Don’t get us wrong, this video is an absolute delight. But it’s obvious that at least one professional has joined Basil’s campaign staff. It’s disconcerting. The music is perfect. But it’s too perfect. And so are the cuts. And so is the text that comes up on the screen. Look at what Basil’s YouTube account used to be. Somebody is actively using Basil to make fun of him. We called Basil, and it turns out the videos were made by a mysterious “campaign manager” who has signed on with the Basil team. What’s going on?
“He has a PhD in uh, umm, digital printing,” Basil said.
When asked the name of this campaign manager, Basil got defensive, but eventually gave some information. “I call him James,” he said.
Basil said he does know the man’s last name: “It’s on my e-mail.” But Basil can’t pronounce it.
James……Kimmel?
James……Reesor? No, can’t be. Crazy Man James recently commented on a Huffington Post article about Basil. Reesor, it seems, smells conspiracy:
Republican Basil Marceaux was endorsed by the Tennessee political boss in a YouTube video – asking voters to vote for him instead of Ron Ramsey, Zack Wamp or Bill Haslam. I was shocked to see someone like Basil being backed by the reputed, alleged, mob man from his smoked-filled basement room. Basil is too good for them.
We’ll try to get to the bottom of this. We demand nothing but utmost authenticity from the mentally unstable candidates we make fun of around here.
Basil’s gubernatorial primary is tomorrow.
UPDATE: James Crenshaw is the name of Basil’s “campaign manager.” Looking at his Facebook profile, it seems he is basically Tennessee’s Rahm Emanuel multiplied by two Karl Roves. This is his personal YouTube account. Okay.
Crenshaw has set up legitimate Marceaux Twitter, TweetPhoto, and Blogspot accounts. According to this post, he set up a debate that was held tonight between Basil and a couple of other fringe candidates. And yes, he sells t-shirts.
Reesor’s conspiracy comment appears to be his own attempt to go viral. He made this video:
It’s part of a series of, umm, character pieces on his YouTube account.
It was probably worth mentioning earlier today that Basil Marceaux has pled guilty to a number of offenses. Often by reason of insanity.
[YouTube/HuffPo/Basil Marceaux Blog/Nashville Scene/thanks to Wonkette operative "sixonefive"]
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Basil Marceaux dot Com is the Bomb ~a rap song (forthcoming)
I love the side-to-side swaying here. It’s a staple of third-grade plays but not what one expects from a campaign video.
LET BASIL WORK ON HIS ISSUES! REMOVE THE GOLD-FRINGED FLAG FROM OUR SOCIETY!
The way he moves is very disconcerting to me.
If it were a goobernatorial primary, he’d be a shoo-in.
Tomorrow’s tomfoolery must be liveblogged. Or at least drank to.
The man supports vegitation. Got my vote.
Dude, the flashing “Vote 4 Basil” graphic looks like it was crafted on an Atari.
Needs more vuvuzela.
Will the Real James please step forward?
A malignant Basil sell-out is good news for John McCain.
Dude needs a big white Texas style Hat. Run on the Neopolitan Ice Cream Party. White, Beige-y Red, and Beige-y Brown.
Wikipedia says Jack Elam is dead but he looks fat and happy to me.
I see the slick marketing people have gotten to him. What a shame.
Ooooo. He’s a smooth operator.
Only the supreme arrogance of Senator Reid would believe that he has a divine right to rule over mere mortals by ramming through Obamacare, billions in reckless spending, and yes, buying cocaine for monkeys,” Agen said. “The fact is, Reid has acted like he’s all-powerful and accountable to no one. People are frustrated because, like Sharron, they understand Washington has become a giant, unseen, omnipotent force whose presence is felt in all our lives whether we like it or not.”
Sharron angle has much potential for awesome.
Official Campain Video!
Somewhere in Tennessee, a community theater’s production of “Of Mice And Men” is missing their Lennie.
Tennesseein’ Is Tennebelievin’
[re=632326]Joe Biteme[/re]: That’s for the hipsters. 8-bit irony and all that.
Go get this fat man another opossum sandwich and let him get back to loadin shells for the next race riots… it is tennessee in case you didn’t notice….
Good work there Jack! A less steely eyed reporter would have missed that completely.
There can’t be THAT many Digital Printing PhDs yet — Phoenix University just added that diploma last year. And probably not all of the graduates are named James. Time to do some investigative reporting, old-skool style.
Gimme my money back! What kind of cam-pain site is this?
[re=632377]OzoneTom[/re]: What the hell is a PhD in Digital Printing anyway? I probably qualify for a dual PhD in Digital Writing and Digital Reading – where do I get my certificate?
Opponents are “Ron Ramsey, Zack Wamp & Bill Haslam”???
Pretty sure all they were the cast of the classic all-male film “Prinary Fellers”.
[re=632346]FreshCliches[/re]: har
Shouldn’t he be busy asking his coworkers at Initech about his stapler?
This gave me tears of joy.
I think we’ve found Sarah’s running mate for 2012.
He wants to make “y’all more free-er than you were yesterday”.
Meh, this guy is a Vegitation Agronomist In Name Only (VAgINO).
Oh, memo to myself: Do not take this year’s Christmas card picture from gut level.
Basil is too wrapped up in the whole traffic slavery issue, which is just a pseud0-issue invented by the U.N. to distract us from the REALEST issue facing America today:
Republican gubernatorial candidate Dan Maes is warning voters that Denver Mayor John Hickenlooper’s policies, particularly his efforts to boost bike riding, are “converting Denver into a United Nations community.”
“This is all very well-disguised, but it will be exposed,” Maes told about 50 supporters who showed up at a campaign rally last week in Centennial.
http://www.huffingtonpost.com/2010/08/04/dan-maes-colorado-guberna_n_670479.html
[re=632344]shortsshortsshorts[/re]: HOLY PUMPKINS! Where have you been?
Bike ridin’ and gold fringed flags, what is the world coming to?
ZACK WAMP IS SOFT ON TRAFFIC STOP SLAVERY !!!!!
[re=632344]shortsshortsshorts[/re]: You are BACK! Thank God (Harry Thunderer or Cosmic Muffin, whoever you concieve him to be, natch).
[re=632410]WadISay[/re]: Well fuck I’m looking for a thread from which to weave a comment and I look up and spy that +1 shit of yours. What’s the goddamn point, I ask myself?
[re=632409]the problem child[/re]: It’s just a guess but I think he’s referring to urinating in public.
[re=632344]shortsshortsshorts[/re]: Hello, lost soul.
That he’s getting invited to (and going on) late-night teevee is proof enough for me. So are we gonna find out that all these nutcases – Alvin Greene, et. al. – have been some kind of viral campaign for some new social network?
I’ve been away, so I’m not sure if we’ve already talked about this, but his website is stunning.
[re=632344]shortsshortsshorts[/re]: It’s the prodigal shorts! Good to see you!
This guy is pathetic, but at least he believes the things he says. One rung up the sanity ladder from him, though, and Sharron Angle is running within the margin of error against Harry Reid, and Glenn Beck has the third most listened-to radio show in the country. And whenever he mentions that I have to pull over and breathe into a paper bag for a few minutes.
If you want to hear Basil’s “James,” he contacted me after I started up the site http://iambasilmarceaux.com and I have the voicemail I received from them as well as the story behind it all.
[re=632438]sixonefive[/re]: “Marceaux/Palin”
Sarah would look like Adlai Stevenson!
Make sure that if national insurance is put in place, I will make sure the roots of such bill with not inclued any type measuring of the waist like other counties. quoted on 1/3/09
What the HELL does that even mean?
[re=632445]chascates[/re]: Presumably it means that Our Basil is frightened of the Fat Police like they have in them socialist countries.
[re=632437]SayItWithWookies[/re]: Let he who is not crazy, semi-literate, overweight, and obsessed with traffic-stop slavery cast the first stone.
I have to disagree SAIWW; I think this guy is not as crazy as Beck or Angle. And he’s a bit humble, I think – a virtue in short supply among the Becks, Angles, Palins, and the rest of the By-God-I’m-Ignorant-And-Proud-Of-It-Posse.
Basil is smarter than Alvin. Things we know. Teabaggers engineered this.
What many do not know is that the Order standing behind Basil is the Order of the Ionic.
[re=632464]WriteyWriterton[/re]: Humility is not a qualification for high political office, so that’s irrelevant. Marceaux is clearly not right in the head, and he can barely utter a complete sentence. Angle and Beck, on the other hand, know what they’re saying. Beck and Angle are ideologically consistent with conservatism; Marceaux is just a random pointillist who, when you step back, has produced no actual picture.
[re=632445]chascates[/re]: Don’t act like you’ve never been pulled over by the police and weighed on national television.
I really wanted to believe he was legit, that the “I’m Basil Marceaux dot com” was a slip-up in the first video. But he says it every time, and now I think he’s just pulling our marceaux’s.
WHAT IMPORTANT? SCHOOL VIOLENTS!
Soddy Daisy, Tennessee? Pretty much says it all.
2010 primary season = american idol
christ almighty.
Yaaaaay. Investimagative journalism at it’s finest!
Ok, I’m taking over his campaign. He’ll win if we approach it my way:
http://www.vimeo.com/13902123
great investigative journalism… plugging my email into google.
[re=632479]James Crenshaw[/re]: Wonkette INVENTED investimagative journalism. Just ask Ken “Journalissimo” Layne.
you guys are real legitimate, you clearly have my public email because you post everything i have with that email on here, but nothing in my inbox? Wouldnt you want to ‘follow up’ and ‘verify that hunch’? Or do you just want to ‘break a story’?
[re=632481]James Crenshaw[/re]: um, public email is public by definition. you can follow up here. please do so please.
“Plant vegitation on all bacon lots .. and cash it in for gash or money”
I’ve heard of this plan before.
[re=632479]James Crenshaw[/re]: Actually, I didn’t have your “public e-mail.” I really didn’t do much investigation, really, once I found Basil’s Blogspot. I clicked on the Facebook group you linked to on that, and then clicked on your profile from that. And you linked to that YouTube account on your profile. YOUR FACEBOOK PROFILE IS EVILLY GIVING OUT YOUR INFORMATION TO STRANGERS, JAMES!
And then like four people e-mailed your name to us.
And also your name is on your “press release.”
And you never called me back.
JOURNALISM.
[re=632481]James Crenshaw[/re]: We do it the internet way: sling as much shit against the wall as possible, let others do the “verifying”. Kind of like those viral videos featuring Ol’ Bayz Marsoh.
I’m finding it extremely hard to laugh at/be angry with this REPUBLICAN candidate for the governorship of TENNESSEE. What the fuck?
Call me back? I know you have my phone number because I PUT IT ON THE PRESS RELEASE I ISSUED WITH MY EMAIL ON IT, but considering I have been manning the phones all day for this debate you are either the first journalist who doesnt leave voice mail or you are posturing for your liberal e-cronies and lying about making any attempt whatsoever to contact me. In fact, ive made it a point to have my phone on since I had to direct 3 different parties to the hall tonight, answered and called back every single one from a new number…
Please, you called me when today? And you didnt leave a message why? and this is a credible source because?
Well you are invited to call me about it whenever you feel like it sir… and possibly you can tell me when you called. Please be as specific as possible I want to check my phone records…
[re=632481]James Crenshaw[/re]: Shouldn’t you be shooting rats at the county dump this time of night?
Ill tell yall, theres FRAUD in this article… but its with this Steuf guys ability to try and contact people he writes about… really what sort of respectable journalist has someones PHONE NUMBER AND EMAIL and doesnt contact them for a statement or anything after “investigating” them? I can see why you have a real media job… writing unverified bullshit for some blog. Bravo.
I PUT EVERYTHING IN MY NAME AND NEVER MADE ANY ATTEMPT TO HIDE MY ASSOCIATION! I PUT OUT PRESS RELEASES WITH MY EMAIL THAT I KNOW IS LINKED TO MY OTHER YOUTUBE AND FACEBOOK! Wow, im sooo impressed. Why not call or email me to at least get a statement to your accusation THEN LIE ABOUT IT WHEN I BUST YOU ON IT.
right, and thats why I dont take any of the “reporting” on this site seriously ^^^
really… you just broke the secret of a guy WHO PUT OUT A PRESS RELEASE WITH ALL HIS INFORMATION ON IT
AMAZING!
[re=632496]James Crenshaw[/re]:
This will end well.
[re=632497]James Crenshaw[/re]: First of all, it is hilarious that somebody would call me a journalist unironically. Second, I called Marceaux Wednesday afternoon and he took down my number and told me you would call me back. You didn’t. That’s what I was saying. Third, the reason you should never “take any of the ‘reporting’ on this site seriously” is because we are primarily a repository of dick jokes. So calm down and stop taking it seriously.
But actually you are not actually REFUTING anything I said here. You are his “campaign manager,” are you not? You did make his videos, correct? Marceaux did not make those by himself. So there you go. Stop being so angry. Yes, you are a seemingly sane person trying to get this man publicity. But to others that looks exploitative.
Basil Marceaux and Spiderman (around 3:02).
I shit you not.
If this was designed to attract eyeballs, it’s working.
And these are just the mid-terms. Can’t wait for the final exam. Sheesh.
In a way I’m glad folks think they can still run for office without a bankroll, backers or a party aperatchk. Do they even have a chance though? Even in Tennessee the voters would all have to be blind drunk to vote for this guy, for the laughs.
This video solved the “Gold Finch Flag” mystery for me.
*Hums softly to myself* Nights are supposed to be my time to shine. I do not appreciate Streuf starting a flame war without getting prior written permission.
What’s next? Charlie Sheen showing up?
Eat yore Vegitables!
[re=632494]James Crenshaw[/re]:
Mustardman is back!
i’ve been saying for a week that BasilMarceaux(dot)com is an attempt to make one (or both?) of those two dull-witted, babbling brooks of bullshit – Zach Wamp and Ron Ramsey – look normal by comparison. the attempt is a massive failure. congrats.
It’s primary day. I’m gonna miss him.
[re=632508]JeffBarea[/re]: I hear Sheen is dating Benincasa, which will surely end well.
I dunno…I just love the idea of “Secret Videos…just between you and me, get it….” DON’T SHOW THIS COMMENTARY TO ANYONE!!!!
[re=632496]James Crenshaw[/re]: I’m just glad TonyTheTiger got a job as a campaign manager!
What do you call someone who enables a sad, addled man-child to make a spectacle of himself merely to generate the enabler’s own t-shirt sales?
The Red State Update endorsement has convinced me. Where to I send the money? This man is the Rubulican Alvin Greene. Hooray for Basil Marceaux!
[re=632532]BobTheBuilder[/re]: The banker on Monopoly boards, minus the tophat?
NYT: All the news that’s fit to print.
Wonkette: Primarily a repository of dick jokes.
Wonkette you have found your moniker today. History is made!!
[re=632661]tao[/re]: win.
The sounds of Yankee Doodle on the Basil video made me weep with joy to be an American, but then I watched the second video and thought to myself “Isn’t that one of the old guys that sit in the box on The Muppet Show?”
This is one of my favorite Tim & Eric episodes!
[re=632541]Ducksworthy[/re]: Minus the ability to form coherent sentences.
you want to know who james crenshaw is? he’s an ex-drug dealer, current drug addict, who’d rather be fuckin around with marceaux, someone who obviously has no cognizance of being leached on by a social retard, than paying child support for his kid. that’s who james crenshaw is, and i’m sure basil’s opponents would love to know the kind of person that has enlisted to help basil in his campaign efforts. the whole thing makes me sick.
I’ll have whatever he’s having.
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