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.
Oh for the love of pete, my kids come up with better excuses than this. Bwahahahahaha!
LOL I hardly knew ‘em.
20 years sitting under one pastor and he could deny him in a day and no one thought that was strange.
The spirit of deception is thick.
The more airtime this expose’ on corrupt ACORN gets, the better with me. Spread the news far and wide. Beck has such an early time slot, let Hannity pick up the ball later on for people who can’t watch Beck.
I don’t care who gets the credit, I just want ACORN and its’ 270 affiliations out of business, along with their CIC.
Say that wouldn't be that Pete Stark (D)Ca. now would it? (:
LOL!
Didn’t the Obominator TRAIN lawyers for ACORN?
I saw 2005 as the year on the tape...
Correction accepted - just an oversight...
Kaelke will sign an affidavit? Well heck, why didn’t they say that sooner? All is excused.
You’re right.
I thought it was odd, taped four years ago?
It’s posible that the camera wasn’t set properly for the date and time, i’ve done it on my camera more times than I have set it to the right date, most times I just forget abouot doing it..
Shakes head, see the comic (scroll):
Your nose probably also tingles when you're snorting coke at work. So I hear.
I thought that possibly too since the month and day are recent.
Obama = Community Organizer. Now we finally know exactly what a community organizer does.
So this is the defense ACORN has settled on?
“We knew it was a joke, we were just playing along! See, we have a sense of humor too!”
HAHAHA!
Indeed, we are all laughing!
Just maybe not for the same reasons...
As opposed to what an individual organizer does, like our founding fathers and the CONSTITUTION!
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