Weekly Posting of the Conservative Cow Doctor

 

Ellie, Ellie Light and Agnes

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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