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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.
“She said that the complete and unedited video needs to be released to the public.”
By all means. Let’s see every detail. If there’s something that genuinely even partially exonerates ACORN, I’m willing to look at it. By the same token, if there’s even more damning footage, then let’s see THAT, too.
“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.”
Two thoughts here. 1) If she thought it was a joke, why was she so “frightened for her safety”? 2) Does her job really allow her so much free time that she can “play along with the joke” with a couple of impostors for the better part of an hour?
Something smells rotten here, and it ain’t my Aunt Gertie’s Famous Herring Meatloaf.
In retrospect, that should have been corroborated before releasing the tape.
48 hours would be so many incidents they could never withstand the storm. here’s to hoping its true.
she went to her nose several times. like a cokehead.
So she played on this for over 90mins?!?!?
I don't think so.
It's less believable than "of course I'll still respect you in the morning."
Watched it myself.
That ACORN woman doesn’t have the sense to *play along*.
What? Did she think that they would eventually come out and say, “Smile! Your on Candid Camera!”
see how fast they are??? It pisses me off that there’s no injunction or search warrant to freeze Acorn employee assets, ACORN records, tax returns, email and paper correspondence, hard drives, etc.. By the time the Holder Justice Dept. gets around to doing anything (if they ever do), all those records will be lost.
The shredders, paper and electronic are in serious overdrive right now, bet on it. They are sophisticated, tech savvy and unscrupulous. You know they have a plan for clean-sweeping. If not, they can always call Sandy Berger.
nice catch!
http://speakmymindblog.files.wordpress.com/2009/09/order-of-protection-for-her-husband.pdf
She sure is very truthful for “just joking”.
The HUSBAND has a RESTRAINING ORDER AGAINST HER??? Not SHE has a Restraing order against HIM? Are you sure.....I couldn’t access that page.
No, we need the picture of that He/She crying “LEAVE ACORN ALONE”!!
Her SON DIED on Sept. 28, 1994, not her husband. Wonder what happened to her son??? hmmmm
Make that 1992 that he died.....the SON died.
Aparently, that Tresa Kaelke is quite a sex machine herself. Anybody have any good pics of her?
And they had a son who died in 1992......hmmmmm.
“Giimme a break ... This excuse is even lame by liberal standards. The only people on the planet stupid or gullible enough to believe this ACORN bimbo work at the New York Times and ABC News...”
And CNN and MSNBC and NBC and CBS and PBS and virtually every newspaper in the country. No matter how many videos are left, all the Acorn employees in them have to do is say they were playing along. And the libs will buy it, hook, line, and sinker. If Acorn and the employees in the first two videos had been quick enough and had said that, they would still be working for Acorn.
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