ACORN DEFENSE: REVERSE STING

This is quite the defense, indeed. As James O'Keefe and Hannah Giles posed as a pimp and prostitute respectively, they recorded their conversation with an employee of the San Bernardino, CA ACORN office named Tresa Kaelke.

During that conversation, Kaelke (among other things) admitted that she shot her husband dead. The SAN BERNARDINO SUN now reports that the head of ACORN in California (not the San Bernardino office) is saying the joke is on O'Keefe and Giles because Kaelke knew what they were doing and was just playing along. No, seriously.

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.

Yes, this is the argument put forward not by the head of a local ACORN office or regional office but the head of ACORN in California. Do you find yourself wondering if this group is having difficulty getting the word out to all of its officials to shut their mouths? Making this defense even weaker is what O'Keefe and Giles encountered at ACORN offices 3000 miles away from the one in San Bernardino.

It gets better though. The San Bernardino Sun reports that Tresa Kaelke is now willing to sign an affidavit stating that she had the upper hand in the exchange:

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.

Even if we're to believe a defense a child would scoff at, why wouldn't Kaelke send the couple away or call the cops instead of putting hereself in a position of having to sign an affidavit?

That's a level of stupid that will be difficult to beat.

h/t to HOT AIR