Expert Analyst on Clinton/Obama Political Scene Available for Interviews and Guest Appearances
National blog reporter, journalist and talk radio personality tackles provocative, complex and controversial election-year issues
FLORHAM PARK, N.J., May 5 /PRNewswire-USNewswire/—Taylor Marsh, a Clinton supporter who maintains the major blog site for Clinton fans, is
available for commentary and expert analysis on all election-year topics. She will be in Washington, D.C. on May 5, 6 and 7, 2008 for guest
appearances originating in Washington. Thereafter, Marsh is available via satellite or phone interviews from Los Angeles and Las Vegas.
Marsh is not afraid to tackle topics others shy away from. Among the many current issues she can discuss with clarity and astute reasoning are:
—Why Clinton can still win
—If Obama is the nominee, will Clinton supporters not vote, or will they become McCain Democrats?
—Media (and blog) coverage of Clinton, and why she and Obama are turning to Fox News Channel
Background
A former Miss Missouri in the Miss America pageant and Broadway performer, Taylor Marsh is a talk radio personality (her radio show streams daily online), national blog reporter and author who’s been a consistent political, social and cultural force on TV and radio for over 15 years. She focuses on political commentary, foreign policy and national security issues, but is a respected analyst on all things political as she turns to the 2008 elections with some of the best candidate and election commentary available. Her relationship and cultural expertise, with research and experience to back it up, rivals anyone. Her political expertise includes committed study and research into foreign affairs and military issues that has made her one of the few women talking about complex, international subjects.
On the web since 1996, Marsh shifted to blogging and blog reporting in late 2005, where her presence and impact have been explosive, though nothing prepared her for the Hillary hatred that would be unleashed in her direction in the 2008 primary season. [...]
Taylor was set to appear on The Race w/ Adrienne Mitchell, on XM channel 130 starting between 8:30 and 8:45 ET tonight. Unfortunately, it had to be bumped in favor of a terrific election eve speech from our future Madame President. Understandable.
But do not despair… Taylor has already been invited to appear again very soon, so stay tuned…
I used to think the dumbest thing TalkLeft’s Jeralyn Merritt had ever done was admit to being friends with Jeff Goldstein, but now I’m not so sure:
How will [Barack Obama’s] time with his daughters be affected if he’s President? If Hillary had a young child and was running for President, there’d be scores of articles addressing this. Not that many decades ago, most men weren’t as involved in the day-to-day parenting of their kids. They were the principal breadwinners and not expected to be as involved as a mother.
Today, many men are as involved. Yet, no one mentions this with respect to Obama. If he’s President, he’ll be giving up a lot of family time. Is he still going to go to dance recitals, PTA meetings and soccer games? How often will he be able to help them with their homework? Will he have time to play charades and the other games they enjoy now?
As a husband Barack is not afraid to cook for his family. When he does, Michelle boasts that he makes a ‘mean’ chili, one of his favourite foods. Barack attests to picking up groceries even on the campaign trail in Iowa.
According to US Weekly, Barack and Michelle Obama have never missed a parent-teacher conference. Michelle posits that “Our future is making sure Barack can get to our daughters’ ballet recitals and balancing the demands of this current set of responsibilities with our need to build a strong family.” (Ebony, March 2006)
I’m curious. Does anyone have feelings about the time Obama’s daughters will lose with their father if he’s President or is this a non-issue?
It’s too bad manufacturing controversies can’t help the US economy, because Hillary’s supporters have far surpassed the wingnuts when it comes to throwing nonstick bullshit at the wall.
Sitting on the sunny patio of a coffee shop last weekend, Averell “Ace” Smith hardly seemed the kind of guy to strike fear into a politician’s heart.
The 49-year-old California political operative—who helped Hillary Rodham Clinton to victories in the California and Texas Democratic presidential primaries and is now running her North Carolina operation—was a study in bland: beige polo shirt, beige slacks, bright blue eyes framed by wire-rimmed glasses, a fringe of gray hair around a pink scalp.
Yet people—many of them fellow Democrats—frequently use melodramatic imagery to describe him.
“I believe that every life lesson in politics can be extrapolated from ‘The Godfather,’ ” said Chris Lehane, a Democratic strategist and friend of Smith’s who has worked for the Clintons.
“Some people are Fredos; at game time they disappear. There are Sonnys, who yell and scream. . . . The most effective ones are the Michael Corleones. Very quiet, they know under which rib to insert the knife. . . . Ace is a Michael Corleone.”
And Chris Lehane is something that didn’t make it into The Godfather ... the horse’s ass.
The next time you see an online Hillshill accusing Obama supporters of drinking the kool-aid and worshiping their messiah, point them to the Hillary Clinton Army blog. Sweet jeebus. I don’t even know where to begin, but this is as good a place as any:
I am taking a break lying on the bed, (I’m swearing off sleeping in the closet!) , I’ve got my sleep number set to 35, Hillary’s sleep number. I just thought I’d try that one out!
Yikes.
And don’t miss the 3 AM “Phone Car” while you’re there (here and here). It’s 3 AM, do you know where your dignity went?
p.s. My visiting not-so-little bro has departed, so regular blogging will resume shortly.
Your go-to blog for dreadful pro-Hillary YouTube videos strikes again!
Initially I thought this video was a parody, but I’ve confirmed that it’s not. Oh my. Please take a guess at how many cats you think she owns in the comments here.
p.s. I love the part at the end where she realizes John Lennon rejected the Hillary button and she wags a finger at him after re-adhering it. Comedy is golden. Tin foil is silver.
As to Wright himself, well, I have my own thoughts. First and foremost, I guess I am no longer the delicate fainting flower that most other bloggers and media commenters are these days. I spent several years in the early days of this blog being all sorts of outraged about petty bullshit. I spent days calling Ted Rall an asshole (he still is, I think), days opining about what an asshole Michael Moore is, and so on. I got my panties all in a bunch about Ward Churchhill (also a dick), and stupid things Bill Maher may or may not have said, and so on.
And you know what? They may be assholes, or jerks, or whatever term you want to use, but they sure as hell didn’t run this economy into the ground. They aren’t responsible for turning a huge surplus into a several hundred billion dollar deficit. I have yet to read any memos from Barbra Streisand detailing how we should spy on American citizens.
And so it is with Jeremiah Wright. Is he a jerk? I don’t think there is any argument to be made that lately he hasn’t in fact been one big, giant, puckered asshole. His ego tour the past few days was all about him, but so what? I blame the media as much as I blame him. Is it an offensive notion that the government created aids? Absolutely, but I refuse to get all bent out of shape about it, because the government that tortures people and ran the Tuskegee experiment and wiretapped MLK for years opens itself up to crazy accusations like that.
Read it all. And if you happen to be in close proximity to Joe Scarborough or Larry Johnson, please rub their fucking noses in it.
Now that Rumproast has become the go-to blog for dreadful pro-Hillary YouTube videos, I guess I’ve got to unleash this one on you. Scroll to about the 3:45 mark for the worst. ventriloquist. routine. ever.
If you made it through that, please accept my humblest apologies.
Hillary is now pimping what she’s calling “The Oregon Compact” (dig the fancy header graphic!) and demanding that Obama agrees to two debates in Oregon, including one focused on her “compact.” I honestly can’t decide if this is utterly guileless pandering or if Hillary has gone completely off the rails. Where’s the Iowa Compact? Where’s the New Hampshire Compact? Where’s the Louisiana Compact? Where’s the New Mexico Compact? Where’s the compact for her home state of New York? Hell, where are the Michigan and Florida Compacts? Look for my new petition site at my-state-wants-a-fucking-compact-too.com.
And Obama’s arrogance, most vividly displayed recently when he “flipped off” Hillary Clinton doesn’t help his image with average Americans either. Along the same lines, today David Axelrod audaciously insulted white working class voters by declaring them irrelevant to a Democratic victory. This uppity attitude likely explains why 32% of Democratic voters in Pennsylvania told a pollster that they would never vote for Barack Obama.
TexasDarlin, I’ve got a sobering question, too! Why don’t you go fuck yourself?
Then there’s Rachel Maddow. What the heck happened to her and her Ph.D. in Political Science? I think that woman has truly lost her mind. She is so in love with Obama that I am beginning to wonder if she bats for both teams! Yeah. . . maybe I shouldn’t have said that——but I did. She obviously has some built-up hatred for Hillary. Don’t believe me——then listen to Dr. Maddow sometime or better yet catch her on TV. Ms. Maddow is nowhere near being neutral on this subject. Nope. . . she is deep in the Hillary hatred camp along with righty Rush!
As a matter of fact I blame all of the progressive radio hosts for the mess we are in. They didn’t stay neutral and keep this party unified. . . Oh no, they worked very hard to take down a lifelong Democrat. And for what or whom? For someone with not much to him to back up his words. But, oh he makes me feel so good. From what I hear a vibrator does the same thing, but I like the real thing thank you very much!
Shorter Puget Sound Island Girl: Rachel Maddow must love dick if she loves Obama.
Charming. And someone might want to tell PSIG that the “lifelong Democrat” was a very active Republican until her junior year in college.
My wife and I had to rewind the DVR last night to make sure we heard this correctly. Ladies and gents, I present Patrick Buchanan, friend of the rabid anti-Obama Hillshills and an utterly massive dickhead:
Realism = Marxism. Sweet. If I were Rachel Maddow I would have replied, “Fascist says what?”
MSNBC, please mothball this racist fuckknuckle before he calls Maddow what we all know he’s dying to.
In case you missed it, the latest knuckleheaded controversy “plaguing” the Obama campaign is “wafflegate.” The story, in a fucknutshell, is that Obama asked a reporter if he could finish his meal instead of answering a question. That’s it, but the rabid anti-Obama Hillshills have worked themselves up into a lather over it. John Brown takes them all down with one simple paragraph:
Anyone who is currently pretending the waffle incident matters should immediately screw his or her fucking head on straight, apologize to every single person they’ve insulted by pretending this story is meaningful and then place their hand in a hot waffle iron for 30 seconds.
I was out last night, so I recorded the debate. Judging from what I’ve been reading, I should just click “delete” and be done with it. (More from Greg Mitchell.)
