I apologize for that simile. Any-hoo, everybody but everybody is blogging about the ACORN scandal as the mainstream media sniffs. Even Jon Stewart is appalled that the "big" news outfits were lapped by a couple of kids from the cast of "High School Musical." Then it should be no surprise that a new low of only 18% of Americans believe the press is fair with all sides. Good times.
Extra - Meet the scoopers on Scrivener. James O'Keefe borrowed his "pimp coat" from Grandma and Hannah Giles is a minister's daughter.
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Though ACORN has a lot of problems, cluelessness may not be one of them. It turns out that Grandma's pimp coat may not have been an airtight disguise after all:
Fox News repeatedly broadcast and promoted a shocking but entirely fictitious claim made by San Bernardino ACORN employee Tresa Kaelke that she murdered her former husband.
On September 15, Fox News' Glenn Beck and Sean Hannity both broadcast Tresa Kaelke's assertion, recorded on a hidden camera, that she had killed a former husband.
Both made a point of highlighting the statement. On the September 15 edition of his show, Beck played the clip and then said, "She never spanked her kids, but she did shoot her husband dead." Later that night, Hannity played the same clip before adding, "Specifically, now, she goes into this scenario about her husband and the killing of him."
The following morning, on September 16, Fox News' Gretchen Carlson repeated the allegation, saying, "She killed somebody? Despite this, some lawmakers want to keep funding the group." She later claimed that the husband was still alive, "according to ACORN."
However, the San Bernardino Police Department itself has now confirmed that Kaelke's claim was untrue. A department statement released on September 15 reads:
"The San Bernardino Police Department is investigating the claims made regarding the homicide. From the initial investigation conducted, the claims do not appear to be factual. Investigators have been in contact with the involved party's known former husbands, who are alive and well."
Furthermore, Kaelke has said that when she made the claim, she was seeking to deliberately mislead the undercover videographers, Hannah Giles and James O'Keefe, of whom she was suspicious.
"They were not believable," Kaelke is quoted as saying in an ACORN press release. "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."
Kaelke's remarks have thus far been largely ignored by Fox News.
The Philadelphia branch threw the pair out of their offices, and filed an official police report.
O'Keefe and Giles have conceded that they went fishing for results. So it's hard to tell yet if this exposed systemic malfeasance on ACORN's part, or whether it's a video version of the "find the most insane or provocative comments posted on DailyKos.com or MichelleMalkin.com" approach. Either way, it was certainly effective.
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