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Ellie Light speaks
Politico ^ | January 26, 2010 | Ben Smith

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 ...


TOPICS: Culture/Society; Government; News/Current Events
KEYWORDS: bensmith; ellielight; lamestream; libs; politico; talkradio
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1 posted on 01/26/2010 6:36:30 AM PST by maggief
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To: maggief

Oh yeah, that sounds more plausible than a White House orchestrated astroturf campaign using proxy servers in Italy.

FAIL.


2 posted on 01/26/2010 6:39:21 AM PST by GunningForTheBuddha ("History teaches us that no one learns from history.")
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To: maggief

Lying liars who lie.
I don’t believe her. She could be anyone.


3 posted on 01/26/2010 6:39:24 AM PST by ozark hilljilly (Persecute terrorists, not small business.)
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To: maggief

And we are supposed to believe this?


4 posted on 01/26/2010 6:39:43 AM PST by La Lydia
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To: maggief

“”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. “

Well, isn’t that convenient.

(In the oval office) “What occupation would explain why there were letters sent all around the country?”

“A traveling nurse!”

Good God. And the dumb libs will eat it up.


5 posted on 01/26/2010 6:40:01 AM PST by autumnraine (You can't fix stupid, but you can vote it out!)
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To: maggief

Maybe it’s time for an “Ellie Light” fan club, with chapters in very city she lived in and wrote the same letrer to the editor

She was in Annapolis MD and published a letter here!

Let’s invite Ellie to a tea party!


6 posted on 01/26/2010 6:40:45 AM PST by silverleaf
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To: maggief

I mean really....she lied and lied again.......roflmao!


7 posted on 01/26/2010 6:42:23 AM PST by svcw (Ellie and Mark come out come out where ever you are.....)
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To: maggief
"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.

Any bets on whether she's an SEIU member?

8 posted on 01/26/2010 6:43:07 AM PST by tacticalogic ("Oh bother!" said Pooh, as he chambered his last round.)
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To: maggief

I can’t believe Politico printed this swill. Obviously a hoax call.


9 posted on 01/26/2010 6:43:07 AM PST by My Favorite Headache
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To: maggief
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."

Well, 13 week stretches of work. That's 4 new 'hometowns' a year.

That only leaves 66 more 'hometowns' to explain.

No, this wasn't a paid professional group of propaganda artists. This was just one woman.

One meth-addicted coffee-guzzling woman.

Riiiiiiight.

10 posted on 01/26/2010 6:43:14 AM PST by Lazamataz (Hey Obama, Can You Hear Me Now....? GOOOOoood......)
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To: maggief

Possible she is Astroturfed Astroturf, yet another invention of a PR machine.

Still, the sheer joy she takes in casual deception is stunning!

It may be she is s traveling sociopath, a ‘hospice nurse’.


11 posted on 01/26/2010 6:43:46 AM PST by bvw
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To: maggief
Sheesh! Astroturf caller defending astroturf letter writer.

The only way we would know for sure is with a forensic exam of her computer. Fat chance of that.

12 posted on 01/26/2010 6:43:48 AM PST by Anti-Bubba182
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To: maggief

Well that was quick. Nothing to see here...move along.


13 posted on 01/26/2010 6:44:26 AM PST by The Louiswu (Government is made up of people, individuals who are largely ungoverned)
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To: Lazamataz

Ink cloud.


14 posted on 01/26/2010 6:44:31 AM PST by Crim
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To: autumnraine

and those innocent people in Florida just happened to have a scanner and a tape recorder when they just happened to pick up Newt’s private cell phone conversations


15 posted on 01/26/2010 6:44:37 AM PST by South Dakota (Drill baby, drill)
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To: maggief

This is rich. ‘Ol Elle calls in the day after Hannity chats with Michelle Malkin about it LOL


16 posted on 01/26/2010 6:46:18 AM PST by DaveMSmith (Evil Comes from Falsity, So Share the Truth)
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To: maggief

Translation: It’s fake but accurate.


17 posted on 01/26/2010 6:46:21 AM PST by nhwingut (Palin/Bachmann '12)
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To: silverleaf

Where’s Waldo ?


18 posted on 01/26/2010 6:47:24 AM PST by justrepublican (Screaming like a keynote speaker at a Wellstone memorial...............)
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To: GunningForTheBuddha

http://www.freerepublic.com/focus/f-news/2437437/posts

Aside from Light’s messages, duplicate pro-Obama letters have been submitted to dozens of publications by writers identified as “Jan Chen,” “Gloria Elle,” “Cherry Jimenez,” “Janet Leigh,” “Earnest Gardner,” “Jen Park,” “Lars Deerman,” “John F. Stott,” “Gordon Adams,” “Nancy Speed,” “Sheila Price,” “Clarence Ndangam,” “Vernetta Mason,” “Greg Mitchell,” “Ermelinda Giurato,” “J. Scott Piper,” “Robert Vander Molen” and “Terri Reese.”

Just as news of Light’s duplicate messages broke, readers began finding various letters written by “Mark Spivey,” a man who simultaneously claims to live in San Diego, Calif., and Naples, Fla. His pro-Obama letter, “Considering Afghanistan,” was published by the Minnesota Daily, the Baltimore Chronicle, the San Diego Union-Tribune and Naples News.

Patterico’s Pontifications also shared this letter from a Jan Chen of Seattle, published in Seattle’s Northwest Asian Weekly:

As one listens to the Republican anger over health care reform, one can imagine an anti-government protester cheerfully paying premiums on insurance policies that drop you after you make a claim, or happily sauntering out of an emergency room that denied them treatment because of a coverage problem. One can imagine a town hall sign-waver enthusiastically forking over most of their pay to bill collectors after suffering a catastrophic injury, thinking, “Wow, the free market system is great.”

Meanwhile, a woman identified as Gloria Elle wrote a nearly identical letter to the editor published by the Baltimore Chronicle:

As one listens to the Republican anger over health care reform, one can imagine an anti-government protester cheerfully paying premiums on insurance policies that cancel you for making a claim, or happily sauntering out of an emergency room that denied them treatment because of a coverage problem. One can imagine a town-hall sign-waver enthusiastically forking over most of their pay to bill collectors after suffering a catastrophic injury, thinking, “Wow, the free market system is great.”


19 posted on 01/26/2010 6:47:31 AM PST by maggief
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To: maggief

What a blithering idiot.


20 posted on 01/26/2010 6:47:37 AM PST by reagan_fanatic (Pants on the ground pants on the ground lookin like a fool wit yo pants on the ground)
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