Obama has suspicious number of letter-writing fans named 'Ellie Light'

[Newsjock]

Source: Cleveland Plain Dealer

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.

... Light – who e-mailed an identical missive to this reporter on Jan. 16 without listing a hometown – would not answer e-mailed questions about the address discrepancies in newspapers that ran her letter, or her identity, although she did say she wasn’t a former co-worker of this reporter’s who had a similar name.

“I do not write as a representative of any organization,” she said in an e-mail. “The letter I wrote was motivated by surprise and wonderment at the absence of any media support for our President, who won a record-breaking election by a landslide less than 18 months ago, and now, seems to be abandoned by all, supposedly for the infantile reason that he couldn’t make all of Bush’s errors disappear in one day.”

Read more: http://www.cleveland.com/open/index.ssf/2010/01/letter_writer_claims_diverse_r.html

[RUMMYisFROSTED]

1. It's an outrage!

:grr:

[TicketyBoo]

2. Yeah,

how DARE anyone support the President? :sarcasm:

[EFerrari]

4. "It's an outrage, it's a scandal, it's a problem we must stop!"

-- OKLAHOMA!

(sorry, earworm)

[Robb]

3. Among my first posts at DU

...involved an astroturfer for teh Deciderer. I'll see if I can find it; atrocious practice.

[Robb]

8. Ah, found it.

OK, not exactly "among my first" posts, but anyhow:

http://www.democraticunderground.com/discuss/duboard.php?az=show_topic&forum=104&topic_id=850207

[Brickbat]

5. It amazes me that newspapers still fall for astroturfers.

It's not that hard to check.

[MisterP]

6. "Ellie Light": we have a new name now for those repeating that ridiculous chestnut

that critics are infantile, selfish, or "can't see that he's taking us in the right direction and will destroy the country because he's not doing it fast enough," or "he has so much to clean up"

of course, loyalists and sockpuppets can't see that his conservative policies are conservative, instead labeling them as the fulfillment of decades of progressivism: the feeble House health ins bill and obscene Senate bill are both "awaited since 1942" or "do it for Teddy"

[Robb]

7. Name-calling actually *is*infantile.

But knock yourself out. :hi: