Watch the Yes Men Thoroughly Confuse The Chamber of Commerce

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Morgan Clendaniel

October 20, 2009 • 12:52 pm PDT
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Yesterday we were briefly punked by, and then really amused, by the Yes Men's latest stunt in which they pretended that the Chamber of Commerce was strongly supporting climate change legislation (they are not doing that). Below is a video of Eric Wohlschlegel, a Chamber of Commerce representative, breaking up the fake press conference, which leads to the amazing interaction of Wohlschlegel and the Yes Man both demanding eachothers' Chamber of Commerce business cards:

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