Taylor Marsh
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Taylor Marsh, a pseudonym of Michelle Marshall, is an author, veteran political analyst, writer and commentator. Her new book, “The Hillary Effect – Politics, Sexism and the Destiny of Loss”, published by Premier Digital Publishing, is available in print through Amazon, as well as for Kindle. It was also 1 of 4 books selected exclusively by Barnes and Noble for their new “NOOK First” Featured Authors Campaign launch. Marsh has become the go to expert on national politics, as well as women’s roles on the political stage.
Marsh has written for U.S. News & World Report, guest posted for Juan Cole, and been quoted in the UK Guardian and Al Jazeera English. A contributor to Huffington Post, as well as other new media sites, Marsh has been writing on the web since 1996 and considered by many to be one of the “must-read” new media blogs.
During the 2008 election, Marsh was best known for being a “die hard Clintonite,” as the Washington Post described her in a 2008 profile, “For Clinton, A Following Of ‘Marshans’.” Marsh didn’t start out as a supporter, however, as a report on January 23, 2007 from Hotline OnCall revealed. But Taylor’s new media blog TaylorMarsh.com became a central hub for Hillary supporters during the 2008 election cycle. The New Republic (pdf here) profile of her in 2008, “The Hugh Hefner of Politics,” chronicles Marsh from her artistic career into politics.
“One of the great blogs.” – Steve Clemons – The Washington editor at large for The Atlantic and editor in chief of Atlantic LIVE, as well as publisher of The Washington Note, and director of the American Strategy Program at the New America Foundation
Marsh went to Stephens College, in Columbia, Missouri, a liberal arts school, on a scholarship. Marsh graduated with a B.F.A., with her next goal Broadway. In 2005, Marsh wrote, produced and directed “Weeping for J.F.K.,” a one woman show staged in Los Angeles that traced the intersection of politics, John F. Kennedy and her life, from the 1960s to the present. A dream built on over two decades of performance experience, starting from when she was a kid and coming true when Jerry Herman cast her after her very first audition that landed her on Broadway in “The Grand Tour,” starring Joel Grey. Marsh did numerous national and regional commercials, beginning from the time she was a teen, and extending into her time in New York, then in Los Angeles, California, where she lived for almost two decades.
Taylor worked at the alternative newsweekly LA Weekly in the personal ad department, starting in the early 1990s. “Relationship consultant” became her official title. When the web exploded in 1996, Taylor started writing short pieces online about dating and the personals, marriage and relationships. Taylor Marsh’s trademark column inside the LA Weekly was “What Do You Want?” It was a mixture of dating and personal ad advice, with political opinion included periodically.
In 1997, Taylor Marsh jumped to become managing editor to one of the first sites online to make money, a site covered on the front page of the Wall Street Journal, U.S. News, and USA Today. The big drawback for Marsh was that it was a soft-core adult site, but she also knew this industry would exploit the new technology, as was proven in the age of the VCR. Marsh wrote about politics daily on “The Editor’s Desk,” teeing off on Ken Starr regularly when he began pursuing Susan McDougal. Marsh lasted barely a year, because one day a model turned in pictures that showed her on an elementary school playground. Marsh refused to publish them and when the boss bucked her, Marsh resigned and walked out.
Taylor Marsh’s interest in politics began when she was a kid, through her older brother Larry R. Marshall, who was an assistant attorney general for the state of Missouri when John Ashcroft was attorney general. (Years later, Marshall would interact with Senator Orrin Hatch’s office, providing a statement for Ashcroft’s confirmation hearing, also appearing on CNN to debate the desegregation issue that became an issue.)
Taylor Marsh took her long established new media website to blogging during the Kerry campaign of 2004. But it was the 2008 election that catapulted her into the political forefront. Marsh backed Hillary Rodham Clinton in July 2007, after doing reporting on the presidential primary season, following and covering all the candidates. What drew her to back Clinton in the race was the media bias and clear sexism coming from traditional and new media, which is detailed in her e-book, with Robin Givhan’s “cleavage” column a tipping point.
Taylor Marsh was born in Columbia, Missouri, but spent most of her life growing up in St. Louis. Taylor did the pageant scene to pay for college, starting in her early teens with Miss Teenage America (earning the title of “Miss Friendship” in the Miss Teenage America Pageant). Years later, she was crowned Miss Missouri, going to the Miss America Pageant. NOW picketed the year she was in the pageant, confronting Marsh one day in front of reporters as she came out of her hotel. One angry NOW supporter got in her face and asked: “How can you demean yourself like this?” Marsh simply replied: “You want to pay for my college tuition?”
Marsh has been interviewed by the BBC, CNN, MSNBC, C-SPAN’s Washington Journal, Al Jazeera Arabic and Al Jazeera English, among others, including radio from coast to coast. Marsh has been featured in the The Hill and “The Washington Scene”, Washington Journal’s Hotline’s On Call, the LA Times, NewYorkTimes.com and many other new media and traditional news venues.
“… offering clear-eyed analysis that is as smart as anything on CNN.” – Joe Matthews, The New Republic
Writings
Op-ed column for U.S. News & World Report, January 25, 2012
Guest post at Juan Cole, February 1, 2012
Taylor Marsh, THE HILLARY EFFECT: Nobel Peace Prize for 2011 Goes to Three Activist Women, October 8, 2011
Taylor Marsh, A Friendly Rebuttal to David Sirota (from the ultimate outsider – a former Clintonite), August 5, 2011
Taylor Marsh, Obama’s Lost Moon Shot on Energy, July 20, 2011
Taylor Marsh, Bachmann Carves New Path on Feminism for Conservative Women, June 29, 2011
Taylor Marsh, Women War Hawks Win on Libya, March 19, 2011
Taylor Marsh, Is the Right Speechless Without Hate January 14, 2011
Taylor Marsh, Call Me When a Lefty Takes a Gun to a Political Rally January 10, 2011
Taylor Marsh on Huffington Post: TIME Should have Picked Sarah Palin for “Person of the Year” December 15, 2010
Taylor Marsh, Wikileaks Blowback in the Era of Zuckerberg, on Huffington Post November 30, 2010.
Taylor Marsh, In the Post-Hillary Political Era, Sarah is Queen by Taylor Marsh for Huffington Post, July 10, 2010.
Taylor Marsh, The Hillary Effect: Sarah Cashes In by Taylor Marsh, July 10, 2010.
Taylor Marsh, Rand Paul on Civil Rights: Private Restaurants Wouldn’t Have To Serve Martin Luther King, May 19, 2010.
Taylor Marsh, Sarah Palin is Not a Feminist by Taylor Marsh, May 16, 2010.
Taylor Marsh, Dear Huffington Post, About that Headline
Taylor Marsh, Obama is Not the Anti-Hillary, November 12, 2007
Taylor Marsh, Obama’s Kumbaya, May 14, 2007
Taylor Marsh at Huffington Post: Hillary Shines at Health Care Forum, March 25, 2007
Taylor Marsh at Huffington Post: Obama’s Nevada Flyover, February 17, 2007
