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Glenn Beck, Bill O'Reilly and Sean Hannity were all over the latest video release in the self-concocted ACORN "scandal" they've been pitching all over the cable and airwaves the past week. This time, they supposedly caught an ACORN volunteer named Tresa Kaelke giving them advice on how to set up their pimping operation.

Now, you'd think they would clue in that they were being put on when the woman talked about having killed one of her ex-husbands, but no. They proceeded apace -- and then splashed it all over Fox News this week, credulously.

Ellen at Newshounds has the rest of the story:

The only problem? It’s not true. As ACORN has stated in its press release,

“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 straightface." 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.

ACORN provided a copy of a San Bernardino police report of their investigation into the “homicide” of Kaelke’s husband. The police concluded, “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.”

At least Hannity had a smidgen of actual journalistic impulse enough to ask:

Hannity: Did you ever check to see if in fact she (Kaelka) had a husband that was killed?

Giles: We’re working on that.

Hannity: You haven’t gotten to the details on that.

Breitbart: Look, there’s so much stuff coming in ...

Hannity: In fairness, she could have just been --

Breitbart: She certainly does exist and if you look on the internet, you can see that she’s also involved in the other side of ACORN. So she is a community organizer in the political sense.

And these people like to fancy themselves "investigative journalists." More like ethics-deprived fanatics out to score political smear points.

Media Matters has more, plus a video too:

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Stephen Colbert delineates the way that John McCain attempts to diversify and distinguish himself from George Bush: by the way he characterizes his stances.

It's no secret that one of John McCain's biggest challenges as a candidate is distinguishing himself from President Bush.  I'm not sure why he's eager to spurn President Bush's supporters.  I mean, that's walking away from almost 29% of the American electorate and nearly half the Bush children.  

But he's so different from Bush already.  The only issues they agree on are education, immigration, Iraq, abortion, Supreme Court judges, Social Security, tax breaks for the wealthy, wiretapping, trade, healthcare, the Middle East, same sex marriage and Medicare.  

Stephen can't seem to grasp the concept of "electability." Who better to help him figure it out than the smartest person he knows...

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"What if everyone votes for someone that nobody would vote for?!"

Note from Nicole: We originally posted this last week, but had problems with the videos, so we pulled the post.  We got that straightened out and it was too good to not post again.