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Frantic Obama supporter puts new spin on old medium (LA Times tackles Ellie Light)
LA Times ^ | 1/25/10 | Andrew Malcom

Posted on 01/25/2010 2:05:37 PM PST by pissant

Her name, we think, is Ellie Light, or maybe that's a composite. Claiming to be a local resident, Ellie has been writing letters to editors all over the world defending President Obama against his critics.

In nearly-identical letters to scores of publications, Light writes in defense of the president. Since news of her serial letter-writing campaign surfaced in the Cleveland Plain Dealer, one sleuth has tracked 70 sightings of Ellie Light letters. (She did not make the Los Angeles Times).

This one ran in Ohio's Chillicothe Gazette, a template for the others: "Today, the president is being attacked as if he were a salesman who promised us that our problems would wash off in the morning,. He never made such a promise. It's time for Americans to realize governing is hard work and that a president can't just wave a magic wand and fix everything."

Conservative bloggers are having a field day, calling Light part of an Astroturf campaign to artificially prop up the president's standing. Some think Light is actually First Lady Michelle Obama or National Security Council aide Samantha Power.

(Excerpt) Read more at latimesblogs.latimes.com ...


TOPICS: Crime/Corruption
KEYWORDS: astroturf; ellielight
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1 posted on 01/25/2010 2:05:37 PM PST by pissant
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To: pissant

Still no comment on IP address.


2 posted on 01/25/2010 2:07:16 PM PST by Gondring (Paul Revere would have been flamed as a naysayer troll and told to go back to Boston.)
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To: Gondring

is there something new about the IP address? Did I mis something?

What are the odds that 70 different newspapers recieved letters and decided that Ellie Light was worth publishing?

I think they were all given the letters and told to run it, on marching orders from the white house or democrap party, proving they are nothing more than the propogandists we all suspected they ae.


3 posted on 01/25/2010 2:10:54 PM PST by Mr. K (This administration IS WEARING OUT MY CAPSLOCK KEY!)
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To: pissant

Valerie Jarret?

Desiree Rogers?


4 posted on 01/25/2010 2:11:42 PM PST by Cletus.D.Yokel
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To: Gondring

Cass Sunstein psy-ops.


5 posted on 01/25/2010 2:13:05 PM PST by Noumenon ("Upon what meat doth this our Caesar feed, that he has grown so great?" - Julius Caesar)
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To: pissant

Slo news day at the times and he still missed most of the story.

The probability the story was mass mailed using the DNC websites software ought to have been mentioned...

http://my.democrats.org/page/content/partybuilderLTE/


6 posted on 01/25/2010 2:13:07 PM PST by widdle_wabbit
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To: pissant; Grampa Dave; NormsRevenge; SierraWasp; editor-surveyor; ElkGroveDan

This is a good start. Now we need to get Debra Saunders at the Frisco Chronicle to write a piece on it. I have twice asked a editor at the Times-Standard to look into the hoax as his parent company, Media News Corp had at least 7 of their papers carry the letter and that’s just the name Ellie Light and many other names have been discovered ..


7 posted on 01/25/2010 2:15:41 PM PST by tubebender (Freeploaders = The illegal aliens on Free Republic)
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To: Noumenon

Or independent.


8 posted on 01/25/2010 2:15:56 PM PST by Gondring (Paul Revere would have been flamed as a naysayer troll and told to go back to Boston.)
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To: pissant; Admin Moderator

Johanna Neuman is the author, not Andrew Malcolm.


9 posted on 01/25/2010 2:16:15 PM PST by ConservativeMind (Hypocrisy: "Animal rightists" who eat meat & pen up pets while accusing hog farmers of cruelty.)
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To: pissant

If you say the name fast it comes our Elite. Sorry that is no coincidence. This is the “Elite” speaking to the little people.


10 posted on 01/25/2010 2:17:49 PM PST by GonzoGOP (There are millions of paranoid people in the world and they are all out to get me.)
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To: pissant

I read that there is another “Ellie Light” named “Mark SPIVEY”


11 posted on 01/25/2010 2:17:49 PM PST by Freedom56v2 ("If you think healthcare is expensive now, wait till it is free"--PJ O'rourke)
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To: ConservativeMind

Oops. Any relations to Alfred E.?


12 posted on 01/25/2010 2:17:56 PM PST by pissant (THE Conservative party: www.falconparty.com)
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To: pissant

I wonder if she ever wrote letters for Bush?


13 posted on 01/25/2010 2:18:14 PM PST by diamond6 (Expose Planned Parenthood: http://www.youtube.com/watch?v=cYaTywSDmls)
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To: pissant

Does Mr. Malcom explain why all these newspapers have chosen to publish Ellie Light’s letters to the editor? Do the newspapers in question all have a template that says “must publish any letter defending the Great O’Savior!”


14 posted on 01/25/2010 2:21:25 PM PST by ReleaseTheHounds ("The demagogue is one who preaches doctrines he knows to be untrue to men he knows to be idiots.")
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To: pissant

YOU TOO CAN BE ELLIE LIGHT! just click on the link and fill in the blanks compliments of the Obama Nazi party.

http://my.barackobama.com/page/speakout/write


15 posted on 01/25/2010 2:22:55 PM PST by ncfool (The new USSA - United Socialst States of AmeriKa. Welcome to Obummers world.)
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To: ncfool

Michelle LaVaughn Robinson Obama

michELLE LAVA LAMP!!!!!!

SOLVED!!! lol!


16 posted on 01/25/2010 2:42:03 PM PST by sodpoodle (Despair - Man's surrender. Laughter - God's redemption.)
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To: pissant; onyx; STARWISE; maggief; Bahbah

Beck just covered Ellie on his program.


17 posted on 01/25/2010 2:43:56 PM PST by hoosiermama (ONLY DEAD FISH GO WITH THE FLOW.......I am swimming with Sarahcudah! Sarah has read the tealeaves.)
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To: Mr. K

Yes!!! I agree, and I have been using this same ‘argument.’

Ever write a letter to the Editor of your local paper and get it published? I have. But only twice. Over maybe 16 years. Yet, ‘Ellie’ writes the same letter to (at last count) over 70 papers...and they ALL get published?

Something smells here.


18 posted on 01/25/2010 2:45:48 PM PST by PennsylvaniaMom (BOOM! Taste my nightstick! Sarah, making Shatner sound Shakespearean.)
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To: hoosiermama

It certainly wasn’t Michelin Obama.

She doesn’t write that well.


19 posted on 01/25/2010 2:56:34 PM PST by Bahbah (Only dead fish go with the flow)
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To: pissant

Here is a very large list of letters found so far.. note that at the time I’m posting this on FR, the original post at Patterico is not being updated as fast as new newspapers are being found and posted in the comments section.

http://patterico.com/2010/01/23/ellie-lights-obama-letters/


20 posted on 01/25/2010 2:58:51 PM PST by JerseyHighlander
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