"The FBI and police used a myriad of other "dirty tricks" to undermine progressive movements"

sounds good to me. proggs/commies/fascist/statists kill

How stupid do you have to be to expect that not to be noticed?

Now that their idiocy has been exposed, they'll stop using the same name, but I figure they'll be stupid enough to use a lot of the same wording and caught again.
I really wonder who did it, that is pernicious.

Am I missing the joke somewhere, or is my mind so twisted that I can't see straight?

That looks like a photshop of Barry Hussein's face on some body's picture.

And suppose Ellie Lite (heh) is a right wing plot.

When thinking conspiracy you have to be really devious.

I think Ellie was done by the Conspiracy Conspiracy.

As someone who has written a number of letters to the editor, it would be interesting to know her success rate at being published. If she has been published in 47 papers, she probably submitted to far more.

My interest in this is if she has an astonishingly high success rate, then (1) her letter must have struck a cord with the editors, and (2) a high percentage of our newspapers are quite gullible.

As someone who has written a number of letters to the editor, it would be interesting to know her success rate at being published. If she has been published in 47 papers, she probably submitted to far more.

My interest in this is if she has an astonishingly high success rate, then (1) her letter must have struck a cord with the editors, and (2) a high percentage of our newspapers are quite gullible.

Just because conspiracy theories are paranoid, doesn't mean there's no conspiracy.

Just because conspiracy theories are paranoid, doesn't mean there's no conspiracy.

I second the notion put forth by Larry Sheldon.

Something seems out of sorts.

During the campaign, we were told that Obama was a "lightbringer". We all thought that was just some New Age nonsense. Now, we know it was literal. Obama is a "lightbringer" and her name is Ellie Light.

As someone as Douplusundead last night, newspapers call when they're going to print your letter.
What are the odds that that many newspapers chose her letters, it' s not all that easy to get a letter published, and then didn't all of those dozens of newspapers didn't mind that phone number didn't reach Ellie Light and that wasn't her address?

Making it more likely to be a conspiracy with the newspapers' collusion.

So it seems to me the most likely explanation is either a Soros-type, buy-the-media operation (how funny would it if it was Gleen?) or an Axelrod-type "astroturf" operation.

Two more things.
Via Drudge, Ellie Light responds to this reporter
http://www.cleveland.com/open/index.ssf/2010/01/letter_writer_claims_diverse_r.html

There's a good back and forth at the end of the article showing Ellie to be quite the thinker and oh so polite.
Or not.
And 2
It's "Enquiring minds want to know". I know that's bad English, but it was the Enquirer who coined that.

My leg is tingling...she's so beautiful.

I predixct that "Ellie Light" will quickly become a most popular screen name. Heh!

So, at least 47 newspapers have been scammed by this writer. How many will step up and put some real resources into finding out who did this?

What I find really interesting is that this letter was able to make it into so many newspapers. "Ellie" found the button to press that makes dozens of editors hop.

So, here's a challenge: write a letter from the conservative point of view that will be published by as many newspapers. Find that hard to imagine? I do, too. This is a clear a demonstration of the lock-step thinking that prevails in the journalistic profession as any I've ever seen.

Well this will make it easy for Harry Reid. He can say the things about Ms light as he said about Obama!

Doing a search for ellie light I ran across a surprising number of search results that display these phrases in no particular order
"i am sam movie. free slots. conan last show. cafe world. marcela ... j d hayworth. bok center. i am sam movie. free slots. ellie light. remi belle. remi belle ..."
None of these words actually appear on the websites so must be hidden keywords which is beyond my expertise. Many of those appear on university websites and a few on wordpress blogs.

So that's what they meant by Obama being a "Lightworker". It is all clear now.

Ellie Lightbringer wrote:

a president can't just wave a magic wand and fix everything.

Maybe Ellie and her friends shouldn't have worked so hard to discourage people from listening to us.

I heard from two reliable sources that Ellie Light was out clubbing Friday night in Austin, Texas with Lucy Ramirez.

I am Ellie Light!

If we could find letters to 7 states, that don't exist, we would know who it was for sure.

I hear she likes to wear "Mom" jeans.

Lucifer was a light-bringer too. There seems to be a long family tradition at work.

Please make use of Patterico's list to post comments at the victimized websites simply explaining

The “Ellie Light” letter is part of a nationwide astroturf voter manipulation campaign. Please see patterico.com/2010/01/23/ellie-lights-obama-letters for a list of mostly small newspapers across the country that have been victimized. Please use the list to post comments at the websites alerting their readers to the scam.

Please make use of Patterico's list to post comments at the victimized websites simply explaining

The “Ellie Light” letter is part of a nationwide astroturf voter manipulation campaign. Please see patterico.com/2010/01/23/ellie-lights-obama-letters for a list of mostly small newspapers across the country that have been victimized. Please use the list to post comments at the websites alerting their readers to the scam.

The reporter at the Cleveland Plains Dealer needs to pull the headers off of Ellie Light's email and post them online.

I bet there's some interesting data to be gleaned from those.

I know my local paper calls to confirm name and address before publishing a letter. So it could be that all the newspapers involved colluded with local Democrats, but it’s more likely that this was simply orchestrated by some DNC-related group. All they needed was someone in each city or town willing to answer their phone and claim to be Ellie. If the papers involved have any desire to retain their reputations they will cooperate with efforts to identify the people and organizations behind this. When Republicans orchestrated a letter-writing campaign to support President Bush, the MSM turned it into a major story. Let’s see if they do the same now.

via hot air
http://patterico.com/2010/01/24/who-is-mark-spivey/
They found Ellie Light's husband.

I know my local paper calls to confirm name and address before publishing a letter. So it could be that all the newspapers involved colluded with local Democrats

Or they called the number that came with the e-mail and the writer lied about her name and address. Horses, not zebras. :) And it's not like honesty has ever been a core value of the progressive left...

That is one ugly woman.

BTW, Ellie is related to light in Greek/French. There's reason to believe the name is simply made up.

"She" looks like B. Hussein Obama in drag.

I think I worked it out. "Ellie Light" is an anagram for "Hell, I Legit!"

Amy:

Wondering if you could move my blog Common Cents up to either Top Brass or even 4-Star Generals on BLUF?

Just asking... thanks and keep up the great work....

Steve

http://www.commoncts.blogspot.com

Thanks for all the comments, but Amy! You have a request! Where are you?

This excitement is really overblown. These letters were written by a fifty-something man who got carried away and started writing to every newspaper in America under several names.
The truth is so ordinary that it's dull.
I know "Ellie Light", but don't have permission to reveal who he is.