Taylor Marsh – TaylorMarsh.com – News, Opinion and Weblog on Progressive Politics

Read the Raw
Story piece. It dovetails nicely on my piece last night. More on that story in a minute.

But seriously, this is getting pretty ridiculous very fast. Evidently, Clinton\’s
people believe she can get elected by dissing progressive radio, while simultaneously
sticking a finger in small business blogs. Hey, but when you\’re as big as Hillary
you don\’t need your grass roots peeps. She can do it all by herself… with
the help of those right-wing bloggers whose sites she advertised her live web chat.

Ed Schultz isn\’t taking this malarkey either.

Many of you have requested hearing from Hillary on progressive talk especially The Ed Schultz Show. I want you to know our producer James Holm tirelessly works the contacts and has repeatedly tried to connect with Clinton\’s people. Cutting to the chase, Hillary\’s people treat us like \”dirt.\” We are constantly disregarded, told things that aren\’t true, and given speculation an interview might happen someday. Quite frankly, I\’m sick of it. This morning I watched Hillary Clinton tell CNN she is accessible. What? To the TV cameras yes, to the base of loyal listeners on progressive talk radio, absolutely not! Reaching over 2.5 million listeners who are engaged in changing the country I believe qualifies us for some attention. I realize Hillary is an international figure and star but this pattern of treatment to The Ed Schultz Show has been an on-going pattern which tells me all they care about is her mug on TV. The conservatives have done wonders with audio continually talking to and solidifying their base. It\’s apparent to me radio is minor to the people surrounding this leading candidate. … Liberal talk show host trashes Clinton\’s staff, sends out photo with Obama emphasis added

Ed, I feel your annoyance. It\’s fitting that the above story appears next to Clinton\’s web chat BlogAd, isn\’t
it? (heh-he.)

I\’ve been writing about this for years. The fact that the DC Democrats just
don\’t understand progressive radio, nor do they care one whit about it. This
story about Hillary treating Schultz like \”dirt\” is emblematic of her campaign
so far, but symbolic of DC Democrats. Can you imagine anyone in the Republican
Party treating their right-wing hosts like this? Not. Going. To. Happen.

I really had no feelings whatsoever about Hillary one way or the other from
the start. I was excited she was the first woman with a chance to win who was
actually running. But I have to tell you that after the last few days or so
I\’ve moved into the camp that is not impressed at all with Clinton and the team
she has around her, who seem not only arrogant, but possessing a queen fetish.

My conversations with someone I always considered an ally didn\’t help either.
Evidently, Hotline was interested in the small business post I did last night
and called Clinton\’s office to check it out. Someone in that office told Hotline
that my story was inaccurate. Leaving aside some of the judgments I made in
the piece that could be construed as subjective, there is nothing inaccurate
about my piece. In fact, Peter Daou, someone whom I have been friendly with
and have good relations with because he has been very forthcoming with me and
even generous once, said in a conversation I had with him this morning that he didn\’t care about the criticisms in my post, but
that I needed to make a correction about the ad buy part of my post. A correction
of what? I asked. That went nowhere. Then he told me in a long explanation that I was included in the ad buy but
the ad was rejected because my ad strips were full. Excuse me and with all due
respect to Peter, because the ad buy was supposedly placed through someone else
in the Clinton camp, but that just isn\’t credible. However, I am checking it
out (see update below).

It\’s time to move on from this ad buy bs. However, I\’m filing it under PROGRESSIVES BEWARE. Radio hosts, fuhghettaboutit.

Call the Clinton camp anytime for a clarification if you need one, I was told.
Well, I\’ve got a phone and they can reach out to me as well. But they won\’t. Ask Ed Schultz.
It\’s the Queen Bee syndrome. The people must go to Hillary\’s hive. Because she\’s not coming to us. Clinton\’s inevitability campaign has already gone to her head.

UPDATE (11:30 a.m.): Checking out the story Peter Daou told me on the phone took less time than I thought. I\’ve researched my BlogAd account thoroughly and completely. I was never included in Clinton\’s very large ad buy and there were no rejections of any ads anywhere in my account. Period.

NOTE: Don\’t miss comments from New Yorker, PB. Thanks so very much.