Vote for the New Southwest Airlines Blogger!

Colleen Wainwright should be Southwest Airline’s official blogger.

First, let me make it clear that Colleen has not handed over money for me to say this.  However, when she flies into Chicago after becoming the official Southwest Airlines Blogger, I expect that she’s going to take me out for a nice, thick steak at Morton’s Steakhouse. 

So go view the video and vote.  Colleen has included a transcript for the deaf and hard of hearing viewers:

COLLEEN: I’m Colleen Wainwright and I’ve got friends all over the country!

JACK LYONS: I’m from Baltimore and I want to meet Colleen!

CHRIS ERENETA: I live in Oakland and I want to meet Colleen!

COLLEEN: That’s right: Internet friends! And they wanna meet me!

ANGIE & FRIENDS: We want to meet Colleen!

COLLEEN: That’s why I should be the new Southwest Airlines Blog-O-Spondent.

(UKULELE MUSIC BEGINS UNDER)

DAVID ECKOFF: Hey, send Colleen to Atlanta!

SCOT DUKE: Send Colleen to Dallas!

JON DEAL: I have been stalking Colleen for years now.

COLLEEN: Think about it: all those nerds, blogging all about
Southwest, to all those potential customers?

PAM SLIM: Fly Colleen to Phoenix.

MIGNON FOGARTY: Send Colleen to Reno!

@EffingBoring: Please send Colleen to New York.

COLLEEN: It’s a PR bonanza!!!!

PETER SHANKMAN: I run HARO, for God’s sake.

COLLEEN: 1200 people on Twitter alone. And I got a boyfriend who plays
the ukelele!

(CUT TO SHOT OF THE BF PLAYING UKULELE)

COLLEEN(VO): (OVER SHOTS OF KAREN PUTZ, LAURA MONCUR, A COFFEE MUG)
Look at all these fine people! Do you want to disappoint them?

COLLEEN: I mean, come on, it’s like I was born to do this job.

PETER: Everyone will be happier. I think you should do it.

CHRIS points to Oakland on his shirt.

COLLEEN: Come on! Give an old broad a job!

As you can see from the video, Colleen is perky, peppy, and talented.  Not bad for an old broad.  But Colleen isn’t really an old broad, except when you compare her to young, peppy, skydiving people like Peter Shankman.  And by the way, the HARO owner is in the video and has put his stamp of approval on Colleen’s vote.

But please, fast forward past the part where you find me asking Southwest Airlines to fly Colleen to Chicago.  Because you see, I don’t like to be on camera.  But because I like Southwest Airlines (seriously, that is one airline that really rocks!) and I really dig Colleen and her snarky writing style, I agreed to put myself on camera.  All because I want all of the Southwest Airline customers to be entertained when Colleen becomes their Official Blogger. 

So come on people, go vote for Colleen!