{"id":1493,"date":"2010-01-25T09:47:19","date_gmt":"2010-01-25T13:47:19","guid":{"rendered":"https:\/\/www.urbin.net\/blog\/?p=1493"},"modified":"2010-01-25T09:47:19","modified_gmt":"2010-01-25T13:47:19","slug":"new-heights-in-obama-astroturfing","status":"publish","type":"post","link":"https:\/\/urbin.net\/blog\/politics\/new-heights-in-obama-astroturfing\/","title":{"rendered":"New heights in Obama Astroturfing"},"content":{"rendered":"<p>First we get &#8220;Ellie Light.&#8221; \u00a0This devout disciple of our <em>Dear Leader<\/em> has <a href=\"http:\/\/eclipseweb.blogspot.com\/2008\/08\/shifting-democrat-standards-part-ii.html\">more homes<\/a> than democrat billionaire Senator John Kerry. \u00a0She has <a href=\"http:\/\/hotair.com\/archives\/2010\/01\/23\/ellie-light-obama-astroturfer\/\">written a near idential letter to at least 47 newspapers in at least 23 different states<\/a>. In each case, she claims to be a local resident. \u00a0She has made this claim in California, Ohio, Virginia, Wisconsin, Maine, and more, oh so many more. \u00a0She has even gone international, with her cloned letters appearing in Thailand and Canada.<\/p>\n<p>What is it that hardcore, far left extremist supporters of our <em>Dear Leader<\/em> have with the truth?<\/p>\n<p><a href=\"http:\/\/patterico.com\/2010\/01\/24\/still-more-astroturfing-gloria-elle-and-jan-chen-write-the-same-anti-republican-pro-obama-letter\/\">Patterico has additional examples of cloned, Astroturf letter campaign<\/a>s claiming to be independent letters of support for the far left agenda of the current administration.<\/p>\n<p><a href=\"http:\/\/michellemalkin.com\/2010\/01\/25\/the-astroturf-presidency\/\">Michelle Malkin points out that the &#8220;Ellie Light&#8221; Astroturf campaign is just the latest example of Obama theater<\/a>. \u00a0The entire Obama campaign &amp; administration has been <a href=\"http:\/\/conservativehq.com\/uploads\/Image\/cs100125.jpg\">Astroturf trying to pass itself off as &#8220;populism.&#8221;<\/a><\/p>\n","protected":false},"excerpt":{"rendered":"<p>First we get &#8220;Ellie Light.&#8221; \u00a0This devout disciple of our Dear Leader has more homes than democrat billionaire Senator John Kerry. \u00a0She has written a near idential letter to at least 47 newspapers in at least 23 different states. In each case, she claims to be a local resident. \u00a0She has made this claim in [&hellip;]<\/p>\n","protected":false},"author":1,"featured_media":0,"comment_status":"open","ping_status":"open","sticky":false,"template":"","format":"standard","meta":{"_themeisle_gutenberg_block_has_review":false,"jetpack_post_was_ever_published":false,"_jetpack_newsletter_access":"","_jetpack_dont_email_post_to_subs":false,"_jetpack_newsletter_tier_id":0,"_jetpack_memberships_contains_paywalled_content":false,"_jetpack_memberships_contains_paid_content":false,"footnotes":"","jetpack_publicize_message":"","jetpack_publicize_feature_enabled":true,"jetpack_social_post_already_shared":false,"jetpack_social_options":{"image_generator_settings":{"template":"highway","default_image_id":0,"font":"","enabled":false},"version":2}},"categories":[43,52,19],"tags":[125,140,251,262,414,621,839],"class_list":["post-1493","post","type-post","status-publish","format-standard","hentry","category-culture-of-corruption-politics","category-bho-politics","category-politics","tag-astroturf","tag-barack-obama","tag-culture-of-corruption","tag-democrat","tag-incompetent","tag-politics","tag-worst-president-ever"],"jetpack_publicize_connections":[],"jetpack_featured_media_url":"","jetpack_sharing_enabled":true,"jetpack_shortlink":"https:\/\/wp.me\/pab4zg-o5","jetpack-related-posts":[],"_links":{"self":[{"href":"https:\/\/urbin.net\/blog\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/posts\/1493","targetHints":{"allow":["GET"]}}],"collection":[{"href":"https:\/\/urbin.net\/blog\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/posts"}],"about":[{"href":"https:\/\/urbin.net\/blog\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/types\/post"}],"author":[{"embeddable":true,"href":"https:\/\/urbin.net\/blog\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/users\/1"}],"replies":[{"embeddable":true,"href":"https:\/\/urbin.net\/blog\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/comments?post=1493"}],"version-history":[{"count":0,"href":"https:\/\/urbin.net\/blog\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/posts\/1493\/revisions"}],"wp:attachment":[{"href":"https:\/\/urbin.net\/blog\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/media?parent=1493"}],"wp:term":[{"taxonomy":"category","embeddable":true,"href":"https:\/\/urbin.net\/blog\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/categories?post=1493"},{"taxonomy":"post_tag","embeddable":true,"href":"https:\/\/urbin.net\/blog\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/tags?post=1493"}],"curies":[{"name":"wp","href":"https:\/\/api.w.org\/{rel}","templated":true}]}}