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Who Is Ellie Light: Plain Dealer Reporter Details Obama Operative and Astroturfer
Cleveland Plain Dealer Reporter Blogs ^ | January 23, 2010 | Sabrina Eaton

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.


TOPICS: Crime/Corruption; Government; News/Current Events; Politics/Elections; Your Opinion/Questions
KEYWORDS: astroturf; bho44; cleveland; eaton; editorial; ellielight; january; light; markspivey; newspaper; obama
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Matching "Ellie Light" newspaper submission to congressional districts in which those newspapers have circulation yields interesting results:

Many assumptions can be made about this; however, I won't start in on it; especially concerning the letter ending up in newspapers in districts held by a Republican. Draw your own conclusions.

161 posted on 01/23/2010 7:50:53 PM PST by erikm88
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To: MNJohnnie

What? The Octagon Museum?


162 posted on 01/23/2010 7:58:13 PM PST by GAB-1955 (I write books, love my wife, serve my nation, and believe in the Resurrection.)
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To: PittsburghAfterDark

Can someone send this to Beck, Hannity or O’Reilly, or maybe even Breitbart so this can go national?


163 posted on 01/23/2010 8:13:43 PM PST by Invisible Ninja (Welcome to the Parallel Universe, where good is evil and evil is good.)
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To: LA Woman3

Forgive me if someone posted this downthread, but I started thinking of geekspeak*:

Ellie Light = Elite

It’s from inside. Thoughts?

*3733t = eleet (elite)


164 posted on 01/23/2010 8:23:42 PM PST by bootless (Never Forget. Never Again. And NEVER GIVE UP!)
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To: PittsburghAfterDark

ping to #164... what do you think?


165 posted on 01/23/2010 8:24:44 PM PST by bootless (Never Forget. Never Again. And NEVER GIVE UP!)
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To: PittsburghAfterDark

When I use to watch the DNC to see what they were up to I became a subscriber to the DNC before Obama became “The” candidate. For awhile they would send out form letters to subscribers that you could either edit yourself or you could send as is with your name and home town to the local newspaper. You could also send this to any newspaper in the country via their web site. I got kicked off of their site after changing my user name to sh*teater@DNC.org and the web master banned me for posting articles about abortion (Tolerant bunch of folks over there). But you may want to go over to the DNC website and sign up to see it they still do this as a service(vomit) to their subscribers.


166 posted on 01/23/2010 8:26:31 PM PST by Pride_of_the_Bluegrass
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To: Tucker39
According to acronym finder , LE could refer to

Lebanon
Law Enforcement
Legal Entity
Lead Engineer
Lake Erie
Less than or Equal to
...among others...

If one wants to get really creative, and if LE refers to Law Enforcement, then an LE light might be a flashing police stobe (like Drudge?). I know its a stretch.

167 posted on 01/23/2010 8:58:21 PM PST by PuzzledInTX
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To: PittsburghAfterDark

Run Ellie Lite together quickly and it sounds like “Eliot” as in Eliot Spitzer, the disgraced NY Attorney General who imprisoned prostitutes who didn’t have sex with him.


168 posted on 01/23/2010 9:00:40 PM PST by Southack (Media Bias means that Castro won't be punished for Cuban war crimes against Black Angolans in Africa)
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To: Enchante
maybe a focus on IP addresses would help to solve this little mystery??

You would think the genius reporters could figure it out. I don't have the IP address or I would AT LEAST try.

169 posted on 01/23/2010 9:11:25 PM PST by kcvl
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To: erikm88

Eliot Spitzer was born on June 10, 1959.

“Ellie Lite” spoken quikly as “Ellielite” sounds like “Eliot.”

Eliot Spitzer is 51 this year.

ellie.light@yahoo.com is registered to a 51 year old


170 posted on 01/23/2010 9:13:36 PM PST by Southack (Media Bias means that Castro won't be punished for Cuban war crimes against Black Angolans in Africa)
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To: Invisible Ninja

I just sent it to RUSH but Mark Steyn is sitting in Monday & Tuesday. Someone needs to send it to Steyn...


171 posted on 01/23/2010 9:25:14 PM PST by tubebender (Freeploaders = The illegal aliens on Free Republic)
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To: PittsburghAfterDark

http://www.google.com/search?hl=en&rls=com.microsoft:en-us:IE-SearchBox&rlz=1I7GGLL&q=He+never+said+America+could+solve+our+health+care,+economic+and+security+problems+without+raising+the+deficicit&start=10&sa=N

Over and over and over, same thing, same name, different cities. BUSTED!


172 posted on 01/23/2010 9:27:41 PM PST by mojitojoe (“Medicine is the keystone of the arch of socialism.” - Vladimir Lenin)
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To: LucyT; BP2; maggief; Las Vegas Ron; manc; 444Flyer; little jeremiah; Candor7; Fred Nerks; ...

ping, we need screen shots of these, she is busted:

http://www.google.com/search?hl=en&rls=com.microsoft:en-us:IE-SearchBox&rlz=1I7GGLL&q=He+never+said+America+could+solve+our+health+care,+economic+and+security+problems+without+raising+the+deficicit&start=10&sa=N


173 posted on 01/23/2010 9:29:25 PM PST by mojitojoe (“Medicine is the keystone of the arch of socialism.” - Vladimir Lenin)
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To: PittsburghAfterDark

Maybe the perp left us a clue. Here are some anagrams for “Ellie Light”:

Legit Hell I
Legit He Ill
Get Lie Hill
The Lie Gill


174 posted on 01/23/2010 9:38:16 PM PST by UnwashedPeasant (Don't nuke me, bro)
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To: Cboldt

Editor:
A year ago, if we had read in the paper that employers were hiring again, that health-care legislation was proceed ing without a bump, or that Afghanistan suddenly became a nice place to take your kids, we would’ve known we were being lied to. Back then, we recognized that the problems President Barack Obama inherited wouldn’t go away over night.
During his campaign, Obama clearly said that an economy that took eight years to break couldn’t be fixed in a year and that Afghanistan was a graveyard of empires and would not be an easy ven ture for us. Candidate Obama didn’t feed us happy-talk, which is why we elected him.
He never said America could solve its health-care, economic and security problems without raising the deficit. In stead, he talked of hard choices, of gov ernment taking painful and contentious first steps towards fixing problems that can’t be left for another day.
Right after Obama’s election, we seemed to grasp this. We understood that companies would be happy to squeeze more work out of frightened em ployees and would be slow to hire more. We understood that the banks that had extorted us out of billions of dollars were lying when they said they would share their recovery. We understood that a national consensus on health care would not come easily.
Candidate Obama never claimed that his proposed solutions would work flaw lessly right out of the box, and we re spected him for that.
But today, the president is being at tacked 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 that governing is hard work and that a president can’t just wave a magic wand and fix everything.
ELLIE LIGHT
CORNWALL

http://www.ldnews.com/letterseditor/ci_14243818


175 posted on 01/23/2010 9:40:00 PM PST by mojitojoe (“Medicine is the keystone of the arch of socialism.” - Vladimir Lenin)
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To: cripplecreek

http://www.politico.com/blogs/bensmith/0110/A_defense_of_Obama.html


176 posted on 01/23/2010 9:48:22 PM PST by mojitojoe (“Medicine is the keystone of the arch of socialism.” - Vladimir Lenin)
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To: PittsburghAfterDark

Here’s “Ellie’s” response to the bruhaha:

I did answer Ms. Eaton’s questions about addresses and the letter’s authenticity. She identified herself as a journalist who covers Washington. There was lots to write about this week, for example Teddy Kennedy’ seat falling to a Republican, or the Supreme Court’s ruling allowing corporations to donate unlimited funds to causes they support. Both those events portend unimaginable consequences for democracy in this country. And Ms. Eaton, a “Washington” journalist, decides to spend a few minutes pasting snippets of letters into Google and come up with a story about a letter writer. I’m sure such domesticity and small-mindedness would make Sarah Palin quite proud.

http://blog.fewmets.org/

???????


177 posted on 01/23/2010 9:55:03 PM PST by mojitojoe (“Medicine is the keystone of the arch of socialism.” - Vladimir Lenin)
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To: PittsburghAfterDark

Faux-Light

Faux-letters

Faux-bama


178 posted on 01/23/2010 9:58:21 PM PST by DoorGunner ("Rom 11: until the fullness of the Gentiles has come in; 26 and so, all Israel will be saved")
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To: gibtx2

http://www.baltimorechronicle.com/2010/010910Letters.shtml

She is submitting them via email.


179 posted on 01/23/2010 9:59:17 PM PST by mojitojoe (“Medicine is the keystone of the arch of socialism.” - Vladimir Lenin)
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To: PittsburghAfterDark

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


180 posted on 01/23/2010 10:04:27 PM PST by mojitojoe (“Medicine is the keystone of the arch of socialism.” - Vladimir Lenin)
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