Miss America gets jilted

After a mere two years, CMT is kicking the Miss America pageant to the curb.

Brian Phillips, executive vice president of the cable network, issued a statement reading, in part: “We’re very proud of the successful programming we’ve been able to produce with the Miss America Organization. As a network, CMT is now in a more aggressive position to build off of existing series and launch more original series and music-centric special events.”

Boy, if you can’t manage good enough ratings for a cable network to retain you, it’s pretty apparent this whole beauty-pageant thing has gone the way of the dodo, the manual typewriter and personal accountability in Washington, D.C.