Taylor Marsh: Dressing for the job you want, not the one you have

I was interviewed by The New Republic‘s Joe Mathews for this article about Taylor Marsh, but I guess I wasn’t engaging enough because I didn’t make the cut (where’s my research credit, Mathews, you bastard*?). Our pal bostondreams at The TM Experience got a plug, though:

All this spewed venom, of course, has earned [Taylor Marsh] quite a bit of attention, much of it negative. Her site includes a catalogue of the hate mail she receives. “CACKLE FOR ME NOW BITCH!” read one from an Obama supporter after the results of the North Carolina primary were announced. Posters on Marsh’s bête noire, the Obama-loving Daily Kos, have called her a “world class liar” and “a lying hack.” Recently, Obama supporters began an online effort to cancel her credentials to cover this summer’s Democratic National Convention. There’s even a web site called The TM Experience devoted to criticizing Marsh and her “Marshian” followers. It’s no wonder that she’s now subject fodder for The Washington Post and guest material for MSNBC.

With Clinton out of the race, Marsh says she will vote for Obama. But even as early as this spring, well before Hillary’s concession, I encountered no Clinton stickers and no Clinton signs at her home. And when we spoke, Marsh took pains to describe herself not as a Hillary super-supporter, but as something closer to a feminist avenger, pushing back against Clinton-hating, Obama-loving male commentators and bloggers whom she sees as both sexists and professional competitors. His supporters “are in love [with him],” she posits. “They are sexually attracted to him.”

That’s right, we all want to bone Obama. And people wonder why I still felt the need to pop off a post like this even though Mushy’s “reformed” (aka Operation Career Rescue).

BTW—the spittle-flecked ex-Marshan who was running around anti-Obama blogs commenting that Taylor, now on the dead-enders’ enemies list for not Doing the Lemming, lied about her age to WaPo will be happy to know that she was right. Score another victory for the PUMAs! Hear them roar! Meow.

Now excuse me while I get back to dry humping my life-size poster of Barack…

*Mathews was an incredibly nice guy and I was convinced after reading his blog that he’s the only truly non-partisan person left in America.

Posted by Kevin K. on 06/17/08 at 08:02 AM • Permalink

That was unexpected. You certainly deserve attention a whole lot more!

All one has to do is look at Michelle’s web page and know the truth she lied about her age.

Jeez, when you do that, you have no credibility.

By the way, Obama will never be president.  That’s why the media propagandized people like you to support him.

And no, I am not voting McCain, either.

"By the way, Obama will never be president.”

Susan, well you and your “millions” of PUMAs have your work cut out for you.  The American people don’t seem to agree with you.

But you guys enjoy your pity party while there’s still a little helium left in the balloons.

I don’t want to have sex with him. I want to dress up in a diaper while he changes me and call me “Malia.” That’s totally different!

(I won’t blame you if you delete that comment.)

As usual, the bigshot media are behind the trends. Marsh is yesterday’s news, having backed a losing horse and alienated her online mob with her belated pivot. Still, a mention in TNR isn’t chopped liver, especially to a shameless self-promoter like Marsh. Why didn’t she trumpet it all over her blog?

If she did, I missed it. Was it the age-outing thing? And what does lying about one’s age say about a so-called feminist? maybe that the feminism, like everything else, is a hook for personal gain?

Still, one thing in that article made me smile—the description of the podcast studio being overrun with cats. I knew it.

Kevin, that’s no fair.  You chased away the troll before I got a chance to play with her.

Fess us, Kevin...did you make the following comment over at TNR?

I’d just like to thank you for reporting that a woman who used to work in the porn industry met her husband when he “turned on the gas in her apartment.” I’ve seen that movie! Also Taylor hosts a podcast, not a radio show, and her delivery is as about as “smooth” as Edward James Olmos’ face.