Obama has suspicious number of letter-writing fans named 'Ellie Light'

Cleveland.com ^ | Jan 22, 2010 | Sabrina Eaton

[mills044]

Ellie Light sure gets around.

In recent weeks, Light has published virtually identical “Letters to the Editor” in support of President Barack Obama in more than a dozen newspapers.Every letter claimed a different residence for Light that happened to be in the newspaper’s circulation area.

“It’s time for Americans to realize that governing is hard work, and that a president can’t just wave a magic wand and fix everything,” said a letter from alleged Philadelphian Ellie Light, that was published in the Jan. 19 edition of The Philadelphia Daily News.

A letter from Light in the Jan. 20 edition of the San Francisco Examiner concluded with an identical sentence, but with an address for Light all the way across the country in Daly City, California.

Variations of Light’s letter ran in Ohio’s Mansfield News Journal on Jan. 13, with Light claiming an address in Mansfield; in New Mexico’s Ruidoso News on Jan. 12, claiming an address in Three Rivers; in South Carolina’s The Sun News on Jan. 18, claiming an address in Myrtle Beach; and in the Daily News Leader of Staunton, Virginia on Jan. 15, claiming an address in Waynesboro. Her publications list includes other papers in Ohio, West Virginia, Maine, Michigan, Iowa, Pennsylvania and California, all claiming separate addresses.

Light – who e-mailed an identical missive to this reporter on Jan. 16 without listing a hometown – would not answer e-mailed questions about the address discrepancies in newspapers that ran her letter, or her identity, although she did say she wasn’t a former co-worker of this reporter’s who had a similar name.

“I do not write as a representative of any organization,” she said in an e-mail. “The letter I wrote was motivated by surprise and wonderment at the absence of any media support for our President, who won a record-breaking election by a landslide less than 18 months ago, and now, seems to be abandoned by all, supposedly for the infantile reason that he couldn’t make all of Bush’s errors disappear in one day.”

University of Missouri journalism professor Tom Rosenstiel, co-author of a textbook on journalistic values titled “The Elements of Journalism,” reacted with surprise and wonderment upon learning of Light’s widespread publication under multiple addresses.

philly.comHe said newspapers might be able to avoid similar situations in the future by requesting street addresses and home telephone numbers from would-be correspondents, and verifying that those addresses and phone numbers exist.

"Just because it is inconvenient for us in the news business to find out who people are doesn’t mean it isn’t important anymore,” Rosenstiel said. “It is not OK for people to have multiple identities. This is something that people in the news business and in the business of printing “letters to the editor” need to be aware of.”

The Plain Dealer asks letter writers for a phone number for verification purposes.

[RushIsMyTeddyBear]

I can’t wait to see what the IP addy is in all of the headers ‘Ellie’ has sent to various newspapers and websites.

Make sure you read the comments section, folks. It’s GOOD! Hehe!

[Vendome]

"Just because it is inconvenient for us in the news business to find out who people are doesn’t mean it isn’t important anymore,” Rosenstiel said. “It is not OK for people to have multiple identities. This is something that people in the news business and in the business of printing “letters to the editor” need to be aware of.”

 

Really?!

 

Then riddle me this:

 

Where is Barry's Long Form Birth Certificate?

 

Where are his College transcripts?  Is he really that smart?

 

Where are his financials  describing how his fancy education was financed?

 

Where are his admissions documents describing his citizenship status for the purpose of gaining admission to these very prestigous colleges?

 

Where are his Thesis papers?

 

Where are his considered writing about Law as President of the Harvard Law Review?

 

Etc, Etc, Etc?

 

Was it too much to ask you to investigate Barry O.'s background and determine who he really is?

 

[BallyBill]

..he couldn’t make all of Bush’s errors disappear in one day.”

I have a suspicion that this person(group) started their letter writing campaigns before O was even a candidate. Their problem is Bush, not the media, not anyone else.

[anton]

Highly disturbing. Manufactured support in the face of actual rejection of Obama by what should be his core. Seems like Rahm’s fingerprints might be on this turd.

[wintertime]

I don’t think so, I think it is a paid operative either working directly or indirectly for the Obama administration.
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Like the anti-birther trolls working the Obama eligibility threads.

There used to be a few NEA trolls working the education threads but they have moved on. ( Probably working now for the DOJ.)

[RushIsMyTeddyBear]

Seems like Rahm’s fingerprints might be on this turd.
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Axelrod, too. Some of ‘her’ posts are phrases used by him. “Wave a magic wand”.....etc.

[Volunteer]

Of course it is the White House doing this....

I am not shocked. It turns out that Obama lies and so does his staff.

[Pilgrim's Progress]

Ellie Light = “elite?”

[Aria]

Why on earth would whoever it is use the same name but different addresses?

Does this make sense? I’d have used different names at least.

[blam]

"Obama also gets a lot of fan letters from Ima Dork."

Never one from Ima Hogg.

[Jet Jaguar]

Ping.

[Gorzaloon]

This is not new.

Relatives of some people in Nazi camps got cheery letters from the deceased. it's just what totalitarians do.

[Tunehead54]

ObamaAcornSEUISoros, Inc. Bump! ;-)

[Ruy Dias de Bivar]

Several years I noticed various letters to the editor in our main newspaper excoriating conservatives.

A few days later the same letters appeared in a neighboring state newspaper, each with an instate address. The only difference between them was one or two sentences, otherwise they were identical.

Someone in each state must have been getting their talking points from the same directive but didn’t have the sense to use their own words.

[Allegra]

“The letter I wrote was motivated by surprise and wonderment at the absence of any media support for our President, who won a record-breaking election by a landslide less than 18 months ago, and now, seems to be abandoned by all, supposedly for the infantile reason that he couldn’t make all of Bush’s errors disappear in one day.”

I wonder what she's on? This is definitely entertaining albeit somewhat nauseating.

[Fester Chugabrew]

Our local paper always phones personally to verify letters submitted for publication. Authors must also submit street address.

[Walkingfeather]

Listen this is how it works. I know personally because my friend has paid people to do this for other issues. So a special interest hires a lobbying firm and says. We want public opinion to move this direction. The lobbying firm goes to people that are fond of that particular subject and then pay them about $100-$200 for each letter to the editor that is published. They are also doing this for posting on news groups. This way the official government entity has plausible deniability if ever confronted.... “ We have never paid people to write stories for us” Well yes but have you paid tax dollars to lobbying groups that have employed such tactics. “well we have no control of how a firm does their job” Ah I see.

[jackibutterfly]

You forgot one of the most important questions:

WHY did he have multiple social security numbers?

[chris_bdba]

I have no doubt that Obama has paid some of his true believers to do this. It is all a part of the big propaganda campaign that got him elected but unfortunately for him when more people started losing their jobs they stopped chugging the kool-aid and the spell wore off.

[Manic_Episode]

Dear, Mr. Kot-tare.

Please excuse Juan from being late. He was kidnapped by gypsies and tied up on the lawn.

Signed, Epstein's Mother.