Posted on 01/25/2010 12:25:41 PM PST by 2ndDivisionVet
The investigators of the blogosphere are hot on the trail of the elusive (or omnipresent; take your pick) Ellie Light. And now research has started into finding information about and where some of her friends are, including Mark Spivey, Janet Leigh, Gloria Elle, Jan Chen, Jen Park, Lars Deeman, John F. Scott, Earnest Gardner, and probably many more by the end of the night.
Just in from Patterico is the news that Sabrina Eaton, the Cleveland Plain Dealer reporter who broke this story, has received some new correspondence from Ms. Light:
In a Sunday morning e-mail to The Plain Dealer, Light denied speculation that she’s actually President Obama, his wife, Michelle, or National Security Council member Samantha Power.
“I’m flattered, and I must give the Tea Partiers credit for even knowing who [Power] is,” Light’s e-mail said. “But what I want to point out is that, if I were a person trying to imply this huge groundswell of support for our beleaguered president, then I would have signed the letter with different names. However, as you may have noticed, my main point is that absence of support for the president.
“I am not surprised that an article that tends to discredit a pro-Obama letter-writer has lots of readers. I understand that there are 10 million dittoheads that daily scour the airwaves, print and online press for something nasty to say about the president, so I’m sure your article will get more hits,” she wrote in another e-mail later Sunday. “I’m not sure why you would write me that people would probably be interested in what I have to say. My impression is that my letter could contain Chinese food recipes with a Pro-Obama subject line, and the event would be interpreted as fodder for that same highly-motivated, but narrow class of people.”
I immediately thought of one name: Mitch Stewart, the Director of the Democratic National Committee’s Organizing for America.
I’ve written about Stewart before. He is essentially the attack dog for the Obama administration. Now, OfA isn’t officially a part of the Obama administration, but I think anyone smart knows that is all but a front for the administration. They’re certainly taking the orders from Obama, and both the President, Vice President Joe Biden, and First Lady Michelle Obama write fairly regular emails for them.
Why do I think this is Stewart material (or something ordered by him)? Because his response to Eaton sounds the name-calling that Stewart has previously used in his emails to the OfA list. His emails are regularly condescending to Republicans and spend a lot of time using ad hominen attacks:
Frightened crowds have flooded town halls, and the office of a Georgia representative was defaced with a swastika.
[..]
As you’ve probably seen in the news, special interest attack groups are stirring up partisan mobs with lies about health reform, and it’s getting ugly. Across the country, members of Congress who support reform are being shouted down, physically assaulted, hung in effigy, and receiving death threats. We can’t let extremists hijack this debate, or confuse Congress about where the people stand.
A couple days before the end of the year, he wrote this in an email: “Special interests thought they could steamroll you with hundreds of millions of dollars in lobbying and attack ads.” So, it doesn’t seem that far-fetched that Stewart could be the face behind the new correspondence, with name calling like “dittoheads” and attacks on the intelligence of Republicans toward knowing a member of the Obama administration.
Of course, my evidence isn’t all in wrote his wrote. There is the fact the OfA is setting up to monitor and direct the Democrat’s 2010 campaigns, as Jake Tapper reported yesterday. This, and the fact that investigation has turned up tens of emails under more than a dozen names, suggests that there has to be at least some high level organization going on.
Our own Patrick Glenn theorized last night (see comments) that the secretive JournoList may have played a roll in getting these letters out to so many newspapers, and I’m inclined to agree with him. I believe there is too much going on here for it to be completely unorganized, or the work of a simple advocacy group unrelated to a high-level player.
So the investigation continues.
“This, and the fact that investigation has turned up tens of emails under more than a dozen names, suggests that there has to be at least some high level organization going on.”
I wouldn’t necessarily conclude that. How hard is it to email the same “letter” to various “news” outlets under different names?
I think Helen Thomas is “Ellie Light”.
No pictures,.....Please,....I beg you.
It's gotta' be Goober hisself!
Now it's about ether-cred and respect.
I expect it will not be long before we get a confession.
“Goober”,....ROFL,....I love it.
Personally, I think he looks like Alfred E. Newman.
See my two cents with the same thoughts here and lets keep it rolling.
http://www.freerepublic.com/focus/f-news/2436767/posts
Nice try Ellie, but you're off by half. There are 20 million Rush Listeners in any week.
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