ACORN employee offers response. "I decided to shock them as much as they were shocking me."

September 15, 2009

(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 Stephan 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 ...

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Let's set the wayback machine to 2002. You remeber how Bush responded to criticism over all the fucking no-bid contracts? Contracts for, let's say, feeding the troops, or driving trucks, or building facilities. Bush and Cheney single-sourced all these contracts to a collection of good old boys and then turned around to tell the public that y'see, there wasn't any TIME to put these contracts out for bid, and anyway, we want the people we know are the BEST PEOPLE to work on these contracts. Don't protest too much, goddamn it, we're at war.

In the years that followed, we heard about the epic-level waste, fraud and abuse by these contractors. Of drivers abandoning trucks, substandard meals using the cheapest ingredients, poor facilities construction and maintenance, billions of dollars going missing. We heard about the mercenaries contractors we hired actually behaving like the hired thugs they were. We heard about servicemen dying not in the line of duty, but dying of electrocution while showering in their barracks. Not once, but three times.

But it goes deeper. (Continued below)

http://www.navytimes.com/news/2009/05/ap_i...tractor_052009/



Yeah, check that shit out. Not only is KBR so fucking inept they actually managed to kill "at least" three servicemen (we don't know how many injured), it turns out that this was a systematic and ubiquitous failing on their part. To call this "incompetence" hardly does it justice. How fucking dare they build facilities with faulty wiring? There is no excuse, not even in a combat zone.

These servicemen put their trust in contractors. They expect facilities to be safe, inspected, and quality-assured, just like back in the States. They expect that taking a shit or a shower or eating a meal isn't any different than if they were in their own house and eating their own food. KBR has betrayed these men and women.

But typically:


Unfounded my ass. This company needs to go out of business.