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defrogBy the way, if you didn’t hear the news, Basil Marceaux Dotcom will not be the next president of Tennessee. Out of 720,000 Republican votes in the GOP gubernatorial primary, Basil got 3,520.
Which is predictable, I suppose. Of course if YouTube hits counted as votes, he’d have won easily. But most of those were probably from out of state, and in any case, most of his “fans” were people who thought he was the perfect poster boy for GOP hayseed idiocy.
If so, Basil might be having the last laugh on that score – according to the Washington Post, he claims that video was more calculated than it looks.
It would figure, wouldn’t it? Still, it’s hard to hold that against him. But it’s also a good lesson in Web 2.0 Politics: viral doesn’t always translate into votes. If YouTube was democracy, Keyboard Cat would be president. Etc.
It’s probably as well since near the end, Basil was also suggesting that everyone who looks Mexican should be rounded up and shipped there and allowed to return if they have a green card. Which isn’t as funny as ending slaving at traffic stops.
In the meantime, the good news is that the two candidates with the heaviest backing from the Tea Party – Ron “Islam is a cult” Ramsey and Zach “Let’s secede again, what could go wrong this time?” Wamp – also lost, and lost badly. So now we just have to find out if Bill Haslam is going to woo the Tea Parties with the usual bugaboos.
Life goes on,
This is dF
Which is predictable, I suppose. Of course if YouTube hits counted as votes, he’d have won easily. But most of those were probably from out of state, and in any case, most of his “fans” were people who thought he was the perfect poster boy for GOP hayseed idiocy.
If so, Basil might be having the last laugh on that score – according to the Washington Post, he claims that video was more calculated than it looks.
"I hate to say this, but I set the Internet up," he said. "I set the Internet up so they would talk bad about me because it's the only way to get hits."
It would figure, wouldn’t it? Still, it’s hard to hold that against him. But it’s also a good lesson in Web 2.0 Politics: viral doesn’t always translate into votes. If YouTube was democracy, Keyboard Cat would be president. Etc.
It’s probably as well since near the end, Basil was also suggesting that everyone who looks Mexican should be rounded up and shipped there and allowed to return if they have a green card. Which isn’t as funny as ending slaving at traffic stops.
In the meantime, the good news is that the two candidates with the heaviest backing from the Tea Party – Ron “Islam is a cult” Ramsey and Zach “Let’s secede again, what could go wrong this time?” Wamp – also lost, and lost badly. So now we just have to find out if Bill Haslam is going to woo the Tea Parties with the usual bugaboos.
Life goes on,
This is dF
