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Tresa Kaelke: ACORN San Bernardino Worker Did Not Kill Husband

by Scott Wu | September 17, 2009 at 10:22 am

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Tresa Kaelke from ACORN San Bernadino was caught on tape saying admitting killing her husband and set up self defense claim. Soon after the video was online and aired in media channels, ACORN released a statement saying Kaelke lied deliberately in the video. Kaelke's former husband is very much alive and living in California.

"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 straightface." While her sense of humor might not be funny to many people, the fact is that she spun false scenario afterfalse scenario and the videographer ate them up.

Here is the transcript of the controversial "confession".

Kaelke: "I think in my life I have been abused also. I mean, just with an ex-husband. You know, that just beat the hell out of me, you know, a few times and then, you know, I killed him."

O'Keefe: "How old were you then?"

Kaelke: "Um, it was only, actually, about — well, I was 35."

Giles: "Was he abusing you when you shot him or."

Kaelke: "No. Not right that instant. He came at me and I let him throw me around a little bit, you know. And then I just picked up the gun and said (EXPLETIVE DELETED) you. And I shot him. And he died. Right there."

Kaelke's supervisor, Spach, said Kaelke lied to the undercover reporters because she was afraid and wanted to "come across as a strong individual." Spach said Kaelke was not a prostitute and did not shoot her husband.

Some of Tresa Kaelke's statements claimed to have been edited out to make ACORN look bad, and the filmmakers' journalistic standards were called into question.

Others criticize FOX News for not doing proper fact check before airing the video. The original story on FOX still has not been updated even after new information has been released.

In a FOX news interview, one of the undercover journalist Hannah Giles was asked if she actually checked Kaelke's background and whether or not her husband was killed. Giles said they were still working on that.

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QueensHart

at 12:28 on September 17th, 2009

Let me preface this first. I refer to any color. This is truly typical behavior of rednecks. It is a pattern to be very "melodramatic" for excitement , shock and awe. People like this do this sort of thing as an accomplice is stealing something or escaping. I have seen this.

Do you think she just did this for these people. I know mental cases that literally go into places of business all the time and put on a "skit". They are actors, scam artists and show offs. It makes them feel alive to see someones pupils dilate. It is another form of exhibitionism. Don't you know they probably already had been informed to be alert for investigations?

Acorn is a DISGRACE and everyone except red necks know it. It is a failure. People need real jobs to go to. We do not have them anymore but this is worse.

Of course this will be the measure the supporters will use to justify the lousy Organization Just like they do anyone trying to protest the Administration. It is not about Obama . It is about a corrupt failure