64.I think Ellie Light is a pseudonym used as a viral marketing tool in support of the president.
Viral marketing is defined as using exiting social networks to sell a product or an ideal. I would expand the definition to include the deliberate creation and marketing of a meme (a process clumsily called memering)as a way to introduce an ideal to the public, create a ground swell of “grass root” support and as a proof the president is pursuing a widely held belief in support of a public agenda.
In short, Manufactured Consent, or covert propaganda (as opposed to overt government missive).
The unanswered question is whether or not the dailies and periodicals conspire to publish Ellie Light’s letter to the editor.
One might reasonably notice that few of the volumes of letters written to newspapers are publish. One might even postulate the statistical odds of so many of one individual’s letter being published is so long that either Ellie Light is very lucky or some other mechanism is at work.
One even might consider such purported behavior as so deeply manipulative that the author of such actions should be considered untrustworthy at any level.
Comment by Dale Smith — 1/23/2010
One should look at some of the buzz words in the letter(s); ie. “graveyard of empires,” “magic wand.”