The fourth installment of James O'Keefe and Hannah Giles's undercover report on ACORN is supposed to drop within the hour at BigGovernment.com and will be aired on Glenn Beck at 5:00 p.m. This time the duo took their sting operation to California, where an employee named Theresa confesses that she killed her allegedly abusive husband, and laid some "groundwork" beforehand. Beck aired portions of the video on his radio show today, and Leslie Sherman of The D.C. Writeup wrote it up:
10:54am: As the audio continues, James divulges his aspirations to run for an elected office someday. In enthusiastic response, Theresa says she speaks with Congressman and Senators every day. She names Senator Barbara Boxer and Senator McCleod, and 62nd district Assemblywoman Wilmer Amina Carter. Theresa says that "Eden's" prostitution money would be an asset to him in his quest to become a Senator or Representative. 11:01am: Regarding the legislators that she speaks with, Theresa says that they (most likely herself and their ACORN office) are lobbying these law makers in behalf of health care reform. Apparently, this "non-partisan" organization that gets government money for housing assistance is using tax dollars for health care lobbying. 11:15am: Theresa discloses that her ex-husband abused her and "beat the hell out of" her. She then continues to confess, "I killed him . . . . I shot him." She notes that she had laid some "groundwork" beforehand. When James and Hannah question her as to whether he was abusing her when she killed him, she says that he was not at that moment, but she knew he was going to, she said, "I knew it was coming."
Should be an interesting video. Will the mainstream media cover the ACORN story now? Update: Via Ben Smith, the San Bernardino police say that all of Theresa's former husbands are alive and well:
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. The investigation is ongoing and anyone with further information is asked to contact the Police Department's Homicide Division at (909) 384-5615.
I don't think this fact necessarily proves that the ACORN employee was merely playing along with O'Keefe and Giles. Perhaps she was trying to impress them, or perhaps she is mentally unstable. I think it would be hard to say whether she was playing along until one's watched the entire unedited tape, which I have not yet done. But, as Ben Smith notes, even if she was joking, "This does not, however, explain the Baltimore and Washington ACORN offices' willingness to offer advice on criminality; indeed, the group fired them."