Can we keep the skanks to a minimum?

There's not much to watch on MTV these days. They've joined the ranks of a few other networks offering some sort of degenerative show with what's bound to become attention whore fodder for the entertainment news. Cast members with no observable skills other than to look good. "No thank you please . . . no thought provoking conversations now. With no one to feed you lines it will be god awful at best. No just stand there and look good."

Of the offerings narrow casted to the brain damaged is a little gem called A shot of love with Tila Tequila . . . or something like that. Wherein another in a endless stream of vacant skanks whores herself on her Myspace page to get recognized and MTV (of course) does. Gives her her own show. Talent is optional as has been the case lately with MTV.

Well, that's all fine and good. These people and shows are a dime a dozen now and since MTV finds it necessary to air a good percentage of these idiotic shows, with one fell swoop and turn of the dial I can ignore most of what offends what's left of a desire to have some depth to what I watch.

So why would a supposed noted journalist actually waste time and space with a review of her show? Good question. These people are generally waaaaaay over exposed for no good reason to begin with. Well, Joanne Weintraub of the Journal Sentinel for some odd reason felt it necessry journalism:

"Formerly famous for getting more MySpace page views than anyone else on the planet, Tila Nguyen, as her parents named her 27 years ago, has been a music-video star, a Stuff and Maxim cover model and a Playboy Cyber Girl.

When To Watch
What: "A Shot at Love with Tila Tequila"
When: noon Sunday, repeated noon Tuesday (marathon); 9 p.m. Tuesday (season finale)
Where: MTV

But the bisexual bachelorette is hardly just another pretty face attached to a smokin' bod.

"There's a million hot naked chicks on the Internet," she told Time magazine last year. "There's a difference between those girls and me. Those chicks don't talk back to you."

Tila does, though. And she'll talk to - and lock lips with - love seekers of either gender.

"A Shot at Love" gives 32 singles of both sexes the chance to compete for Tila's hand, not to mention all the other parts of her.

Along the way it proves, in case it still needs proving, that neither gender has a monopoly on silliness, nastiness or raving exhibitionism.

How does Tila pursue her quest for Mr. or Ms. Right?

Same way you or I would: by asking 32 strangers to roll around in melted chocolate and sleep together in a giant bed - not right after the chocolate part, fortunately - and by giving lap dances to members of their family."

It should be noted that this article appeared 12/12/07 so this editorial is rather late. None the less, shame on Joanne. This kind of show which is part of the skankifying of both pop culture and TV is just not something worthy of serious journalism. I never thought much of Joanne's recommendations for TV. I think less of her now.