Posted on 01/23/2010 11:44:38 AM PST by PittsburghAfterDark
An interesting phenomenon has been occuring in various newspaper "Letters to the Editor" pages. A woman with the same name has had letters published in no fewer than 9 newspapers praising Obama while using various city and location residences.
Now it's one thing if the person(s) name was something like John Brown, Steve Smith, Amy Jones or any other number of common name combination. However the name being used is Ellie Light.
This may seem like much about nothing except for one small thing. The only Ellie Light that FReepers were able to locate by Lexis-Nexis or internet searches were a reporter that used to write for the Bergen Record.
http://www.freerepublic.com/focus/news/2435422/posts?page=18
This reporter, the Cleveland Plain Dealer's Washington bureau head, Sabrina Eaton has published several email exchanges with "Ellie Light" on her personal blog on cleveland.com. These exchanges are on the source URL for this post.
This is a very troubling development. Until it is known who "Ellie Light" the following questions are obvious.
- Who is behind the pseudonym "Ellie Light"?
- Is someone from the White House, Democratic party or a close ally employing someone conducting this kind of work?
- Why are newspapers failing to contact letter(s) to the editor to verify name, address/location and phone number and instead relying on email exchanges?
- Can you imagine these questions not being asked if they were the same name, publishing the same letter to the editor in various newspapers around the United States praising a Republican President?
I give major kudos to Sabrina Eaton for doing some true reporting and investigative work. I would be opposed to any White House or political party conducting such a campaign. This is a dangerous trend that's been revealed; newspapers are verifying even less and less information that they publish.
I urge Ms. Eaton and FReepers to stay abreast of this story and not let it die.
EXCELLENT work, everyone!
Ellie Light goes dark now or what?
I think she needs more sunlight.
suuuuuuuuuure ....
;^)
Just a hunch ... if Samantha is tied to ‘Ellie Light’ she is possibly tied to one of the listed charities in post #98.
http://www.theirc.org/news/irc-honors-romeo-dallaire-humanitarian-efforts-3529
IRC board member and journalist Samantha Power,
...
Since 1933, the International Rescue Committee goes to crisis zones
to rescue and rebuild. We lead refugees from harm to home.
THE AMERICAN INSTITUTE OF PHILANTHROPY
GIVES THE IRC AN A+.
THE FORBES INVESTMENT GUIDE NAMED THE IRC
ONE OF 10 GOLD STAR CHARITIES.
BBB WISE GIVING ALLIANCE NOTES THE
IRC MEETS ALL 20 STANDARDS.
that is funny
Meant to ping you to post #103
There are some ladies I found, about 4 I think, who have the names Eleanor Light. Those poor ladies.
Oh my goodness!
ps. FWIW Sunstein has a daughter, Ellyn.
Wonder if “Snopes” will get on this? ;)
!!!!!!!
Alert ‘snopes’ !
the plot thickens. this is funny. good for lots of laughs today.
Ping to INTERESTING subject matter!
dang that facebook picture is funny.
I’ll try. :)
Wouldn’t surprise me as Elizabeth Edwards is ‘alleged’ to be a prolific anonymous commenter.
Did, we’ll see if they’ll tackle this one.
Sunstein is a NUT!
Here’s what Wikipedia says about him:
Marriage
In a recent book, Sunstein proposes that government recognition of marriage be discontinued. “Under our proposal, the word marriage would no longer appear in any laws, and marriage licenses would no longer be offered or recognized by any level of government,” argues Sunstein. He continues, “the only legal status states would confer on couples would be a civil union, which would be a domestic partnership agreement between any two people.” He goes on further, “Governments would not be asked to endorse any particular relationships by conferring on them the term marriage,” and refers to state-recognized marriage as an “official license scheme.”[
Eeeexcellent catch, whoever did it!
Mrs. Sunstein sure is STEWPID. If she had used different names for each identical Presidential-kneepad comment, we wouldn’t have discovered her deed.
LOSERS. Even Alinsky can’t save them now.
I hope AmishDude sees my PING!!!
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