You
probably don’t know Ellie. She and her husband run a
1200 cow outfit on Cottonwood Creek. It is a great
operation with corrals custom designed by Temple
Grandin. The entire processing facility is enclosed
in a huge heated/air-conditioned barn so we can work
cattle in ideal conditions regardless the weather
outside.
In addition to cows, Ellie also raises wheat and she
hand grinds her own flour. She makes the most
incredible whole grain cinnamon rolls. Wouldn’t you
know it; she is also an aviation buff and owns a
Super Cub and a Cessna 185. Fortunately for me, she
is not a pilot so she stores the planes in my hangar
and asks me to fly them regularly. I oblige her
because I’m just a giving kind of guy.
My Ellie is something special; she is also just a
figment of my imagination. I created her to keep a
positive attitude every time I’m required to rope a
surgical patient in a blizzard and then tie them to
my pickup bumper. My veterinary fantasy world is
similar to a wheat farmer planting a crop
anticipating $20 dollar wheat or a cowman turning
the bulls out expecting $2 dollar calves. It is
easier to be optimistic when you are delusional.
Here is another fictitious character named Ellie
Light. She is a prolific letter to-the-editor writer
and she is known across America as a huge President
Obama supporter. On January 13th Ellie wrote in the
Green Bay Press-Gazette “the problems President
Obama inherited wouldn’t go away overnight.” And
“its time for Americans to realize that governing is
hard work, and that a president can’t just wave a
magic wand and fix everything.” This would hardly be
worth mentioning but within a week similar letters
appeared in over 70 different national newspapers
all authored by an Ellie Light who claimed to live
in the home city of each paper. Either Ellie Light
moves a lot or she is a fraud trying to manipulate
public opinion. Why would anyone do that?
Progressive community organizers have been using
this manipulative technique for years. During the
2008 election cycle, in the October 15th edition of
the Billings Gazette, there was a letter
to-the-editor written by an Agnes Francis of Laurel.
She identified herself “As a Republican.” And she
“was so proud to mail my vote for Barack Obama for
president that I wanted to share this feeling with
my fellow Republicans.”
Since my district (MT HD#58) was gerrymandered after
the 2000 census and there are only about 50
Republicans within its boundaries, I should have
known Agnes, but I didn’t. Certainly her name was
German enough to be from Laurel so Agnes Francis
must be someone I just didn’t know. Over time I
became curious.
A quick google search and a review of voter records
showed no Agnes Francis in Laurel. Further
investigation showed no voter registration of an
Agnes Francis in Yellowstone County or anywhere else
in Montana. It is not that she passed on to the
great community organization in the sky because no
Agnes Francis has ever appeared as a registered
Montana voter. Hmmmmm, that is interesting. Agnes
Francis doesn’t exist, and never did. Just like
Ellie Light, Agnes Francis was a fictional author
created to sway public opinion.
Here is today’s message: Politics is a blood sport
and progressives will stoop to any level to advance
their agenda. To them the ends always justify the
means, so don’t expect them to play fair. They
don’t.
When you read a letter to-the-editor that begins
with the author claiming to be a conservative and
they then proceed to slam all values commonly
identified as conservative, one of their two
positions is a fabrication. Your job as a critical
reader is to identify which is which. Progressives
are masters of the art of deception; nothing is ever
as it is presented.
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