We need some questions answered. How did ALL these newspapers happen to pick this same letter writer?
Or were they given a letter and told to print it?
Glad to see you got your CAPS key fixed.
Very good question acutally.
I don’t think it’s a newspaper conspiracy. The conservative Washington Times is one of the hoodwinked papers.
What address and phone # came with those letters/emails? My local paper requires those to publish.
It appears that Ellie Lite may very well be Cass Sunstein’s girlfriend and a White house employee. Apparently sunstein wrote the book on “cognitive infiltration”
Very interesting stuff in this thread.
http://www.freerepublic.com/focus/f-news/2435673/posts
OMG!!! BINGO!!! You NAILED IT!!! What ARE the chances that ALL of these papers picked “her” letter??? ZERO to NONE!!! It HAS to be the WHITE HOUSE doings!!!!
Ellie Lite is most likely a 45 year old PC junkie who works in one of the DNC basements. The one’s where the employees aren’t really on record.
http://www.correntewire.com/shes_not_sock_puppet_shes_cognitive_infiltrater
Glenn Greenwald
In 2008, while at Harvard Law School, Sunstein co-wrote a truly pernicious paper proposing that the U.S. Government employ teams of covert agents and pseudo-”independent” advocates to “cognitively infiltrate” online groups and websites — as well as other activist groups — which advocate views that Sunstein deems “false conspiracy theories” about the Government. This would be designed to increase citizens’ faith in government officials and undermine the credibility of conspiracists. The paper’s abstract can be read, and the full paper downloaded, here.
Interesting theory. Plausible. It takes some expense to send letters to apparently hundreds of newspapers. Stamps, envelopes, printing, finding out the addresses of the newspapers (takes staff time). FR should compile a list of all the newspapers which printed the letter, if this is not done by intrepid journalists. Must determine the magnitude. I saw on other threads that a highly placed Obamaphile Samantha Power may have authored this letter. Wiki already has an “Ellie Lite” article. This brings to mind the “Cannuck letter” written in the Nixon White House by Chuck Colson as a dirty trick against rival Ed Muskie. We needs some good FReepers on this mystery. I hope Rahm or Ax wrote it (or even one of Michelle’s 22 highly paid elves).
If this were happening with regularity, involving several ‘individual’ writers, I'd be suspicious.
If just a case of one name with same letter popping up n several newspapers, I'd be more inclined to say ‘one writer who sent to several newspapers.’ (I've done that myself, to cover a wider readership.)
Newspapers, especially smaller ones, try to print all letters to the editor. And they do not consult with one another over the subject/author of the letters they get.
I would tend to say: don't use up energy on something like this unless it was obviously a concerted effort with several letters in several papers by several writers.
One writer does not a conspiracy make.
Try to get just ONE Letter to the Editor published.
It is nearly impossible.
Funny how the Obama Administration gets 50 fake propaganda “letters” published?
Ellie Lite is a Yankee fan
she didn’t just do letters, here’s a post to a blog site
http://www.theblogmocracy.com/2010/01/12/chaber-of-commerce-warns-of-double-dip-recession/
January 12, 2010 12:15 pm
A year ago, if we had read in the paper that employers were hiring again, that health care legislation was proceeding without a bump, that Afghanistan suddenly became a nice place to take your kids, we wouldve known we were being lied to. Back then, we recognized that the problems Obama inherited as President wouldnt go away overnight.
During his campaign, Obama clearly said that an economy that took eight years to break couldnt be fixed in a year, that Afghanistan was a graveyard of empires, and would not be an easy venture for us. Candidate Obama didnt feed us happy-talk, which is why we elected him. He never said America could solve our health care, economic and security problems without raising the deficit. Instead, he talked of hard choices, of government taking painful and contentious first steps towards fixing problems that cant be left for another day.
Right after Obamas election, we seemed to grasp this. We understood that companies would be happy to squeeze more work out of frightened employees, 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 flawlessly right out of the box, and we respected him for that.
But today, the President is being attacked as if he were a salesman who promised us that our problems would wash off in the morning. He never made such a promise. Its time for Americans to realize that governing is hard work, and that a President cant just wave a magic wand and fix everything.
If OBama inherited this, then GWB inherited the Enron collapse and 9/11 from Clinton
This is probably old news but Ellie Light’s letter was also in USA Today.
Same letter as all the others.
Ellie Lite could be E.Lite or Elite.
From Wikipedia
Elite (occasionally spelled Élite) is taken originally from the Latin, eligere, "to elect". In sociology as in general usage, the elite is a relatively small dominant group within a large society, having a privileged status perceived as being envied by others of a lower line of order.
The elite at the top of the social strata almost invariably puts it in a position of leadership, whether it be expected or volunteered, and often subjects the holders of elite status to pressure to maintain that leadership position as part of status. However, in spite of the pressures, the existence of the elite social stratum is usually unchanged.
Co-inky Dinky?
prisoner6
Our local paper printed it — but, strangely enough, when I write a letter to the editor, the paper CALLS me and CONFIRMS I wrote it before it will publish it. These obsolete papers have a reason they are becoming obsolete!!!!
I think you’re right bump.
Bump.
Bump.