"Ellie Light" Exposed

Warning: it's not pretty! You can thank Saberpoint for this one!

He also adds:

Ellie is the daughter of Turnoutda and Flickeringporch Light, of Laymebrayne, New York. She has an older brother, Bud, and a younger brother, Flash.

Her hobbies include scaring children, making excuses for Obama's incompetence, and traveling about the country writing letters to newspapers.

Heh. He also has a rebuttal to "Ellie Light's" original letter here.

On a serious note, The Cleveland Plain Dealer had this:

Ellie Light, the ubiquitous letter writer whose name appeared in newspapers nationwide praising President Barack Obama, appears to really be a male health care worker from California.

A man who identified himself as Winston Steward, 51, of Frazier Park, Calif., says he made up the name "Ellie Light" to protect himself from criticism and possible physical attacks, and used fake addresses across the country to get local newspapers to publish his letters.

So, Ellie is a dude??? (Not that there's anything wrong with that!)

"I am Winston Steward and have been sending the letters from Ellie Light," he told The Plain Dealer in an e-mail late Tuesday, following a phone interview in which he said the same. "I hope this ends any confusion and sets the record straight."

Oh, yeah! There's absolutely no confusion as to why some guy would claim to be a woman who lived in dozens of places around the country just so that he could bleat out the same one note about Obama the Transparent and how wonderful he was! /sarcasm

And something I did not know about California law, but have no problem with:

The name "Ellie Light" appeared with letters that ran in newspapers in multiple states, including California -- where state law makes it a misdemeanor to sign and send "any letter addressed to a newspaper with the name of a person other than himself."

An anti-sockpuppet law! Who'da thunk it?

Saberpoint once again:

"Ellie Light" is merely the pseudonym for a group of Democratic operatives trying to spread propaganda and make it look like "grass roots" opinion. It is false, but it is useful in one regard: it demonstrates so well the falsity and the cynicism of those who manipulate public opinion through falsehood and fraud.

There is at least circumstantial evidence to suggest that "Ellie" was not the work of a lone crank, but an orchestrated effort by ham-handed flaks to generate "astro-turf". For instance: the "Ellie Light" that wrote Say Anything had a different IP address than the one that wrote Ed Morrissey.
The twitter contacts and followers seem to suggest that this guy Winston is connected to flaks paid by the White House.

If "Captain Combover" wanted to take out an ad in the New York Times and say "Rah, rah, we love Obama!", there's nothing wrong with that. But this stealth campaign of trying to influence people through deceit and false populism is abhorrent to the idea of a democrat Republic with an informed electorate. It is manipulation of the crassest kind.

Thanks to Riehl World View, Patterico's Pontifications, and Left Coast Rebel for their work in uncovering this dishonest, anti-transparency of the "O'Comma" administration.

Cross posted at Say Anything