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  • Twilight Zone Meets Obama Astroturf: TWO DIFFERENT Ellie Lights Call The Cleveland Plain Dealer

    01/26/2010 5:24:10 PM PST · by Shellybenoit · 6 replies · 572+ views
    Last week the Cleveland Plain Dealer broke the strange story about Presidential astroturfer "Ellie Light" More than 40 different Letters to the Editor have turned up in newspapers across the country all, written by someone named Ellie Light, each one defends Barack Obama. Each Ellie Light letter claims to live within the circulation area of each newspaper. The letters are nearly identical in grammar, tone, and gist. The letters also contain the following closing statement: "...and a president can’t just wave a magic wand and fix everything." Over the weekend it got weirder, we discovered another Astroturfer, Mark Spivey. Mark...