A Touch of Class on The View

Jenna Jameson was on "The View" the other day. Take a look at the footage before you read my comments:



Do you believe that smarmy and condescending introduction? And the way Barbara Walters looks like she might contract HIV if she even looks at Jenna?

Tacky. Very, very tacky.

In fact, the only one who acts halfway decently towards her is Sherri Shepherd, whom I've been critical of (and harshly so) in the past, but here she redeems herself by treating Jenna Jameson as a person and not as a stupid bimbo being forced on them by the producers because she's good for the ratings.

The women of The View (and of the mainstream media in general) need to wise up. Porn is the new mainstream. Like it or not, we have become The Pornographic Society, and explicit depictions of sexuality are not going to go away. Barbara Walters can look as pained as she wants at having to sit next to a porn star, but the fact is that Jenna Jameson is far more famous than she is -- and a hell of a lot hotter. You ask soldiers in Iraq who they'd rather have come with the USO to entertain the troops, and I'll bet you more of them would want to see Jenna Jameson than almost anyone else in the States.

The irony is that Jenna conducted herself in that interview with more class and more self-deprecating wit than the women interviewing her -- who are supposed to be professional interviewers. She doesn't apologize for her wildly successful porn career but admits (as she did at the most recent AVN award ceremony in Vegas) that it's time for her to move on.

Will America -- and the mainstream media -- let her move on? Or will they continue to patronize and condescend to her in the manner of the women of The View?

Tom Moran