Posted on 01/23/2010 4:15:17 PM PST by Mr. K
Particularly if they show up in writing others than the letters....Sure do wish I had a faster speed computer so I could help.
Amazon.com: In the Graveyard of Empires: America’s War in Afghanistan (9780393068986): Seth G. Jones: Books.
Interesting. Light/SUNstein.
Here’s another courtesy of “anonymous.”
(Various names and locales ... same theme.)
“working for the country’s biggest polluters”
Jan 22, 2010 ... “Ms. Light” uses the phrase “wave a magic wand,” a phrase Axelrod (the king of astroturfing) has used on more than one occasion and in ...
Wand = Rod
?? + Axel
Any relationship between Axel and magic?
Yes, several names and locales. Victorville, CA cuaght my eye.
???
http://www.breakingnewssource.com/letter-writer-claims-diverse-residences-in-nations-opinion-pages
WOW, she’s denying that she’s the serial emailing Ellie !!!!
Speaking of “crypto-stalinist”
http://www.phdcomics.com/proceedings/viewtopic.php?p=297755&sid=6fa3647c10b523f3c9f4e132d54afdcb
phd forums:
ellie wrote:
mixtli wrote:
ellie wrote:
IvoryTower wrote:
that wasn’t unfriendly, you double-faced sissies.
oh shut it, you imperialist lackey of the running dogs of the neo liberal capitalist crypto-stalinist quasi-thatcherite order
I don’t see unfriendliness in that
huevon huevon huevon, huevon
OMG! LOL.
I read ‘down’ from there !!!
Ellie Light is apparently a ruse ad in the form of a letter to the editor planted in various newspapers in the hopes of resulting in an Internet goose chase. If you go to You Tube and enter Ellie Light up pops a video of a masked woman who tells you to go to a website called Bob’sBlitz.com. Here’s the link:
http://www.youtube.com/watch?v=HZ0VyWpItpw
I’m a rank amateur, but I would say the opposite. If I were doing it, I would go out of my way to sign different names.
My wild guess is that this might be the work of ACORN or some such (or similar organization that employs uneducated people). They distribute a form letter and ask people to get it published wherever they can.
The sample letter had “Ellie Light.” Rather than substitute their own name or those of the Dallas Cowboys (you may recall an ACORN employee submitting fake voter registrations with the all the names of the Dallas Cowboys), they just leave it as “Ellie Light.”
If they leave it as “Ellie Light” then a coordinated effort is easier for the bosses to track.
any editor worth his/her salt will verify the name and address before printing.
Heck, I'm now retired from the business - kept my column tho' for many years before hanging that up too - and my editor will still call me and verify if I send a LTE.
Mostly, they will verify by phone book or registry to match name and address. but they don not just print, willy nilly - to avoid spam. They won't print from "anonymous" either.
If they printed without verification, they'd have to have separate mail sacks just to drag in the letters that people, who could hide behind anonymity, would send.
War rooms and political PR firms hire people to "sound like everyday Americans" and they send out these letters. Sometimes they send the basic talking points to individuals and ask them to rewrite in their own words - but that was years ago.
My guess is they're better now. Long time ago I spoke with a person who expressed how thrilled they were with the internet because it made their job of "sounding everyday" so much easier.
Newspapers print what they feel is "representative" of their readers. The "fake letters" fit that model perfectly.
Ellie Lite = E.Lite. Isn’t that special?
Did she choose it accidentally? Or subconsciously?
Plus, it's easier to tell your friends in the press that any letter from "Ellie Light" is worth printing.
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