{"id":20043,"date":"2010-08-07T11:36:27","date_gmt":"2010-08-07T15:36:27","guid":{"rendered":"http:\/\/valorguardians.com\/blog\/?p=20043"},"modified":"2010-08-07T11:51:47","modified_gmt":"2010-08-07T15:51:47","slug":"basil-marceaux-run-at-the-tn-governors-mansion","status":"publish","type":"post","link":"https:\/\/www.azuse.cloud\/?p=20043","title":{"rendered":"Basil Marceaux&#8217; run at the TN Governor&#8217;s mansion"},"content":{"rendered":"<p>Over the past few weeks, I&#8217;ve ptobably had twenty of you wrote to ask us if we can track him down. Who&#8217;s Basil Marceaux? Well, until Thursday, he was a candidate for Tennessee&#8217;s governorship. He actually makes Alvin Greene look brilliant by comparison. Here&#8217;s his appearance on a local TV news show;<\/p>\n<p><object width=\"500\" height=\"333\"><param name=\"movie\" value=\"http:\/\/www.youtube.com\/v\/1hvaeHllwtw&amp;hl=en_US&amp;fs=1\"><\/param><param name=\"allowFullScreen\" value=\"true\"><\/param><param name=\"allowscriptaccess\" value=\"always\"><\/param><embed src=\"http:\/\/www.youtube.com\/v\/1hvaeHllwtw&amp;hl=en_US&amp;fs=1\" type=\"application\/x-shockwave-flash\" allowscriptaccess=\"always\" allowfullscreen=\"true\" width=\"500\" height=\"333\"><\/embed><\/object><\/p>\n<p>And an appearance on Jimmy Kimmel;<\/p>\n<p><object width=\"500\" height=\"333\"><param name=\"movie\" value=\"http:\/\/www.youtube.com\/v\/livOU_WtQ9Q&amp;hl=en_US&amp;fs=1\"><\/param><param name=\"allowFullScreen\" value=\"true\"><\/param><param name=\"allowscriptaccess\" value=\"always\"><\/param><embed src=\"http:\/\/www.youtube.com\/v\/livOU_WtQ9Q&amp;hl=en_US&amp;fs=1\" type=\"application\/x-shockwave-flash\" allowscriptaccess=\"always\" allowfullscreen=\"true\" width=\"500\" height=\"333\"><\/embed><\/object><\/p>\n<p>On <a href=\"http:\/\/politics.freesitenow.com\/basilmarceauxforgovernor\/\">his website<\/a> claims that he is a &#8220;Force Recon&#8221; Marine. That&#8217;s what brought him to the attention of our readers. POW Net has requested a FOIA on him to satisfy our curiosity. Reading his website, I don&#8217;t think he has the capacity to be much more than a self-propelled sand bag.<\/p>\n<p>So anyway, <a href=\"http:\/\/www.washingtonpost.com\/wp-dyn\/content\/article\/2010\/08\/06\/AR2010080606164.html?hpid%3Dtopnews&#038;sub=AR\">Washington Post<\/a> wrote an article about Marceaux this morning, lamenting the end of his campaign;<\/p>\n<blockquote><p>Marceaux&#8217;s savviness or sobriety may have been under debate, but his knowledge of the science of Web hits is spot-on. <\/p><\/blockquote>\n<p>Meanwhile, about Greene they write that he is &#8220;a plain-spoken man no one had heard of, who went on to win South Carolina&#8217;s Democratic nomination for Senate? &#8221;<\/p>\n<p>Plain-spoken? Only in college libraries in conversations with co-eds. Otherwise, he&#8217;s borderline retarded and the perfect Democrat Senate candidate &#8211; <a href=\"http:\/\/www.washingtonpost.com\/wp-dyn\/content\/discussion\/2010\/06\/04\/DI2010060403522.html\">but he&#8217;s a Republican plant<\/a>. I don&#8217;t know how the Republicans planted all of those votes to get him nominated, <\/p>\n<p>Why wasn&#8217;t Basil Marceaux a Democrat plant?<\/p>\n","protected":false},"excerpt":{"rendered":"<p>Over the past few weeks, I&#8217;ve ptobably had twenty of you wrote to ask us if &hellip; <a title=\"Basil Marceaux&#8217; run at the TN Governor&#8217;s mansion\" class=\"hm-read-more\" href=\"https:\/\/www.azuse.cloud\/?p=20043\"><span class=\"screen-reader-text\">Basil Marceaux&#8217; run at the TN Governor&#8217;s mansion<\/span>Read more<\/a><\/p>\n","protected":false},"author":1,"featured_media":0,"comment_status":"open","ping_status":"open","sticky":false,"template":"","format":"standard","meta":{"footnotes":""},"categories":[87],"tags":[],"class_list":["post-20043","post","type-post","status-publish","format-standard","hentry","category-general-whackos"],"_links":{"self":[{"href":"https:\/\/www.azuse.cloud\/index.php?rest_route=\/wp\/v2\/posts\/20043","targetHints":{"allow":["GET"]}}],"collection":[{"href":"https:\/\/www.azuse.cloud\/index.php?rest_route=\/wp\/v2\/posts"}],"about":[{"href":"https:\/\/www.azuse.cloud\/index.php?rest_route=\/wp\/v2\/types\/post"}],"author":[{"embeddable":true,"href":"https:\/\/www.azuse.cloud\/index.php?rest_route=\/wp\/v2\/users\/1"}],"replies":[{"embeddable":true,"href":"https:\/\/www.azuse.cloud\/index.php?rest_route=%2Fwp%2Fv2%2Fcomments&post=20043"}],"version-history":[{"count":0,"href":"https:\/\/www.azuse.cloud\/index.php?rest_route=\/wp\/v2\/posts\/20043\/revisions"}],"wp:attachment":[{"href":"https:\/\/www.azuse.cloud\/index.php?rest_route=%2Fwp%2Fv2%2Fmedia&parent=20043"}],"wp:term":[{"taxonomy":"category","embeddable":true,"href":"https:\/\/www.azuse.cloud\/index.php?rest_route=%2Fwp%2Fv2%2Fcategories&post=20043"},{"taxonomy":"post_tag","embeddable":true,"href":"https:\/\/www.azuse.cloud\/index.php?rest_route=%2Fwp%2Fv2%2Ftags&post=20043"}],"curies":[{"name":"wp","href":"https:\/\/api.w.org\/{rel}","templated":true}]}}