Fox News reports fake murder story from ACORN video as fact

[struggle4progress]

After Andrew Breitbart posted a video of an ACORN employee in San Bernardino, California, claiming that she had killed her ex-husband, Fox News' Glenn Beck, Karl Rove, Greta Van Susteren, and Sean Hannity promoted it without fact-checking it or indicating that they had contacted ACORN for a response to the claim. In fact, ACORN stated that the employee made up the story because she recognized that the actors in the video "were clearly playing with" her so she "matched their false scenario with her own false scenarios," and, indeed, the San Bernardino Police Department has said her claim is false ...

http://mediamatters.org/research/200909160023

[madrchsod]

1. well i heard something about glen beck

of course i can`t confirm nor deny.....

[notesdev]

2. The truth ain't much better

they got a meth head who likes to make up stories about killing people running their office - not a great fallback position.

[EmilyAnne]

4. A meth head? Or a recovered drug addict? Give me a break. Its a hilarious video. nt

[struggle4progress]

5. ... 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!" ... http://mediamatters.org/mmtv/200909150047

Sounds to me like the lady is a smart cookie

[notesdev]

7. I wouldn't go too far out on that limb

Apparently she has two dead sons, cause of death yet unknown, and a restraining order against her by her current husband.

[struggle4progress]

8. Do feel free to provide links

[notesdev]

9. Can I wait

until the usual horde of screaming banshees tells me it can't possibly be true? I really do savor that.

[struggle4progress]

11. Sure. But try to give a complete picture. Don't just cite a single restraining order going

one direction (for example) if there are restraining orders on both sides, that appear to be related to divorce proceedings:


KAELKE, BEVERLY RESPONDENT RONALD & BEVERLY KAELKE DISSOLUTION OF MARRIAGE BFLBS05113 08/30/2000
KAELKE, RONALD PETITIONER RONALD & BEVERLY KAELKE DISSOLUTION OF MARRIAGE BFLBS05113 08/30/2000
KAELKE, RONALD Restrained Person TRESA KAELKE -V- RONALD KAELKE DOMESTIC VIOLENCE WITH CHILDREN FAMBS700373 11/16/2007
KAELKE, RONALD C Protected Person RONALD C KAELKE -V- TRESA M KAELKE DOMESTIC VIOLENCE WITH CHILDREN FAMBS800189 04/30/2008
KAELKE, TRESA Protected Person TRESA KAELKE -V- RONALD KAELKE DOMESTIC VIOLENCE WITH CHILDREN FAMBS700373 11/16/2007
KAELKE, TRESA M Restrained Person RONALD C KAELKE -V- TRESA M KAELKE DOMESTIC VIOLENCE WITH CHILDREN FAMBS800189 04/30/2008

http://170.164.31.10/openaccess/CIVIL/default.asp

Or if you're gonna tell me she's a meth freak, you gotta have more than an arrest 13 years ago

[notesdev]

10. All right I guess nobody is taking the bait

Here are your links.

Restraining order:
http://170.164.31.10/openaccess/CIVIL/CivilDetails.asp?courtcode=X&casenumber=BS800189&casetype=FAM&dsn=


Dead sons:
http://genforum.genealogy.com/parten/messages/32.html

The sons' names are Michael Lee Berhow and Duane Allen Berhow (same first/last name as the father)

[struggle4progress]

12. The only links I find to Duane Allen Berhow, for example, suggest he was about 28 at death.

I don't know whether he was her son or not, but absent anything more than that, I'm not sure why you think the fact is very informative

[notesdev]

13. How many people

in San Bernardino, CA, with the last name Berhow and mother's maiden name Parten could there possibly be?

These are her sons. Don't go overboard into denial land, the trip back is a bitch.

[struggle4progress]

14. If Duane Allen Berhow was her son and died at 28, what light would that shed on this story?

:shrug:

[notesdev]

15. Depends

on how he and his brother died.

Maybe the story she told about her "husband" was really about her son.

[struggle4progress]

16. Oooo! We can all play "Just Make Stuff Up"! Maybe she fed her two adult kids to dinosaurs!

[notesdev]

17. We'll see

Their deaths are being investigated... I wouldn't step in front of a bullet here for her.

[struggle4progress]

18. Do you have a link for "their deaths are being investigated"? Duane Berhow seems to have died in '92

so the death certificate was probably filed long ago, and I wouldn't expect any sudden new developments

[EmilyAnne]

3. Did FOX immediately call the police to report a murder? How about the film makers?

Certainly, a tearful Glenn Beck contacted the police right as soon as he heard about it.

[RobertSeattle]

6. Oh Nose... This might make Glen Bek cry!

...For the 137th time on live television.

[samsingh]

19. they should not be able to use news in their name. periodl