Oh yeah, that sounds more plausible than a White House orchestrated astroturf campaign using proxy servers in Italy.
FAIL.
http://www.freerepublic.com/focus/f-news/2437437/posts
Aside from Light’s messages, duplicate pro-Obama letters have been submitted to dozens of publications by writers identified as “Jan Chen,” “Gloria Elle,” “Cherry Jimenez,” “Janet Leigh,” “Earnest Gardner,” “Jen Park,” “Lars Deerman,” “John F. Stott,” “Gordon Adams,” “Nancy Speed,” “Sheila Price,” “Clarence Ndangam,” “Vernetta Mason,” “Greg Mitchell,” “Ermelinda Giurato,” “J. Scott Piper,” “Robert Vander Molen” and “Terri Reese.”
Just as news of Light’s duplicate messages broke, readers began finding various letters written by “Mark Spivey,” a man who simultaneously claims to live in San Diego, Calif., and Naples, Fla. His pro-Obama letter, “Considering Afghanistan,” was published by the Minnesota Daily, the Baltimore Chronicle, the San Diego Union-Tribune and Naples News.
Patterico’s Pontifications also shared this letter from a Jan Chen of Seattle, published in Seattle’s Northwest Asian Weekly:
As one listens to the Republican anger over health care reform, one can imagine an anti-government protester cheerfully paying premiums on insurance policies that drop you after you make a claim, or happily sauntering out of an emergency room that denied them treatment because of a coverage problem. One can imagine a town hall sign-waver enthusiastically forking over most of their pay to bill collectors after suffering a catastrophic injury, thinking, “Wow, the free market system is great.”
Meanwhile, a woman identified as Gloria Elle wrote a nearly identical letter to the editor published by the Baltimore Chronicle:
As one listens to the Republican anger over health care reform, one can imagine an anti-government protester cheerfully paying premiums on insurance policies that cancel you for making a claim, or happily sauntering out of an emergency room that denied them treatment because of a coverage problem. One can imagine a town-hall sign-waver enthusiastically forking over most of their pay to bill collectors after suffering a catastrophic injury, thinking, “Wow, the free market system is great.”
“Ellie” used proxy servers in Italy and Saudi Arabia.
The first line of questioning should have inquired about the fake IP addresses.
Patterico notes that during the interview “Ellie” stumbles on the name of “Ben Smith’s blog” where her letter was initially published.
http://patterico.com/2010/01/26/ellie-light-revealed-and-then-revealed-again/
” A traveling Nurse.....” ha,ha,haaaaaaa....
Probably just wanted to find some subliminal positive association with Health Care....nonsense. Probably fooled Michael Smerconish, doesn’t fool me, or us.
I ran into her at a few places. It is an alias done by leftists for what reason I don’t know. Could be Nancy Pelosi or Barbara Boxer or Rachael Maddow for all we know.