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Ellie Light speaks
Politico ^ | January 26, 2010 | Ben Smith

Posted on 01/26/2010 6:36:29 AM PST by maggief

EXCERPT

Well, the mystery may be over. A woman who said her name was, in fact, Ellie Light called this morning into the radio show of Michael Smerconish, a national talker based in Philadelphia who has been friendly to Obama, to clear things up.

"I'm only me," she said, identifying herself as a traveling nurse who works for 13-week stretches at hospitals around the country, and whose primary residence is in Southern California.

"I need to own up – I did misrepresent my home town in some places," Light told Smerconish. Her logic in faking the addresses is one familiar to advocacy groups: "If I thought it was written by a neighbor of mine, I would give it more credence."

Light mused on why the letter was so widely circulated: "My letter was pretty darn good. It took a long time to write. I took more interest in honing it than most people take today."

"I don't know why others are not making the observation that, Why are we all abandoning the president we so adored so quickly?" she said.

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


TOPICS: Culture/Society; Government; News/Current Events
KEYWORDS: bensmith; ellielight; lamestream; libs; politico; talkradio
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To: maggief

Meet Ellie Light aka Winston Steward, husband of Barbara Brooks, who claims to have written the letters.

121 posted on 01/26/2010 11:23:10 AM PST by kcvl
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To: kcvl

Who called the radio station?

And, who did the Plain Dealer talk to?

Now she’s backtracking???

Stranger by the minute.

http://www.cleveland.com/open/index.ssf/2010/01/ellie_light_really_ellie_li.html

Ellie Light revealed: I’m Barbara Brooks, a nurse, says Pro-Obama letter writer
By Stephen Koff, The Plain Dealer
January 26, 2010, 9:57AM

UPDATE: A woman claiming to be Barbara Brooks has now contacted The Plain Dealer and said she is not the letter writer; she claims her ex-husband is running a spoof. The newspaper is investigating; more details as they become available. What follows is our original story, published this morning.


122 posted on 01/26/2010 11:23:47 AM PST by maggief
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To: maggief

Barbara Brooks

College: La County School of Nursing ‘84

High School: Birmingham High School ‘76

Position: Pediatric Nurse

******

Winston Steward

Paper Shine Design


123 posted on 01/26/2010 11:26:51 AM PST by kcvl
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To: maggief

Reader Joseph D. e-mails with a complicated chain of evidence linking her to an earlier comment left at Left Coast Rebel’s blog, under the screenname Winston44. Joseph D. says:

The corresponding twitter account has one friend, Jerry Schaefer, from Long Beach, California (the same town as some of Ellie’s claimed residences.) Jerry’s facebook showed one friend named Winston, Winston Steward. Under Winston’s friends, Barbara Brooks claims to be his wife and that he is Ellie Light.

http://patterico.com/


124 posted on 01/26/2010 11:28:08 AM PST by kcvl
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To: kcvl

http://www.facebook.com/pages/Paper-Shine-Design/171010747627


125 posted on 01/26/2010 11:32:18 AM PST by maggief
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To: kcvl

Same pic here:

http://www.huffingtonpost.com/social/Winston_Steward?action=comments


126 posted on 01/26/2010 11:37:00 AM PST by maggief
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To: maggief

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127 posted on 01/26/2010 11:38:13 AM PST by kcvl
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To: kcvl; All

http://patterico.com/2010/01/25/how-david-axelrod-astroturfing-works-step-by-step/

1/25/2010
How “David Axelrod Astroturfing” Works, Step by Step


128 posted on 01/26/2010 11:44:06 AM PST by maggief
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To: maggief
I thought the newspaper claimed to have talked to her and verified everything.

This just shows, once again, how easily newspapers are duped.

129 posted on 01/26/2010 11:52:23 AM PST by lwd
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To: kcvl

An evil capitalist, I see.


130 posted on 01/26/2010 11:55:04 AM PST by lwd
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To: kcvl

These people strike me as useful idiots— or better yet, patsies.


131 posted on 01/26/2010 11:55:26 AM PST by reagandemocrat
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To: reagandemocrat

To clarify:

These people (Barbara Brooks and Winston) strike me as useful idiots— or better yet, patsies.


132 posted on 01/26/2010 11:57:33 AM PST by reagandemocrat
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To: lwd

“I thought the newspaper claimed to have talked to her and verified everything.

This just shows, once again, how easily newspapers are duped.”

Crack investigative team or investigative team on crack. Makes one wonder about the rest of the crap in their newspaper.


133 posted on 01/26/2010 12:26:32 PM PST by maggief
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To: maggief
Once again, proof positive that Democrats and liberals generally are congenital liars - it's simply in the water they keep drinking - the bloo stuff.


134 posted on 01/26/2010 12:28:01 PM PST by Oceander (The Price of Freedom is Eternal Vigilance -- Thos. Jefferson)
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To: GunningForTheBuddha

I ran into her at a few places. It is an alias done by leftists for what reason I don’t know. Could be Nancy Pelosi or Barbara Boxer or Rachael Maddow for all we know.


135 posted on 01/26/2010 12:36:02 PM PST by Mozilla
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To: My Favorite Headache; maggief; onyx; penelopesire; seekthetruth; null and void; Fred Nerks; ...

Yeah ! And leave it to Ben Smith at Politico .. like
he and they are NOT partisan ... and we’re supposed to
believe this hogwash:

“I first published he letter because it seemed to crystallize an argument that Democrats were struggling to make.”

Ben .. we’re onto ya. Get over yourself ... LOL ...


136 posted on 01/26/2010 5:18:04 PM PST by STARWISE (They (LIBS-STILL) think of this WOT as Bush's war, not America's war- Richard Miniter)
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To: STARWISE

The Pravda press, for a long time now.


137 posted on 01/26/2010 5:31:46 PM PST by Bahbah (Only dead fish go with the flow)
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To: STARWISE

Ben Smith has outed himself as a simple, lazy-hack, conduit.

He didn’t do his homework first time around and tossed another unsubstantiated report on his blog for impact and reaction.

/baitandfish


138 posted on 01/26/2010 5:34:36 PM PST by maggief
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To: STARWISE
Why are we all abandoning the president we so adored so quickly?" she said.

Oh, gosh, Starwise. That made me get all misty eyed. (sniff, sniff) Could you hand me a tissue, please?

139 posted on 01/26/2010 5:58:47 PM PST by azishot (J.D. Hayworth...U.S. Senator FOR Arizona)
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To: azishot
Sniff ... here ..

sniff ............. waaaaaaaahhaaaaaa


140 posted on 01/26/2010 7:15:29 PM PST by STARWISE (They (LIBS-STILL) think of this WOT as Bush's war, not America's war- Richard Miniter)
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