I sent the email below to Lucianne.com, raising the possibility that a "Leesa Martin" interviewed as a newly anti-Bush conservative in an NYT interview, was actually a DUmmie. I am a devoted reader of yours, and I know that you have ways of penetrating the DUmmie lair undetected, so I wonder if you can find out if the "leesa" at DU (a 1000+ post heroine) is actually the NYT's beloved "Leesa Martin"? My post below should explain everything. Cheers.
Now the message sent to Lucianne.Com:
I noted that one of your commentators mentioned that there was no "Leesa Martin" listed in the Columbus, Ohio area. That may be true, but if you Google her, you will find a reference to someone of that name representing Abbott Laboratories on an Osteoporosis (sp?) task force in Franklin County, Ohio, i.e. the Columbus area. So she probably exists (and that name Leesa is not very common, but perhaps more common than you would think!).
BUT, OTOH, there is also a "Leesa" posting at the DU, and she is a "gold poster" or something like that, with more than 1000 posts. I could not access her profile, not being a member, and not willing to register with those idiots. If you have access to the profiles, it would be interesting to find out where Leesa hails from.
No law against being a DU'er, of course, but the impression in Ms. Zernike's interview is clearly that Leesa is a mature (49 year old) voter who is discomfited by Bush, even though she supported him 2004 for security reasons. Hardly a typical 1000+ poster at DU, I'd say. Considering that 1000 posts would require 3 a day for a year, or 1 every day for 3 years, this isn't someone who is just starting to lean a bit to the left only lately, either! If you lead off your article about 75 people across the country with a long-time DU'er posing as Ms. Mature Conservative... well, I guess there's nothing wrong with that either, at the New York Times.
Can anybody match the Leesa in the NY Times article to the DUmmie Leesa. Remember, "Leesa" is NOT a common way of spelling that name.
I checker her profile at DU -- but I get:
ERROR: No such user profile
The user has disabled his/her user profile.
Hmmmmmm.....
I don't think she's a DUmmie. The Leesa Martin I googled is director of market research for Nationwide insurance, if that's her. Which would make sense since another interviewee was a guy that worked for Nationwide. I don't see how she'd have time, especially since the Ins co lists her as "Mrs."
But I will say the NYTimes article really isn't that negative. The headline is misleading. The article has several people with positive comments.
Overall I think it's just a bland boring article.