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As of this morning, however, it appears that Ms. Light is no Ms. at all. Rather, Ellie Light's true identity is that of a 51-year-old California man named Winston Steward. Politico's Ben Smith reports the weird-but-true story of Mr. Steward:
[Steward] called into a radio show this morning claiming to be a woman named Ellie Light, then claimed in interviews with the [Cleveland] Plain Dealer and with me today to be a woman named Barbara Brooks, and appears in fact to be Brooks' husband.
On the other hand, conservatives shouldn't be sad that there's no big Alinsky-type connection between the Ellie Light scandal and the White House. Steward noted in one interview,
Steward's right... that does make me feel a bit better."When the crazies started looking for pro-Obama letters they thought could be by me, they found so few," the writer said. Conservatives "should be dancing in the streets – [Obama] is completely abandoned. They were looking for pro-Obama letters and couldn’t find any."
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