been a huge fan of her work forever, so it was such a treat to get to meet her and break bread. She had even requested to be sat next to Perez!!!! So surreal!

Salman Rushdie came over to say hi too. WTF???? Ya!

Craig Ferguson was the host for the evening and we think he was funny from what we were able to make out. We could barely understand what he was saying, though - his accent was especially thick last night!

We don't want to give him too much credit, but….President Bush was actually sorta humorous. He's still a douche, but at least a douche with the ability to be funny (thanks to great writers that scripted all his witty remarks).

Tracey Ullman and her friend dragged us over to meet the evil genius that is Karl Rove. That is pure comedy!

Seated a table away from the former Puppetmaster was Katie Couric. When Miz Ullman went to introduce Perezzers to the lame duck CBS Evening News host, all that Katie did was wag her finger at P-Nasty and give him a smirk.

We wagged our finger back - better - and smirked back harder!

The Jonas Brothers are always just the nicest guys around, and we were lucky enough to spend several minutes chatting wit them.

The Jonai are big fans of Eric Hutchinson. How awesome is that?????

Kevin, Nick and Joe were definitely the biggest draw of the room, attracting hordes of girls coming up to ask for an autograph or pic.

We peeped Martha Stewart out of the corner of our eye taking pic of us as we were chatting with the Jonas Brothers. Maybe she'll put that up on her blog?

Despite all the "drama" that you may have read about, Spencer & Heidi made it to the Correspondent's Dinner after all! They told us they were guests of Fortune magazine, after MSNBC backed out on paying for their hotel and airfare.

Lauren Conrad was also an invited guest of Bloomberg's, but they kept her at a separate table from us. Sad.

After the dinner, we walked to the Bloomberg after-party at the Costa Rican Embassy, which was phenomenal. That party is on par with something you'd see at the Oscars. The budget to put it on, we were told, was way more than $1 million…and it showed!

Bloomberg completely converted the Embassy into their own super-swank party space, and it was just soooo rad. We got to meet Donatella Versace, whose lips don't look as huge in person as they do in pictures. Thankfully, they've deflated!

Pamela Anderson's boobs are just as big as ever, and we chatted with her for a hot second about her upcoming E! reality show, which she doesn't like calling a reality show.

We even got to chat with John McCain's daughter, who says she reads PerezHilton.com every day. She didn't seem to mind when we did THIS!

After the Bloomberg party, we headed over to the Newseum for the Capitol File bash.

We were able to chat politics with Rosario Dawson, who is very involved with Voto Latino. She's not publicly endorsing any one candidate - she's just urging people to get out and VOTE.

Do it!

Pete Wentz was DJing the Capitol File party and Lauren Conrad was there. As soon as Spencer and Heidi showed up and entered the VIP area she was at, though, L.C. practically ran away and left the party.

It may be Washington, but it's still Hollywood!

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Katie Couric just can't catch a break.

Evening network news ratings for the week of April 14th have just been released and Katie's ratings really really sucked.

In fact, last week's numbers sank to a record ratings low for Katie and the CBS evening news team.

Katie's CBS broadcast averaged 5.39 million viewers for the week.

NBC's Brian Williams avereaged 8.1 million viewers and Charles Gibson at ABC, 7.51 million.

On April 18th, CBS president Leslie Moonves made an appearance at a CBS evening news staff meeting and talked about how 'proud' he was of Couric and that she would be the network’s flagship anchor for a long time to come.

Let's see if he lives up to his words should ratings for Katie get worse! The way things are going for Couric, there's only one place left to go: even lower!

[Image via WENN.]

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Business is bad at CBS and head honcho Les Moonves is feeling the heat!

Click here to read a great article in today's New York Times about the sad state of affairs at CBS.

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Tick tock. Tick tock.

As we mentioned yesterday, Katie Couric is pretty much set to leave the anchor desk at CBS by the end of the presidential election cycle.

However, in Friday's New York Times it was revealed that close associates of Couric say she could be leaving within the next two weeks!

That you hear is the sound of the door hitting her on the ass. Hard.

Senior level execs at CBS, of course, denied that claim. We'll just have to sit back and see how all this drama is going to play out, but the NYT is pretty damn reliable!

Oh, and the speculation that Couric will take over for Larry King on CNN in '09? Well, that was disputed in the Times article by a CNN spokeswoman. They will probably extend the old guy's contract!

Good to see that ageism isn't a problem at CNN!

[Image via WENN.[

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It's about time!

The Wall Street Journal is reporting that Katie Couric could be out of the anchor position at old people land way before the end of her 5 year CBS News contract.

The evening news' ratings shave SUCKED since Katie took the helm. And, if things don't shape up considerably for Couric, sources speculate that she'll be out right after we inaugurate a new president.

Where to next for Katie? You know she can't go back to the Today show!

Insiders say she could be replacing Larry King on CNN once the old dog's contract expires in '09.

Good luck, Katie. You need it!

[Image via WENN.]

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The surprisingly looooong road to the '08 party nominations for President has allowed almost all 'big named' TV types the chance to moderate a debate.

But, a huge name is missing from the list of moderators — Katie Couric.

Couric is the highest-paid anchor on evening television and her absence from said list of peeps has the news world abuzzin'.

According to an industry source, CBS claims that Katie's just a victim of circumstance. CBS was scheduled to host the Los Angeles DNC debates, but it fell through partly because of the little talked about News Writer's Strike.

The president of CBS news stated, “I think [Ms. Couric] would have been really good at it. I think it would have been a good showcase for CBS News. But it just wasn’t to be this cycle.”

However, industry insiders and former CBS employees are asserting that CBS News just might not have the 'emotional and financial resources' to give Katie what she needs to pull off a debate.

In other words, they think she sucks!

[Image via WENN.]

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