If Barbara Brooks is to be believed, Ellie Light is just another liberal loon who believes anyone who isn’t a liberal loon is the enemy.
Cleveland Plain Dealer – Ellie Light, the ubiquitous letter writer arousing blogosphere suspicions that she is a White House operative spreading the gospel of Barack Obama, is actually a registered nurse. She lives in a California community near Bakersfield.
And her real name is Barbara Brooks. Or so she told The Plain Dealer today after a series of phone interviews, e-mails and records checks involving Brooks/Light, a family member, licensing records and property information.
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She focused mostly on smaller papers, she said, although she succeeded in reaching larger ones, too, including USA Today and the San Francisco Examiner.
“That was by design,” she said of her small-newspaper strategy, “because I want to address people who never talk to a liberal. By design, I talk to smaller presses, hoping to get a dialogue going with some of the editors and some of the readers.”
A proud Democrat, she said that “I want to deliberately talk to the enemy” and “people deep, deep in the red states.”
Whether this is true or not, who knows. An update at the top of the article informs us:
A woman claiming to be Barbara Brooks has now contacted The Plain Dealer and said she is not the letter writer; she claims her ex-husband is running a spoof. The newspaper is investigating; more details as they become available. What follows is our original story, published this morning.
Until we get to the bottom of this, I stand by my assertion that Joe Klein is Ellie Light.
Via memeorandum.
