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Attack Videographer Caught in Manipulation and Lies - ACORN ENTRAPPED
(San Bernardino, CA) --Today the videographer James O’Keefe’s hidden
camera “interview” with San Bernardino ACORN organizer Tresa Kaelke,
airing repeatedly on Fox “News”, including the Glenn Beck show, and on
BigGovernment.com, has been caught out
in an obvious set of lies and manipulations. When the actors
approached Ms. Kaelke with their provocative costuming and outlandish
scenario, she could not take them seriously. So she met their
outrageousness with her own personal style of outrageousness. She
matched their false scenario with her own false
scenarios.
“They were not believable”, said Ms. Kaelke of the two actors.
“Somewhat entertaining, but they weren't even good actors. I didn’t
know what to make of them. They were clearly playing with me. I
decided to shock them as much as they were shocking me. Like Stephen
Colbert does – saying the most outrageous things with a straight
face.” While her sense of
humor might not be funny to many people, the fact is that she spun
false scenario after false scenario and the videographer ate them up.
For example, in response to the set-up by the filmmakers in which they
say they are trying get the young woman away from her abusive pimp,
she responds that she was abused by her former husband as well (true)
and that she shot and killed him (false). He is very much alive and
living near Barstow, CA. However, this is taken as the gospel truth,
not just in the film itself, but also by several
“news” personalities, indicating that no journalistic standards were
applied to making the video or vetting it for broadcast.
Further, as the actors repeatedly noted how nice she was being, Ms
Kaelke responded, also repeatedly, that her "niceness" was just her,
not ACORN. “My supervisor would shoot this
down like faster than a bat out of hell."
When the actors talked about bringing 12-13 year olds in from another
country, supposedly because they needed a lot of money fast for a
political campaign, Ms. Kaelke said, "You are going to need it for a
lawyer!"
These exchanges, which do not appear in the edited film put on
BigGovernment.com, call into question the journalistic standards of
the film and of any purported news organization
that chooses to run them.
Ms. Kaelke, who did not know she was being filmed, is appalled that
her defensive attempts to deal with a troubling experience have been
manipulated into an attack on her work
helping low- and moderate-income families fight the foreclosure
crisis, work for needed health care reform, and face the economic
crisis in San Bernardino. www,acorn.com |
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