The Yes Men and the U.S. Chamber of Commerce

Some of us are going to the Yes Men's new movie, The Yes Men Change the World, tomorrow night.  The Yes Men themselves will be there, as will our pal Marilyn Frankenstein, radical math professor, who wrote a study guide for the movie.  You can watch the official trailer for the movie here.

If you haven't heard of the Yes Men, they are anti-corporate pranksters who have been described as "Borat meets Michael Moore." One of their more recent pranks involved a press release claiming to be from the U.S. Chamber of Commerce announcing that the business-friendly group had reversed its position on tough climate-change legislation.  In his column in Sunday's

, Frank Rich compared the prank favorably to the "balloon boy" prank that got so much media attention.

Find the fake Chamber of Commerce press release here;  here's Politico's report on the hoax: