We’re delighted some in the media are waking up to the fact that the current administration, and its army of astroturfing trolls, has been playing them like a harp from Hell.
“Ellie Light” has been posting pro-Utopia editorials in papers across the country, using a different address each time.
What she says is cut and pasted over and over again, pursuant to the PR goals of the current White House.
This is trolling, people. It’s what we’ve been trying to draw your attention to. This is what David Axelrod’s public strategies firm specialized in. It’s what the DNC and White House are engaged in, with MSM support, 24/7.
There’s the “Ellie Light” side of trolling, where pro-Administration pieces are posted everywhere, reading from the same script — and then there’s the “Nellie Dark” side of things, where trolls seek to take down anyone opposing the administration or calling it out on its lies and general socialist craziness. That’s when the trolls accuse people of being RAAACISTS, try to destroy their businesses, attack their families, threaten violence against them, and do whatever they can to destroy administration critics.
We have never, in all our history, seen a White House like this. Nixon didn’t even do things like this, on such a scale, with the loving support of the media.
Who do you think “Ellie Light” is, and how do you think astroturfing and trolling can finally be exposed and explained to the public at large?
THAT, right there, is one of our big goals for 2010: to wake the public up to these tactics so they are no longer effective tools of the Left. As things stand now, “Ellie Light” and “Nellie Dark” still manage to manipulate the public in the ways this White House intends. We wouldn’t put it past Rahm Emanuel being Ellie and Nellie himself.
It sure wouldn’t be the first time that former ballerina and current White House Chief of Staff was called nelly.
Wouldn’t be the first time he was involved in anything destructive, malicious, vindictive, and underhanded, either.
January 23, 2010 at 11:37 am
Maybe you have already seen this?
(It is obvious “Ellie Light” is a code name for OBAMA – remember Harry Reid’s comment. This is a paid department of the Obama-Nation White House operation obviously.)
“Obama has suspicious number of letter-writing fans named ‘Ellie Light’
Ellie Light sure gets around.
In recent weeks, Light has published virtually identical “Letters to the Editor” in support of President Barack Obama in more than a dozen newspapers.Every letter claimed a different residence for Light that happened to be in the newspaper’s circulation area.
“It’s time for Americans to realize that governing is hard work, and that a president can’t just wave a magic wand and fix everything,” said a letter from alleged Philadelphian Ellie Light, that was published in the Jan. 19 edition of The Philadelphia Daily News.
A letter from Light in the Jan. 20 edition of the San Francisco Examiner concluded with an identical sentence, but with an address for Light all the way across the country in Daly City, California.
http://www.cleveland.com/open/index.ssf/2010/01/letter_writer_claims_diverse_r.html
January 23, 2010 at 11:45 am
FYI, There is an “Ellie Light” on Face Book (founded by that little Obama man-loving entreprenuer) who is married to a “Bob Light” who just started work this month of January, 2010 for a firm called CrossPoint PPM LLC.
Since the firm’s only product is a “software application,” I would say the guy owns the firm he went to work for this January, 2010.
Look at the firm’s self-descrition and note the EMPHASIS on CHANGE MANAGEMENT!
This may have not connection….but…
http://crosspointppm.com/about.jsp
“CrossPoint PPM LLC
Our Product
CrossPoint is a project, program and portfolio management software application, with a strong emphasis on resource and change management. It is currently server-based, and typically is hosted on an internal server at our customers. Over 250 man-years to date have gone into the development of CrossPoint. While no software product is ever perfect, CrossPoint flat out works.
Our Precepts
At Crosspoint PPM, we decided that:
sales and marketing did not have to mean slick marketing spins, info-overload websites, and especially doesn’t require making you talk to a sales rep just to get pricing. Sure, we want to talk to you if you need a better tool to manage your projects and resources, but we want the focus on the product, not price.
trying to be everything to everybody means nothing to nobody, if you overwhelm on hype and underwhelm on delivery. Yes, we are a small business, and lack the resources found in large companies. Of course, that also means that every customer is truly important, and we aren’t constrained by red-tape when working to solve any issues.
our success can only be measured by yours. To borrow a phrase from Thomas Jefferson, this would seem to be self-evident, but all companies are not equal in upholding this belief. Actually, we won’t sell you CrossPoint if we don’t think that you will ultimately benefit from it. That would waste scarce time and resources, and nobody benefits from that.
Our Promise
If you are open to change, truly desire to improve your processes, and agree that CrossPoint can help, we will partner with you to achieve that goal by delivering and supporting a solid tool. If for whatever reason you are dissatisfied with CrossPoint, you have 90 days from date of purchase to return it for a full refund.”
January 23, 2010 at 11:47 am
The man and his father both went to the University of Virginia, so a venture to guess they live in Virigina, DC, or the DE metro area would be an educated guess.
January 23, 2010 at 11:49 am
Also notice how stetchy their “Face Book” entries are….
Again they have zero connection to this but……interesting anyways….
I say all those letters were written by that comptuer software!
January 23, 2010 at 12:00 pm
BINGO!
Guess what?
Bob Light’s wife, “Ellie Light” works for a Health Industry business that sells “health care industries” management software (Heck, no VESTED interests there now, right).
That business on started in 2007!
HEALTHPORT
http://www.healthport.com/overview_history.aspx
In June 2007, HealthPort was formed through the combination of two leading health information companies—Smart Document Solutions (SDS) and Companion Technologies, uniting over 30 years of proven technology and experience in the health information management, physician practice, and community health industries. Throughout their respective histories, both companies earned reputations for award-winning innovation and trusted expertise.
January 23, 2010 at 12:03 pm
El Lie works as an ROI.
That is according to HealthPort a provider of medical records. Remember El Obama-Duce wanted to “computerize” all health care records?
From HealthPort’s web site.
“HealthPort’s Requesters
HealthPort delivers thousands of medical records each day. Its HIPAA-compliant technology and services ensure that medical records are safely and expediently delivered to authorized requesters. Our requesters include:
Insurance Companies/Government Agencies
Patients
Law Firms
We have been in the medical record request business for over 35 years and assure our clients utmost confidentiality. In fact, our representatives receive extensive HIPAA training and sign confidentiality and code of conduct agreements.”
http://www.healthport.com/Requester_Overview.aspx
January 23, 2010 at 12:04 pm
“Smart Document Solutions (SDS)”
I find this part odd. SDS was a 60s socialist-culture movement. Students for a Democratic Society, the Weather Underground formed out of the SDS.
I know I am probably off but I am wondering if there is a connection here.
January 23, 2010 at 12:06 pm
‘Smart Document Solutions (SDS’
I find the name of this company odd. SDS also stands for Students for a Democratic Society, which the Weather Underground emerged from.
Connection?
January 23, 2010 at 12:10 pm
Bingo, the wife also works for Virginia Hospital Center which is in Arlington, Virginia.
So the ARE living in the Washington DC metro.
January 23, 2010 at 12:36 pm
“They” are living……in DC metro….that should be.
January 24, 2010 at 12:50 am
There is always the possibility that Ellie Light is Bernadine Dorhn
January 24, 2010 at 4:18 pm
Or her pushed-under-the-bus ghost-writing husband. . .
January 23, 2010 at 12:06 pm
Very Curiously that particular
“El Lie Light” will not come up on “Facebook’s own search function.”
I found it on Microsoft’s Bing search engine.
January 23, 2010 at 1:41 pm
If you just search for “Bob Light” through Face Book it doesn’t come up.
I smell RATS!!!!!!!!!!!!!!!
January 23, 2010 at 12:11 pm
Just wanted to restate, that again these people may have no connection at all to this, but……
January 23, 2010 at 2:08 pm
This is all very confusing. The information from CrossPoint doesn’t sound like information from a real business. It is a front for something?
What about the name Ellie Light? It seems odd that someone would put real names on the letters to the newspapaer; it sounds like an alias.
Also, its interesting that all of these letter were written under the same name. Using the same name leaves open the possibility of having the letters identified as the same author (obviously). Why would you do that? Could it be so that the troll gets “credit” for publicity or attention originating from himself? I am really puzzled why the same name was used in so many letters since it is a risk that is so unecessary.
January 23, 2010 at 2:11 pm
Someone, the firm just started up in business this Jan., 2010 and those particular lettes started Jan., 2010
……..
Co-incidence or Front?
January 23, 2010 at 2:13 pm
Perhaps the same name – to prove their work – in order to get paid?
Of course these O-Bought and Paid for Trolls do have Vanity as well.
January 23, 2010 at 2:20 pm
I agree. I think it may have something to do with how they are paid for their services.
January 23, 2010 at 11:56 pm
Check out conservatives4palin. They are asking the same questions. Any relationship to Cass Sunstein?
January 23, 2010 at 11:43 am
It’s odd that letters can get published like this. When I try to write to our local paper, they call to ask if it was really me who wrote it. And they’re not keen on letters that originate from outside their subscription area.
But then … they’re obviously in the tank for BHO et al, seeing as they didn’t put Brown’s victory on page one, not even in a little box at the top where they put stuff to entice people to buy the rag.
So maybe they only call me because I’m always writing about something objectionably conservative.
I’m thinking my outspoken protest of abortion since Roe v Wade (dating from the year I graduated high school in the Socialist Republic of Cornell University’s Hometown) may be why I don’t ever get invited to the class reunion.
It’s not like they don’t know where I live or what my married name is, duh, since I never moved away. I suspect trolls deleted my name from the database.
Or maybe nargles.
January 23, 2010 at 11:51 am
Chrissy,
Wouldn’t a “Internet” telephone number or a cell phone number allow the “El Lie Light” hide their exact geographic location?
January 23, 2010 at 11:51 am
“an Internet” that is
January 23, 2010 at 12:18 pm
Yes, Voice Over Internet Protocol does allow the caller to spoof Caller ID systems. It is not illegal (The Truth in Caller ID Act is pending in Congress) but it may be illegal in cases of political campaigning.
To spoof Caller ID with cellphones requires hacking the SIM card. Then again, the number Ellie Light gave could have been the number of a local Obamabot.
January 23, 2010 at 12:22 pm
Touche!
RE: “the number Ellie Light gave could have been the number of a local Obamabot.”
January 23, 2010 at 4:39 pm
Hee, nargles. :D
That’s totally awful that you don’t get invited to your class reunion.
January 23, 2010 at 12:26 pm
I took a portion of one of “Ellie Light’s” letter: ” a president can’t just wave a magic wand and fix everything”
And Oh.My.God. There are hundreds of google hits – even the Bangkok Post printed Ms. Light’s letter to the editor!
http://www.bangkokpost.com/print/31150/
January 23, 2010 at 12:29 pm
Don’t you think that is “proof?”
Proof of a computer software “application”
that just SEARCHES for all Newspaper EMAIL and WEB SITE addresses (of Newspapers) on the world-wide-web, and then does mass emialings to them (with some automated slight variation on parts of the letter that do not matter)?
January 23, 2010 at 12:30 pm
BINGO!
Proof that a computer software application SPAMMED all world-wide-web email and web site addesses of newspapers!
January 23, 2010 at 12:32 pm
Also TOUCHE!
GREAT CATCH BETH!!!!!!!!!!!!!!!!!!!!!
January 23, 2010 at 12:34 pm
Bangkok Post
The World’s Window to Thailand
POST BAG
Bangkok
________________________________________
Give Obama a break
A year ago, if American citizens like myself had read in the newspaper that US employers were hiring again, that healthcare legislation was proceeding without a bump, that Afghanistan had suddenly become a nice place to take your kids, we would’ve known we were being lied to. Back then, we recognised that the problems Mr Obama inherited as president wouldn’t go away overnight.
During his campaign, Mr Obama clearly said that an economy that took eight years to break couldn’t be fixed in a year, that Afghanistan was a graveyard of empires and would not be an easy venture for us. Candidate Obama didn’t 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 can’t be left for another day.
Right after Mr Obama’s 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. It’s time for Americans to realise that governing is hard work, and that a president can’t just wave a magic wand and fix everything.
Ellie Light
The web site address is the one above that Beth gave!
January 23, 2010 at 4:32 pm
Anybody catch that “realise” is the British spelling of “realize?” Whether that means anything I can’t tell you. Excellent work Buzzers!
January 23, 2010 at 4:38 pm
GREAT GRANNY!
THANKS!
Some on the web are starting to supect that the writer is Samantha Power who was born and raised in Ireland! ERGO a UK/British spelling/education conection!
Samantha Power is married to Obama’s “Administrator of the White House Office of Information and Regulatory Affairs.”
That would be Cass Sunstein. Cass R. Sunstein is an American legal scholar, particularly in the fields of constitutional law, administrative law, environmental law, and law and behavioral economics. Do look up on wikipedia (where this is from) what “Behavioral Economics” involves. You will see it fits in perfectly with the crimes of this Thugadminstration!
http://en.wikipedia.org/wiki/Samantha_Power
January 23, 2010 at 5:14 pm
There is an Ellie Light on Facebook who is British. Don’t know if that means a thing, but there it is!
January 24, 2010 at 12:57 am
I thought that we used the “z” rather than the “s” in realize. I will have to find my pocket Oxford Dictionary.
Another suspect is Andrew Sullivan… that is too wild.
January 23, 2010 at 2:38 pm
I just did the same internet search and sure enough, these letters are everywhere! In fact, there are so many of them that it is inevitable that this pattern would eventually be recognized. It’s odd that the same letter would be chosen by so many (supposedly independent) editors. Is it possible that whoever sent out these letters did not expect that so many of them would actually end up being selected? Also, these letters look pretty much the same to me. Are their differences? I don’t see any advantage to mass mailing identical letters versus nearly identical letters. Anybody (computer or person) can identify these letters as linked straight away. Maybe they just haven’t worked out the bugs yet.
January 23, 2010 at 2:48 pm
I think “they” (Obama-rats and all) think “we” are that stupid.
January 23, 2010 at 5:16 pm
Absolutely, Buttered. I was just about to say the same.
January 23, 2010 at 12:26 pm
Is this El Lie Light?
http://www.facebook.com/search/?init=srp&sfxp=&q=Ellie+Light#/photo.php?pid=4566594&o=all&op=1&view=all&subj=261752540668&aid=-1&id=669877027&oid=261752540668
January 25, 2010 at 5:28 am
That is just wrong and scary.
January 23, 2010 at 12:29 pm
http://papers.ssrn.com/sol3/papers.cfm?abstract_id=1084585
This is a paper by Cass Sunstein, this is the abstract:
‘Many millions of people hold conspiracy theories; they believe that powerful people have worked together in order to withhold the truth about some important practice or some terrible event. A recent example is the belief, widespread in some parts of the world, that the attacks of 9/11 were carried out not by Al Qaeda, but by Israel or the United States. Those who subscribe to conspiracy theories may create serious risks, including risks of violence, and the existence of such theories raises significant challenges for policy and law. The first challenge is to understand the mechanisms by which conspiracy theories prosper; the second challenge is to understand how such theories might be undermined. Such theories typically spread as a result of identifiable cognitive blunders, operating in conjunction with informational and reputational influences. A distinctive feature of conspiracy theories is their self-sealing quality. Conspiracy theorists are not likely to be persuaded by an attempt to dispel their theories; they may even characterize that very attempt as further proof of the conspiracy. Because those who hold conspiracy theories typically suffer from a crippled epistemology, in accordance with which it is rational to hold such theories, the best response consists in cognitive infiltration of extremist groups. Various policy dilemmas, such as the question whether it is better for government to rebut conspiracy theories or to ignore them, are explored in this light. ‘
key words: conspiracy theories, social networks, informational cascades, group polarization
January 23, 2010 at 2:08 pm
Thanks Hogler!
CASS SUNSTEIN, who advocates government LIES and PROPAGANDA is President Obama’s “head of the Office of Information and Regulatory Affairs.”
I didn’t know that till you mentioned it Holger and then I ran across this.
“On an unrelated note, recall that recently, Glenn Greenwald flagged the fact that Obama’s pal (and head of the Office of Information and Regulatory Affairs) Cass Sunstein recently wrote this paper suggesting something sounding a lot like Astroturfing:
Sunstein advocates that the Government’s stealth infiltration should be accomplished by sending covert agents into “chat rooms, online social networks, or even real-space groups.” He also proposes that the Government make secret payments to so-called “independent” credible voices to bolster the Government’s messaging (on the ground that those who don’t believe government sources will be more inclined to listen to those who appear independent while secretly acting on behalf of the Government).”
http://patterico.com/2010/01/23/ellie-light-obama-astroturfer-or-very-very-very-energetic-but-independent-letter-writer/comment-page-1/#comment-613146
January 23, 2010 at 2:09 pm
Bottom Line?
NEVER believe anything Obama or his un-Democratic Party members and his cronies say.
NEVER BELIVE THEM!
January 23, 2010 at 12:30 pm
Oh MAN!! I love you guys!
this place always gives me a GOOD CLEAN deep long sigh of RELIEF.
whew – I mean rrrrrrreally!! WTF !! If you sue these people for slander, etc, and need everyone to drop a buck or two – even though I am living on almost NOTHING! I will find 10 bucks to help you take these people to court and hopefully get the where it hurts! Their purse. $$
PUMA GRRRRRRRRROWL!!
and GO SARAH! GO HILLARY!! GO HILLBUZZZZZZZZZZZZZ!!!!!
January 23, 2010 at 12:34 pm
In the Stamford Advocate, she signs the letter “Ellie Jeanne Light”. In fact, I found some more of the same letter in other papers signed Ellie Jeanne Light.
It’s odd, really, because when I write a letter to the editor of the Kansas City Star, they always call me to verify that I wrote the letter before they publish it. How can this person be verified by the “letters’ staffs of all these newspapers?
Or… do the newspapers know who this person really is.
January 23, 2010 at 12:41 pm
Beth it would be easy to have a computer controlled fake “phone number” that would hide were the newspapers are really calling.
The software would re-direct the newspapers call to one place, but could send out a fake local area code phone number to fake out the caller ID systems.
January 23, 2010 at 12:49 pm
No, Spoofing the ID only works when calling someone. When they try to dial the number that spoofed them they’ll get whoever owns that number, not the person who used that number to spoof the caller ID.
The sort of thing you are thinking about would require the duplicity of telephone companies and ISP providers or the compromise of the systems that run the communications equipment.
January 23, 2010 at 1:42 pm
Thanks.
And of course the Telephone companies and ISP providers have never done that. (Cough cough)
January 23, 2010 at 5:54 pm
Hmm – I think there are some call forwarding apps that would do that. Assuming someone with MONEY behind them, they could get lots of ‘local’ phone numbers via internet phones (vonage, skype…) or cellphone companies, and simply forward them to one central phone #.
Not difficult, just somewhat expensive.
January 25, 2010 at 11:55 am
Well, Kathy, they can print money as well as spend all our taxpayer money to do such……
January 23, 2010 at 12:36 pm
http://papers.ssrn.com/sol3/papers.cfm?abstract_id=1084585
This is a paper by Cass Sunstein. Basically he advocates the Government send ‘Cognitive Infiltrators’ onto advocacy web sites and spread disinformation to paint government and political figures in a good light.
The keywords: conspiracy theories, social networks, informational cascades, group polarization
Social networks and informational cascades, in other words Astroturf.
As for Polarization… Political change requires polarization (the choice between two different ideas) and the Dialectic of Marxism is basically that.
January 24, 2010 at 7:11 am
It is completely illegal for the US Government to do this. Completely.
January 25, 2010 at 11:50 am
But they have done it before.
January 23, 2010 at 12:39 pm
Wow,, you guys are good in the ability to pick things up.. I wrote an editorial to my local paper and they contacted me first to verify it was me prior to print. I was not allowed to use an alias…. Mmmmmmmmm let us find out shall we?
January 23, 2010 at 12:42 pm
A “Political Organization” about this
El Lie Light has formed over at Face Book.
http://www.facebook.com/search/?init=srp&sfxp=&q=Ellie+Light#/group.php?gid=261752540668
January 23, 2010 at 12:49 pm
Here are the BING search engine results for
Ellie Jeanne Light
if anyone wants to help peruse them.
That computer software Spamming application sent these letter to just about every newspaper in the world – that had an email or web site with email it appears!
http://www.bing.com/search?q=Ellie+Jeanne+Light&src=IE-Address
January 23, 2010 at 12:50 pm
This story needs to blow up and go NUCLEAR in the MSM!
January 23, 2010 at 12:56 pm
I just talked to my dad about this. We were living in a NM town but had moved to AZ, he sent a letter to the local newspaper in NM and they printed it without calling my dad and verifying that he sent it and all that.
Probably, the editors just printed it.
January 23, 2010 at 12:58 pm
So, here is my idea. Start contacting the people at the Astroturfed Newspapers and see if you can get some information about who sent it such as E-Mail, address or Phone Number, they might still have that information in their records.
January 23, 2010 at 1:09 pm
My local paper, DMN, does not verify who submitters are. Ellie’s “letter” is so long, I find it amazing it’d be published in most papers, unless the fix was in. Sure, most papers’ editorial boards are liberal, and her letter would fit their “enlightened” opinions to a “T”.
Having said that, it’s hard for me to fathom so many newspapers “randomly” accepting the same letter over the last three weeks. If I didn’t know better, I’d think the White House astro-turf machine has been socially networking with their fellow world travelers on our nation’s editorial boards.
January 23, 2010 at 1:48 pm
Remember in the past few years the Federal government and Federal government agenciees (military I believe) have been PAYING for pieces to written and then get published.
Maybe even pay for publishing – think of all those magazine and newspaper ads that look like legit articles but have about the smallest fine print available to run the disclaimer that it is an ad…
January 23, 2010 at 5:19 pm
I do believe The DMN does verify. Why would you think they didn’t? I can certainly find out.
January 23, 2010 at 6:25 pm
I’ve gotten ones through/printed, and no one ever called.
January 23, 2010 at 1:19 pm
Might be an interesting exercise to find other pro-Obama opinion letters then do phrase searches on them. I’ll bet Ellie Light isn’t the only one spamming the media.
January 23, 2010 at 1:48 pm
I bet you are right Debg.
That is what their Internet Trolls do.
January 24, 2010 at 3:02 pm
I was right. I should have posted the info here but see my post at #70.
January 23, 2010 at 2:44 pm
That is just what I was thinking. I think we should look back at newspapers over the past month, look at the letters, and try to identify other likely candidates for planted letters.
January 23, 2010 at 1:33 pm
Ben Smith of Politico published her letter early January.
http://www.politico.com/blogs/bensmith/0110/A_defense_of_Obama.html
January 23, 2010 at 1:52 pm
See it says it came by “email.”
And OH MY! Didn’t it come at an OH SO Convenient time for ZeroBama?
What you want to bet lots of the “so-called journalists” know exactly what sort of Axelrod Turf and Surf this is!
“A defense of Obama
I get a lot of unsolicited e-mail and should probably publish more of it; this defense of Obama, sent in by someone named Ellie Light, seemed to crystallize a point his supporters have been trying to make for a while..”
They Need to be OPRAHIZED and called out for pushing FAKE AUTHORS on U.S. just as Oprah was!
January 23, 2010 at 2:02 pm
Word is spreading like wildfire!
January 23, 2010 at 1:43 pm
I’m LOL at this link, which I just came across on Lucianne.
http://bungalowbillscw.blogspot.com/2010/01/who-is-ellie-light-is-white-house.html
The photo is too funny!
January 23, 2010 at 1:47 pm
Hehehe
January 23, 2010 at 2:18 pm
LMAO. That might be getting close to the truth. I think Ellie Light is Mizzzchelle or one of her minions.
January 23, 2010 at 2:29 pm
FYI
“Scott Baio Receives Death Threats Over Michelle Obama Tweet with Picture
Actor Scott Baio posted a picture of Michelle Obama in a Tweet. He wrote, “wow, he wakes up to that every morning.” Since then he has had call the FBI over death threats he received over his Twitter site.
The former Happy Days star now on Bugsy Malone, now 48, received a lot of negative criticism for the tweet, which eventually led to people to even calling him a racist. A racist? PROVE IT. Since when is posting a picture of Michelle Obama racist?”
http://bungalowbillscw.blogspot.com/2010/01/scott-baio-receives-death-threats-over.html
January 26, 2010 at 12:06 pm
The person also threatened his wife and daughter. A Baby, who the heck threatens a baby over a tweet?!?
January 23, 2010 at 1:46 pm
I have been checking European news on Soros and came across this:
“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. It’s time for Americans to realize that governing is hard work, and that a president can’t just wave a magic wand and fix everything.
Ellie Jeanne Light
Howards Grove”
http://www.sheboyganpress.com/article/20100117/SHE0601/1170302
How the world turns:)
January 23, 2010 at 2:20 pm
From whom have we heard “wave a magic wand” before? That phrase sounds familiar? Didn’t Obama actually say that somewhere?
January 23, 2010 at 2:36 pm
Calling Chrissy-the-Hyphenated, MizzJodee and all others hand with the graphics. (Apologize to others I omitted…those two are the first to come to mind.)
We need a nice little graphic of barack and his magic wand, replete with unicorns and care Bears in the background.
All set to music….Barack the Magic Lightbringer (puff the Magic Dragon) …..from a land called Hawaii.
January 23, 2010 at 2:54 pm
And how about with in his magic cape and a tiara crown on his head?
January 23, 2010 at 3:15 pm
What we need is a LOCATOR MAP with every where that has printed an Ellie Light letter marked.
January 23, 2010 at 5:59 pm
Where is a list of the locations?
January 23, 2010 at 6:20 pm
Didn’t read the rest of the comments..but just left Hot Air and there was something about..”Is Axlerod the Ellie Light”?
Didn’t read it..
January 23, 2010 at 8:18 pm
A list of all newspapers and locations can be found at……..
http://patterico.com/2010/01/23/ellie-lights-letters/#more-40183
January 23, 2010 at 1:55 pm
You guys need to take this to http://www.bigjournalism.com (which Andrew Breitbart founded). I’m sure they’ll be very, very interested in this and might have more resources to track this character down. Just saying.
January 23, 2010 at 2:20 pm
Great Idea.
January 23, 2010 at 8:00 pm
Super idea. HillBoyz, DO IT, DO IT, DO IT!!!
January 23, 2010 at 2:01 pm
LOL
1/23/2010
Ellie Light: Obama Astroturfer? Or Very, Very, Very Energetic But Independent Letter Writer? With Houses All Over the Nation?
Filed under: General — Patterico @ 1:52 am
A woman has written the same letter defending Obama to dozens of publications across the country, getting them published in at least 42 newspapers in 18 states, as well as Politico.com, the Washington Times, and USA Today. And the woman, Ellie Light, has claimed residence in many of these states.
http://patterico.com/2010/01/23/ellie-light-obama-astroturfer-or-very-very-very-energetic-but-independent-letter-writer/comment-page-1/#comment-613146
January 23, 2010 at 2:04 pm
…..published in at least 42 newspapers in 18 states, as well as Politico.com, the Washington Times, and USA Today. And the woman, Ellie Light, has claimed residence in many of these states….
To emphasize…..
January 23, 2010 at 2:30 pm
Now the count is up to 61 or 62 newspapers…..
January 23, 2010 at 2:15 pm
Sabrina Eaton has an update with emails from Ellie Light.
http://www.cleveland.com/open/index.ssf/2010/01/letter_writer_claims_diverse_r.html
January 23, 2010 at 3:00 pm
Thanks Debg.
Everyone should read that update…you just have to scroll about halfway done Sabrina’s reporting to find it.
January 23, 2010 at 2:27 pm
If one of us wished to submit letters-to-the-editor anonymously, under the name of “Ellie Light”, how should we best go about doing it?
If (as it seems) “Ellie Light” isn’t a real person, but a figment of someone’s (or some group’s) imagination, what is there to stop “Ellie Light” from making a fool of herself?
January 23, 2010 at 2:37 pm
I’ll bet that “Ellie” now disappears, never to be seen again. “Ellie” will simply pick a new identity.
January 23, 2010 at 3:02 pm
Well yes, but already this Obot strategy seems half-baked. Now that people know the ruse, how useful will it be? Patterns and catch phrases aren’t particularly difficult to spot the net, especially if you know what you are looking for. I don’t understand how “Ellie Light” didn’t foresee that people would start to recognize this letter after it was published EVERYWHERE.
January 23, 2010 at 3:09 pm
Perhaps they did not concieve that the “newspapers” would also “publish” that fake letter in the newspapers’ online editions.
They probably only thought it would go in the paper newspapers so that the “low info” voters would see it.
Someone was pointing out this week how lots of O-Bought Concern Trolls were now calling into conservative radio talk shows…..maybe it was HillBuzz?
January 23, 2010 at 3:12 pm
That is another reason I think the letter came from “Spam computer software” application.
No thinking beyond the original software code writing, unless a human intervenes as did whoever is answering a few of Sabrina Eaton’s follow up, questioning emails.
Did you catch the CONDESCENDING TONE of “El lie Lights” reponses to Sabrina?
WHERE HAVE WE SEE THAT CONDESCENDING ATTITUDE BEFORE?
Oh that is right. From Obama and his LOBOTamized O-Bought Thugs all though 2008 and 2009!
January 23, 2010 at 3:04 pm
The more I think about it, I think that “Ellie Light” didn’t expect that this letter would be published so frequently. This ruse has now become a victim of its own sucess.
January 23, 2010 at 3:19 pm
Plus I think there are some letters that are “signed” by an
“Ellie Something-Middle-Name-Here Light” show computer software did it.
The software could be programmed to change the “name” every so many emailed letters, and could also be programmed to change a few, unimportant lines in the emailed letters.
January 23, 2010 at 3:28 pm
I also noticed that the middle name Jeanne was included in some letters; I did not see any letters with any other middle name.
In looking at the letters, they are are remarkably similar. I would have to read the letters very carefully to find any differences. I don’t see any evidence that a program is varying content of these letters. I suspect that may the direction this was heading though. I wonder if this didn’t work like “Ellie Light” thought it would. Good to know that villians sometimes screw up just like the rest of us.
January 23, 2010 at 4:06 pm
Maybe The White House only bought the CHEAP service?
Lord knows they’re as CHEAP as it comes when spending their own money. (When it is taxpayers’ money – not cheap at all!)
January 23, 2010 at 4:07 pm
Thanks! That is it!
Jeanne….
Note the odd spelling of that…..
Jeanne……
January 24, 2010 at 3:06 pm
Somehow, I doubt they are spending their own money. By hook or by ACORN,I bet we paid for this little operation.
January 23, 2010 at 3:13 pm
Drudge has a link to the cleveland.com article.
January 23, 2010 at 3:20 pm
So, the name:
Ellie Light
L E Light
L E Lite
L’Elite
Can’t figure out how the Jeanne fits in
Jeanne
G N
It could just be a way to make it harder to search for her online.
They love to play these games. My motto in the last few years has become: “When someone says, ‘Oh, no one would ever do that.,’ ask yourself if it’s physically possible. If it is, then it’s been done. And they WOULD so do that.”
The fact that I thought the name seemed to have meaning right away means someone else thought so to, and when they were trying to come up with a “letter writer” name, they went, hey, none of these Common Man slubs will ever get this.
Or, LOL, she could just be a fanatic who is really named Ellie Light.
Either one.
January 23, 2010 at 4:08 pm
Note how oddly the middle name, Jeanne, is spelt.
January 23, 2010 at 4:58 pm
Not an odd spelling at all, Buttered – merely French. I had an Aunt Jeanne and a roommate named Jeanne. Then, of course, there’s St. Jeanne d’Arc.
January 23, 2010 at 5:14 pm
Thanks Cali Gran!!!!!!
January 24, 2010 at 1:19 am
Jeanne in English is Joan.
Is there a reporter with the name Joan?
I thought I saw that as a first name in recent weeks
January 23, 2010 at 3:25 pm
Oh, wow — OK, do a seach for Ellie Jeanne Light.
A bunch of her letters come up, and they ALL HAVE THE SAME HEADLINE.
Now, I am a journalist. Things do not work that way. This only happens when there is a suggested headline on the letter that works well enough to stay. (Even then, I’m disappointed in those copy editors). But — Letters to the editor don’t come with suggested heds! If they do, they are never right.
Unless they come from:
the AP
a PR service
OR
a journalist
I wonder if this IS written by the journalist that one reporter mentions that she once worked with. It is awfully clean copy, y’all.
I’ll let you know what else I find.
January 23, 2010 at 3:36 pm
Your observation about the headline is an interesting one. To me, that suggests that this letter was not communicated to these papers the usual way. Also, it was mentioned earlier that the letter is rather long to be published in the letter to the editor section, at least for most newspapers.
January 23, 2010 at 4:09 pm
Ben Smith said his came Email.
January 23, 2010 at 5:05 pm
We get them all different ways — e-mail, on paper, typed, hand-written, once or twice in crayon (seriously). The difference is that the typical Letter to the Editor starts out either like a business letter or just “Dear Mr. ___________” or “Dear Editor.”
It doesn’t occur to someone with no news or PR experience to place a headline at the top the is usable.
They might put something like, “President Obama is doing all he can so leave him alone” or “Leave Obama Alone!”
But they wouldn’t put:
“Obama warned us of hard choices, painful steps”
That is a perfect, two-deck news hed with no extra words. No one does that but us.
Now, the fault could lie with me — I could be seeing one story reposted over and over by other people who just read it online.
But if the file arrived with that ready-made headline… something is fishy.
January 23, 2010 at 5:06 pm
I think maybe that’s just the USA Today hed being reposted, so that’s one lead down.
January 23, 2010 at 4:10 pm
Jen, would some newspapers source a “bank” of letters to the editor (from some national firm) and simply borrow tastey ones and relabel them as a local letter writer’s own?
I would not put it past them.
January 23, 2010 at 4:58 pm
No, I don’t think so. Too many people in the newsroom would get upset — we are, in our own way, very focused on our set of rules and ethics. It’s like a code. That wouldn’t pass — not at more than one or two tiny, fringe papers.
But these days, we (as a group — not saying all of us journalists as individuals) WOULD be lax in checking the credentials of someone who sent a letter we liked and that we thought would make readers talk the next day.
And even little papers get so many letters. Most of them are very, very poorly written. But there are usually way more than enough to need to resort to a “letter service.” (Though I wouldn’t put it past someone to try that.)
January 23, 2010 at 5:06 pm
So Jen, how do you think the spam and scam artists satisfied the newspapers that the letter was real?
January 23, 2010 at 5:13 pm
Buttered:
I think whoever did this either has gteat resources or a great plan.
AND — I live in one state but have a phone number from another state… as do a lot of people. Especially in newsrooms (we change jobs a lot).
So… say you are calling to verify a letter. You ask for “Ellie.” You tell who you are and who you are with. You might even say, “This is to confirm that you live at XXXXXX on XXXX Road in Dayton.”
So, she says, “Yes, I do.”
Then what? You go with it. Because, in the end, we don’t take official responsibility for those letters. The lie is on Ellie’s own head. We do what we can for creedibility’s sake, but we don’t invade anyone’s privacy over a letter to the editor.
If you’re Presidential Page “Ellie,” how hard is it to either say, “Yep, that’s me” or search a spreadsheet of addresses for the one sent to that paper and reel it off?
I’d be interested to see what number she gave to the papers. If THOSE were all different…
That would be itneresting.
January 23, 2010 at 5:17 pm
Great!
Many Thanks Jen!
Your inside knowledge and insight helps a lot!
January 23, 2010 at 3:29 pm
Also curious:
http://www.babynameshq.com/name/Ellie
The meaning of the name Ellie? …
“Light”
LOL — And she’s preaching for the Lightbringer.
January 23, 2010 at 4:11 pm
and Ellie Light makes it mean
“Light Light.”
January 23, 2010 at 3:56 pm
I saw a story by a newspaper online that talked about this story…and they had contacted the person who wrote the email.
I wrote her (the newspaper reporter) about the “Liberal trolls” and mentioned Hillbuzz and how they teach us about the liberal obama-bots and trolls, etc. I wrote a pretty long letter describing how they work and how we’re countering them.
January 23, 2010 at 4:00 pm
Go to the various pages where it was published and get the IP addresses from where it was sent, then we can find Miss Light.
January 23, 2010 at 4:12 pm
How do we do that Poplicola?
January 23, 2010 at 4:44 pm
You’d have to contact the Newspaper’s IT guys. IP numbers aren’t fool proof either. They can be proxied and Wi-Fi hotspots are easily accessible.
You’d have backtrace it from the newspaper server on down the line as far as you can and it may be too late.
Another thing. Ellie Light might not be her real name. The Obama apparatus is fairly sophisticated. However, they may have used the initials E and L as a way of tracking work progress so E.L. might be the initials of the person carrying out this astro-turfing.
January 23, 2010 at 4:37 pm
In today’s online version of the Philadelphia Inquirer, there is a very trollish looking letter on the second page of the letters to the editor section. The letter claims to be written by a “disgusted registered Republican” who decries how be expect Obama to “correct everything in one year”. It was written by a Jeannette Evans. Even though the letter looks very trollish, I haven’t found any matches yet.
January 23, 2010 at 4:48 pm
Pick out phrases and keywords. Do an internet search for those keywords among letters to the editor and magazines. They may got caught wind and are putting a new name to each letter to the editor.
January 23, 2010 at 5:05 pm
I’ve been trying but haven’t found much yet. There aren’t many distinctive phrases in the article. Maybe its just a regular letter, but it looks really suspicious.
January 23, 2010 at 5:19 pm
Someone, maybe that is just a brand-new letter and the Inquirer is the first to publish it?
Ben Smith published his online on Jan.7 and the Russellville, Arkansas Courier (“Magic Wand Missing From Oval Office”) just published theirs yesterday.
I think your research is worth holding on to and checking again in a week’s time or so.
January 23, 2010 at 4:48 pm
Darn this boiler plated emailed letter is even showing up in tiny, tiny town newspapers such as the Russellville, Arkansas Courier.
http://couriernews.com/letters.php
January 23, 2010 at 5:00 pm
MAGIC WAND MISSING FROM OVAL OFFICE
I do have to give the Russellville, Arkansas Courier Newspaper KUDOS for their headline of that mass emailed letter though! LOL
“Letters To The Editor & Editorial Columns
Story date: Jan. 22, 2009
MAGIC WAND MISSING FROM OVAL OFFICE
Darn this boiler plated emailed letter is even showing up in tiny, tiny town newspapers such as the Russellville, Arkansas Courier.
http://couriernews.com/letters.php
January 23, 2010 at 5:01 pm
I do believe all of this – even if this fake email spam scam was not caught – will do nothing but turn more people off and turn those already off into more dead set against the Mightly HObama!
January 23, 2010 at 4:52 pm
IIRC, I remember someone doing some snooping and discovering that some PR Firm in France was doing some work for Axelrod, so don’t look just at American companies.
January 23, 2010 at 5:06 pm
Ergo, Buttered’s “strange” spelling of Jeanne. (Do the French also spell “realize with an “s?”) Scroll back to #26 for clarification.
January 23, 2010 at 5:08 pm
Let me check.
Many many English words derive from French.
In fact one hint on learning and prounouncing French stated that if the word was 3 or more syllabals long to just pronounce the same as in English but with French accents.
January 23, 2010 at 5:12 pm
I see not exactly, but darn close – they just stick one extra letter on the end of it.
However with France being even closer to Britian now – with the Chunnel – that would be an easy mistake for a French person to make in doing work for U.S……
réaliser
http://translate.google.com/translate_t?hl=&ie=UTF-8&text=realize&sl=en&tl=fr#
January 23, 2010 at 6:10 pm
I’ve known a couple of people named Jeanne – both of them just had parents that like the ‘more feminine’ look of that spelling. Both were quite American.
January 23, 2010 at 5:30 pm
I never knew, until I started reading Hillbuzz, that such vile people existed…trolls and obots…still don’t recognize them right off the bat, but do know that they do exist. I sometimes am persona non grata to my neighbors because I press the facts home that you need to verify the source…listen to the other side, but it does get tiring. I still remember my fears when we couldn’t contact you several months ago…I almost called the Chicago police to see if something happened…thank God nothing did. But getting back to the point, I am not experiencing the level of vitriol you are, and I am awed by your courage . Kudos to Hillbuzz, or as I call you, to my husband, “the Boys in Chicago”…at least WE all know the truth, and hopefully, it will make us free. You are an awesome part of that….a mega part. Someday, out of the clear blue, you might just see two old folk from PA heading to Boystown…and we will be honored to shake your hands.
January 23, 2010 at 5:40 pm
…”absence of any media support for our President” is the funniest part from my pov. The “media support” was what got him elected!
January 23, 2010 at 5:41 pm
Uppity Woman over at her blog had a great idea. To quote:
“Uppity Woman, on January 23rd, 2010 at 5:05 PM Said:
Maybe somebody will notify all those papers with a link the the plain dealer’s piece. Then they can ALL cover it.”
http://uppitywoman08.wordpress.com/2010/01/23/obama-fan-astral-projects-this-would-explain-all-those-letters-to-the-editor/#comments
She has put up a hilarious send up of “Ellie’s” letter.
January 23, 2010 at 6:08 pm
Thanks, Buttered! I had completely forgotten about Uppity Woman’s blog. I used to read it regularly. I must start anew!
January 23, 2010 at 5:43 pm
Might the identity of Ellie Light damage this administration like another mysterious identity named “Deep Throat”?
Those who operate in the light of truth stand in the presence of our Creator and they will be graced by His guidance and protection.
January 23, 2010 at 6:34 pm
It won’t do them any good – even if “El Lie Light” is never discovered.
Everything they are doing is blowing up in their faces, because the U.S. is not the corrupt un-Democratic Party they thugged their way onto last year. (Can you say Edwards, Brazile, Dean, Kerry, et. al.?)
January 23, 2010 at 9:50 pm
Brazille…..
She truly is a political tool.
January 23, 2010 at 5:45 pm
Believe it or not, I say put National Enquirer on this story.
January 23, 2010 at 6:18 pm
ROFL.
I can see it now… “Ellie Light, the teleporting letter-to-the-editor-writer…”
January 23, 2010 at 6:32 pm
They got a pulitzer for breaking the John Edward’s story. Let them have it.
January 23, 2010 at 6:11 pm
Don’t know if this has any validity or not, but one commenter (“SarahW” at 7:59 pm on January 22, 2010) following the Eaton article says:
“”Ellie” speaks in the boilerplate of an “astroturf” campaigner.
I see she is aping the astroturf commentary in play right now about the SCOTUS decision; and frequently from Canadian ISP’s; specifically the twisted description of the ruling, which does NOT allow unlimited direct donations by corporations. The ruling restricts congress from making laws that abridge freedom of speech, especially political speech. Ellie’s garbled version smacks of a disinformation campaign. ”
Canadian ISP?
Whether he/she is a lone jihadi in Obama’s cause or a paid shill or anything in between, she has lied about where she lives to get published, so what else wouldn’t she lie about.
January 23, 2010 at 11:05 pm
Well, there is a core of rabid leftists in Eastern Canada, chiefly in Toronto, and three slightly less fanatical political parties: Liberal, New Democrat, Bloc Quebecois. They’ve been on this socialist train since forever.
The one common denominator: hatred of conservative American values.
January 23, 2010 at 6:28 pm
Hot Air is covering it now!
http://hotair.com/archives/2010/01/23/ellie-light-obama-astroturfer/
“Who is behind this? Are all these letters truly the work of a single woman? Or is there an organization behind “Ellie Light”? (David Axelrod, call your office!) There’s no hard proof as of yet.
Here’s what we do know. Glenn Greenwald (yes, I know, but keep reading) flagged the fact that Obama’s pal (and head of the Office of Information and Regulatory Affairs) Cass Sunstein recently wrote a paper suggesting something sounding a lot like Astroturfing:
Sunstein advocates that the Government’s stealth infiltration should be accomplished by sending covert agents into “chat rooms, online social networks, or even real-space groups.” He also proposes that the Government make secret payments to so-called “independent” credible voices to bolster the Government’s messaging (on the ground that those who don’t believe government sources will be more inclined to listen to those who appear independent while secretly acting on behalf of the Government).
That sure sounds a lot like what’s happening here, doesn’t it?
As you can see at my blog, the states where her letters appear correspond quite well with the states that Obama won.”
January 23, 2010 at 6:30 pm
I believe the same Obama sponsors are behind “Stupidpumas” – an obviously fake web site blog.
January 23, 2010 at 6:50 pm
WOW, here is a chance to make money being a double agent!!
Of course the other side would be oblivious to my true allegiance to our causes here:):)
Truth be told, I am just shocked at the ruthlessness that surrounds us, my eyes have been opened by the boys here
January 23, 2010 at 7:01 pm
It reminds me of the KGB. I grew up in the cold war era and this is the kind of stuff they did.
January 23, 2010 at 6:39 pm
I wonder if there is a big list of employees of AKP&D Message and Media, this would be David Axelrod’s company.
January 23, 2010 at 7:21 pm
Today has been better than a Law & Order marathon! You are an amazing bunch of cyber-savvy super sleuths!
January 23, 2010 at 7:22 pm
I’m telling you right now Cass Sunstein is the originator of these letters. Look up his 2008 Harvard paper re: infiltrating opposition websites, blogs, etc. Then realize that his kid’s name from his first marriage is Ellyn. SUNstein. Sun=light. Ellie Light. There ya go.
January 23, 2010 at 7:49 pm
Meet Jane. Watch Jane think. See Jane solve mystery. Go Jane go.
How creepy, not to mention entirely plausible, is Jane’s theory? Today has been a real learning experience .. thank you every one.
January 24, 2010 at 5:31 pm
That was awesome, Jane. I think we have uncovered an experiment, at the very least, to see if his system will work.
Also, apparently Ellie isn’t alone:
The “Who is Ellie Light” facebook group says delve into “Mark Spivey.”
AND — let’s all follow up on this concept of being a “cognitive infiltrater.”
January 23, 2010 at 7:25 pm
This has David Axelrod written all over it. Remember, this is just the type of astroturfing his marketing company specializes in. The Obama Administration really is in deep denial about the discontent among the American population regarding his presidency. They really do believe that Americans are a stupid as Obama attempts to point us out to be. And, boy are they wrong. I say let them keep it up and we just keep exposing their lies and paint them for the losers they are.
Remember when James Carville said that after the Obama election, Democrats would rule for the next forty years. Hahahahaha. I wouldn’t count on it after this administration.
January 23, 2010 at 10:47 pm
That’s their goal. To game the system. Voter fraud…control the census and CHEAT…to destroy the Republican party…to create a ONE PARTY RULE. That is the ultimate goal. That is, my friends, called socialism.
January 23, 2010 at 10:49 pm
and I might add…create a “class” of elitists …through social engineering with all of “us” at the bottom (equal and poor).
Sorry…it ain’t gonna happen.
January 24, 2010 at 1:24 pm
and the media never had much to say about the term “rule” either…
January 23, 2010 at 7:40 pm
Buttered … I’m not 100% positive, but wasn’t it Samantha Power who got the boot – at least for PR purposes – from the Obammy campaign for calling Hillary Clinton a monster? I believe she’s one of The One’s 12,000 “advisors,” some say the one who makes the foreign policy decisions. A dangerous dame, that one.
January 23, 2010 at 9:05 pm
Cali Gran, you are 100% correct in that.
Samantha Power (formerly of Ireland) called Hillary a monster and now she’s back in the White House with her husband Cass Sunstein.
January 23, 2010 at 8:08 pm
I’m thinking maybe we should help out ol’ Ellie. If she wrote a follow up letter, perhaps it would read something like this:
The recent election in Massachusetts sure was an eye-opener. When Republicans won recent elections in NJ and VA I was convinced it was a fluke. Surely the voters who love our president as much as I do would support him and vote for democrats? Yet they didn’t.
Why? Why? Why? I mused. He’s the same smooth talking, wand waving icon that I voted for 18 months ago. Why doesn’t everyone still love him as much as I do?
He’s still black…sort of.
He still speaks masterfully…mostly.
He closed Guantanamo as promised…kind of.
He will end the wars overseas…eventually.
He still isn’t George Bush. Okay, good there.
He fixed the economy…by spending all our money.
He’s supports gay marriage…in theory.
He’s looking out for the little guy…on Wall Street.
He understands how much the citizens want government-run health care…
He…
Oh, crap…
January 23, 2010 at 8:42 pm
Wow, you guys are like Nancy Drew! Thanks to this thread I didn’t even need to watch TV tonight. You folks are amazing researchers. Now I’m going to drive over to Ned’s house in my roadster!
Nancy Drew and The Mystery of Ellie Light.
You guys rock.
January 23, 2010 at 9:03 pm
Or….
“Nancy Drew and the Mystery of
El Lie Light House!”
January 23, 2010 at 9:05 pm
Someone at Hot Air posted something interesting. Joe Klein wrote Primary Colors, he was discovered by analyzing Primary Colors for phrases and favorite adjectives and that information was taken to academic works such as Thesis and Dissertations. Interesting avenue.
Also, that Cass Sunstein article. Something interesting about Cass. he has a daughter named Ellyn.
January 23, 2010 at 11:39 pm
His wife is Samantha Powers, who is being suggested as a possible candidate for the writer.
January 23, 2010 at 9:26 pm
[...] This post was mentioned on Twitter by Judith Weiss, Judith Weiss, Kathleen Hanover, Tweetie, Cheri Vaughan and others. Cheri Vaughan said: Question of the day> Who is Ellie Light? http://hillbuzz.org/2010/01/23/question-of-the-day-who-is-ellie-light/ [...]
January 23, 2010 at 9:35 pm
This Ellie-person sure became famous in a hurry:
http://patterico.com/2010/01/23/ellie-light-obama-astroturfer-or-very-very-very-energetic-but-independent-letter-writer/
http://patterico.com/2010/01/23/ellie-lights-letters/
January 23, 2010 at 9:47 pm
The latest from GP on the subject……
http://hotair.com/archives/2010/01/23/ellie-light-obama-astroturfer/
January 23, 2010 at 10:19 pm
http://www.facebook.com/group.php?gid=261752540668&ref=search&sid=1330415131.2268490710..1&v=info#/group.php?v=wall&ref=search&gid=261752540668
May have already been posted but Ellie Light is on Facebook.
January 23, 2010 at 10:21 pm
SNORT!
January 23, 2010 at 11:17 pm
I keep checking in and they are quickly adding friends to this FB page.
LOVE THE PHOTOSHOP!
January 23, 2010 at 11:45 pm
Well..I’m a fan…that is TOOO funny.
Guess we all calle Ole Axelrod out on that one eh? Obama is looking pretty stupid about right now.
January 23, 2010 at 11:02 pm
This is another example of why Scott Brown was so important.
It reduced Obama’s power. Democrats are learning that the Obama ship is not as prized a ship any more. They are learning that if they stand up with him…they will go down with his ship. That’s why they cannot get the votes for Obamacare. Democrats are jumping ship.
As that ship sinks…and it WILL sink…it will become a lot more lucrative for the MSM to reveal stories such as these to further expose the Axelrod/Rahm/Bill Burton tactics.
Don’t think the MSM is so caught up in Obama that they won’t be keeping notes of all these things…they’re more greedy than that. When he tanks…all that stuff they’ve kept secret will be plastered on the front page of every magazine and newspaper in the country.
January 23, 2010 at 11:19 pm
Not that it makes them admirable or anything, but I knew Brown’s win would give cover for more Dems to reject this healthcare reinvention.
January 25, 2010 at 12:16 pm
Right Bev,
The MSM loves to HYPE anything that they think can make them more money!!!!!!!!!
January 23, 2010 at 11:24 pm
http://bigjournalism.com/fross/2010/01/23/ellie-light-indefatigable-letter-writer-or-axelrodplouffe-sock-puppet/
I knew Breitbart would be all over it. He is a GENIUS when it comes to uncovering stuff and catching people. He’s the one who broke the ACORN story and helped the journalists do their sting. He has more goodies for the election next year too.
January 23, 2010 at 11:36 pm
I searched the email address listed with the articles and the person was listed in the Yahoo UK/Ireland database as
* 51
* Female
hmmm…..
January 25, 2010 at 12:24 pm
Michael, more POWERS to you!
January 24, 2010 at 12:18 am
Doing my own quick research on Smart Document Solutions at the FEC website only brings a couple of results. One gave $500 to Bush. So that might be a dead end.
No Ellie or Bob Light at FEC either
January 24, 2010 at 12:25 am
From Breightbart website:
Stolen from the comments on Left Coast Rebel’s site http://www.leftcoastrebel.com/2010/01/ellie-light... Let the (conspiracy) theories begin. The connection to Sunstein is intriguing
I’ve posted some of my thoughts on the identity of Ellie Light on another board this morning, but I’ll share my thoughts here as well.
I believe Ellie Light is a journalist by the name of Samantha Power. The meaning of the name ellie is light. An Ellie is also a national magazine award which Ms. Power won in 2005 for a piece in New Yorker magazine, entitled Dying in Darfur.
She worked for Senator Barack Obama and then on his presidential campaign before she was forced to resign for referring to Hillary Clinton as a monster.
While there, she met then later married Cass Sunstein who works in the Obama administration as Administrator of the White House Office of Information and Regulatory Affairs .
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.
In addition to this , the latin word, Lucifer, means bearer of light. Saul Alinsky, in Rules for Radicals, dedication is to Lucifer.
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Individual Contributions Arranged By Type, Giver, Then Recipient
Contributions to Political Committees
POWER, SAMANTHA MS.
WINTHROP, MA 02152
HARVARD/PROFESSOR
OBAMA, BARACK
VIA OBAMA FOR AMERICA
12/25/2007 1500.00 28930551271
12/31/2007 800.00 28930551271
POWERS, SAMANTHA
FT WASHINGTON, MD 20744
RETIRED
MIKULSKI, BARBARA A
VIA MIKULSKI FOR SENATE COMMITTEE
05/27/2004 250.00 24020430778
POWERS, SAMANTHA C
FT WASHINGTON, MD 20744
NONE/RETIRED
MIKULSKI, BARBARA A
VIA MIKULSKI FOR SENATE COMMITTEE
05/30/2008 200.00 28020281409
Total Contributions: 2750.00
Joint Fundraising Contributions
These are contributions to committees who are raising funds to be distributed to other committees. The breakdown of these contributions to their final recipients may appear below
POWER, SAMANTHA
WINTHROP, MA 02152
HARVARD/PROFESSOR
OBAMA VICTORY FUND
09/17/2008 443.00 28992663318
Total Joint Fundraising: 443.00
Recipient of Joint Fundraiser Contributions
These are the Final Recipients of Joint Fundraising Contributions
POWER, SAMANTHA
WINTHROP, MA 02152
HARVARD
OBAMA, BARACK
VIA OBAMA FOR AMERICA
09/30/2008 443.00 28933973992
Recipient Total: 443.00
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January 24, 2010 at 12:29 am
Wow, as a former reporter, the contributions by the people on this blog are just amazing. A virtual investigative team. I love it. Keep digging. Somebody’s got to do it and you know the MSM won’t.
January 24, 2010 at 1:02 am
“Samantha Power magic wand” at Yahoo (to filter out new content)
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http://talknationradio.com/?p=59
Samantha Power: I think so. I mean you know….SNIP… even if I could wave a magic wand and make it happen tomorrow, even if the politics
January 24, 2010 at 1:05 am
I am sure there is somewhere a database of academic papers (thesis, dissertations, papers written by Professors). It may be a good idea to start comparing this letter to Cass Sunstein’s and Samantha Power’s papers. This is how Joe Klein was outed as the writer of Primary Colors.
January 24, 2010 at 5:35 pm
Bam. There you go. What other phrases should we search?
January 24, 2010 at 1:04 am
“It’s odd that letters can get published like this. When I try to write to our local paper, they call to ask if it was really me who wrote it. And they’re not keen on letters that originate from outside their subscription area.”
I have ALWAYS gone through this when writing to any newspaper or magazine if they are considering publishing my letter. Always.
January 24, 2010 at 1:22 am
It seems according to yahoo, good old Samantha uses that magic wand phrase quite often, in many venues.
January 24, 2010 at 1:30 am
David Morse interviews Samantha Power: Evaluating America’s …
David Morse interviews Samantha Power: Evaluating America’s Future Role in Darfur and Sudan … advocate, even if I could wave a magic wand and make it happen tomorrow, even if …
talknationradio.com/?p=59 – Cached
Obama Adviser Quits Over “Monster” Remark – CBS News
Samantha Power, an unpaid foreign policy adviser and Harvard professor, … They want a magic wand to wave and things to be different–why they keep doing …
cbsnews.com/stories/2008/03/07/politics/main3916507.shtml – 80k – Cached
Triangles For Peace
We can’t wave a magic wand to provide food and medical supplies to … and the age of genocide by Samantha Power. The Devil Came on Horseback: Bearing Witness …
trianglesforpeace.blogspot.com – 51k – Cached
CNN Political Ticker: All politics, all the time Blog Archive …
(CNN) – Samantha Power, the Obama foreign policy adviser who stepped down from … ever seen, obama does not have a magic wand, of course it will take time for our …
politicalticker.blogs.cnn.com/2008/11/29/… – 256k – Cached
Continue reading “John McCain: A ‘Hell’s Angel’ in prison” ”
… know wasn’t going to wave a magic wand and ‘poof,’ we would all be … Obama, who employed Irish National Samantha Power before she was forced to resign from his campaign over …
swamppolitics.com/…/08/john_mccain_pow_faith_church_r.html – 91k – Cached
FARK.com: (3884770) “If McCain-style neoconservatism can …
Samantha Power, like Wolfowitz, advocates armed intervention when called for. … the stimulus that the Bush/McCain tax-cut ‘magic wand’ has failed to procure. … http://www.fark.com/cgi/comments.pl?IDLink=3884770 – 65k – Cached
Your Comments on my Education Column – Nicholas D. Kristof …
Please post your comments here on my Tuesday column about education. I particularly … I was struck by how Samantha Power (who spoke at our commemoration of …
kristof.blogs.nytimes.com/2007/05/01/… – 108k – Cached
Matthew Yglesias (August 27, 2007) – Two Perspectives on …
Obama is pretty close to Samantha Power who wrote the book on genocide. … future* genocide and that American military power isn’t a magic wand. …
matthewyglesias.theatlantic.com/archives/2007/08/… – 59k – Cached
Haven On Earth – Windows Live
Samantha Power, the author of the book on genocide I’m reading, is … We don’t have a magic wand,” he said. But he argued that the group could intervene and …
haven-on-earth.spaces.live.com – 254k – Cached
January 24, 2010 at 2:19 am
Here’s another person who used the “wave a magic wand”.
Bush’s ‘magic wand’ and its legacy of low expectations.
In his press conference yesterday, a reporter asked President Bush about the rising price of gasoline, now at roughly $3.60 per gallon. In response, Bush was helpless, repeatedly saying he wishes he could just “wave a magic wand” to lower prices:
[Y]ou know, if there was a magic wand to wave, I’d be waving it, of course. I strongly believe it’s in our interest that we reduce gas prices, gasoline prices. … No, I think that if there was a magic wand, and say, okay, drop price, I’d do that. … But there is no magic wand to wave right now
January 24, 2010 at 5:23 am
You are correct, that phrase can be attributed to a lot of people. The fact that it seems to be one of her favorites isn’t helping her case.
Another interesting piece of the puzzle, democrat.org has a nifty form where you can paste a letter, and send it out to your local newspaper editor, or editors, depending on how many boxes you check off. http://my.democrats.org/page/speakout/posthouseLTE?js=true&zip=20001
January 25, 2010 at 12:32 pm
We should keep that web site address and use it to communicate our displeasure!
January 24, 2010 at 4:26 am
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January 24, 2010 at 5:34 am
Wow, you’ve got a great site here. Keep it up. Interesting, isn’t it, how stupidly they use the Alinsky tactics (always using the same name when they astroturf!), and how they are running out of them because ridicule just aint working any more on those of us burned by the Obama takeover of our economy and lives?
Maybe this will be the final stab of the stake into the heart of old media: only if you powder puff Obama’s rear do you get your letter published on one of them without a background check…
January 24, 2010 at 8:20 am
Janet Napolitano has also used the “Magic Wand” phrase –
(http://74.125.47.132/search?q=cache:XTl42nCE-3AJ:www.btapartners.com/documents/NoMagicWand26Mar2009.doc+%22just+wave+a+magic+wand%22+Napolitano+-%22Ellie+Light%22&cd=1&hl=en&ct=clnk&gl=us
January 24, 2010 at 9:29 am
That’s true!!!!! She did say that!
January 25, 2010 at 12:35 pm
“MAGIC WAND MISSING FROM OVAL OFFICE!”
Russellville Arkansas Courier Newspaper.
Just love how they showed their “disdain” with that headline!
LOL
January 24, 2010 at 10:54 am
Since these are email Letters to the Editor, we need to get as many copies of these email Internet headers to see where these emails originated. These headers contain the routing information for the emails, point of origin to destination. Computer forensics can be fun. If they can be traced back to a single point, then nail the liars hides to the wall.
January 24, 2010 at 11:22 am
in the Obama administration is Cass Sunstein, the czar of regulatory policy.
I thought you might like to know more about Cass Sunstein. This information is from a speech given by the President of Hillsdale College and re-printed in Imprimus a publcation ( free ) put out by Hillsdale
Speech rights????
Mr. Sunstein is a very smart man—a law professor, like the president—but he is on record saying that speech rights should be redistributed by government bureaucrats much as wealth is redistributed through post-New Deal tax and entitlement policy. This is not supposed to be a country where there are czars dealing with things like speech. But it is such a country right now.
January 24, 2010 at 3:47 pm
the only difference is that POTUS was never a professor. He attained senior lecturer status… nothing more.
January 25, 2010 at 12:37 pm
I honestly think he only was a “substitute teacher” for an hour or two.
January 24, 2010 at 12:34 pm
http://www.riehlworldview.com/carnivorous_conservative/2010/01/linking-ellie-light-to-the-white-house.html
Ahhh…Axelrod and his PR firm contact. It’s going to be funny when this story breaks wide open. People are not going to let this die out. He and his ties to PR firms trying to smear Sarah Palin…the public needs to see what ugliness goes on with these sleaze bags.
January 24, 2010 at 1:12 pm
Mark Spivey looks like another Ellie Light.
http://www.freerepublic.com/focus/bloggers/2435890/posts?page
January 24, 2010 at 2:41 pm
The same guy that created the Who is Ellie Light? Facebook page now has one up for Who is Mark Spivey?
http://www.facebook.com/group.php?gid=272559025123
January 24, 2010 at 2:59 pm
Here’s the Facebook page for Who is Ellie Light?
http://www.facebook.com/group.php?v=wall&ref=search&gid=261752540668
January 25, 2010 at 8:50 am
look up
“who is ellie light” in the facebook….
the picture of her looks very familiar
January 24, 2010 at 2:25 pm
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January 24, 2010 at 3:12 pm
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January 24, 2010 at 3:17 pm
..sherlock holmes needs to take a backseat..u guys are amazing, so now we think we know who ellie is!
January 24, 2010 at 4:42 pm
Here is the latest from Dan Riehl and his intrepid crew:
http://www.riehlworldview.com/carnivorous_conservative/2010/01/linking-ellie-light-to-the-white-house.html
And here is what they found during the 2008 campaign that Obama’s team attempted to do to Sarah Palin (it’s worth following the entire “story”, just to see how much better “our” side is at investigation…):
http://www.riehlworldview.com/carnivorous_conservative/2008/09/did-obama-fund.html
January 24, 2010 at 4:57 pm
You’ve got an interesting website. My wife told me about it, and I’m impressed.
The Washington Post website has been absolutely awash in DNC trolls over the past several months in my opinion.
Hopefully, information as to who Ellie Light really is will come to light.
January 24, 2010 at 5:47 pm
Never underestimate the dark side of the force. Careful. Watch your back. Gather ammo slowly and solidly. It is so good to have you guys on the front lines. Mazoltov!!!
January 24, 2010 at 5:49 pm
Were we already aware that “Barack” means… Light?
I’m serious… I knew we joked about him being the light bringer, but I didn’t know if we were aware that “Barack” and “Ellie” both mean light.
http://www.yeahbaby.com/meaning-of-names.php?id=light&page=all-1
Oh MY GOODNESS..
But Obama means… (wait for it…)
“He crooked.”
I kid you not:
“‘Obama’ is a name from the Luo ethnic group of southwestern Kenya, where Barack Obama, Sr. was born. It was originally the given name of Barack Obama’s great-grandfather. It is based on the Luo (technically, Dholuo, the name of the language of the Luo) word bam, which means “crooked, slightly bending. The prefix O- means ‘he.’”
January 24, 2010 at 5:53 pm
Hmmm… Freepers say Samantha Power once won an Ellie Award.
January 24, 2010 at 11:12 pm
My name is Ellie Light, and I am an individual amazed at the lack of support offered for President Obama, especially by people of his own party, by people who worked very hard to elect him. By design, this email will land in the in-boxes of Obama’s opponents, and I’ve got to hand you one thing. You guys know a thing or two about loyalty. When President Bush became unpopular for his decisions, you guys stood by him. When Trent Lott and Delay told the pro-lifers and school-prayer folks to put a cork in it, because “now is not the time,” you did as you were told. And no sarcasm intended, because it was good for the GOP to show some loyalty. We Dems appear to have zero. Take the Guantanamo decision. Obama promised he’d close it. What about the prisoners? Do we ship ‘em back to their country of origin? Do we force them on a particular US state? Anyone with a brain would realize that there are many steps between stating the intention of closing it, and sending the prisoners on thier way. But count on us Dems to start calling “Liar, Liar.” Oh, and of course, we Democrats are the same people who complain about the growing power of the Executive Branch, pointing out that ever since Nixon, the President’s war-making power, and over-reaching Executive privilege have increased. But yet, we Democrats complain the loudest that the President lacks what it takes do the things he promised, at least not fast enough. You know. Do them right now. Before my coffee gets cold and I have to change the TV station. Speaking of TV, that “put the cameras in the health care debate” attack was another self-defeating move. As if it were the President’s decision alone to muscle past Congress and force the cameras into their faces. The President can promise to do something, but what with the world collapsing around us and all, it might take a little time to work through each promise. But I think it makes us Democrats feel independent and enlightened to deliver up stinging critiques of Obama’s every action. It shows the world that we are not blind followers. As if it were a point of embarrassment to stand by a President in a tough moment. Sheesh. Trash Obama so you can burnish your credentials as a Peace Activist. Trash Obama so you can sound like a Genuine Liberal. What Priorities. Heaven forbid that a person set aside their timetable and allow a new President to get his bearings. So I’m not surprised with you guys, the folks who stay up late finding something sinister in everything Obama says and does. You’re just carrying out your beliefs. It’s like church. I’m mostly just shocked with my own kind, because, unless we Democrats learn a bit about loyalty, about a unified front, you Tea Partiers will all enjoy front row seats to kiss the feet of Queen Sarah on the White House lawn in January 2013.
January 25, 2010 at 12:19 am
There are 4 more fake people writing duplicate letters according to this:
http://patterico.com/2010/01/24/still-more-astroturfing-gloria-elle-and-jan-chen-write-the-same-anti-republican-pro-obama-letter/
I wonder how many states they all voted in.
January 25, 2010 at 12:46 pm
Honestly we should scour the voter registrations!
January 25, 2010 at 1:27 am
large article identifying other names any places. our energ is better spend writing own own letters instead of tracking down this stupid people http://patterico.com/2010/01/24/still-more-astroturfing-gloria-elle-and-jan-chen-write-the-same-anti-republican-pro-obama-letter/
January 25, 2010 at 12:47 pm
Just so the un-Democratic Party can continue to IGNORE those protest letters – just as they ignored a multitude of peaceful protests all last year……
January 25, 2010 at 9:44 am
Here’s Ellie Light again.
http://www.riehlworldview.com/carnivorous_conservative/2010/01/linking-ellie-light-to-the-white-house.html?cid=6a00d83451c1db69e20128770d944f970c#comment-6a00d83451c1db69e20128770d944f970c
This got posted on Riehl about half an hour ago. WTH?
January 25, 2010 at 12:09 pm
We’ve heard from Ellie:
http://amykane.typepad.com/blog/2010/01/ellie-light-comments-on-my-blog.html
At least she claims to be Ellie, heh heh!
January 25, 2010 at 11:16 pm
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January 26, 2010 at 10:33 pm
Ellie Light comes clean via:
http://hotair.com/archives/2010/01/26/good-news-ellie-light-comes-clean-admits-shes-a-guy/
yeah, right.
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