Watch: FOX Business Falls For Latest Yes Men Climate Change Stunt
Filed under: campaigns — Michael d'Estries @ 4:02 pm
October 19th 2009
The Yes Men have struck again.
Fresh from their brilliant NY Times hoax a few weeks back, the the activist-pranksters pulled of a stunt this morning that completely fooled several news organization; including as you’ll see below, FOX Business. Posing as representatives from the US Chamber of Commerce, the Yes Men created a fake press conference at the prestigious National Press Club announcing that the Chamber was reversing its position on climate change policy, and promised to immediately cease lobbying against the Kerry-Boxer bill. Everything was going as planned, with major news organizations covering the announcement and getting roped in, until an actual COC rep caught wind of the hoax and shut things down. Check out HuffPo’s full coverage here — and watch the video below for a good laugh. Absolute genius.
I love this! The Yes Men rock! I wonder if they could persuade world leaders that the Climate Change Summit is in fact taking place in another part of Copenhagen. A place where there are no cars, no street lights, but lots of great green ideas.
http://greenexplorer.ovi.com/getinspired/europe/denmark/copenhagen/dropping-in-on-copenhagens-drop-outs/?like=978#like_dislike_bar_978