Posted on 09/15/2009 6:51:12 PM PDT by markomalley
SAN BERNARDINO - The head organizer for California ACORN says a new video that appears to show a staffer at the organization's San Bernardino office is fake journalism.
The video, which was posted shortly before 2 p.m. Tuesday on a Web site called Big Government.com, shows a female ACORN employee talking to a man who claims to be a pimp interested in establishing a brothel where underage immigrant prostitutes would turn tricks in order to raise money for political activity.
The woman, identified on the video as Tresa Kaelke, appears on posted footage to be interested in cooperating the plan. However, California ACORN head organizer Amy Schur said the video is a gross misrepresentation of what actually happened.
"In this video, there are two actors who come into our office and who were messing with us. And our employee was messing with them," Schur said.
She said that the complete and unedited video needs to be released to the public.
Schur said that in a moment not shown on the edited video, Kaelke asked the undercover "pimp" if he was joking and then proceeded to play along with the joke.
Furthermore, Schur said that Kaelke will sign an affidavit stating that she was not seriously entertaining the idea of cooperating with an apparent attempt to establish a house of prostitution.
"She (Kaelke) asked if they were joking and asked if they were reporters. They said they weren't reporters and they aren't. This is not legitimate news," Schur said.
Schur's statements follow comments from ACORN office supervisor Christina Spach, who said Kaelke was afraid of the "pimp" and "prostitute" who broached the prostitution ploy at ACORN's San Bernardino office.
The Big Government.com video identifies the "pimp" as James O'Keefe and the "prostitute" as Hannah Giles. O'Keefe and Giles could not be reached immediately for comment.
Obama IS ACORN. SEIU is ACORN.
ACORN IS COI. COI IS CITA!
< caught in the act >
If ACORN knew about this why didn't they release a statement about it before the tapes came out?
Their whole denial is laughable.
To all:
“Two young people with a video camera did what thousands of local law enforcement agencies, or state’s attorneys general couldn’t do: bring ACORN to their lying knees. They are in double-secret super damage control mode.”
The above statement should SHAME all LEAs, DAs, “REPORTERS/JOURNALIST”, etc.
BILLIONS of taxpayer’s money funding/supporting the above mentioned groups and it has taken only TWO Patriots to bring Acorn/COI to its knees?
SHAME!!!!
SHAME!!!!
Where are the “Governmental Agencies?”
Where is the MSM?
CAT-GOT-YOUR-TONGUE?
THE COVER-UP OF THE CENTURY AWAITS FOR SOME ENTERPRISING PROFESSIONALS!!!
OOPS!!!!
“Two young people with a video camera did what thousands of local law enforcement agencies, or state’s attorneys general couldn’t do: bring ACORN to their lying knees. They are in double-secret super damage control mode.”
I guess the “two young people” bested the so call “elites.”
SHAME!!!!!!
THE PROFESSIONALS WERE BESTED BY “two young people.”
What a joke!
SHAME ON THE “PROFESSIONALS.”
SHAME!!!!!
PATHETIC!
And if/when BO bothers to respond: (all together now) “That’s not the ACORN I knew.”
Yup, that's the time frame I'd be looking.
Also, anyone think this "husband" may have been her pimp back in the day?
Very possible.
I watched the San Bernardino tape. Incredible!
The ACORN lady looks like she's been dabbling in meth. She appears to have led a very hard life.
BS, he tried to confirm it and the police wouldn't tell him one way or another. He covered his butt and the couples butt. Not only that SHE is lying Beck isn't lying, he is merely showing what she is saying.
Telling people while he is on the air, like he did today, that he couldn't confirm that part is all he had to do. The way you are talking it's as if you think he just claimed she said she murdered someone without proof she said it, as if it was him lying. That is just BS. Either she lied or she didn't, either way it is on her not on Beck or the young couple.
The fourth “isolated” incident
She is on the tape threatening to kill that Jim Miller guy too?
She may have also been lying about shooting her husband but she didn't hesitate one bit when she said it.
How long and how many ACORN offices have they been to?
Todays tape had a date on it of 8/14/2008!
I noticed they never mention that their beloved employee talked about setting her hubby up to kill him. I bet the Cops let here off as a victim.
Yeah I went around and made sure everyone knew I was abused before I shot him.
Boy the cops must be stupid in SB,CA.
Yes, they are. And corrupt? Of course it comes from the very top.
But if you go along - get along - there is a nice pension waiting for you.
She will sign it....or else she will lose her job.
Surely if she did the killing then somewhere a shred of truth is bound to be revealed one way or another if the event really happened. Otherwise she’s a lying, disturbed lunatic!
Possibly but she claimed to have been the one running the "service". Her husband may have found out about her operation and that's what led to the confrontation. Also possible they weren't legally married or she didn't take his last name.
Yep, I’m absolutely convinced that signing an affidavit is enough to proove that you were only engaged in non-serious banter in a case like this./sarc
"ACORN... what's ACORN?"
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