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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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To: PittsburghAfterDark
Just for fun I ran “Candidate Obama didnt feed us happy-talk, which is why we elected him” on Clusty and got the top 199 of 57,228 retrieved for the search.
S/he even spammed The Bangkok Post.
To: Spunky; devolve; potlatch; PhilDragoo; y'all
Why is it she looks like a relative of Shillary Kringtone
to me?? :)
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posted on
01/24/2010 6:38:00 AM PST
by
MeekOneGOP
(2008: The year the Media died. --Sean Hannity, regarding Barack HUSSEIN ObaMao's treatment ...)
To: philman_36
“Jean à de longue moustache. Je répète: Jean à de longue moustache.”
Les sanglots longs
Des violons
De l’automne
Blessent mon coeur
D’une langueur
Monotone.
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posted on
01/24/2010 6:48:03 AM PST
by
Panzerlied
("We shall never surrender!")
To: Tucker39
"Letters-to-the-Editor" LITE
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posted on
01/24/2010 8:25:06 AM PST
by
CardCarryingMember.VastRightWC
(If my kids make a mistake in the voting booth, I don't want them punished with a community organizer)
To: SirJohnBarleycorn
‘El lie White’ = ‘the lie white’, or ‘the white lie’.
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posted on
01/24/2010 8:49:32 AM PST
by
MHGinTN
(Obots, believing they cannot be deceived, it is impossible to convince them when they are deceived.)
To: mojitojoe
Honestly, when you read it, governing is hard, no magic wand Obongo probably wrote it himself. In fact he said something very similar to Georgie boy on ABC couple of days ago.
LOL, that's exactly what I though.....obama could have written this. He referred to finding a solution in the ME "peace" process as being "hard". He and his folks have been spouting the talking point that obama has been reading 10 letters from Americans every night. Maybe he's actually been "writing" 10 letters every night. :-)
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posted on
01/24/2010 8:57:46 AM PST
by
Girlene
To: JoeGar; Publius
Great information. I sent it to my local newspaper and asked that they continue to verify all submitted Letters to the Editor. Yeah...look at the trouble pseudonyms have caused Aericans. Without "Publius," we might not have gotten stuck with that Constitution!
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posted on
01/24/2010 9:09:47 AM PST
by
Gondring
(Paul Revere would have been flamed as a naysayer troll and told to go back to Boston.)
To: b9
Yeah, getting the governement out of a religious sacrament...how "NUTTY" is that?!
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posted on
01/24/2010 9:22:57 AM PST
by
Gondring
(Paul Revere would have been flamed as a naysayer troll and told to go back to Boston.)
To: mojitojoe
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posted on
01/24/2010 9:24:39 AM PST
by
Gondring
(Paul Revere would have been flamed as a naysayer troll and told to go back to Boston.)
To: Invisible Ninja
I tweeted NewsBusters (Noel’s on it), Hotair, Michelle Malkin, The Daily Caller, Beck & Stu, and will email Hannity.
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posted on
01/24/2010 9:49:27 AM PST
by
bootless
(Never Forget. Never Again. And NEVER GIVE UP!)
To: Gondring
Bet you h8 “In God We Trust” on your money, too, huh?
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posted on
01/24/2010 9:56:45 AM PST
by
b9
(Bad spellers of the world, UNTIE!)
To: mojitojoe
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posted on
01/24/2010 10:10:11 AM PST
by
Las Vegas Ron
("Because without America, there is no free world" - Canada Free Press - MSM where are you?)
To: PittsburghAfterDark; SouthTexas
Here is a thought I had about how the same letter got into so many papers. One firm, MediaNews group owns 43 daily and weekly papers and what’s to keep headquarters from ordering their rags print the letter without verification. I asked the city editor of the Times-Standard what he knew about Ellie Light and I haven’t hear back yet...
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posted on
01/24/2010 10:14:51 AM PST
by
tubebender
(Freeploaders = The illegal aliens on Free Republic)
To: CardCarryingMember.VastRightWC
I still say her middle name is Diane, which makes her Ellie D. Lite.
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posted on
01/24/2010 10:37:20 AM PST
by
MortMan
(Stubbing one's toes is a valid (if painful) way of locating furniture in the dark.)
To: MortMan
That was my thought yesterday, and was disappointed to see Jeanne today. :-(
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posted on
01/24/2010 10:53:00 AM PST
by
Gondring
(Paul Revere would have been flamed as a naysayer troll and told to go back to Boston.)
To: tubebender
You may have found the answer.
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posted on
01/24/2010 10:59:21 AM PST
by
SouthTexas
(Exterminate the rats!)
To: Panzerlied
Somebody else knows their WWII history.
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posted on
01/24/2010 11:02:30 AM PST
by
philman_36
(Pride breakfasted with plenty, dined with poverty, and supped with infamy. Benjamin Franklin)
To: b9
Bet you h8 In God We Trust on your money, too, huh? I prefer .999 Fine.
Do u h8 that In God We Trust is a secular slogan?
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posted on
01/24/2010 11:10:51 AM PST
by
Gondring
(Paul Revere would have been flamed as a naysayer troll and told to go back to Boston.)
To: Chickensoup
I thought all letters to the editor of bigger papers were verified Yes...note that these were sent to smaller, more consevative papers in a town (or they were the ones who ran the)...e.g., The Philadelphia Daily News, not The Philadelphia Inquirer...The Washington Times, not The Washington Post.
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posted on
01/24/2010 11:16:32 AM PST
by
Gondring
(Paul Revere would have been flamed as a naysayer troll and told to go back to Boston.)
To: PittsburghAfterDark
Kudos to Sabrina Eaton, and Razzies to all the stupid, lazyass editors who accept these Astroturf missives without checking name, address, and phone # before publishing.
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posted on
01/24/2010 11:19:17 AM PST
by
Palladin
(It's a new day in America. Welcome, Senator Brown.)
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