A story has surfaced over the past week about a prolific OpEd writer by the name of Ellie Light.
Ellie’s OpEd offers support for President Barack Obama. Her OpEd makes the argument that Obama never promised us a Rose Garden. Rather she argues, Obama told us it was going to be a tough slog to fix the economy. She further argues that those who criticize him of not having fixed the economy are guilty of unrealistic expectations.
OK, so MS. Light and I won’t agree on Barack Obama’s economic letter grade. But, that’s not what makes Ms. Light interesting or the subject of my post. Turns out that Ms. Light’s OpEd has been printed in at least 40 newspapers across the country. In nearly every newspaper, she is listed as a reader who lives within the service area of that publication.
Because of her ability to be published in so many papers and portray herself as from the local economic area, a form of sleuthing has begun to determine who exactly Ellie Light is.
In an email to the Cleveland Plain Dealer, the paper who uncovered Ms. Light’s country wide travels, Ms. Light gives this defense of her actions:
“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.”
Ms. Light closes her defense with the following:
“If my letter were boilerplate [White House senior adviser David] Axelrod dribble, as has been suggested by your new fan club, it would not have been published. Many of my friends have written letters to the editor and bemoan the fact that they never get published. I reply that everything they wrote in their letters has been said before by others. I think, however, this one letter that I wrote, is unique enough, that it was worth widespread attention, simple as that.”
After reading Ms. Light’s OpEd and her defense article, I commissioned a clandestine NoRunnyEggs operative to investigate Ms. Light. My goal was to determine who “Ms. Light” actually is.
After untold minutes of investigation that included a couple of rereadings of “her” letters, I believe I have the answer.
It’s clear that “Ms. Light is a supporter of President Obama. That observation reduces us to only about 40% of the population. Based on the words used, and the phraseology, I think it’s safe to say that “Ms.” is actually a Ms. That takes us to about 20% of the population. Ms. Light specifically slights David Axlerod. The general public has no idea who or where David Axlerod is since he hasn’t been seen in about 4 months. From this we can conclude that Ms. Light is a Washington insider. Finally, Ms Light seems to ascribe to the Vast Right Wing Conspiracy theory as she belittles the tea parties and those affiliated with them.
Yes, Ms. Light is none other than Hillary Clinton! You doubt me? Can you think of anyone who is more concerned about Obama completely screwing things up than Hillary Clinton? Let’s see, Clinton is a part of the Obama administration; can you think of a bigger blotch on a presidential hopeful’s resume than to be a part of a catastrophic administration? Really? You don’t think this is a problem? Does the name Walter Mondale mean anything to you?
The other possibility is that it Barack Obama himself. I considered that but there weren’t references to “I” every other point. No, it has to be Hillary. Case closed!
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