Live From the Greenroom
Willie Nelson is on Kinky Friedman's website, asking his fellow Texans to vote for the Kinkster as Agriculture Commissioner today. It's not the most enthusiastic of endorsements. It's not exactly Ted Nugent for Mike Huckabee. Willie sounds like he's just come off the roof of the White House after burning one with Hamilton Jordan, ten seconds away from an uncontrollable paroxysm of the munchies. At the end of the spot, right after he says 'Tell 'em Willie sent ya.' You half expect to hear him ask the recording engineer. 'Hey, got any Goo Goo Clusters on ya?'.
The use of Willie to make a pitch for Texas' Agriculture Commissioner makes sense, as he was the man who first brought the many challenges of the American Farmer into the Zeitgeist with his 'Farm Aid' concerts. He just doesn't sound all that... 'into' it. In fact, you half expect the copy to read: "Vote for Kinky...or not, it's really up to you. I gotta go take a leak."
What Kinky needs is a ringing endorsement. The support of a rabid, resolute, unabashed Kinky Friedman fan. Someone who believes not only should he be the Agriculture Commissioner, but also Governor, Senator, President and Pope. Someone who considers Kinky to be a 'Christ-Like' figure, one who could single-handedly save the world. Someone who loves Kinky more than anything else on the planet.
He really should have done it himself.