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.
Did you hear on Hannity Breitbart was saying they considered a sting on pitching the tapes to the MSM? He didn’t give a definitive answer whether they did or not.
i believe Tresa was vetted by the Obama administration...ha ha!
This woman acts crazy, so why is she representing ACORN?
There are so many Baghdad Bob’s around these days...
Yep one is coming tommorrow, I am guessing from San Diego or someplace near the border from what was said today.
Irrelevant. The woman may be a looney-toon, maybe she's a drug addict. None of it has to be true at all.
She appeared to go along with the story. Why? Perhaps because she's loony. OR because that IS what ACORN does, as we've seen in 3 other videos.
No explanation helps ACORN here.
And still no response from our president.
My only question is if Kaelke was in fear for her life and felt that all of this was wrong and unethical did she file a police report with the authorities? I would bet a box of cracker jax that she didnt..:)
This one takes the cake, though. That’s the lamest lie I’ve ever heard.
She is no small catch. Found several pages that list the page info with her name in it but the page has already been cleansed.
http://www.linkedin.com/pub/tresa-kaelke/14/750/27b
http://www.facebook.com/pages/ACORN-of-Inland-Empire/98597142509
Hannity is getting the exclusive on the release tomorrow — looks like he and Beck are now vieing to see who can up the other.
Call girl or lobbyist? In light of the California representative caught on tape giving the 411 on his latest lobbyist conquest this doesn’t look good for our country.
lol this is huge...i need to buy more pop corn
I don't know if she shot her husband, but he does have a protective order against her, issued on 7/14/08 and effective until 7/14/2011.
Can someone do some wayback thingy and find the missing picture from this ACORN web page?
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...
Isn’t it kinda cool when you use your opponent’s rules and tactics in a legal way and beat them at their own game with their own rules?
Where’s someone’s Javascript of the crying baby?
I cannot wait till one of these ACORN babes mentions theOne and only.........I am hoping beyond hope that the Chicago office got hit and they spilled the beans.
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