The Dark Side of ‘Ellie Light’

posted at 2:11 am on January 26, 2010 by The Other McCain
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In case you haven’t heard, the Left has launched a smear campaign against the HillBuzz blog. I summarized the situation in an e-mail to a friend:

A group of gay men in Chicago who supported Hillary Clinton in the Democratic primaries bolted when Obama got the nomination, and have continued blogging against the Obama agenda at their site, HilllBuzz.
A couple of weeks ago, when HillBuzz started promoting Scott Brown’s campaign in Massachusetts (they dubbed him “Hottie McAwesome“), HillBuzz was threatened by the Left. And when they kept it up, they were then “outed” – i.e., their Internet anonymity was breached and they were identified in a way that jeopardized their day jobs.
An anonymous smear site, “BigotBasher,” named the proprietor and accused him of — you guessed it — RAAAAACISM. This smear was then picked up by DailyKos, Democratic Underground and other pro-Obama sites. [Kevin] DuJan believes he’s identified the smear artist behind this operation and is considering legal action, but outside of the conservative blogosphere, nobody even knows that this is happening. This is the dark side of the “Ellie Light” Astroturf operation: Ruthless slash-and-burn attacks on anyone who stands up against the One. . . .
We’re talking about GAY MEN IN CHICAGO standing up to the Obama regime — kind of like that lone Tiannamen Square protester facing off against a ChiCom tank, really.

Hillbuzz talks about the nature of the attack and the nature of the attackers. Conservative lesbian Cynthia Yockey explains:

We MUST push back against FALSE charges of racism because Lefties will use it to destroy innocent people as long as it keeps working.
Certainly if we do not hang together on this, we will hang separately.

The Boss has blogged about this and Instapundit has noticed. Conservative bloggers like Donald Douglas of American Power are rallying. 

It’s one thing for “Ellie Light” to Astroturf for Obama. It’s another thing entirely when the Dark Side of Ellie Light begins attacking private citizens for speaking out. Expect to hear much more about this story in the near future.

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