We almost put Mika in the "Least Loathsome People of 2009" list just for putting up with Joe Scarborough on a daily basis, but we decided against it. Mika is too much the Colmes to Joe's Hannity, which is a nice way of saying that she's rarely more than white noise. But today Mika raised her pitch to more of a roar when describing how she was dumped suddenly and unexpectedly by CBS in 2007.

MIKA: …But the bottom line is, I tried to be everything to everybody and I ended up being nothing, ultimately. And it was very public, it was very painful and a lot of women in our industry, and in any industry where you go up really fast and you get ahead really fast, you start to drink your own Kool-Aid and you think you’re untouchable.

…In fact, I’ve spoken to [CBS News president] Sean McManus since then and we’ve talked. It was subjective — and that’s what he said at the time. And I think I was the “It” girl of the Hayward regime, the regime before Sean McManus. And why would you go with the idea of the regime that you’re replacing? I don’t know. I’m making that up because I have to hold on to something. I don’t think my work was bad.

And remember, Mika was there for CBS when the South Tower collapsed on September 11th. This was actually a woman on the front lines. The fact that even she seems confused about why she was dropped speaks of the often-ugly world of internal politics that goes on behind the glossy veneer of what you see on TV, and the fact that half the time, not even the anchors have any clue what's going on at their own station.