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Still More Astroturfing: Gloria Elle and Jan Chen Write the Same Anti-Republican, Pro-Obama Letter
Patterico.com ^ | 1/24/10 | Patterico.com

Posted on 01/24/2010 2:45:52 PM PST by Painesright

Now that people are paying attention, the Astroturfers are coming out of the woodwork:

Jan Chen of Seattle writes to the Northwest Asian Weekly (a small Asian paper serving the Seattle area):

As one listens to the Republican anger over health care reform, one can imagine an anti-government protester cheerfully paying premiums on insurance policies that drop you after you make a claim, or happily sauntering out of an emergency room that denied them treatment because of a coverage problem. One can imagine a town hall sign-waver enthusiastically forking over most of their pay to bill collectors after suffering a catastrophic injury, thinking, “Wow, the free market system is great.”

Meanwhile, Gloria Elle writes to the Baltimore Chronicle — on the same page as Mark Spivey and Ellie Light:

As one listens to the Republican anger over health care reform, one can imagine an anti-government protester cheerfully paying premiums on insurance policies that cancel you for making a claim, or happily sauntering out of an emergency room that denied them treatment because of a coverage problem. One can imagine a town-hall sign-waver enthusiastically forking over most of their pay to bill collectors after suffering a catastrophic injury, thinking, “Wow, the free market system is great.”

Jan Chen and Gloria Elle certainly have a similar writing style, don’t they?

To the word. Thanks to liberrocky on Twitter for the find.

Freepers discovered another one: Janet Leigh. (Cute.) This one is explained here. [UPDATE: To make it clear and explicit, the link shows that the very same pro-Obama letter was written by Janet Leigh to NewburgGraphic.com, and by Earnest Gardner to the Memphis Flyer. She also finds Janet Leigh next to Mark Spivey in the Santa Barbara Independent.]

The story is exploding. There is Astroturf everywhere...

(Excerpt) Read more at patterico.com ...


TOPICS: Constitution/Conservatism; Culture/Society; Government; News/Current Events
KEYWORDS: astroturf; ellielight; gloriaelle; janchen; markspivery; markspivey
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To: Painesright

We live in a nation of liars, with the Liar in Chief in charge.

I am sick of these people, and sick of how degraded we have become morally such that this sort of deceit is normal.


41 posted on 01/24/2010 4:36:33 PM PST by spodefly (I have posted nothing but BTTT over 1000 times!!!)
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To: JewishRighter
Anyone remember the big deal the media made in 2000 about supposedly "subliminal" messages in a Republican ad? (The DemocRATS "scandal".) That was a phony scandal that was played up big, right during the middle of a presidential race, and probably cost Bush - along with the 11th hour drunk-driving revelation - just enough votes in Florida to lead to the re-count fiasco.

If this were Republicans - nationwide - issuing letters with phony names and addresses, it would already be a front-page scandal.
42 posted on 01/24/2010 4:40:27 PM PST by Steve_Seattle ("Above all, shake your bum at Burton.")
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To: Steve_Seattle

How about when they found out that Armstrong Williams was being paid to do positive programming for the Bush Administration. OMG, they went crazy!


43 posted on 01/24/2010 4:41:53 PM PST by JewishRighter
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To: JewishRighter

I hope Hannity and O’Reilly pick up on this story.


44 posted on 01/24/2010 4:42:07 PM PST by Steve_Seattle ("Above all, shake your bum at Burton.")
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To: Steve_Seattle; holdonnow
Most papers require that letters-to-the-editor be accompanied by a local address and phone number for verification purposes. You can fake the name, but you can’t fake the phone number, if the papers actually follow through and verify the letters.

Absolutely true. When I had a letter published, they called me first for 'permission' but really to verify.

We need to get this to the national conservative media...Rush, Sean, Mark. There are at least 6 that have been found and probably many more still out there. Even though it's not 'Watergate' it's still more proof of the absolute illegitimacy of this administration.

45 posted on 01/24/2010 4:52:02 PM PST by NewLand (We shall all hang together or most assuredly we will all hang separately)
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To: AmericanGirlRising

PING to the blog (see link)...good for your fb activity too.


46 posted on 01/24/2010 4:53:19 PM PST by NewLand (We shall all hang together or most assuredly we will all hang separately)
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To: Painesright

http://www.newberggraphic.com/news/2010/January/05/Opinion_Letters/16.letters.to.the.editor/news.aspx

This is my hometown Newspaper......


47 posted on 01/24/2010 4:54:43 PM PST by Danae (Don't think the Constitution matters? Try living in a country without one.)
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To: Danae

It’s interesting that these letters are even showing up in relatively small newspapers such as yours. That suggests that this might actually be a true conspiracy involving more than three or four people, and thus the possibility it’s being coordinated by Democratic Party or White House operatives does not seem so far-fetched.


48 posted on 01/24/2010 5:05:43 PM PST by Steve_Seattle ("Above all, shake your bum at Burton.")
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To: Billthedrill
they’re so accustomed to faking this sort of populism

Back in 2004 or whenever it was, campaign finance reform rode in on a populist wave that was almost totally manufactured by the Dems and their operatives. They can really turn it on when they feel the need. Given their current situation I wouldn't be surprised if they're revving up an astroturfing operation that is fairly massive.

49 posted on 01/24/2010 5:09:02 PM PST by Yardstick
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To: Danae

Wow! Just how violated do you feel right now? Will you ever trust anything they print again? I wouldn’t!!

This is so un-American, I don’t know where to start...

The one thing Alinsky and Cloward/Piven and the rest of the radicals didn’t account for... the Internet.

We must resist “net neutrality” with all of our might.

If the gov’t controls the Internet, we will have no way of uncovering scams like this one.


50 posted on 01/24/2010 5:17:24 PM PST by Painesright
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To: Steve_Seattle
Most papers require that letters-to-the-editor be accompanied by a local address and phone number for verification purposes

Think MagicJack. VOIP allows you to have a phone number in any area code on signup. Things like google phone allow routing without really any hassle. This is quite easy for one person to do.

There again, liberal propaganda letters probably aren't even checked.

51 posted on 01/24/2010 6:03:02 PM PST by DaveMSmith (Pray not for tasks equal to your powers but pray for powers equal to your tasks.)
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To: Painesright

If I can find the time and the energy, I might just have to print out all the copy articles and take them to the offices, and say... uh.. ya’ll been had.... yea.


52 posted on 01/24/2010 7:52:37 PM PST by Danae (Don't think the Constitution matters? Try living in a country without one.)
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To: Painesright
Ellie Light is not John Galt.

Epic FAIL by Sunstein, Rahm, Plouffe, and Axelrod.

53 posted on 01/24/2010 10:05:19 PM PST by grey_whiskers (The opinions are solely those of the author and are subject to change without notice.)
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