The Astroturf Presidency
Who is Ellie Light?
I predict you’ll start seeing the question as a popular bumper sticker soon (a la “Who is John Galt?”…and voila, someone has already made a t-shirt!).
It’s a handy rhetorical rejoinder the next time the White House or your nutroots neighbors and co-workers try to tar the Tea Party or any other grass-roots revolts against President Obama as phony, top-down operations.
When Obama’s Soros-funded, Big Labor-directed, K Street-organized goons engage in classic projection and you need a glib way to call out the pot calling the kettle black, just snap back:
Who is Ellie Light?
A Cleveland Plain Dealer blog first broke the story over the weekend of a “suspicious” letter-writer named “Ellie Light” who submitted more than a dozen pro-Obama letters to the editors in recent weeks using addresses from Philadelphia to California and all points in between. Open-source-optimizing blogger Patterico has added much more information on both “Donald Trump Astroturfing” (“a letter published in multiple places from one person claiming to live in multiple cities”) and “David Axelrod Astroturfing” (“identical letters published in multiple places claiming to be from different people”).
Kudos to the Plain Dealer for smoking out the initial ringer and Patterico and his readers/tipsters for delving deeper. But so much for the rest of the vaunted gate-keepers of the Fourth Estate, eh?
The bogus letters are just the latest example of Obama theater — doctors in costumes, town hall stage props, trumped-up Obamacare anecdotes, kiddie proxies, etc., etc., etc.
Underscoring this administration’s dependence on centrally planned, teleprompter-dependent perpetual campaigns of manufactured support, the other half of Obama’s Astroturf Twin Power — David Plouffe — will soon rejoin Chicago cronies David Axelrod, Valerie Jarrett, and the rest to rescue the Democrats in a new expanded role as outside White House adviser.
A reminder from my August 21, 2009 column on Corporate Shills for Hope and Change:
Money from pharmaceutical firms and health care companies is dirty, evil, and corrupting – except when key members of Team Obama are pocketing it. White House spokesman Robert Gibbs derides grass-roots opponents of socialized health care as industry-funded lackeys with questionable motives and conflicts of interest. But what about the corporate shills at 1600 Pennsylvania Avenue?
Two weeks ago, the White House embraced $150 million in drug industry ads supporting Obamacare. This week, Bloomberg News reported that White House senior adviser and chief campaign strategist David Axelrod’s former public relations firm, AKPD Message and Media, has raked in some $24 million in ad contracts supporting Obamacare – along with another p.r. firm, GMMB, run by other Obama strategists.
The ads are funded by Big Pharma, the AARP, AMA, and the powerhouse Services Employees International Union (whose Purple Shirts dumped $80 million in independent expenditures to get Obama and the Democrat majority elected). In trademark Axelrod-ian style, the special interest coalition adopted faux grass-roots names – first under the banner of “Healthy Economy Now” and more recently as “Americans for Stable Quality Care.”
Because, well, “Corporate Shills for Hope and Change” doesn’t have quite the same ring of authenticity.
Astroturf master Axelrod was president and sole shareholder of AKPD from 1985 until last December, when he resigned to take his White House position. His son, Michael, works there. So does former Obama campaign manager David Plouffe. Axelrod is prominently featured on AKPD’s website, from a founder’s quote on the front page (“CHANGE IS SOMETHING YOU HAVE TO FIGHT FOR”) to the glamorous election night photos of Plouffe and Axelrod with the Obamas. AKPD still consults with Axelrod on “strategy and research” for the Democratic National Committee. The firm owes Axelrod $2 million, due in annual installments of $350,000, $650,000, $400,000 and $600,000.
That Axelrod and his old firm benefit mutually from their respective roles selling Obamacare should be gobsmackingly obvious. Axelrod pushes the White House plan on TV news shows. AKPD derives mega-income from ad contracts selling the White House-endorsed plan. The windfall allows AKPD to settle its debts with Axelrod, whose name, face, and high-powered ties are critical to future wheel-greasing for AKPD — and future salary-earning for Axelrod’s son and close associates.
The ‘Turf Gang: Gibbs, Plouffe, Obama, and Axelrod
Plouffe authored an op-ed for the Washington Post over the weekend crusading to save the Demcare government takeover. His Washington Post byline does not mention his position at AKPD and does not disclose his financial conflicts of interests in promoting Demcare while serving as senior adviser to AKPD, which raked in an estimated $24 million in drug industry ads supporting Demcare along with Obama-tied p.r. firm GMMB.
Another MSM failure to keep readers fully informed:
David Plouffe, campaign manager of Obama for America and Obama-Biden 2008, is the author of “Audacity to Win.”
On a related note, check out this recent Craigslist advertisement in the Astroturf gang’s hometown of Chicago soliciting paid canvassers for a Democratic National Committee-tied entity:
Background on Grassroots Campaign Inc. :
Grassroots Campaigns (GCI) is an independent organization that does strategic consulting, fundraising, and field organizing for good causes and candidates. We specialize in building and running face-to-face outreach operations in neighborhoods and in high-traffic public venues to build support for groups, issues, and campaigns.
GCI was founded in December of 2003, and by April of 2004 had opened offices in 40 cities throughout the country. By July 2004, we had over 2,000 staff knocking on doors and talking to voters on behalf of the Democratic National Committee. With continued work on behalf of MoveOn PAC in October, we added a volunteer force of 50,000 individuals canvassing their neighborhoods in 17 of the most hotly contested swing states of the 2004 Presidential Election. Since 2004, we’ve continued to partner with groups and campaigns to advance good issues, raise money for progressive causes, help take back Congress, and build activism at the grassroots level.
The people at GCI are seasoned organizing and fundraising professionals with a commitment to positive reforms. Our staff has over 150 years of professional experience. They have:
• Designed and implemented electoral, initiative, legislative, corporate, small donor fundraising, and petition gathering campaigns;
• Put together organization membership drives and raised over $500 million;
• Ran conferences of a couple hundred to a couple thousand college students;
• Trained thousands of professional organizers and campaign staff;
• Worked with scores of different groups on the national, regional, state, Congressional, local, and campus levels;
• Recruited and trained hundreds of thousands of volunteers;
• Helped launch or run over a dozen different organizations;
• Sat on the boards of directors for many groups and campaign steering committees.
Via Slate from 2004, GCI’s “for-profit canvassing” is seen as the “DNC’s secret weapon:”
Voters this fall in Democratic strongholds are witnessing an increasingly common sight. Staked out on busy sidewalks in at least 38 American cities, political activists carrying credit-card authorization forms are drumming up donations for the campaign to defeat George W. Bush. Outfitted in T-shirts emblazoned with star-spangled Democratic National Committee logos, these earnest young men and women come across as grass-roots volunteers of the most enthusiastic sort. Little old ladies interrupt their strolls to thank them for their hard work.
But appearances can be deceiving. The organization behind these fund-raisers is Grassroots Campaigns Inc., a for-profit company that counts the Democratic National Committee as one of its flagship clients. It’s a safe bet that few pedestrians talked into donating $149—”the price of a bus ticket from Washington, D.C., to Crawford, Texas”—realize that once these canvassers beat their daily quota, they keep up to 30 percent of the take.
In the rapidly shifting terrain of political fund raising, Grassroots Campaigns Inc. has emerged as a juggernaut.
“Appearances can be deceiving.”
Pretty much sums up the last year of the Obama White House — and the year to come with Axelrod, Plouffe, Gibbs, Jarrett & Co. working hard with their ringers and stagehands to put message over matter.
Who is Ellie Light?
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Reader Bill e-mails about the Craigslist/DNC paid canvassing ad…
The ad offers a salary of $24k per year and says that the hours would be 80-100 per week.
Assuming 80 hours (the lower end)
$24,000/ 50 weeks (assuming 2 weeks paid vacation) = $480 per week
$480 / 80 hrs. = $6 per hour
Federal minimum wage is $7.25 an hour.I wonder if these community organizers will be advocating for an increase in that?
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The major problem Obama is missing is that voters in the 2010 elections will NOT be looking for hope and change. They will instead be voting on the results of the democratic administration of the White House, Senate, and the House of Representatives. The time for campaign slogans is over.
2 Major Liberal Newspapers publish articles saying something is wrong with the TEA party on the same day. What are the odds?
http://preview.tinyurl.com/yeg8odl
http://preview.tinyurl.com/ydsqwr2
Did ACORN run out of stimulus money already? When their gangs of paid-protestors were out last Summer picketing for universal healthcare I just about lost it. (with the allegations of illegal money shifting and the presence of federal money).
Hours: 80-100 hours/week
Compensation: $24000 a year
That’s with “professional experience” (whatever that means in this case, perhaps professional protesting…) or advanced degrees. Umm, no thanks.
This isn’t locally conceived or financed. The Progressive Core (George Soros et al) could smell victory for their agenda and became over exuberant, showing their hand. They have to be ‘All In’ now that they’ve exposed a large part of the strategy. Money and ideas are flowing into their machine from all over the planet.
Every Progressive entity will contribute now to this latest battle. They know it’s win at all costs or wait another couple generations to gain the power they could taste so recently.
Michelle, you are up awfully early. I hope you are well.
Cuba wishes it had a propaganda machine like Obama’s.
Do I have this right? According to that Craig’s List ad, the “Progressive” Dems are paying people only $24,000 a year to work 80 to 100 hours a week to run their “Stop the Tea Baggers” crusade for Useful Idiots?
Is that a “living wage”? Send ACORN to those offices and stage a protest, pronto!
Very close to or just below minimum wage depending on the 80-100 hours. Where is the equality?
Obama thought he had a mandate and a lot of support, so he tried to switch a central-right country to a far left country, way too quickly. People are upset and the dems will pay dearly come November.
Most minimum wage jobs don’t require employees to put in 80-100 hours a week. They’re giving people the title of “Director” so they don’t have to pay overtime. I guess they’re going to have to sacrifice “social justice” until the revolution is over.
Government for sale cheap. Send donations (?) to http://www.cheapgov.gov.
With bho, it’s all about the photo opt and packaging and the fancier the better. Bho thought Brown’s truck was just a prop to appeal to the masses as a regular Joe. When his Chicago play book doesn’t get the job done for him, he will be left with nothing except the photos.
I realize that the job ad isn’t the focus to the post but 80 hours per week @ $24,000 is $5.77 per hour. Minimum wage is $7.25.
Not just Ellie Light, but Mark Spivey also.
http://patterico.com/2010/01/24/who-is-mark-spivey/
I see it as income re-distribution. Re-distribution of George Soros’ wealth can’t be a totally bad thing if we can just defeat him in 2010. We just have to remember who we are running against and make sure everyone knows the facts. Thanks, Michelle.
My hometown newspaper, a weekly, requires name and phone and always calls for permission to print.
It’s all about the hilarious hypocrisy of the pro-union advocates of “social justice” and a “living wage” from so-called “Progressives”. Clearly they don’t give a flip about the “workers” they claim to represent. They are just pawns to assist in their quest for power.
Mystery solved:
http://www.facebook.com/group.php?gid=261752540668&ref=search&sid=720854311.3228289797..1
ROFLMAO
I worked for a few years with the local town Democrats on campaigns (the Reps are that bad!). A few people who are actual Dems (and big Obama supporters) would write letters to the editor and ask others to put their name to it. They once asked me to do it and I refused. I told them I agreed with some of the points they were making, but was fully capable of writing my own letter.
OT for Michelle to investigate:
http://vactruth.com/2010/01/04/julie-gerberding-primed-big-pharmas-pump-with-flu-and-hpv-vaccines/
http://news.yahoo.com/nphotos/slideshow/photo//100119/480/9131bc77c7534185bdbf267bb4ab8497/
Obama at an elementary school using a teleprompter. The MSM reaction had the Evil Boooooosch done that?
Obama just gets better and better each day.
Whatever these people tried to do, it didn’t work. It only confirmed that 30% of the electorate is delusional and wants to remain that way.
I see Obama is planning on new “initiatives” for the middle class. The politicians don’t get it. New rules/regulations that no-one understands, won’t work. Deregulate businesses so they can hire and pay more. Cut taxes to have more money in peoples’ pockets. Simple.
Will this man EVER take off the training wheels?
I know my math is bad. But at 80 hours, that’s not even minimum wage. That’s ummmm………illegal?
Hey, getta load of one of the qualifications?
Methinks this could be a help wanted add in the Communist Party of America’s paper. And the list of past and present clients is a who’s who of leftist politics.
Is Jeanine Garafalo looking for work? Here is her chance to do something.
You can be certain that this is an astroturf campaign and it’s directed ultimately from Obama’s people. I’m sure there’s Dem slush fund that paid whoever sent these letters. And no doubt, there have been other letters and posts that are fabricated for pay by the same fund.
This caught my eye too. Hourly, if you average 90hrs/wk and figure for federally mandated overtime, this ammounts to almost exactly $4/hr. So why would people with experience and advanced degrees accept a salaried position that equates to about half the minimum wage? You can’t tell me these folks aren’t getting tax free perks and kickbacks under the table.
100%?
On a related note, I’ve been noticing for some time the posters who come here, and issue talking points about how every rising conservative leader is a RINO or sell-out. They trash Palin, Bachmann, Brown, Pence, Perry and Fox News, all the while pretending to be purer-than-thou conservatives. Are they only getting minimum wage for this? Gee, I would have thought more.
Haha! Creepy…
Maybe somebody in the Scott Brown campaign wrote those letters. After all, one anagram of “Ellie Light” is “He Ill Legit.”
Kind of answers the question “Are you smarter than a fifth grader?”
Yepperdoo, the most transparent administration, ever. And they think they lost the Mass. election because of ineffective messaging.
Rumor has it that an Ellie Light letter HAS been directly linked to a White House office via IP tracking
if it were an hourly job it would be but if they make it a “salaried” job they can get away with it…so who with any professional experience would take a “salaried” job at 24K with those kinds of hours…not me that’s for sure….
Up to 100 hours a week. That’s 50,000 hours a year.
$24,000 a year.
That’s about $2/hour.
Mr. Obama and his DNC doesn’t support the minimum wage?
Can we finally raise the hypocrisy charge and make it stick? (I always preferred the expression, hoist upon one’s own petard).
Computer monitor – $275
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No matter how hard they try, Obama and his stooges will not be able to manufacture support at the ballot box in November 2012 (or 2010, for that matter). It’s all about your messed up policies, Big Zero.
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I was wondering. If these were emails, “Ellie’s” IP address would be in the email wrapper.
Bingo!
The $24k per year “salary” is there for the IRS/non-profit-status B.S. As was said before, you are called a “Director” which makes you exempt from minimum wage restrictions.
But there’s no way that people with experience and advanced degrees will accept $24k per year for 80-100 hours a week unless there’s some type of sweetner.
Typical. Liberal. Hypocrites.
Actually, in Chicago it’s $8.00 now.
These reckless people are doing this because they obviously do not fear prosecution. Why not? The worm will turn one day and there are always paper and money trails for a prosecutor to follow.
How can the POTUS think he will escape accountability for all these egregious acts? By any reasonable standard this is the classic definition of “high crimes and misdemeanors”.
Time for Americans to imitate the 300 Thermopylae Spartans and push the bloated Dems into the sea.
This time we win.
ellie light is michelle my belle.
i just read on drudge that our idiot in chief is going to double down on stimulous apalooza by passing out tax breaks for the families claiming children making up to 85K. always this butthead wants to give the breaks to his pals. the young voted for him, throw them a bone. the unions voted for him, ditto. the blacks, hispanics, gays, rich new yorkers and californians, all ditto. but of course the greedy business owners who actually hire people, well screw them, up their taxes. rather than worrying about ellie light writing astroturf op eds, they need to be looking for all the john galts who have given up their businesses and sunk their money in the stock market. i’m seeing a lot of vacant small business buildings.
Run a search on Chicago’s craigslist>jobs using keywords ‘grassroots campaigns’. Open some of the postings and you’ll see many more jobs via this group. It’s overwhelming.
I have visions of people in the summer, loaded into vans, dumped into neighborhoods at 8AM with one bottle of water and picked up at 8PM.
Thanks for the continued sunlight Michelle!
Projection is the right word here. This is why they didn’t believe the Tea Party protests were authentic.
They have never seen an authentic rally for or against someone or something. Every rally they have ever had was a result of fake support.
This is why they are going to lose dramatically. They have convinced themselves that the entire debate is disingenuous because their side always is.
They can’t keep ignoring the people for much longer. The whole fake support thing is beginning to get fairly disturbing. Cue the movies that created Stalin as the hero in the old soviet union.
When Phoenix has it’s “popular and spontaneous” demonstrations against immigration raids, generally against the Sheriffs Office, they send out trucks to the street corners to pick up illegals. What they pay them I do not know but security and organization is provided by the Zetas-a Phoenix street gang.
Sheriff Joe Arpaio’s goons attack peaceful protest marchers in …
“Joe Arpaio’s goons” were the Phoenix Police-entirely seperate enity working for the anti-Apraio Phil Gordon. The Zetas wear black ski masks, black uniforms and always get a bye. The Zetas provide such service for the drug smuggling franchise here. I am guessing that is above minimum wage.
Well who is Ellie Light…I don’t know GE brings good things to Light? No doubt this is tawdry enough for Immelt
And we are suppose to believe That the main stream media just coincidentally “picked” these letters all across the country…..and didn’t pick other less interesting letters…critical of the O…
But so much for the rest of the vaunted gate-keepers of the Fourth Estate, eh?
Does the fourth estate in Philadelphia know what is being published in San Francisco and publications from points in between?
TNR? Does anyone know what Scott Thomas Beauchamp has been up to LOL!
Many years ago, in Fresno, I was offered $17 hourly to go to San Francisco to protest something or other…I almost went having the time but then came to my senses, realizing that I would be trapped on a bus for hours with….well you know. And not to mention…provided lunch would most likely be lentil soup….
They should check:
Great post, Michelle.
Is there anything about Obama that isn’t faked?
Nothing tops the picture of Obama using teleprompters in a 6th grade class room. And the thug behind him must be looking out for those rowdy 6th grade tea party kids. LMAO
There has never been a bigger fraud than BHO mmm mmm mmm
I wrote the following post a week before Scott Brown’s win.
More recent revelations of astroturfing only serve to emphasize the point.
Let Nancy Pelosi call the Tea Parties “astroturf”. We know the truth.
The truth is that, far more often than not…
Another anagram for Ellie Light is “I legit hell.”
Just the ears.
The question isn’t “Who is Ellie Light”, it’s “Who is Barack Obama.” It should have been answered prior to the election.
Now the grown ups get to clean up the mess. I don’t care what the Teleprompting Warrior says, I’ve seen what he’s done.
Abysmal Failure is too kind. Mendacious Incompetent Poseur is more like it. He thinks he did a B+ job. I give him an F, and that’s only because he showed up. He’s a negative on results, and he costs too much doing it.
On January 25th, 2010 at 9:39 am, JohnnyD said:
Exactly. This is very real…
Don’t worry: they would screen the fifth grader’s questions first, to make sure he wasn’t stumped.
Elie Light- is that code for “Elite”.
BTW, if one is using Word, can’t one also randomly change addresses so its is harder to detect.
E-mail versions of Ellie’s missive either from or routed through Saudi Arabia per Ed Morrisey…
Ellie Light’s name may not have changed between letters because certain editors were tipped to look for it and run it…
They might if they’re liberal arts majors, radical dead-enders, or both.
Question: What do you do with a degree in Journalism, English, Education, or anything with the word “Studies” following it?
Answer: Go to grad school.
Follow-up Question: What do you do with a graduate degree in any of the above?
Answer: Start checking out Craigs List…
Hey! It’s time to play “How Many Jobs Has the Administration Saved or Created Today?”
According to a report I just heard on the radio, Obama says today’s correct answer is…2 million.
To follow up with RedPill’s post:
If you think the Communist Party and the Democrat Party are not one and the same, I submit this from the CPUSA’s home page.
http://cpusa.org/article/frontpage/1
Communist, Democrat. What’s the difference?
I’m surprised they’re not sending letters by Seymour Butts, Amanda Huginkiss, Anita Fix, and Ben Dover. Or how about Art Vandelay and Rusty Shackleford throwing in their two cents’ worth?
Nothing’s a bigger scam than those canvassing jobs, which have hooked generations of desperate recent college grads. They pay you crap money and expect you to work harder than a streetwalker. $24K for 80-100 hours of work per week? I think street canvassers need to unionize…
Errah Axholerod and the Fifth and not so smart Gibbs Brother were both laughable in their misrepresentation of the MA election this past weekend. The only more pathetic spinmeister appearance was Howard “Scream” Dean. “Dems weren’t liberal enough on healthcare”. Self lobotomy should be outlawed. Ellie Light /Anita Dunn are closet communist/socialist and not worth the 1s & 0s to respond, simple as that.
Excellent. You’ve done a great job Michelle…
I’m sure it’s just a coincidence that out of the thousands of letters they receive, 65 different papers would happen to choose that particular one from Ellie Light.
Let me guess. You’re putting money on the Lions to win the Super Bowl next week.
Will the MSM cover this?
Will Pajamas Media cover this?
Will Breitbart get some undercover recordings?
The side of that coin is that perhaps thousands of papers and news outlets received the letter, and only 65 published. Either way something stinks.
Will Obama bring his teleprompter?
Heck, I’ve suspected this for a very long time. It’s just that now the POTUS is one too. I fear that one day before the 2012 (or 2016, if he is re-elected) elections, he will pull a “Chavez” and declare himself President for life. This, of course, is by no means certain. There still is that pesky Constitution and it’s amendments that he has to get by first.
This has become the Chicago thugs against the Tea Party members. Since they can’t dazzle with brilliance, it’s time to bury with bull sh!t. Bho forgets exactly who is footing the bills for all this progressive baloney. I’m looking forward to all of this blowing up in their faces.
1) Expect this to be a focal point of Obama’s State of the Union speech.
2) Expect this “powerful movement now springing up” to be Astroturfed.
Can there be any doubt that Obama is dangerously self-delusional? He really believes that the difference between the 1994 bloodbath and what is coming in November is him. Seriously.
Ellie Light’s brother has apparently been found and his name is Mark Spivey.
http://www.riehlworldview.com/carnivorous_conservative/2010/01/ellie-light-now-mark-spivey.html
Maybe they are both the same person, or maybe they are different. If there is a connection between these two and other astroturfers, then there is a conspiracy here. It is not unreasonable to think that this might lead all the way to the White House. Here is the ministry of disinformation, acting in concert with MSM.
Ellie Light is one job saved by the Stimulus package…
Isn’t Holder employing a secret propaganda unit at government expense to visit blogs, write letters to the editor, etc, to buck up a failing Obama.
MiniTrue is part of Holder’s DoJ now.
Democrat propaganda on the tax payer’s dime, for your own good.
New astroturf organization at Facebook – “teabusters” – I had been getting 2 or 3 unsolicited emails from people I have never met before blocking them.
I wonder who started this group???
So, when was the last time a Rebup connected group actually PAID people to do its bidding?
I would guess that since BHO came onto the scene that the answer in near zero.
Especially when compared to the Dems.
Anyone keeping tally? I know the msm is not.
I don’t believe that 24K for 80-100 hours of work is LEGAL with the minimum 7.25 which at 80 hours is 30K+ and 100 hours is 37K+ so what the Democrats are looking for are SLAVES and what they are doing with that position is ILLEGAL not that they don’t do EVERYTHING ILLEAGALLY. I should think the Labor Board might want to take a look at that position!
Noted the point about the pay being $6/hour at the quoted rate of a low end 80 hour work week and $24,000/year. Course the next question is are they honoring overtime? Most states put overtime as anything over 40hours/week.
I notice the One loves the UN puke blue color. Not dark American blue.
Don’t know but Midge Hough is Chicago coordinator. She’s a recruiter, here is her resume.
Probably salary with a huge bonus payout.
You know what would be really cool?
Obama should give a special VIP guest seat at his State of the Union address to his most prolific letter-writing fan…
Ellie Light
Heh!
We are all John Galt now and EL is outside that clique.
Now you know why they warn people about scams on Craigslist.
I agree. A newspaper should check their sources. Yep, make sure the letter writers exist.
My question, (rephrased) –
Does that mean a newspaper in one part of the country should check every other newspaper in the country to see what letters to the editor the other newspapers have published?
I don’t know, though coincidents do happen. Laziness happens. Cutting and pasting happens. Lifting letters happens from other websites happens, too.
Don’t be silly. I will be putting $10 on the Lions to win the Super Bowl next year. The early line is 750,000 to one in Vegas.
It will probably be held in the editorial board room of the NY Times.
That will save a ton on cab fare.
Michelle was her usual articulate self on Hannity.
I wonder if she used the free Google Voice service to get local phone numbers and have calls forwarded to a cell phone?
Google Voice
Dear Michelle the following is an e-mail I received from a former hotair.com commenter.
Michelle,
I had been a commenter on HotAir for about two years and was recently banned by Allahpundit for calling him out as I feel that Allahpundit is a coward for hiding on the internet and not letting his actual identity be known.
You are now attacking this “Ellie Light” imposter for fraudulent letters to newspapers and even to the point that I totally agree with your stance on the “Ellie Light” issue, your protection of Allahpundit, at HotAir, leaves you looking like a hypocrite, as you have someone blogging on your own site anonymously, and when anyone questions him, they are banned from commenting on your site.
Michelle, I receive death threats on a daily basis by leftists on Yahoo Chat. I have had leftists post my name and address and my DD-214 information in chatrooms because I am so hated by the left yet this does not disturb me in the least, I have no fear of people hiding in their mother’s basements.
I feel your justified attack on “Ellie Light” and your protection of Allahpundit will harm your credibility and leave you open to attacks from the left.
Sincerely; nelsonknows
Dems have no problem violating labor laws and go after any Corporation or small business who does.
Maybe they could unionize and bankrupt them. Wait, then Obama would just bail them out.