I'm Ellie Light!
Posted on 01/26/2010 5:24:10 PM PST by Shellybenoit
Last week the Cleveland Plain Dealer broke the strange story about Presidential astroturfer "Ellie Light" More than 40 different Letters to the Editor have turned up in newspapers across the country all, written by someone named Ellie Light, each one defends Barack Obama. Each Ellie Light letter claims to live within the circulation area of each newspaper. The letters are nearly identical in grammar, tone, and gist. The letters also contain the following closing statement: "...and a president can’t just wave a magic wand and fix everything."
Over the weekend it got weirder, we discovered another Astroturfer, Mark Spivey. Mark writes about Obama's delay in deciding a strategy in Afghanistan. Like Ellie, has written dozens of letters that appeared in newspapers. His letters are nearly identical in grammar, tone, and substance. Spivey's sign-off is generally Soldiers are human beings, not chess pieces. It’s about time we have a president who understands that.
Today went from weird to something out of an episode of the Twilight Zone. This morning the Cleveland Plain Dealer got a call from Ellie Light. Then this afternoon they got a call from a second person claiming to be Ellie Light. Will the the real Ellie Light PLEASE Stand Up ?
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An attempt to take people off the trail by creating more uncertainty.
I think all of the parties that made contact are involved in the letter-writing campaign. It’s not one person. In my belief, this is a DNC media outlet under direction from someone higher up the food chain with enough degrees of separation built in to claim plausible deniability. The only way to to figure this out is to find out who the originator of each of the ‘original’ letters was and try to find some common thread there.
Tossing chaff into the air.
As I said on earlier threads, the whole letter, and especially that line “...and a president can’t just wave a magic wand and fix everything,” sounds exactly like one of Obama’s speech writers. In fact, it has the stamp of approval of Obama himself all over it. I can’t believe that some outsider moonbat made that up and did it on her own.
No, someone in the White House is writing this stuff and distributing it to useful idiots, who are sending it to the media. And there may be more than one such agent sending out the Ellie White letter—and I’ll bet many other letters as well.
I'm Ellie Light!
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