{"id":190856,"date":"2009-10-20T12:16:00","date_gmt":"2009-10-20T17:16:00","guid":{"rendered":"https:\/\/www.panix.com\/~msaroff\/40years\/2009\/10\/20\/punkd-2\/"},"modified":"2009-10-20T12:16:00","modified_gmt":"2009-10-20T17:16:00","slug":"punkd-2","status":"publish","type":"post","link":"https:\/\/www.panix.com\/~msaroff\/40years\/2009\/10\/20\/punkd-2\/","title":{"rendered":"Punk&#8217;d"},"content":{"rendered":"<div style=\"border: 1px solid black; margin: 0px 10px; width: 410px; float: right; text-align: center;\">Click for full size<\/p>\n<hr \/>\n<p><a href=\"http:\/\/img36.imageshack.us\/img36\/5599\/docpagechamberhoax32792.jpg\"><img decoding=\"async\" src=\"http:\/\/img36.imageshack.us\/img36\/5599\/docpagechamberhoax32792.jpg\" bordercolor=\"white\" border=\"0\" width=\"400\" \/><\/a> <span style=\"font-style: italic;\">Yes, Man, the Main Stream Media Just Ate it Up<\/span><\/div>\n<p>So it looks like the the activist\/guerrilla theater team, the Yes Men, along with the Avaaz Action Factory, hoaxed the main stream media by getting them to cover a phony press release,and phony press conference, where the chamber <a href=\"http:\/\/tpmmuckraker.talkingpointsmemo.com\/2009\/10\/yes_men_activist_group_teamed_up_on_chamber_hoax.php\">reversed themselves on CO<sub>2<\/sub>\/global warming legislation<\/a>, saying that, &#8220;Without a stable climate, there will be no business.&#8221; (see also <a href=\"http:\/\/tpmmuckraker.talkingpointsmemo.com\/2009\/10\/announcement_of_chamber_shift_on_global_warming_is.php\">here<\/a> and <a href=\"http:\/\/www.motherjones.com\/mojo\/2009\/10\/yes-men-punk-chamber\">here<\/a>)<\/p>\n<p>And about the only thing that could make this episode more cruelly embarrassing for the US Chamber of Commerce? Why, that would be demanding a for a criminal investigation of the hoax, which, of course, is exactly what <a href=\"http:\/\/tpmmuckraker.talkingpointsmemo.com\/2009\/10\/chamber_wants_criminal_probe_of_yes_men_hoax.php\">the chamber is doing<\/a>:<\/p>\n<blockquote style=\"color: rgb(0, 0, 153);\"><p>\u201cWe will be asking law enforcement authorities to investigate this event.  Beyond that, the Chamber will simply continue to focus on a positive vision for getting people back to work and growing our economy.\u201d<\/p><\/blockquote>\n<p>So, Major Pwn36e<sup>*<\/sup> followed up by self Pwn36e<sup>*<\/sup>, but that&#8217;s not all:<\/p>\n<blockquote style=\"color: rgb(0, 0, 153);\"><p>The U.S. Chamber is the world&#8217;s largest business federation representing more than 3 million businesses and organizations of every size, sector, and region.<\/p><\/blockquote>\n<p>Ummm&#8230;.You are only over-reporting your membership by <span style=\"font-weight: bold;\">a factor of 10<\/span>, as has been revealed by numerous sources, and <a href=\"http:\/\/www.motherjones.com\/mojo\/2009\/10\/us-chamber-caves-membership-numbers\">stipulated as true by the Chamber itself<\/a>.<\/p>\n<p>Couldn&#8217;t happen to a nicer group of running-dog Republican lackeys.<\/p>\n<p><sup>*<\/sup><span style=\"font-size:78%;\">Ownage.<\/span><\/p>\n","protected":false},"excerpt":{"rendered":"<p>Click for full size Yes, Man, the Main Stream Media Just Ate it Up So it looks like the the activist\/guerrilla theater team, the Yes Men, along with the Avaaz Action Factory, hoaxed the main stream media by getting them to cover a phony press release,and phony press conference, where the chamber reversed themselves on &hellip;<\/p>\n","protected":false},"author":1,"featured_media":0,"comment_status":"open","ping_status":"open","sticky":false,"template":"","format":"standard","meta":{"footnotes":""},"categories":[1079,1100,1020,978],"tags":[],"class_list":["post-190856","post","type-post","status-publish","format-standard","hentry","category-environment","category-funny","category-legislation","category-politics"],"_links":{"self":[{"href":"https:\/\/www.panix.com\/~msaroff\/40years\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/posts\/190856"}],"collection":[{"href":"https:\/\/www.panix.com\/~msaroff\/40years\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/posts"}],"about":[{"href":"https:\/\/www.panix.com\/~msaroff\/40years\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/types\/post"}],"author":[{"embeddable":true,"href":"https:\/\/www.panix.com\/~msaroff\/40years\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/users\/1"}],"replies":[{"embeddable":true,"href":"https:\/\/www.panix.com\/~msaroff\/40years\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/comments?post=190856"}],"version-history":[{"count":0,"href":"https:\/\/www.panix.com\/~msaroff\/40years\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/posts\/190856\/revisions"}],"wp:attachment":[{"href":"https:\/\/www.panix.com\/~msaroff\/40years\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/media?parent=190856"}],"wp:term":[{"taxonomy":"category","embeddable":true,"href":"https:\/\/www.panix.com\/~msaroff\/40years\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/categories?post=190856"},{"taxonomy":"post_tag","embeddable":true,"href":"https:\/\/www.panix.com\/~msaroff\/40years\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/tags?post=190856"}],"curies":[{"name":"wp","href":"https:\/\/api.w.org\/{rel}","templated":true}]}}