Hillarysworld

The Yes Men have gone too far - Impersonating the Chamber of Commerce, and reversing the groups stance on cap and trade. 

From Wiki - The Yes Men  are described as follows:  "in Milwaukee, they create and maintain fake websites similar to ones they want to spoof, and then they accept invitations received on their websites to appear at conferences, symposia, and TV shows. Their newfound, self-proclaimed authority to express the idea that corporations and governmental organizations often act in dehumanizing ways toward the public has met both positively and negatively with political overtones. Elaborate props are sometimes part of the ruse, as shown in their 2003 DVD release The Yes Men.
Their method is often satire: posing as corporate or government spokespeople, they often make shocking comments which they believe to be the real meaning of the organisation's ideology being hidden by spin, or extrapolate what they feel is the organisation's ideology in a 'reductio ad absurdum' to come out with outrageous conclusions, such as that it should be possible to sell your vote or that the poor should eat recycled human waste. On most occasions no shock or anger has been registered in the response to their prank, with no one realizing they were imposters. Sometimes, the Yes Men's phony spokesperson makes announcements that represent dream scenarios for the anti-globalization movement or opponents of corporate crime. The result is false news reports of the demise of the WTO, or Dow paying for a Union Carbide cleanup, which the Yes Men intend to provide publicity for what they see as problems in the current situation.
The Yes Men have posed as spokespeople for The World Trade Organization, McDonalds, Dow Chemical, and the United States Department of Housing and Urban Development. The two leading members of The Yes Men are known by a number of aliases, most recently, and in film, Andy Bichlbaum and Mike Bonanno. Their real names are Jacques Servin and Igor Vamos, respectively. Servin is an author of experimental fiction, and was known for being the man who inserted images of men kissing in the computer game SimCopter. Vamos is an associate professor of media arts at Rensselaer Polytechnic Institute, New York. They are assisted by numerous people across the globe.

U.S. Chamber sues group after impersonation fiasco
By Tony Romm - 10/26/09 07:15 PM ET

The U.S. Chamber of Commerce on Monday announced it would sue a group of activists who tried last week to impersonate their organization.
After the Yes Men staged a fake press conference at the National Press Club to "reveal" the Chamber supported cap-and-trade legislation, the Chamber has decided to sue the group for misappropriating its logo and violating a host of related copyrights.
“The Chamber is a strong proponent of free speech and encourages public debate on issues of the day,” said Steven Law, Chief Legal Officer and General Counsel of the U.S. Chamber of Commerce, in a statement Monday. “However, the law is clear that you can’t misappropriate others’ intellectual property for personal financial gain.”
The Yes Men began last week's hoax with a press release announcing the Chamber had made an "about face," and now supported pending climate change legislation in Congress. After a few reporters picked up on the release -- some of which accidentally reported it as true -- the activist group held a press conference to further make the case for why the Chamber now backed Democrats' climate change efforts.
But about 30 minutes into that press event, a Chamber spokesperson entered the room and ended the conference. The Chamber has since reiterated it does not, in fact, support climate change legislation, and the duped reporters have ultimately published their mea culpas.
On Monday, however, the Chamber of Commerce revealed it would also follow through with its original promise of legal action against the Yes Men. In their civil suit, filed in federal court on Monday, the Chamber argues the group is not comprised of "merry pranksters tweaking the establishment." Instead, explained the Chamber's legal adviser, the Yes Men "deliberately broke the law in order to further commercial interest in their books, movies, and other merchandise."
"Ironically and unfortunately, this lawsuit might even help in that regard, but these acts are nothing less than commercial identity theft masquerading as social activism and must be stopped," Law said in a statement.