Posted on 01/26/2010 6:36:29 AM PST by maggief
EXCERPT
Well, the mystery may be over. A woman who said her name was, in fact, Ellie Light called this morning into the radio show of Michael Smerconish, a national talker based in Philadelphia who has been friendly to Obama, to clear things up.
"I'm only me," she said, identifying herself as a traveling nurse who works for 13-week stretches at hospitals around the country, and whose primary residence is in Southern California.
"I need to own up – I did misrepresent my home town in some places," Light told Smerconish. Her logic in faking the addresses is one familiar to advocacy groups: "If I thought it was written by a neighbor of mine, I would give it more credence."
Light mused on why the letter was so widely circulated: "My letter was pretty darn good. It took a long time to write. I took more interest in honing it than most people take today."
"I don't know why others are not making the observation that, Why are we all abandoning the president we so adored so quickly?" she said.
(Excerpt) Read more at politico.com ...
Or...it’s a fraud, but a sincere one ;)
Right. Now since the White House has been busted we are going to see everyone making jokes about Ellie Light and that those silly Conservatives were making all of these conspiracy theories about the White House and everyone working in it.
We can see through this crap from Pluto.
I thought the surname was spelled “Lite” and pronounced “leet” — as in “elite.”
(Ellie LEET — get it?)
Did that idiot Smerconish eat it up? I can’t stand that loud mouthed “Obummer voting”, self promoter.
Emblematic of journalism’s insistance on getting “both sides” of the story even if one of those sides represents an exceedingly small percentage of the general public. IOW’s I’ve got 200 letters screaming about Obamacare so I’ve got to find 1 favorable regardless the lengths I have to go, or the warning bells that I have to ignore.
>> duplicate pro-Obama letters have been submitted to dozens of publications by writers identified as <<
Lucy Ramirez?
I guess her traveling nurse gig must have taken her to Saudi Arabia since one of her IP addresses was from Saudi. Or maybe traveling nurses routinely spoof their own IP addresses just for sh#ts and grins. Just a hunch, but I bet a query of licensed RNs in all 57 states would fail to turn up an Ellie Light, RN.
The Politico cracks me up publishing such pablum. For all they and Michael Smerconish know, that could have been me calling in claiming to be this alleged Ellie Light.
Ellie Jeanette Light in CA???
>> it’s a fraud, but a sincere one <<
As in, “Fraudulent but accurate” ???
Or should it be, “Fake but sincere” ???
(Let’s hope Buckhead gets on the case soon!)
She’s about as real as the people at the obama Healthcare Rallies ... remember “Mr. President, why is everybody so mean to you?”
wtf? Nothing is shadier than the medical business in this country.
please, all you "healthcare professionals," don't try to correct me. You're the most arrogant, indoctrinated species on the planet.
Even the local community paper has called me to verify that I wrote the note e-mailed to them, EVERY TIME.
But, I guess the “big” newspapers can’t be bothered with a little checking-up, now can they?
What total BS.
Now, whether or not Ellie Light is who she says she is, is still open to debate.
“Lucy Ramirez?”
Right out of the Dan Rather playbook. LOL!
I wanna see a birth certificate.
BS.
“13-week stretches” = 4 /year.
Yet there are many more than 4 locations.
Note toop how her occupation is one of “the caring professions”. That’s not coincidental.
This has professional PR written all over it.
I bet her moniker was even focus group tested first...
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