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By the way, Taylor Marsh is a fraud whose history has been bought. She is an invention inserted into the political discourse this year to represent others' interests.

Just saying.

by Bob In Pacifica on Fri Apr 18th, 2008 at 11:47:32 AM EST
that's a bit of an exaggeration, Bob.  

Her resume might be a little padded but she isn't a fraud.

by BooMan on Fri Apr 18th, 2008 at 11:51:51 AM EST
[ Parent ]
Go here:

http://www.blah3.com/article.php?story=20080409003821320

There are a number of links, so set aside a little time to read them all. Taylor Marsh, aka Michelle Marshall, worked as a "columnist" for the LA Weekly on relationship advice, but her column was an "advertisement." That is, not as part of the staff but someone paid the LA Weekly to run her column. She wrote a book about working for some company in the sex industry which seems to dovetail into her advertisement/columnist work. The book was published by a vanity publisher. She had a radio show where she paid the radio station. A vanity radio show, by the way.

When I was twelve I built a little crystal broadcasting thingie that could be picked up on my radio across the room. That doesn't make me a former radio talk show host.

So what part of her resume isn't padded?

A lot of Marshall/Marsh's resume was paid for by Judith Proffer/Jablonski who at one time was on the staff of the LA Weekly. I don't know the connection between the two or where Jablonski got or gets her money to front Marsh or if the connection still exists.

I guess the bigger question isn't so much who paid for her faux media career but why. And bigger than that, who began puffing her up so that anyone reads her site?  

by Bob In Pacifica on Fri Apr 18th, 2008 at 02:14:26 PM EST
[ Parent ]
I've read all that Bob.  All I'm saying is that she's a nice, funny person in real life and she's good at self-promotion, which is no sin.

I'm pretty unimpressed with her blogging during this campaign and I think she's lost any credibility she had, but she isn't a fraud.

by BooMan on Fri Apr 18th, 2008 at 02:27:06 PM EST
[ Parent ]
Sounds like you've already read this, then...
by CabinGirl on Fri Apr 18th, 2008 at 11:52:20 AM EST
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Oh my, I hadn't actually seen that before. Escandalo!

I no longer feel guilty for being creeped out by Marsh.

mbr + dv + woyg

by keirdubois (keir@mybandrocks.com) on Fri Apr 18th, 2008 at 02:40:30 PM EST
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