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BREAKING UPDATE!!! Ellie Light Mystery Revealed She is Really Winston Steward
The Lid/Cleveland Plain Dealer ^ | 1/26/10 | The Lid

Posted on 01/26/2010 7:34:21 PM PST by Shellybenoit

Earlier tonight we posted the weird going on in the Ellie Light saga:

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 ?

The real Ellie Light was really #1 the "woman with the deep voice" she contacted the paper again tonight.

A man who identified himself as Winston Steward, 51, of Frazier Park, Calif., says he made up the name "Ellie Light" to protect himself from criticism and possible physical attacks, and used fake addresses across the country to get local newspapers to publish his letters.

(Excerpt) Read more at yidwithlid.blogspot.com ...


TOPICS: Politics; Weird Stuff
KEYWORDS: astroturf; ellielight; letterstoeditor; markspivey
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1 posted on 01/26/2010 7:34:22 PM PST by Shellybenoit
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To: Shellybenoit

oh good I’m glad that’s cleared up </sarc>


2 posted on 01/26/2010 7:38:25 PM PST by WhatNot (Christ longs to see the lovely face of His pure bride, and He will not be disappointed!)
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To: Shellybenoit

Another leftwing nut who couldn’t control “the tingle”.


3 posted on 01/26/2010 7:38:52 PM PST by FlingWingFlyer (J.D. Hayworth for Senate!)
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To: FlingWingFlyer

No, I AM ELLIE LIGHT !


4 posted on 01/26/2010 7:42:44 PM PST by PieterCasparzen (Huguenot)
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To: Shellybenoit

hmm, Winston, Winston....isn’t that a character in a novel?.../sarc


5 posted on 01/26/2010 7:42:47 PM PST by FrdmLvr ("The people will believe what the media tells them they believe." Orwell)
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To: All

Click The Pic

6 posted on 01/26/2010 7:43:09 PM PST by ButThreeLeftsDo (I Upped My Monthly Donation To FR....Now, Up Yours.)
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To: Shellybenoit
Huff Post Profile

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7 posted on 01/26/2010 7:46:14 PM PST by mnehring
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To: PieterCasparzen

Will the real Ellie Light please stand up.


8 posted on 01/26/2010 7:46:29 PM PST by political1 (Love your neighbors)
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To: FrdmLvr

So if the guy’s name was John, he’d be a Republican operative?

Because clearly, no one has ever been named Winston outside that Orwell book.


9 posted on 01/26/2010 7:46:51 PM PST by Xenalyte (Yes, Chef!)
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To: PieterCasparzen

I am Ellie Light.

10 posted on 01/26/2010 7:49:44 PM PST by Moonman62 (The issue of whether cheap labor makes America great should have been settled by the Civil War.)
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To: ButThreeLeftsDo
I wouldn't be surprised if that was his real pic. Takes a serious dweeb to write those kinds of letters. (tear for all the beautiful things)
11 posted on 01/26/2010 7:51:13 PM PST by beericus (Putting the cool in conservatism, dip in the hip and a glid in the stride.)
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To: mnehring

If that’s him he looks like a little b!tch to me.


12 posted on 01/26/2010 7:52:09 PM PST by blake6900
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To: mnehring

LOL! Is he singing ‘Puff the Magic Dragon’.....or the ‘Wheels on the Bus’?


13 posted on 01/26/2010 7:53:00 PM PST by RushIsMyTeddyBear (I don't have a 'Cousin Pookie'.)
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To: Shellybenoit

OMG this is getting sillier all the time

now what I REALLY want to know is how 70 newspapers all happened to pick this same letter as worthy to print...

or did they receive orders to look for a letter...


14 posted on 01/26/2010 7:59:14 PM PST by Mr. K (This administration IS WEARING OUT MY CAPSLOCK KEY!)
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To: Shellybenoit

He’s the real Slim Shady.

Please stand up.


15 posted on 01/26/2010 8:34:28 PM PST by Hammerhead
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To: Shellybenoit

Okay Gop’rs! Now that we know his real name and address ATTACK!!!!!!!


16 posted on 01/26/2010 8:48:19 PM PST by Beowulf9
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To: Shellybenoit; mnehring; RushIsMyTeddyBear; kingattax
The woman said her husband was using her name because he was afraid he might be attacked by "right-wing crazies up in Bakersfield,"

Wrong wing. Ask any leftie thug.

Dear Leader, Obama.
Lead me tonight.
I'll love you forever.
Regards, Ellie Light.

La la la la la la.
La la la la la.

17 posted on 01/26/2010 8:53:35 PM PST by taraytarah (Our Constitution must be defended and protected from all domestic enemies.)
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...he made up the name "Ellie Light" to protect himself from criticism and possible physical attacks...

What is the ratio of physical attacks upon people with different political opinions from the left, vs. upon those who differ from the right? Five to one or better, I suspect. So the physical attack excuse is nonsense. Now criticism, well, we know leftists can't handle THAT...

18 posted on 01/26/2010 9:20:23 PM PST by JimRed ("Hey, hey, Teddy K., hot enough down there today?" TERM LIMITS, NOW AND FOREVER!)
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To: PieterCasparzen

You might also be Mark Spivey.

He did the same.


19 posted on 01/26/2010 9:22:19 PM PST by Jet Jaguar
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To: taraytarah

The conspiracy theories, including my own personal what ifs, were more fun than the reality.

Now we obviously know that we can spoof newspapers on anything because they fact check NOTHING.

Time to get out the old email rolodex and have a field day.


20 posted on 01/26/2010 9:24:11 PM PST by PittsburghAfterDark
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