I will guess she is a trained, paid democrat party operative, in an Administration lead by the Living Embodiment of "Clear and Present Danger."
Posted on 01/24/2010 9:09:14 PM PST by MissTickly
A well-traveled letter writer who has used dozens of different addresses to publish a pro-Obama letter-to-the-editor in at least 40 newspapers around the country in recent weeks denies allegations that she's secretly a White House official or is part of an organized propaganda campaign.
But the Internet has been buzzing about Ellie Light since The Plain Dealer posted a story Thursday to cleveland.com that revealed her prolific letter-writing credits in newspapers ranging from the Philadelphia Daily News (which said she lived in Philadelphia) to the San Francisco Examiner (which said she lived in Daly City, Calif.).
In comments, online readers speculated on her identity and hypothesized that she's part of an organized astroturf campaign designed to artificially boost the president's standing around the country.
Bloggers began compiling a complete list of her publication credits. A Who is Ellie Light fan page formed on Facebook and a Wikipedia page was drafted about her.
And, by Sunday, after it was publicized through outlets like the Drudge Report, the article about Light had more than 500,000 page views, making it the most-read story ever on cleveland.com.
Typically, a popular story on cleveland.com will get many tens of thousands of page views, according to John Kroll, The Plain Dealer's director of training and digital development. Only those that achieve broader national interest, such as The Plain Dealer's initial reports on the Imperial Avenue murders, or those that have enduring appeal, like a database of Cuyahoga County property sales, approach the popularity of the Ellie Light story.
The letters Light published throughout the country were virtually identical. Nearly all of them listed her residence in towns that are in the newspaper's circulation area, though versions of the letter published in USA Today and the Washington Times cited her residence as Long Beach, Calif.
Other papers listed her as living elsewhere in California, as well as in Ohio, Connecticut, Idaho, Iowa, Maine, Maryland, Michigan, New Mexico, Pennsylvania, South Carolina, Virginia, West Virginia and Wisconsin.
"Today, the president is being attacked as if he were a salesman who promised us that our problems would wash off in the morning," said a version of Light's letter that ran in Ohio's Chillicothe Gazette, claiming a Chillicothe residence. "He never made such a promise. Its time for Americans to realize governing is hard work and that a president can't just wave a magic wand and fix everything."
Light, who e-mailed an identical missive to The Plain Dealer on Jan. 16 without listing a hometown, would not answer e-mailed questions about the address discrepancies in newspapers that ran her letter, or her identity. She did say she wasn't a former co-worker of this reporter with a similar name.
In a Sunday morning e-mail to The Plain Dealer, Light denied speculation that she's actually President Obama, his wife, Michelle, or National Security Council member Samantha Power.
"I'm flattered, and I must give the Tea Partiers credit for even knowing who [Power] is," Light's e-mail said. "But what I want to point out is that, if I were a person trying to imply this huge groundswell of support for our beleaguered president, then I would have signed the letter with different names. However, as you may have noticed, my main point is that absence of support for the president.
"I am not surprised that an article that tends to discredit a pro-Obama letter-writer has lots of readers. I understand that there are 10 million dittoheads that daily scour the airwaves, print and online press for something nasty to say about the president, so I'm sure your article will get more hits," she wrote in another e-mail later Sunday. "I'm not sure why you would write me that people would probably be interested in what I have to say. My impression is that my letter could contain Chinese food recipes with a Pro-Obama subject line, and the event would be interpreted as fodder for that same highly-motivated, but narrow class of people."
Representatives of the White Houses media affairs office did not respond to requests for comment on Sunday....
Get on over there to comment, the DUmmies (aka Ellies) are out in full force.
The Palin Dealer....hee hee hee ...Freudian slip.
I bet she has ties to Axelrod’s PR firm.....
You think?
I bet she has ties to Axelrod’s PR firm.....
You think?
I think she has ties to the White House.
These astroturf attacks were coordinated with a bad week leading up to the Mass. race.
COORDINATED for sure, IMO.
I’ll bet if we dig during other periods of uh, stress...we’ll find plenty more like it.
Is Ellie Light’s favorite political philosopher Mao Tse-Tung?
Does her telephone block calls from Glenn Beck?
Has she had more time on her hands in recent weeks to write “letters” to newspapers?
Hahaha! Yeah, the majority of people in this country, Ellie, if Scott Brown's convincing victory in the bluest of states is any indication.
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Hi MT. If you want to know what the ObamaTrolls can do, just ask Larry Sinclair.
They’ve been caught, and are digging in.
They must be exposed!
Yup. Beau Biden is the biggest TROLL of all.
Now THAT was the story of the century, IMO. It was at that moment I was certain Larry was credible.
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Absolutely.
I will guess she is a trained, paid democrat party operative, in an Administration lead by the Living Embodiment of "Clear and Present Danger."
Uh huh. Whoever she isn't, what the lady is, is a liar.
I couldn’t tell you who exactly but I would think ‘the’y wouldn’t trust this kind of thing to just any ‘loyalist’ who might have already cracked and spilled the beans by now.
However, the volume of new astroturfers, three sometimes on one opinion page; and the timing; reek of a coordinated effort to me.
Anyone else get that same vibe?
Know your enemy: Organizing for America. An outrageous Obama propaganda and dirty tricks site.
http://www.barackobama.com/index.php?splash=false
She’s lied about her name and she’s lied about some of her “home” addresses, undeniably.
So yes, she’s a liar.
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