Ellie Light is a supporter of Obama, and believes in writing letters to the editors of her local papers. She has had an amazing amount of success at getting published in her home town. In fact, in ALL of her home towns. She has been published in a total of 68 publications in 31 states, and in each case claimed a different address local to the paper in question.
You can find a complete list of her publications here:
http://patterico.com/2010/01/23/ellie-lights-obama-letters/
And yes, her letter was published in the Huntsville Times, and her home town was identified as Huntsville, Alabama. Even though she lives somewhere in southern California.
A woman claiming to be THE Ellie Light called in to a talk radio show, and you can listen to this interview below.
http://www.realclearpolitics.com/video/2010/01/26/ellie_light_reveals_herself_on_michael_smerconish_show.html
It is, of course, dishonest to misrepresent yourself in a situation such as this, and it was wrong of her to do so. Had she not been discovered, her letters may have contributed to a mis-perception of reality, namely that Obama is more popular than he in fact really is. Every one of those local venues believed the writer was local.
I have to be honest, though, I'm not that upset about her. She has the right to do precisely what she did... how is it different from us writing to Congressmen who don't represent us and asking them to vote this way or that? The only difference is that she lied about her address, and that's not a huge deal to me.
I mean, compare it with what our politicians do every day, and we just look the other way... no comparison at all.
And if you're interested in the letter she wrote, you can read a lot of it here:
http://www.cleveland.com/open/index.ssf/2010/01/letter_writer_claims_diverse_r.html
Tuesday, January 26, 2010
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Here's the thing...because I've written a couple of letters in my life to be published in the local paper. Every single time...they called my house...and it was a minimum of five days later before it got published. So, I'm standing here...and trying not to laugh...but the odds are...the paper's ownership or management team never called on this one letter.
ReplyDeleteNow, if this were true....would you continue to subscribe to a paper who sleeps in an unethical bed and openly runs a fake paper? That's the real question here.
So I openly challenge any and all of these papers involved...show the proof that you actually called Ellie. It's written policy for every single paper and their editorial staff. Go ask the Nashville paper. Go ask the Memphis paper. Go ask the Guntersville folks. Go and ask the Montgomery folks.
Once you figure this out...you just might cancel your subscription and say adios. This is the sad part of the story that I think most are missing.
Click on the audio link and listen to the interview. She says she DID get calls back from most of them, and she lied again about her place of residence, and they took her word.
ReplyDeleteEven with those that called, she lied about her address. What is needed is a slightly more onerous check... ask for an address and then check in the local directory to see if a person by that name lives at the specified address. no verification, no printed letter.
Oh, the scandal!!! Got to be Nixon behind this.
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