Seemingly perplexed by the new Jon Huntsman campaign ad, Rachel Maddow brought out the bongo and put on the shades last night to treat her viewers to a Beat poet interpretation of the words spoken by the ad’s narrator:

Maddow admitted that she’d originally tried to get William Shatner on the program to perform the “reading,” but that Shatner was unavailable. All in all, not a bad performance, but she’s not quite at the Jack Kerouac level yet.