Good news: “Ellie Light” comes clean, admits she’s a guy
posted at 9:57 pm on January 26, 2010 by Allahpundit
“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.”…
He repeated that in an e-mail, using the same account as he had when using the name “Ellie Light.”
He said, however, that he and Brooks are no longer married, a point Brooks disputed.
“He’s making up all kinds of garbage,” she said. “We’re not divorced. We’re not separated. He just doesn’t want anybody to trace him because he’s afraid of the right-wing crazies up in Bakersfield.”
So our unfounded fears of a deeply disturbing Axelrodian astroturf operation have been replaced by … an even more deeply disturbing one-man letter-writing campaign by a dude who first impersonates his wife, then denies being married to her. I feel much better now. CBO is reporting tonight that the stimulus is going to be $75 billion more expensive than the $787 billion boondoggle we thought we were getting saddled with. Any O fans want to come forward and share what the voices in their head have been telling them about that?
As I have no grand conclusion to this post, I leave you with Ben Stein pontificating about the danger of being surrounded by ass-kissers like “Ellie.”
Update: Ben Smith distills the true lesson of the Light affair: “Obama’s so hard up for advocates these days that this is the best he can do.”
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Haha. Yep, even looks like a textbook Obama supporter:
http://www.facebook.com/winston.steward
pearson on January 26, 2010 at 10:49 PM
This is too much fun. I bet a lot of Lefties truly believe Ellie gives them more ‘credibility’.
Liam on January 26, 2010 at 10:51 PM
[logis on January 26, 2010 at 10:48 PM]
Are you suggesting Winston took one for the team? Considering how much of a weasel he was in taking it, it must have been a short straw decision.
Dusty on January 26, 2010 at 10:52 PM
Where’s Ethan Winner, operator of the first Axelrod astroturf campaign… Is he of any relation to these two??
phreshone on January 26, 2010 at 10:55 PM
Here’s one possible explanation. Papers are used to being flooded with anti-Obama letters by now and are desperate for some balance. Winston just happens to be one of the only remaining Obots in the country willing to praise Obama in public. So, it’s not like he had a lot of competition for the “pro-Obama” slot in the letters section of papers all across the USA.
pearson on January 26, 2010 at 10:56 PM
And you lived to tell about it? Shazam!
hillbillyjim on January 26, 2010 at 10:56 PM
Buford Gooch on January 26, 2010 at 10:57 PM
Translation: he doesn’t want anyone debating his points, the same way the trolls here vanish when they can’t sustain their arguments in face of truth.
Liam on January 26, 2010 at 11:01 PM
Hmmm. California. Healthcare worker. Obama booster.
AnninCA?
cs89 on January 26, 2010 at 11:03 PM
Trixie Garland?
dmh0667 on January 26, 2010 at 11:04 PM
Nah, she is a weak concern troll hijacker. Don’t give her credit.
OmahaConservative on January 26, 2010 at 11:05 PM
How do we know “Winston Steward” is real?
ddrintn on January 26, 2010 at 11:07 PM
‘Sagebrush Elm’ and ‘Buford Gooch’ sound like like they used to ride with The James Gang…
Sincerely,
‘King Ashmont’
…Which kind of sounds like the wealthy rancher old Sagebrush and Buford would have rode for before they crossd paths with those James boys ;-)
CaptFlood on January 26, 2010 at 11:07 PM
…Until, of course, they had that falling-out over Trixie Garland…
CaptFlood on January 26, 2010 at 11:09 PM
This is even better. If he’s making up garbage, then it’s all probably made up about his paranoid fear of being attacked by right-wing nutcases.
I wonder how Ms Brooks feels about all that–being married to a lib who denies being married to her. And all the nuances involved there.
These libs are comedy gold without even trying! If I could pull off crap like this, I could make a mint doing stand-up.
Liam on January 26, 2010 at 11:12 PM
I still think Axelrod put him up to it. Although, surely, the Astroturf master would have picked a more inconspicuous name, like say, Ford Prefect.
signed
“Napoleon Mojave”
Ace ODale on January 26, 2010 at 11:13 PM
Claymores don’t conflict with the wife’s landscaping.
T J Green on January 26, 2010 at 11:15 PM
Say what?
I heart Ben Stein. Make sure you watch Expelled, it’s wonderful.
I also heart Claymore mines ’cause they’re really loud, and stuff.
Mojave Mark on January 26, 2010 at 11:23 PM
T J — pit traps and “bouncing Betties” are even less conspicuous. Keep a good map for when you mow the lawn…
Regards,
Ric
warlocketx on January 26, 2010 at 11:26 PM
And I thought it was Alan Colmes.
Basilsbest on January 26, 2010 at 11:29 PM
Could Ann-in-a-can really be Winston Steward?
Dhuka on January 26, 2010 at 11:34 PM
Finally,someone on the idiot box has described Bambi in appropriate terms,”TOO STUPID”.For the past year we have been subject to endless numbers of talking heads on both sides spouting lunacy about Bambi’s great intelligance and Spock-like cool.The fact is,Bambi is an IDIOT so indoctrin-ated into Sacialist ideas that he has no understanding at all of free market principles.The politicians who say that he has to “track to the right”don’t realize that it is impossible for Bambi to that,because he has no idea how because he doesn’t know what the right believes in,or why.
The coolness that the heads drone on about is in actuality”deer in the headlights”panic.”Oh Shiite,I won.Now what should I do?”
DDT on January 26, 2010 at 11:43 PM
Strangeness. If they are still married, and he gave out the name of his wife so that he couldn’t be traced, then he must not be living at home with her. Or he is and is incredibly dumb, or he is and is willing to sacrifice his wife to the wolves “up in Bakersfield”. Or both.
If she’s spoken right, he’s here in Southern California somewhere.
But things still don’t add up.
unclesmrgol on January 26, 2010 at 11:46 PM
She’s moved to Texas. Sleeper cell co-member of Winnie with assignment to kick off the next round of AstroTurf letters to editors starting in two weeks or so. Pen name: Cherry LaBrea.
ya2daup on January 26, 2010 at 11:47 PM
Ozzy Valleywood…..beat that.
JVelez on January 26, 2010 at 11:55 PM
I was betting that it was Axelrod who was posing as Bud Light
bayview on January 26, 2010 at 11:57 PM
YES !!!!!!! We have a James K Polk reference. My favorite Non Reagan President…. Also the favorite of “They Might Be Giants.”
Dirthead on January 27, 2010 at 12:03 AM
Hey Winston, Big Brother is watching you! Oceania is at war with Eastasia, until you pass through Room 101…
Steve Z on January 27, 2010 at 12:07 AM
Um… huh?
ya2daup on January 27, 2010 at 12:10 AM
I always use my wife’s name on the internet to protect myself don’t you guys? /s
Caper29 on January 27, 2010 at 12:10 AM
Ozzy Valleywood?
How about Beauregard Cottonwood?
tcn on January 27, 2010 at 12:11 AM
This is the crux of the biscuit.
This could not have happened without influence. This guy is outing himself to kill the story, and it may work. Somebody needs to pursue this with the papers. Is there a quid pro quo in regards to a possible newspaper bailout?
I know….crazy talk.
phineas on January 27, 2010 at 12:19 AM
How about my second…
Skid-dish Manchester?
Seven Percent Solution on January 27, 2010 at 12:21 AM
Heres a new job opening for this dirt baggie
macncheez on January 27, 2010 at 12:22 AM
ya2daup on January 27, 2010 at 12:10 AM
Hey ya, James K Polk was a great albeit under-rated president. As Ben Stein points out in the video as the only successful one term prez. Read some history. Also the band “They Might be Giants” wrote a cool song about him>
Dirthead on January 27, 2010 at 12:26 AM
First Ellie claims to be Barbara brooks, then the husband claims to be barbara, then another woman claims to be the real They astroturf the Obama letter writing then they astroturf the script of Victor/Victoria to explain themselves to the public.
Only an Obama supporter could be that stupid and only an Axelrod idea would be co-opted start to finish. If they had an original idea pop into their head, it would die of loneliness
Niteowl45 on January 27, 2010 at 12:36 AM
As one of the “right wing crazies up in Bakersfield,” to Mr. Steward I say Fuh Q!
classicaliberal on January 27, 2010 at 12:41 AM
That is freaking hilarious.
Django on January 27, 2010 at 12:43 AM
My question, exactly. And it was well over a dozen.
atheling on January 27, 2010 at 12:48 AM
I got one even better….
My blog is also runs as a column in the Houston, Texas based Cypress Times. I wrote about “Ellie” and tied it into the larger astroturfing efforts by Axelrod.
Anyhow, “Ellie” wrote in:
Who knows if this is the “real” Ellie, or not. Insane stuff.
I do want to caution Allah and everyone else who wants to write this deal as off as a “lone wolf” nut bag.
For one, there are more of these people out there, and this could be a huge fake out.
Two, and on this one I have some pretty intimate knowledge, this is right up Axelrod’s alley.
Remember the effort put out to smear Sarah Palin? While this thing looked like a bunch of crazed Alaska bloggers, just another bunch of hate filled liberals, it was anything but.
Obama’s campaign chief-of-staff Pete Rouse, who now serves as a White House adviser, set up a very intricate network of bloggers and volunteers.
This operation is on going. In fact now they are attacking a fellow blogger who supports Sarah.
Anyhow, the point being is this, Obama personally got involved in the failed Troopergate (or as Sarah calls it Tazergate) smear and Rouse managed all of these hate bloggers from D.C.
Don’t forget, either, that Anita Dunn is from Alaska, and her husband’s law firm (which represents Obama) was all over the investigations of Sarah. The so called “special investigator” who was looking into Sarah’s legal defense fund worked for Perkins-Coie!
So…just because this looks like one or two nuts, don’t fall for it. Obama and his people know how to set these kind of deals up.
I mean look at the idiots up there in Alaska. Celtic Cow? Jeanne Devon? Shannyn Moore? All certified nut jobs. Eeally easy to write off as hateful losers.
But, they get directions from the highest office in the land.
Food for thought.
gary4205 on January 27, 2010 at 12:58 AM
My mistake: I hadn’t clicked on the Cavuto / Stein link. Someone yesterday mentioned John Adams as a good / great one-term president. I rate Polk above Adams. Settled Oregon boundary with Great Britain, fought and won war with Mexico, presided over second largest expansion / acquisition of territory and established a Treasury system that lasted 70 years. All that in “one and done” term.
ya2daup on January 27, 2010 at 12:58 AM
He looks like the kind of man who has a repertoire of “circus skills.” Juggling, unicycling, tightrope walking, clowning etc. Everything except lion taming. I bet he knits his own tofu.
Sharke on January 27, 2010 at 1:02 AM
Neil Cavuto beat near-life-ending cancer, then ended up with multiple sclerosis. Perhaps the MS is the cause of the grating voice.
Brick on January 27, 2010 at 1:24 AM
I agree. I don’t understand how and why this dude and / or dudette ended up posting and using IP address in Saudi Arabia and Italy ?
macncheez on January 27, 2010 at 1:27 AM
ya2daup on January 27, 2010 at 12:58 AM
VERY COOL. I am an Adams fan as well, but the whole Manifest Destiny nature of JKP’s presidency is so American and Western ( I live out west) He was in a sense the “John Wayne” of Presidents….President Rooster Cogburn?
Rock on Ya!
Dirthead on January 27, 2010 at 1:33 AM
Stein’s not pulling any punches, is he?
Virus-X on January 27, 2010 at 1:52 AM
…. and I bet this guy is doing coordinated astroturf messaging along with a lot of other people. Whoever he is.
YehuditTX on January 27, 2010 at 2:21 AM
I realize the existence of “right-wing crazies” is an important part of the lefty world view, but this just doesn’t add up. What else, I wonder, might make a guy lie about whether he’s married? If I were Barbara, I might consider putting a tail on this guy. I’ll bet you anything mr. letter writing hippy dude has something going on the side, IYKWIMAITYD.
Infidoll on January 27, 2010 at 2:23 AM
Ben Stein for prez. Even better, Stein/Cavuto!
Meredith on January 27, 2010 at 4:34 AM
Ellie = El lie or “the lie”
DSchoen on January 27, 2010 at 5:16 AM
Haha. Yep, even looks like a textbook Obama supporter:
http://www.facebook.com/winston.steward
pearson on January 26, 2010 at 10:49 PM
Boy,oh boy, did you hit the nail on the head with that observation. He looks like a tree hugging, vapid, intellectual wannabe.
RWLA on January 27, 2010 at 5:27 AM
Barbara Brooks is really John Kerry…see for yourself on her facebook page!!
http://www.facebook.com/winston.steward#/profile.php?id=1171351407
Here’s the Kerry picture…
http://americanelephant.files.wordpress.com/2008/07/obama-kerry-judgement-poster-08.jpg
I bet one call to Paper Shine Design would clear up who Winston Steward is…looks like her page is affiliated with him…maybe she prints his writings and sends them out? I bet a few questions would flush out the real writer here…prob The One himself…he is actually arrogant enough to do this…
http://www.facebook.com/winston.steward#/pages/Paper-Shine-Design/171010747627
TheAudacityofNOPE on January 27, 2010 at 6:28 AM
I helped Patterico find a SPANISH TRANSLATION in the Miami Herald. Link in their site.
Because my dog (stupid b!tch) woke me up at 5 am, I went back again, still popping more up. Checked Puerto Rico’s papers last night, so far without success. Newspapers in Puerto Rico would not translate comments, especially if posted on their online site. Checked my local Times-News online so far nothing. So 1 fish, many caught from us, and nothing on the MSM except FOX.
I posted this later on Patterico’s since nobody here remembers Turk!, apparently.
This reminds me of the movie Turk 182!
http://www.imdb.com/title/tt0090217/quotes
Det. Ryan: [trying to find out who's behind Turk 182] Just give us the names and addresses of everyone involved.
Terry Lynch: Everyone?
Det. Ryan: Everyone involved.
Terry Lynch: There’s the Penguin, the Riddler, Catwoman, Darth Vader, Jack the Ripper, Atila the Hun…
Det. Ryan: [about Turk 182] There are two theories. The first is that this is an organized conspiracy. The other more bizarre theory is that this is the work of one man – Superman, apparently!
*I emphasized this one due to Drudge’s cover of Obama wearing a Superman outfit with an “O” in the diamond*
Jimmy Lynch: You read the newspapers, Jock?
Jockamo: Of course I read the newspapers. What do I look like, an imbecile?
Jimmy Lynch: Uh… no.
Det. Kowalski: Now just what do we know about this Turk? Or, if there are more than one, we could call them Turkeys.
Det. Ryan: [the cops are looking at slides of Turk's graffiti] This little masterpiece was conducted while the surrogate court was in night session. If you can believe that one.
Det. Kowalski: Justice is indeed blind.
Comment by ProudPalinFan — 1/27/2010 @ 2:44 am
ProudPalinFan on January 27, 2010 at 6:52 AM
NOTE: I wrote that I helped BUT the way it worked out was that I forwarded another poster’s comments on another website. Patterico found the link to the article to the Miami newspaper. I do not want to take credit for the poster’s comment.
ProudPalinFan on January 27, 2010 at 6:54 AM
The work that I am doing right now, since a translation popped up in Spanish, I am gonna fetch for more than one. Also, there’s more Ellie Light on letters to Haiti relief (Google “give with your hearts and your smarts).
ProudPalinFan on January 27, 2010 at 6:56 AM
Boscoe Ellet
Johnnyreb on January 27, 2010 at 7:05 AM
He looks to have handled a cowbell or two in his lifetime.
MNHawk on January 27, 2010 at 7:19 AM
Well he certainly isn’t going to be getting that kind of love tonight at the SOTU!
Bottom line is that there is something underhanded and dirty about a covert national propaganda campaign where false information is provided.
highhopes on January 27, 2010 at 7:33 AM
First pet name and street you grew up on.
Love,
Nikki Churchill
Goldie Douglas. Sounds kinda trashy.
Lizzy on January 27, 2010 at 8:11 AM
Oh please! Apparently this nut and his nutty wife has bought the “right wing mobsters” meme from the White House (and Janet Napolitano). Or he’s been told to say that.
Buy Danish on January 27, 2010 at 8:17 AM
That facebook pic of Winston posted above looks a little like one of the guys in the pic Grow Fins links to if you click on his screen name.
Could Winston Stewart be Grow Fins?
Disturb the Universe on January 27, 2010 at 8:22 AM
Anybody got the scoop on the real estate market in Bakersfield? Sounds like a great place to live.
jay12 on January 27, 2010 at 8:28 AM
Meanwhile, is “Ellie Light” also “Mike Spivey”, and is Spivey also terrified of right wing crazies? They seem to share the same mailing list.
Buy Danish on January 27, 2010 at 8:34 AM
So it was Rachel Maddow all along.
Akzed on January 27, 2010 at 8:36 AM
Once again the axiom has been proven.
Liberalism is a mental disease.
angryed on January 27, 2010 at 8:41 AM
I thought Fins was a she. Damn it’s so confusing keeping up with the trolls / astroturfers these days.
angryed on January 27, 2010 at 8:42 AM
Um, can we trust this confession?
Originally lies about who the letter writer is & where he/she/it lives. Now can’t even get the story straight on whether they are married. Good Lord, the Left’s incompetence may be our only saving grace.
rbj on January 27, 2010 at 9:13 AM
Grover Gosling
BierManVA on January 27, 2010 at 9:16 AM
If the Obama Campaign will send a poll watcher to Frenchtown, Mt. to observe the vote the whole day, why wouldn’t they have people like Winston “Ellie Light” Stewart around the country writing letters to editors. Never trust a dem, ever.
Kissmygrits on January 27, 2010 at 9:31 AM
Ellie light is anything but clean. Check his FB page. Were he bashing BO, he’d be up a creek right now, with apparent ties to both foreigners and porn.
MarkT on January 27, 2010 at 9:52 AM
Ellie light is anything but clean. Check his FB page. Were he bashing BO, he’d be up a creek right now, with apparent ties to both foreigners and porn.
MarkT on January 27, 2010 at 9:52 AM
How embarassing for those listed as his friends.
NebCon on January 27, 2010 at 10:11 AM
Finally, someone the democrats can be proud of…
right2bright on January 27, 2010 at 10:27 AM
So this is the kind of person whose judgement leads him to the conclusion that Pres. Obama is great. Maybe, reasoning backward, we might suspect that a lot of Obama supporters exhibit the same overall capacity to make judgements.
Blaise on January 27, 2010 at 11:17 AM
You left out Morris dancing at renaissance “faires”.
ya2daup on January 27, 2010 at 11:25 AM
… who aspires to be a beta male
ya2daup on January 27, 2010 at 11:35 AM
I’ve got you all beat.
Regards,
Muffin Washington.
UltimateBob on January 27, 2010 at 11:40 AM
Ellie Light comes out of the closet. Even his wife says he is making up a lot of garbage. Interesting to me, as a veteran “letter to the editor” writer, how one writer could get near simultaneous publication in about 70 daily papers across the country. He must have had a very compelling message that touched editors …universally. Or something… This deal still stinks, and echoes Holder’s blogger cadre in DOJ to plant stories on blogs DOJ finds “interesting”.
Harry Schell on January 27, 2010 at 11:42 AM
I grew up in the country with no street name.
Tony “Rural Free Delivery”
check and mate!
JetBlast on January 27, 2010 at 12:02 PM
For “Ellie’s” sake, I hope that divorce attorney, what was that name… Tabone Enklery?, is a good one.
taznar on January 27, 2010 at 12:36 PM
So a lying sock-puppet propagandist tool is afraid of the “rightwing crazies”?
DANEgerus on January 27, 2010 at 1:31 PM
Ellie must be one of them ‘stimulus’ jobs. I knew they had at least one.
percysunshine on January 27, 2010 at 1:36 PM
Ellie Light. I first thought it was someone with the initials of L.E. or maybe the writer admired thew views or work of someone with the initials of L.E. and, therefore, referred to theirself as L.E. Light (Ellie Light.)
Apparently I simply think too much.
Oink on January 27, 2010 at 1:39 PM
I learned that as the algorithm for generating one’s, um (don’t want to get blocked by the firewall), let’s say, pole dancer nickname.
I’ve been LMAO at everyone’s contributions in this thread, but I must tell you that I have the ultimate pole dancer nickname: “Gentlemen, here she is! Give it up for… Bubbles Alvarado!”
(Bubbles was a goldfish.)
Mary in LA on January 27, 2010 at 1:48 PM
This game makes me glad that I didn’t grow up on a street like “3rd Ave.” or “89th St.”
Ciao,
Tiger Grand
BlueStateBilly on January 27, 2010 at 2:00 PM
So when do the Newspaper own up to only pretending to by journalists?
petunia on January 27, 2010 at 2:16 PM
Bill Bloomfield. And don’t you forget it!
riverrat10k on January 27, 2010 at 2:18 PM
Punky Schilling
Dr Evil on January 27, 2010 at 2:20 PM
And oddly they are right.
Best line from Ben S.: There is something unusal going on inside this man’s head.
Isn’t that the truth! What it must be like inside Obama’s brain.
Every angry face is angry at Bush and wants him to be king.
petunia on January 27, 2010 at 2:24 PM
Bluey Holly?
Count to 10 on January 27, 2010 at 2:39 PM
I’m a bit more afraid of the left-wing crazies down in Frazier Park myself.
RINO in Name Only on January 27, 2010 at 4:30 PM
So ole Winston is a “health care worker”, huh? In other words, he’s a guy who empties bed pans and resents doctors. He’s all for Obamacare because he thinks it’ll bring down high and mighty doctors a notch or two. How pathetic.
olesparkie on January 27, 2010 at 4:55 PM
Cinnamon Tollhouse
foxforce91 on January 27, 2010 at 4:59 PM
Even Obama’s friends are transparent
faraway on January 27, 2010 at 5:39 PM
It means they found somebody to cop to it, not that they found ‘Ellie Light”.
Axeman on January 27, 2010 at 6:40 PM
Winston Steward…what a homo.
Doorgunner on January 27, 2010 at 7:08 PM
He’s from Frazier Park, CA. He probably inhaled too many fumes from trucks going up and down the Grapevine.
Lou Budvis on January 27, 2010 at 7:12 PM
Man, woman, it…hey, man…it’s aaaaaalll good.
Some of these Libtards don’t know what the f— they are.
Dr. ZhivBlago on January 27, 2010 at 11:10 PM
Uncle Ben is correct. President Obama is in this for himself, and he does not care about you me or anyone else.
As Mr Stein said he surrounds himself with “YES” people that do not have a clue about the position they were given by President Obama. Therefore, this country had better turn itself around in the upcoming elections so the next President can actually move U.S. forward.
MSGTAS on January 28, 2010 at 9:02 AM
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