Sockpuppets for Obama

There's been a bit of stir over someone calling himself/herself/itself "Ellie Light". I thought perhaps, it was just an overzealous O-bot, spamming for "The One", so I didn't get too excited, other than to note the dishonesty of the effort.
News Real notes, however, that the IP address on "Ellie" tracks to...Saudi Arabia??? WTF?

Riehl World View has more details:

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.

Left Coast Rebel made me aware of a comment left on his blog by someone claiming to be Ellie Light. The comment was left by someone using the screen name Winston44. In searching out that name, I found a Twitter account under it that has barely been used.

The account has never tweeted and follows 18 individuals, with 9 following it. Given that we usually add people we know when we first open a Twitter account, I looked to see who the first individual was that Winston44 added. That would be Adam Segal.

Adam J. Segal, President, The 2050 Group, LLC + Named to PR Week's 40 Under 40 for 2009.

The inimitable Robert Stacy McCain calls "Ellie" a "Nasty Slut" and a "dirty, rotten, syphilitic whore" and invites "her" to sue him! Heh.

This does not appear to be the work of an amateur. This seems to be orchestrated by professionals, people working directly for the White House. The fact that they were incompetent enough to get caught does not change the fact that the White House should denounce such dishonesty and do a little house cleaning so that deceit and trickery are not the keystones of Obama's "transparent" and Nancy Pelosi's "most ethical" administration in history.

Cross posted at Say Anything