1 It also means that 65+ "news" outlets around the world were over-eager to publish this bit of Obama cocksucking.

2 No collusion my ass!

So we're to understand that this woman spent hours at the computer going to webpage after webpage after webpage either sending her letter that way, or writing them an actual letter?

My BALLS!

3 It's "coordinated" in the sense that the Obama supporters have been taught that the ends justifies the means and that they are given regular talking points to echo whether it be through these letters to the editor or the Facebook and other social networking tools. 

4 I dig how you worked risible in there.

5 >>>So we're to understand that this woman spent hours at the computer going to webpage after webpage after webpage either sending her letter that way, or writing them an actual letter? Why does this strike you as so unlikely? Once you've drafted the letter it's no so difficult to just send it to a bunch of email addresses.

6 Sorry About Yesterday/Today: I got really run-down and have one of those flus or whatnot where you get a headful of liquid and you get a little dizzy when you just turn your head.

BS! It was irradiated pudding you mistook for pistachio.
Are you a Superhero or a Villain?

7

Ellie's brain would float away save for her brain stem tether.

OT: I friggin' hate electricity, you just can't trust the shifty electron...

8 She still fucking LIED! 

9

A real nurse, or a fake nurse like that fake doctor who showed up at the townhall?

10 The comments to Ben Smith are pretty funny; as in pointing out what a witless tool he is. 

11 You're absolutely correct: there's no need for anyone to have orders from "the top" in order to wreck havoc.  Just as we did not need orders from the "bosses" to start marching in the streets.

Funny how they want to put us right up there with the so-called "vast right-wing conspiracy."  Funny how they want to make the people think we have no support from a huge segment of the American People.  They are "misunderestimating" us - which is a BIG mistake.

12

Great post. 

It's time for AOS readers to realize that blogging is hard work, and that Ace can't just wave a magic wand and report everything.

13 Why does this strike you as so unlikely? Once you've drafted the letter it's no so difficult to just send it to a bunch of email addresses.

She still has to sit there, Google the paper, do a Google maps search to get a local city to make up as her address, and then cut and paste it.

That's work.

Hell, I didn't want to cut and paste what YOU wrote so people would know what hell I am talking about.

And I like you. Not in a pudding sharing way. But in a 'Let's go shoot hobos and then tickle some hookers' way.

14 Yeah, its 2010. You don't need a memo from Axelrod. People know the tune, so they dance. No need to have everyone actually listening at the same place to the same song.

It's like the whole gov't/media "No links to AQ" whenever there is an attack or attempt. OBL doesn't send out a frag order to Abdul and Isamil. They know the game plan and they do their best to carry it out. Of course, their best tends to suck. You know, I always thought that if those planes had taken off from Texas instead of the whiny weak North, 9/11 would have turned out a little differently.

BTW, I am not in any way trying to compare the Axelrod/Plouffe network to AQ. One are enemies of freedom, determined to bring down this country, and the other are a bunch of cave dwelling maniacs.

15 Ace - get well.

16 For flu-dizzy heads:

A tablespoon of wasabi followed by a swig of Valu-Rite
Repeat six times in rapid succession

You'll feel better.  Promise.

17
btw, this shows that the so-called purity test isn't such a bad idea.

There is no good reason whatsoever for any of our candidates to have any opinions that match the Democrats, I don't care what region they're running in.

The Democrats aren't winning. They're cheating.

18 You said 'Boy'...RAAAAACIST!

19
AAaaannnddd the 'outing' has been retracted by yet ANOTHER Ellie Light, this one from the original email (see updates).

20 Ace, you need to take better care of yourself, dude. Mix in a few vitamins with the pudding, already.

21 I got really run-down and have one of those flus or whatnot where you get a headful of liquid and you get a little dizzy when you just turn your head.

I didn't know they'd let you out of rehab that fast.  Or was it just a pudding overdose.  (can it even get into your system that way?)

Glad you're back.

22 Cleveland Plain Dealer just retracted he story, turns out it wasn't Barbara Brooks after all that wrote the letter.

23 All nurses aren't stupid, but the dumbest girls I ever dated were nurses, if that's any comfort to those of you who intend to be patients in a hospital anytime soon..

24

UPDATE: Now somebody calling herself Brooks is denying the story to the Plain Dealer, at the link above. This is, a reader notes, a deep rabbit hole.

UPDATE: And because I love rabbit holes, the deeper the better, another update: "Ellie Light" emails from the same Yahoo account that was the source of the original letter: "Where is there a denial?... it's not from me!!"

From Ben Smith link above...

25 ace is just trolling for Babs Brooks to come on over for a "house call".

26

It also means that 65+ "news" outlets around the world were over-eager to publish this bit of Obama cocksucking.

As a person working at one of those "news" outlets I can say that the water cooler Obama worship rituals have become a bit muted in favor of scornful screeds against Fox News and Sarah Palin.  Since the Scott Brown Victory I've noticed that we have fewer people taking part in the "Two Minutes of Hate."  They are getting demoralized.

27 Explain how one of her emails came from italy(82.59.164.11) and another email came from a bot net in saudi arabia(212.24.236.50)...

"""""

UPDATE: Now somebody calling herself Brooks is denying the story to the Plain Dealer, at the link above. This is, a reader notes, a deep rabbit hole.

UPDATE: And because I love rabbit holes, the deeper the better, another update: "Ellie Light" emails from the same Yahoo account that was the source of the original letter: "Where is there a denial?... it's not from me!!"

"""""

28

Now that we know who she is we can teabag her, right?

29 I'd bet a dollar ol' Barb here has a connection to Acorn or SEIU.

That said, I am starting not to trust anybody with the last name Brooks.  (Yeah, you to Garth).

30 A real nurse, or a fake nurse like that fake doctor who showed up at the townhall?

Good question.

cynically believing people to be both 1) stupid and 2) shallow enough to join a bandwagon just because the illusion of a bandwagon had been created.

Isn't that how he won the Iowa caucus (...along with some fraud and bullying)?  He went from Senator Neverheardof'im to rock star in months, with the help of stupid college kids.  Or am I confusing viral with bandwagon?

31 Someone needs to check the places this traveling nurse has worked and see if there is a corresponding spike in patient deaths from "natural causes."

32 She is following Alinksy Rule #14, pretend to get "death threats" ...

"The Plain Dealer is not publishing her exact address, which can be difficult to find, because she says she has received e-mail threats that say, essentially, "We know who you are and we're coming to get you."

33 I find it really difficult to believe that she didn't have some kind of "advice" on this, maybe even just from the CA Democratic Party. FYI, the practice of spamming identical or nearly-identical letters to the editor in different newspapers (under the names of residents of the district) is not unheard of. Democrats got caught doing it without the residents' consent here in Michigan awhile ago. When I worked for MRP, we bombarded Bart Stupak's district with letters urging him to vote against the healthcare bill. Lot of good that did, in retrospect.

Still, I'm pretty sure this wasn't just some isolated woman acting of her own volition.

34

"I got really run-down and have one of those flus or whatnot where you get a headful of liquid and you get a little dizzy when you just turn your head."

Little-known side-effect of puddin' dippin'.

35 Someone needs to check the places this traveling nurse has worked and see if there is a corresponding spike in patient deaths from "natural causes."

Heh, seeing how the original outting letter says she was bring the word 'to the enemy' in 'deep, deep red states.'

I don't believe it though.

36 This is Ace in his A game. Eloquent, clear and witty. If it were not for the interwebs, it would be probably impossible to see that side of him, given the ewok appearances.

Thank you for the post and I sincerely hope that fermenting liquids sloshing around in your cavities will not bother you any more than they have to.

37 Look, lay off of my wife. She has a little drinking problem, that's all.

38 I love how this letter says a president can't wave a magic wand and fix the problems. Yeah, well the problem is this empty suit promised nothing short of swaying the orbits of the planets with his sheer presence and at the same time blamed the last president over and over.

I swear, the libs are thee most 2 faced hypocrites that ever ooooozed along the planet's surface.

39 She still has to sit there, Google the paper, do a Google maps search to get a local city to make up as her address, and then cut and paste it.

That's work.

Tea-partiers have been doing that all year, only with Congress.  Look 'em up, find a ZIP in their districts, call 'em up.

40 I'm still not sold, and Ben Smith's take isn't the final word for me. It's not just that she found a whole boatload of papers to write to, it's what appears to be a consistency of the demographics of many of those papers and periodicals. These papers were carefully selected, and unless "Ellie" admits she wrote the same letters to other papers and wasn't published, I'm still smelling astroturf on a higher level than one nurse in Kern County (that's Bakersfield, not Huntington Beach, Seal Beach, or Laguna Beach-where the IP address was first traced).

41

What it means is that Barbara Brooks is a LIAR.

42 the original outting letter says she was bring the word 'to the enemy' in 'deep, deep red states.'


Like Iowa, where he won the caucus...Schyeah.  Right.  Monkeys, butt, etc.

43 Doesn't Organize for America have a site where you can generate letters to send out? With talking points? And what about all the other astroturfed letters Patterico has discovered? Are they all "innocent"?

44 And so if this wasn't a grand conspiracy, what did it mean?

It means there are no freaking checks at all over what gets printed in the paper, you painstakingly layered maroons. 

45 Something not to be missed here is the electoral college blow-out duh1's team engineered. The 52% popular vote result isn't the whole story...the prick could be re-elected with 45% popular vote.

46 So long as it's not a head full of, uh hum,,, that liquid.

47

Ellie exposed!

But as usual, I'm flabbergasted by the dem machine's stupidity in their tactics. The same name world wide? PLEASE.

As for Beck, I've silently tolerated the digs I read here. I really like the guy. His historical facts have put my schooling to the shame it deserves. And I let him tie together all those political tidbits that I don't have time for. His rodeo-clown schtick just adds to my personal enjoyment, too.

I've tolerated the Beck digs I read here, but every Moron exposes teh stupid sometimes.

48 Don't believe the lies.

49 Tea-partiers have been doing that all year, only with Congress.  Look 'em up, find a ZIP in their districts, call 'em up.
Posted by: HeatherRadish

I disagree with them doing it also.

Let the real constituents get off their duffs.

Here in CONNECTICUT we had a Tea Party Rally where a Republican, a Indy (we CAN'T have Libertarians run under the Libertarian tag) and *gasp* a GREEN Party candidate for Congress come and talk.

Elizabeth and I couldn't go. I had to work.

But if we can do this in CONNECTICUT, other mofos can do it.

50

UPDATE: Now somebody calling herself Brooks is denying the story to the Plain Dealer, at the link above. This is, a reader notes, a deep rabbit hole.

UPDATE: And because I love rabbit holes, the deeper the better, another update: "Ellie Light" emails from the same Yahoo account that was the source of the original letter: "Where is there a denial?... it's not from me!!"

The stupid!  It's full of stars!

51 The story was never really about Ellie Light (Barbara Brooks) - it was always about the 60 plus and still counting papers that printed her letter.  

52

This little kerfluffle is far from over.  I'm betting the Ellie Light story has a couple of more layers and plenty of more ties to Obama and those that worship him.

No matter what happens, the Ellie Light sock will be a joy to AoS posters for months on end.

53 13 Why does this strike you as so unlikely? Once you've drafted the letter it's no so difficult to just send it to a bunch of email addresses.

She still has to sit there, Google the paper, do a Google maps search to get a local city to make up as her address, and then cut and paste it.

That's work.

But it's not work to use Organizing For America, which will send any letter you write to the inboxes at dozens of newspapers at the touch of a single button.  And will even give you a local adress for the byline.  I don't know whether Ellie Brooks used this site, but I'm sure there are many which work the same way.

54 Aaaaaaace!!!!!

55
hmmm, Ellie Light

....el light...

the light

Ellie Light = The Light


the original outting letter says she was bring the word 'to the enemy' in 'deep, deep red states.'

56

Att morons...Mike Pence NOT running...Hmmmm

from Red State

 

57 I am a nurse and I do travel the country, investigating instances where doctors have needlessly removed tonsils for profit. 

58 IMO, the fact that some bint used a dropdown menu at "Organizing for America" to email a cut-and-paste letter to five gazillion news outlets is not the real issue.

Nor is the real issue that most of those news outlets published those letters.

Nor is the real issue that some outlets (e.g. Baltimore Sun) publish almost nothing but obvious Astroturfs in their letters-to-the-editor sections.

No, the real issue is that we have walking among us people stupid enough to honestly think they are making a difference by spamming newspapers nobody reads.

59
Whoever Ellie Light is, s/he sees him/herself in the same vain as Matthew, Mark, Luke, and John.

Think about. Ellie Light was preaching the gospel of Obama. S/he was showing us 'the light.'

60 I totally saw Joe the Plumber necking Kiirsten Wiig at the SNL after party.  Ellie Light was there too.

61 Subterfuge, fog, smoke and mirrors, sandstorm.  The Ellie Light story and coverup has not even begun to be exposed. They are trying to mke it go away, trying to get people to say, OK case closed.  It is not closed by any means. 

62 Ellie Light?

Never heard of the skank.

63

Att morons...Mike Pence NOT running...Hmmmm

from Red State

Posted by: dananjcon

 

Mr. Speaker has bigger plans IMO

64 ^{Ellie Light = Deb Frisch}

65 I saw Ellie Light walking with the Queen.

And her hair was perfect.

Zeep!

66 How old is she?

67 Ellie light, Ellieligh,t Ellieight, Elliot be good?

68 I am Ellie Light!

69 Ellie Light = Smelly Hippie Dude

70 She now says it was her husband, however Gawker says another person claiming to be Ellie has e-mailed them. So who fucking knows.

71 It's okay, Ace; your cobloggers have borrowed enough of your cerebral juices to swim around in.

72 Follow all the links out to Gawker. Ellie Light, RIP.

And onto more substantive matters, thank you, Ace. As for 45/55 approval, try this from the comments at an American Thinker article:

Mattled| 1.26.10 @ 7:58AM

I don't think it's been widely reported how low his approval really is. Rasmussen is already targeted so he's had to soften it up.
Zogby? He called Choke-ly in Mass. last week. NBC? CBS? CNN?
Newsweak?
RRiiigghhhttt.

He's in the 30's. EVERY person I talk to who has ever been called by a pollster doesn't participate. Even my outspoken anti-Obama brother won't do a poll. Ergo the Dems problem.
The pollsters over-sample Dems because they have to put out a poll every day. They bury the sampling and put it out.

He's toast folks. That's why he's going down fighting. He has nothing else. This time next year he'll be announcing his decision not to run. I said it in December 2008 and I'll say it again.

I've had 20 years in media doing focus groups, ratings, retail trends and consumer tracking. He's toast.

73 So. It was disorganized. grabasstic shit instead of organized grabasstic shit.

Someone needs to set this idiotic nurse down and make her learn a little about Jim Jones. He's the last person I remember having the Obama kind of messiah complex.

I figured the letters were written by the journalice themselves. Huh.

74 Pretty much we have a non-story.

This has gone far beyond a 'Gotcha!' and is now in the realm of the inane.

75 Isn't Barbara Brooks married to Winston Steward(winston44)?  Patterico is where I go for the scoop.

76 OFA (Organizing for America) has some kind of contact form site that you can write a letter and submit it and the form sends it to newpapers for you - it also gives you Talking Points as well, I have a feeling Ms Ellie Light wrote this, and whoever is running the OFA database decided that it would be good to send all over the place to get the word out. It's pretty disgusting, and Patterico's done yeoman's work on this. Hit Patterico's site for more info on that magic contact form

77

I've tolerated the Beck digs I read here, but every Moron exposes teh stupid sometimes.

Agree

Deep behind enemy lines like the Washington Times?

78 I guess my theory that Ellie Light was really Killgore Trout was a bit off

79 I guess my theory that Ellie Light was really Killgore Trout was a bit off

I was just getting ready to sockpuppet him.

80 So, is she the same Ellie Light who was writing explanatory letters to bloggers all day yesterday with really weird-ass IP addresses?

Yeah, verily, this smelleth.

81

Flood newspapers with 47 virtually-identical letters, just like the annoying Ron Paul Zealots used to do, cynically believing people to be both 1) stupid and 2) shallow enough to join a bandwagon just because the illusion of a bandwagon had been created.

OTOH, this is pretty much the exact process people engage in when they vote for a primary candidate because "the other guy can't win."  So, yeah, it's cynical, but it also is very effective, much to my irritation.

82 Ellie Light = Joe.

Joe who?

JO MAMMA!

83
is she the bitch who brained me a candle stick...

in the parlor?

84 It helps if, before you comment, you actually read the comments.

85 I guess my theory that Ellie Light was really Killgore Trout was a bit off Posted by: kbdabear at January 26, 2010 02:46 PM (sYxEE) Well did she end all her letters by "bowing and paying due reverence to the big Johnson"?

86 I'm sure she wrote all those letters. I know how she feels! Some people don't believe that I wrote all those screenplays.

87
I hate missing words more than I hate the italics.

88 I've noticed on Newsbusters that for the past few days, Chris Matthews has been saying some things that actually make sense. Maybe he's vying for a position on FNC?

89
Why does this strike you as so unlikely? Once you've drafted the letter it's no so difficult to just send it to a bunch of email addresses.

Shoot, MS Word has had a "mailmerge" function for...decades? the hard part is composing the letter. I would guess that the Usual Suspects have already harvested the addresses necessary for that end of the mailmerge.

Of course, then there's the whole I live in X and my address is Y, and my phone # is Z. Nice catch, editors.

Layers and layers of fact checking...

90

Does she know Bill Ayres?

I would love to see a picture of this woman.

Is her name really Ellie Light?

91 Are we sure she is a nurse?  Better run an illegal background search using state resources.

May I recommend Ohio as a good conduit.

92 Weasel ))))

93 This little kerfluffle is far from over.  I'm betting the Ellie Light story has a couple of more layers and plenty of more ties to Obama and those that worship him.

Indeed.  A little deeper investigation into these people's organizational connections and political donations will undoubtedly reveal much. 

I'd think a $10,000 reward from one of the duped newspapers to anyone willing to reveal a deeper conspiracy (with proof) might have them falling all over each other to throw Ellie under the bus.

94 Now she is blaming her husband. This is sweet...

95

All of you teabaggers at (enter wingnut blog name) Hot Air Powerline InstapunditPajamas Media Wizbang Jammie Wearing Fool The Other McCain Atlas Shrugs Michelle Malkin  Ace of Spades  are fringe extremists out of touch with the overwhelming majority of Americans who support our President

96 Well, let us hope that Teleprompter Jesus doesn't get wind of this. I'd hate to see him break down and weep during his big rehash of his campaign stump speech State of the Union.

97 dagny, everyone knows that the husband is the first one to blame.  At least it is in my house.

98 En Fuego!

99 just ran over to Patterico's, apparently she posted this on her Facebook wall -- "Don’t think you can make a difference? Well, my husband wrote letters to newspapers under a pen name “Ellie Light” and over 42 newspapers published the letters and now Ellie Light is the most searched name on google. I don’t agree with using phony names, though. But then he isn’t a Mennonite . . ." It seems there is more to this. Also, the "don't think you can make a difference line" makes me want to punch my monitor.

100

Ace, what about the Papers that grabbed this 1 particular "letter"?

i'm certain thousands are written, but this one gets the stamp  of approval in 40+ papers.?

while she might be real, what of them?

 

101 If you heard the interview Smerconish did with Ms. Light, you'd catch a few things that don't pass the smell test.

She drops Ben Smith's name, but doesn't remember he writes for an outfit called Politico?

Come.  On.

102 Plain Dealer:

UPDATE: A woman claiming to be Barbara Brooks has now contacted The Plain Dealer and said she is not the letter writer; she claims her ex-husband is running a spoof. The newspaper is investigating; more details as they become available. What follows is our original story, published this morning.

103 forget my 103

104 Ellie Light? Never heard of her.

105 You only think I guessed wrong! That's what's so funny! I switched glasses when your back was turned! Ha ha! You fool! You fell victim to one of the classic blunders - The most famous of which is "never get involved in a land war in Asia" - but only slightly less well-known is this: "Never go against a Sicilian when death is on the line"! Ha ha ha ha ha ha ha! Ha ha ha ha ha ha ha! Ha ha ha...

106 A spoof?  This is better than balloon boy

107

Politico

UPDATE: And because I love rabbit holes, the deeper the better, another update: "Ellie Light" emails from the same Yahoo account that was the source of the original letter: "Where is there a denial?... it's not from me!!"

UPDATE: gawker talks to Brooks, who blames her husband. A Barbara Brooks also messaged me on Facebook with the same message.

Posted by Ben Smith 12:49 PM

108

And so if this wasn't a grand conspiracy, what did it mean?

It means patients are dieing while their nurse wages a one woman letter-to-the-editor campaign across America.

109 The icing on the Ellie cake would be a shout out for her tireless efforts by el presidente before the SOTU.

110 Make a difference!!! Lie!!!!

111 I blame Scott Brown for all of this.

112 I'm willing to go out on a limb and say this letter-writer is connected with the Dems officially in some way shape or form. And not just by voter registration.

This person is looking for a job or access at the very least.

113 It doesn't mean anything except these kool-aid drinkers want everyone assimilated. They will lie, cheat, steal, and worse to get there. As they see their communist utopia slipping away, they will redouble their efforts.

114 Ellie Light: I can't compete with you physically, and you're no match for my brains.
Mortis: You're that smart?
Ellie Light: Let me put it this way. Have you ever heard of Plato, Aristotle, Socrates?
Mortis: Yes.
Ellie Light: Morons.

115 Pretty funny, I did a quick search for fun and found O defenders use that magic wand phrase alot.  There are hundreds of these, a couple of examples:

"The economy everywhere is in big trouble, and these are problems that started long before he came into office," said Christopher Thornberg of Beacon Economics in Los Angeles. "Obama doesn't walk on water. He can't wave a magic wand and fix all that." 3/18/09 msnbc.com

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. 1/15/10 newsleader.com

116 if the shoe were on the other foot, right about now barbara brooks would be in the process of being destroyed by The Regime. hint, hint

117 101 En Fuego!

Posted by: that guy that shouts enfuego! at January 26, 2010 02:55 PM (PD1tk)

Good to see you back, unless you're pulling an Ellie on us.

118 People who oppose the President are bad crazy racists who reject science and are out to get me. Me and a special partner from Vanity Fair are going to rock the world with our special blog project that will slay the extremist Fox News once and for all.

Then I will return to my rightful place on the intertubes

119 Behold a god who bleeds!

120 From a perfectly serious medical standpoint:

Nobody should have to get an enema from a nurse that can't recognize an asshole when she sees one.

121 It's possible that there are just a bunch of people named Ellie Light. You don't know.

122

The 55% Fringe.

I want that on a shirt.

123 Walk towards the light.

124 Ellie Light=Carl Rove...Brilliant!

125 Have you updated? Barbara Brooks denies authorship. As an early commenter at Politico noted , the voice on the phone was a man, baby, and Barbara Brooks says it's her husband Winston Steward. Via Gawker: http://tiny.cc/fEy8D

126 119 if the shoe were on the other foot, right about now barbara brooks would be in the process of being destroyed by The Regime.


Heh, looks like the shoe is on the other hand now.

On the other foot, there's no here in Oakland, a tempest in a pot to piss in

127

Wow, Ace rises from his sickbed and posts a monstrous thread!  I hope you're feeling better.  I had to laugh when I read some of the comments at the Politico site:

Are we now suggesting that Republicans don't lie? How old are you commenters? By the way, Ben, I think its sleazy to post her real name and hometown. Are you trying to get her killed? She wrote some letters, she didn't kill anyone. She didn't steal anything. She penned some letters. Now, she could be physically in danger.

Someone else made a similar comment along the lines of "Thanks a lot Ben, now you're going to get this woman killed" with the inference that there are a bunch of armed unhinged right wing nuts running around out there who would love to do bodily harm to Miss Light.  I love how the left frequently engages in projection, and one of the other commenters pointed out that it wasn't town hall protesters that were doing bodily harm to others, but union thugs and the like.

128 Pretty funny, I did a quick search for fun and found O defenders use that magic wand phrase alot.

I wouldn't call myself an "O Defender" but I use my magic wand a lot.

129 118 Pretty funny, I did a quick search for fun and found O defenders use that magic wand phrase alot. There are hundreds of these, a couple of examples: Google "wand" and "axelrod." He himself has used the phrase in the same manner.

130 It seems there is more to this. Also, the "don't think you can make a difference line" makes me want to punch my monitor.

If by "making a difference" she/he/it means "filling the internet with rumors of astroturfing" or "making what little support my favorite pol has look fake and generated by some bogus letter writing campaign."  Then by all means, keep "making a difference".

131 122 Behold a god who bleeds!
Posted by: Salish at January 26, 2010 03:05 PM

Brain and brain, what is brain!!

132 The story that just keeps on giving.  Unbelievable. Watching it from the CPD website, it's as entertaining as it is interesting politically.  Should be the subplot of some show like Psych or Monk
It's rapidly becoming a  "Reuters Odd"-worthy story

133 Are you sure it wasn't the nurse David Brooks?

134

Here's hoping "Ellie Light" now gets what she deserves (I leave it to you to determine)

135 I'd make you that shirt, Mama AJ, but I reckon that 55% number isn't going to be stable. I'm guessing the fringe is only going to get bigger.

136 re: 96 "a $10,000 reward" for info. how about expand that to a general Bounty Hunter fund to get the info out on this and a lot of other things. think $10k would've gotten the edwards' activities exposed (so to speak) before the election? think there's not plenty of stuff to let loose on boxer, reid, hilary, and the rest? in the movie 'the wild bunch' william holden's character says that ten thousand cuts a lot of family ties. let the cutting begin.

137 So I was hitting the bong with a couple of friends and this dude says "Ellie, pass me a light."  Voila.  I found my pseudonym.

138 Oh, and I bet all the major newspapers will be sending hordes of reporters and fact checkers down to Kern County, CA to talk to her neighbors, employers, co-workers and sift through her garbage.  You know they would have if it were a "concern Christian conservative" defending George Bush in a similar tactic employed by Ms. Brooks.

139 Has anyone ever seen "Ellie Light" and "Ellers" in the same place at the same time?  I'm just askin'.

140 I vas not part uff dis meshuggenah Auftrag!

...but if I vas, mein Fuhrer Charles vood be sehr glücklich!

141 Hey Ellie, go away, this is my turf.

142 Also he could be a lone jihadi cult-thinger guy. But he calls himself an activist, and if old posts of his "count" he's been taught in some formal or semi-formal way, tricks of the trade. Las year he wrote a post at Kos wanting to discuss whether (as "we were taught", he says) it's counterproductive for persons outside of a district to put pressure on congressment - whether that's still true since donations can come from everywhere now, or whether it's best to find someone local to make the point. (or as his later strategy would suggest, pretend to BE local?) He does have some hookups with PR/marketing firms that have handled health care issues. One of them is an FB friend. Named, coincidentally, Ellie; Though there is nothing but something easily explained away as coincidence, there's not reall reason to connected her with this business. If he'd borrow his wifes name, for example, there's no reason he wouldn't borrow someone elses. But Winston doesn't write all that well and given twists and turns so far and his deceit and obvious pride in his deceit, I wouldn't exactly be shocked to find out he had help getting his message out.

143

Ellie Light! 

Same as the Original Ellie, but now with a lighter grasp on reality.

144

Dan Riehl:

If information I've been given is correct, there is circumstantial evidence linking now infamous letter writer Ellie Light to an international public relations firm involved with the White House in helping to promote health care reform.

145 134 122 Behold a god who bleeds!
Posted by: Salish at January 26, 2010 03:05 PM

Brain and brain, what is brain!!
Posted by: Kara at January 26, 2010 03:14 PM

It's the huge object inside my skull, which is bigger than yours.

I come up with these observations and brilliant insights without the aid of a hair dryer that the props dept glued Christmas tree lights to

Remember, it ain't over when it's over

146 128 Have you updated? Barbara Brooks denies authorship.
As an early commenter at Politico noted , the voice on the phone was a man, baby, and Barbara Brooks says it's her husband Winston Steward.

There's a Winston Steward enrolled or whatever @ HuffPo.  So there's that.  Checks out, cult-wise.

Cordially...

147

I don't see why publishing her name and address is a problem.

I've had letters to the editor published numerous times.  My hometown is always included in the paper.

These maggot infested LIBTARDS want to play.  Let's play.

I'm not going to kill her or her hippy cock sucking husband, but I'm certainly not going to criticize someone OUTING them.

Maybe they can move into a gated community with Charlie the Goat fucker Johnson.

148 come on, Ellie, let me dip my balls.

149 I thought you had to supply your real name and contact info to newspaper for your letter to get published? Or, were these just online comments? Did anyone verify that she is actually a nurse? Run public records and they will tell you if she has a RN license.

150 Is Ellie Light an environmentally friendly CFL?

151

I'd make you that shirt, Mama AJ, but I reckon that 55% number isn't going to be stable. I'm guessing the fringe is only going to get bigger.

I've got this mental picture of a scarf that goes from having a short fringe to a longer fringe to being mostly fringe.

It would be a good graphic to show Obama's disapproval rating over time, doncha think?

152 Did anyone verify that she is actually a nurse? Run public records and they will tell you if she has a RN license. Posted by: moi at January 26, 2010 03:21 PM

You won't get access to records unless she's a plumber who dares to question a god

153 Forget about Ellie Light; maybe she's been located, maybe not. "Ellie Light", her IP, etc.,  are all resource drains.  Keep tabs on her. and put your effort into the real story.

"... 65+ "news" outlets around the world were over-eager to publish this ..."

This is the story: how could one individual, implicitly completely unconnected to the MSM, just send in a letter and have it published by (now) 65 "news" outlets?

The big story is the MSM has been caught colluding and pushing propaganda.

This really is a culture-changing moment.

Forcing "The Deciders" out of their jobs, or at least positions of power, by forcing the owners to hold them accountable for bias, misinformation, suppression of news, etc., will cure a lot of problems: SEIU, ACORN, a lot of liberal bias in education, voter perception of issues, even what issues are brouoght to voter's attention.

The Left elite and many Ivory Tower institutions really are in trouble.

154 She ain't heavy, she's my brother.

155 I find it disgusting that anyone would cheer himself on using a fake name

156 From the link..."The Plain Dealer and "Ellie Light," followed by phone calls Monday night and today to a number provided in the e-mails. She talked with a husky voice."

Lots of that "husky" stuff going around lately...

157

"I've got this mental picture of a scarf that goes from having a short fringe to a longer fringe to being mostly fringe."~Mama AJ

My scarf image is of a blue scarf caught in the fanbelt of a GM Fiero while the surprised Democrat shrieks,  "Who Stole My Luggage?!"

158 Forgive me if this was posted before and for not being able to post a hyperlink: http://tinyurl.com/ykt8yjj

159 Oops! Forgot to add that the person has something to do with healthcare and prisoners and his a radical obamaite.

160

If information I've been given is correct, there is circumstantial evidence linking now infamous letter writer Ellie Light to an international public relations firm involved with the White House in helping to promote health care reform.

Posted by: Mama AJ at January 26, 2010 03:19 PM (Be4xl)

How about that.

161 I got really run-down and have one of those flus or whatnot where you get a headful of liquid and you get a little dizzy when you just turn your head.

Oh, you mean semen. Semen will do that to you. Yes, it will. Is your head full of semen, ace? Semen?

Hey everybody, ace's head is full of semen!

162 Again, Gawker contacted Barbara Brook at her home in Texas. She tells gawker it might be her husband, Winston Steward, impersonating her. Winston44 on Twitter; he has Huffpo and KosDiaries under Winston Steward and I think Winston44 - also chats and things under those names. Twitter Winston had selected Adam Segal (2050 group) as his first followed twitter stream. He also follows some editors of editorial pages. Another followed person, who follows him back, had a page on Facebook, and a Winston was listed as one of his friends there. That's Winston Steward, husband of Barbara Brooks. He's a self-described activist as his various posts around the web makes plain. He's Hispanic. That might be why he follows Segal - he did PR stuff for an Hispanic Health Care group. Winston is kind of gooney if you ask me, not that anyone has. He might have "borrowed" the name of a PR marketing person who is a Facebook friend and coincidentally named Ellie, too.

163 Probably not. Olivehurst is in Yuba County which is near Sacremento.i

164 Raise your hand if you think ACORN stole the election.

This is unbelievable.  The Black Panthers blatantly commited crimes by intimidating voters by standing out in public with weapons drawn and Odouchenozzle has ZERO to say about it.  Meanwhile the whack jobs on the left insist that Bush stole 2 elections with no proof at all.

Also, BHO just got an "F"  (as in fucking FAILURE) with regards to protecting us form a terrorist attack (via Drudge).

165

Again, Gawker contacted Barbara Brook at her home in Texas. She tells gawker it might be her husband, Winston Steward, impersonating her.

Winston44 on Twitter; he has Huffpo and KosDiaries under Winston Steward and I think Winston44 - also chats and things under those names

SaraW

I'm still confused, aren't papers supposed to verify before printing, address and #

how could this non wandering nurse'husband give ifferent addresses at many different papers?

166 SarahW: Hawt!

167 I'm pretty sure this is Ellie: http://is.gd/76wQg.

168

Somebody needs to do an "Ellie Light" photoshop, ala. the squirrel or the roaming gnome.  Perhaps make "Ellie Light" one of those concrete geese that people used to love dressing up like people and gracing their porches with and do a "Where in the World is Ellie Light Today?" fixture.

The only way to discredit this stuff is to co-opt it and ridicule it to death.

169

The idea that Republicans would do this person harm is ridiculous. Even if we were a bunch of thugs, which we're not, why pick on her? We don't care if she runs out another batch of tired apologetics. She's certainly not going to be convincing anybody. I'm perfectly fine with the right of some Leftist to run a sockpuppetting racket and to make her own side look like phonies.

170 I thought you had to supply your real name and contact info to newspaper for your letter to get published? Or, were these just online comments?

Every time I have ever submitted a letter to the editor, they required a phone number and they called to verify that I had, in fact, written the letter and wanted it published.  You would think a phone number that didn't match a hometown might raise a red flag.

171 Zimriel, I'm with you.  I wonder if anyone in California or wherever this LIBTARD ruts has used their lawful authority to run TAX RECORDS on these slobbering lib douche bags.

172 Willow, Here's how one editor, of the Chillcothe Gazette, explains what happened. http://tiny.cc/LODhq I noticed Winston44 on twitter followed this paper - and the stream actually had a tweet lamenting how "Ellie" had got one over on the paper by lying and verifying her address.

173 164 I got really run-down and have one of those flus or whatnot where you get a headful of liquid and you get a little dizzy when you just turn your head.

Oh, you mean semen. Semen will do that to you. Yes, it will. Is your head full of semen, ace? Semen?

Hey everybody, ace's head is full of semen!

 

I hope that this condition doesn't result in an unwanted pregnancy!

174

"I got really run-down and have one of those flus or whatnot where you get a headful of liquid and you get a little dizzy when you just turn your head." -

Uh huh.  I don't remember you atually saying anything negative when I have brought up colloidal silver in the past ace.  But obviously, you haven't taken my advice and read up on it. 

Keeps me well.  Well, as long as I'm not trying to be a 54 year old Bret Favre.  3 days to shoulder d-day.  But no flus or whatnot this winter. And only once in the last 11 years (was off the silver for about 8 mos. then).

 

175 atually - damn, actually.  If only silver helped my typing.

176

 SarahW

thank you.

177 Uh huh.  I don't remember you atually saying anything negative when I have brought up colloidal silver in the past ace.  But obviously, you haven't taken my advice and read up on it.

Shit is no joke.

178

Sorry About Yesterday/Today: I got really run-down and have one of those flus or whatnot where you get a headful of liquid and you get a little dizzy when you just turn your head.

Dude.  I done tol' ya once.  Stop apologizing!  You sound like a guilty white liberal.  If I want a guilty white liberal, I'll mosey on over to LGF.

179 Yo Teej!  Is this you?  http://tinyurl.com/y9xvexa

180 Oh, and Teej, good luck with your pending surgery.  Let me know how it goes.  Be sure you tell your nurses/doctors about all the stuff you take (including homeopathic stuff like the colloidal silver) before surgery.

181 Haven't read all the posts...But, wasn't the IP address bounced thru Italy?  Have the geeks, risible I know, weighed in?  Could she be a stooge who provides cover?  Having submitted numerous letters to the editor over the years, the chances of getting published 61 times in dozens of papers is HFU or Highly Fuckng Unlikely...

182

You know, if I wanted to modify the meaning of the 1st Amendment, I'd start with a campaign just like this one. "There's a reason, my fellow Americans, that Government is chartered to maintain control over the broadcast airwaves, the Internet broadband, and the press. And that is why I'm addressing Congress tonight, to strengthen the bonds which hold our Union together..."

Microbrewery special called Ellie Light, bottling in 3..2..1..

Any letter about Presidentin' bein' Hard and there being No Magic Wand would carry a lot more weight, had the candidate not run on a platform of Presidentin' bein' Easy and Having A Magic Wand. It's time for Americans to realize that. 

Mmm rabbit holes. The deeper, the darker, the better. One bit Carter, too.

183

Thanks for the link too, SarahW.  I wonder if the address she even gave was a real address.  I suppose you wouldn't do this for just a letter to an editor, but how funny would it have been if the newspaper would have sent someone over to that address to verify Miss Ellie Light lived there, especially in light of her odd name and out of town phone number. 

After verification, we also wondered about the out of town area code, but also know that several people — including a few on our staff — have local addresses, but out of town phone numbers because of wireless phones. Since the letter and the address was verified by the author as local, we went ahead an input the letter on Jan. 14 and it appeared in print and online on Jan. 17.

184 Don't you love the guy at one of the newspapers that claimed they had just implemented efforts to stop astro-turfers like Ellie Light? He said he was happy to find they'd followed those procedures while getting scammed.

  The system worked!

185 Does she have a deep throat?

186 I haven't met her personally (Ellie Light) but I understand she is light skinned with no negro accent...

187

I'm still confused, aren't papers supposed to verify before printing, address and #

One said they "verified" by emailing "her" back.

"FAIL"

188 187 Don't you love the guy at one of the newspapers that claimed they had just implemented efforts to stop astro-turfers like Ellie Light? He said he was happy to find they'd followed those procedures while getting scammed.

  The system worked!     SOLID B+!!!!

189

  Patterico has the quote and link, Newspaper Editors Begin to Address Pro-Obama Astroturfing

  "IÂ’ve written several times on Astroturfing — a way of sending form political letters to multiple news outlets with a few key strokes — and authored a column on Jan. 17 on how the Gazette was bolstering Opinion page procedures to make sure the opinions submitted were true and accurate.

  Yes, the irony of having a letter to the editor situation blow up in your face just days after saying the newspaper is following new procedures isnÂ’t lost on me. ItÂ’s embarrassing and regrettable.

  But if we hadnÂ’t followed those procedures, IÂ’d feel a lot worse."


That's the editor of OhioÂ’s Chillicothe Gazette claiming The System Worked.


http://patterico.com/ 2010/01/25/newspaper-editors-begin-to-address-pro-obama-astroturfing/

190 Looks like there is more to this story.

191 she still could be a deep cover SOROS operative. Or not

192 Not all nurses are RNs -- some are LPNs -- and some LPNs are represented by SEIU.

Peony Moss, RN

193

Thing is, it's been my experience that publications will call you to verify who you are and to discuss editing policy.  The only one who didn't was a small, local paper.

I wonder how many called Babs and, out of those, how many figured out she was full of shit but decided to go with it anyway.

194

I call BS!

Obama had tea parties???  LOL What a crock!  That was my clue that this article is just a biased piece of ... , well you know what.  Anyhow, I don't believe the story and I'm sure the 'real' patriots of America aren't biting on the story either.

195 Can the people who made the generate-your-own-Kanye-apology website make some hilarious Ellie Light letters? We can at least tease them mercilessly about this. I think that's even another Alinsky rule.

196 Sorry About Yesterday/Today: I got really run-down and have one of those flus or whatnot where you get a headful of liquid and you get a little dizzy when you just turn your head.

Had it many times myself.  The Budwieser-Pony flu.

197 Ah, the 55% Fringe. "The Fringe" is looking more like "The Blanket."