Latest Update About ; Basil Marceaux: Internet Superstar, Watch out Bill Haslam! There’s a mighty dark horse pounding toward you in the outside lane. He’s Basil Marceaux, the forgotten candidate in the GOP governor’s race—forgotten, that is, until his stunning appearance a week ago on Channel 4 in which he stood and swayed, possibly drunk, in front of a brick wall and promised to rid the world of goldfinch flags, among other things. Instantly, Marceaux catapulted to Internet fame. The YouTube of his performance is crackling through the ether like nobody’s business. “Hi I’m Basil Marceaux dot com,” he began, and the rest is history. Yes, Basil Marceaux has gone viral.Oh sure, bloggers poked fun at Marceaux at first. Wonkette kicked it off. He wants to ban traffic stops, which he equates with slavery, and he promises: “VOTE FOR ME AND IF I WIN I WILL IMMUNE YOU FROM ALL STATE CRIMES FOR THE REST OF YOU LIFE!””What can be made fun of first? We just want to live in this man’s brain forever,” Wonkette raved, labeling Marceaux “the oracle of Tennessee.”But then something changed in the collective thinking: “Eventually, as with Pabst Blue Ribbon, Basil Marceaux became so ironically popular, people forgot they liked him ironically. They started taking him seriously,”
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