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  • I like the part where the Eric Vulshegle? from the Chamber of Commerce stops the press conference and tells the reporters that if they have any questions then they can ask him directly. When the reporters do ask him questions he avoids answering them. ;)

  • Peoples positions of work, or so called power means nothing.

    I like to see facts. I question everything that assholes spit at me, fuck that shit. .

  • very good point! so many people, believe, that because its on tv, on the internet , in the papers, in book or it comes from an official, that that automatically makes it the truth. despicably ignorant. reason is way too often disregarded. gullibility, the top quality of chritians, republicans and conservatives.

    to be gullible, to not evaluate - the lazy choice - ''the idle mind is the seedbed of the devil'' (i know its a bit farfetched, but its true)

  • The guy just looks like an incoherent, immature liar to me...

  • I like when the reporter says "I'm on a deadline...." HAH!

  • "We did this for the show"

  • that was a genious hoax lol but climate change fs? its a natural thing dou think the cavemen caused the iceage?

  • yes it IS a natural thing, the whole global warming thing claims we are simply speeding it up. so basically, naturally earth would eventually get to this point

  • actually it's proved that the earth has entered several phases of climate change over the years since it's creation, but what we are doing is wrecking the ozone layer and consuming to much energy compared to production output and needs

  • cave men didn't burn petroleum or coal at the rate we do.

  • @blueulster87 That's like saying that since cancer is a natural thing, then anything that accellerates or increases the chance or instances of cancer is 'full of shit'. Do I think that cave men caused the iceage? No, that would be foolish. The idea that global warming is 100% natural is misconstruing the reasearch. Would you rather problems happen faster or at the usual rate?

  • hahaha that was great, but when the second guy came the guy does the hoax should have been; "Get this man out of here, we've had problems with this lunatic before....... Officer!"

  • That would have been great...

  • Whoops BUSTED!

  • They actually made a documentary called "The Yes Men Fix the World". It will premiere in New York City and Los Angeles on October 23, 2009 and in other U.S. cities beginning on October 30. Show your support and go see it.

  • How can you other than just love "The Yes Men" when they pounce 'the man'. The docu mentioned by meltdown59992 is simply brilliant.

    Cenk, you have to bring them into your rebel headquarter. You HAVE to.

  • yeah i think they had an HBO documentary.... which was great

  • I literally laughed out loud, it was awesome how the fakers played it so cool.

  • This is spectacular.

  • i love the yes man. i have been watching them for years

  • haha yeah morons don't you know you should get all your scientific information from the bible?...would god create a world that would eventually be destroyed? gee maybe we oughta ask the dinosaurs, o wait my bible doesn't mention em. Anybody whos anybody knows just how much more pollutants wind and solar energy create as opposed to clean coal. c'mon morons open your bibles!.....people like you give liberals a bad name

  • tehant1liberal - "would god create a world that would eventually be destroyed" if you get all your facts from the bible are you just ignoring the book of revelations.

  • I think tehant is making fun of them...

  • Haha your funny!

  • wait a moment "tehant1liberal" are you literally saying over 2000 years old book, have old the answers

    LOL

  • tehant1liberal. "would god create a world that would eventually be destroyed?"

    i have a question for you. would god create a world filled with hatred and death i.e natural disasters, war ?

  • no matter what you make the simple fact is its not goin to be perfect its impossible. So cut this bull. That your point God + perfect so if everything isn't perfect there is no god. No i believe god isn't perfect because I'm not perfect

  • a god that believes in survival of the fitest and is bored?

  • OMG W/ NO BALLOONS!!!!!!!!!!!!!*O:

  • what has this species come to? ill tell ya what its come to. YOUR FACE! LOLZROFLLMAO jk Youre a tard now stfu and go backto your 2012 bunker you disgusting piece of shit youve had your three hours of light now leave

  • Oh man...

    Are the left really trying to pull plays from the Karl Rove right wing playbook now...!?

    God help us....

    This is just wrooooong.....

    This doesn't help anything - it just turns everybody off to the whole thing....

    Ahhhhhh - that's it.....

    The Yes Men are really trying to make us look bad... just like discouraging voting, because they know it will benefit them...

  • C'mon, Cenk, seriously... You can't be standing up for this thing just because the guy agrees with you. This is the kind of thing that you'd tear the FUCK up if it were a Conservative pulling the hoax.

    This is low down, dirty stuff here. And the reason the media is looking to the person of authority is because he's the person who's been vested authority. They have the power to act.

    Hate the media, but it's all a business, and they're just doing their jobs the only way they can these days.

  • I'm Captain Kirk!!!!!

  • True that media should listen up to perspectives such as that offered by the faker here, rather than giving such disproportionate air time to powerful interests. But, I don't agree with Cenk's mocking the media people here for being confused over whom to listen to. The point of the press conference was that the USCC had taken a new very important direction. As such, it makes sense that the media want to direct their inquiries on this matter to an actual rep of the C of C.

  • I totally agree with you on Cenk's position, but if this faker is going to be dishonest with the media on who he is, how are we gonna if he's REALLY telling the truth? If you really want to listen to different perspectives, then do it right: be honest from the get-go.

  • omg youtubers are fucking retarded.OK LEMME TAK YOU STEP BY STEP. TAKE SOME WATER, FREEZE IT, PUT SOME OTHER WATER IN THE GLASS, DROP THE FROZEN WATER IN THE CUP, THE WATER WILL RISE. IF THE ICE CUBE MELTS THE WATER DOES NOT RISE! omg

  • You're wrong: if the frozen water floating ABOVE the water melts, the water level rises. It's true that if all the ice in the world was underwater, the sea level wouldn't be altered if it melted. But that's not the case, much of the world's ice is in above ground glaciers and other ice formations. So seriously, listen to the science before you make assumptions based on observations you made when you dropped ice cubes in a glass and watched them melt (if that's what you did).

  • I'm guessing you are not familial with Archimedes and his theory of buoyancy.

  • When the ozone layer was being destroyed, people stopped using CFK's. When acid rain ravaged the world, people cut sulphur emissions.

    But now people are.... nuts.

    Last time I checked we only had one habitable planet, so if we destroy it by our irresponsibility and greed our species goes extinct.

    If people care about short term profit more then the long time survival of the earth, and thereby the human race, they should be destroyed, same a the nazi's where.

  • well said

  • the funny thing is, if climate change was an easy fix, there would be no 'skeptics'.

    people wont believe in climate change until it directly effects them, these people think we havent seen any effects because they havent put any time to actually find out.

    cant wait to find out the excuses for all the stuff happening now, it can only be ignored for so long.

  • Global Warming ... Climate Change ... Carbon Footprints ... Todays nightmares!!

    I see the world has clearly gotten over it's 'CFCs' nightmares from the early 90s then???'

    I wonder what wacky climatic shit-storms will eventually replace the current ones when they eventually don't happen??

    Maybe a permanent global sandstorm caused by over-reliance on hybrid cars, or maybe Icebergs that melt to the point of actually going on fire and burning everything?? (or maybe even an actual shitstorm??)

  • its called global warming, but the end result will be the world cooling

  • i can not understand people that STILL do not think there is this climate change thing going on... i mean unless you work for an oil company or something...

  • Bingo.

  • Climate change????? Climate change???? why, I thought it was global warming, what happened to "the planet has a fever"? Global warming phrase doesn't fit anymore. Climate change, thats the new buzz word to fuck capitalism and transfer our wealth to third world shit holes.

  • what's your point?

  • its been called climate change since day one, global warming is laymen slang.

    educate yourself

  • The green syndicate had to come up with a new marketing phrase when it turned out the world temperature had gone down 8 years in a row. Mr. Gore ought to give back his Nobel and Oscar.

  • Don't you mean, transfer the wealth "back" to third world shit holes. Since 95% of our money is debt money, our so called "wealth" is an illusion. The true Wealth is in raw resources, which we screw third world nations to get. We are 4% of the worlds population and use (consume) 50% of the worlds resources, and produce a little more than that number in waste. Then we have the nerve to ship that waste over seas to some random impoverished country where the people drink, bathe, and breathe it.

  • typical obama liberal "America is rotten and evil the cause of all the worlds problems" that story is such a played tired song sung by those who hate America. You remind me of children in dorm rooms first discussing politics and global interactive events. The naive language hasn't changed in over thirty years. While your hating America why don't you name me a better country or nation ever to exist on this planet. Name me that country.

  • Britain.

    They had women prime minsters, gays can adopt/marry, and are generally superior then america on a majority of issues, both equality related and otherwise.

  • Gays adopting and being allowed to mary, a women leader? There is nothing wrong with either but if that is what you hold up as examples of Great Britain superiority to the U S A then I believe you have confirmed my assertion of U S A # 1. You do know that after ww2 Britain and all of europe would have been over run by Ivan and turned into another Poland or East Germany if not for the U S A. From 1950 to 1990 we kept europe free and safe not Britain.

  • If your going to try to justify superiority based on things a nation did in the past then I will too.

    time Slavery ended:

    Britain: 1807

    America: 1865

    Upper Canada: 1793

    Spain: 1811

    So, going based on something that happened in the nations past, like what you did, America is horrible compared to Britain, and lots of other countries.

  • O K current in 2009 who has given more money food materials and assistance, U S A or Britain? I'm sorry but America is a country worth standing up for when people shit mouth it. Britains socialist open borders multi cultural ways have done it no favors over the years. Quite a prosperous utopia of different cultures getting along Britain is.

  • actually the open borders thing is forced on britain by the EU, we dont want it (also, the amount isnt exactly the best thing, the US produces the most food, and so ofcourse has the most left over to help others)

  • So then your answer to my question is the U S A. not Britain.

  • size difference mate, size difference.

  • All losers have an excuse all losers have a reason why it's not their fault

  • i would suggest that you look into the cold war era more... its VERY simplistic to say that America kept Europe safe from the USSR, the USA often was the aggressor in the cold war... and often acted in a way that made Europe very unsafe... NCCAJAX your blind Nationalism is what makes American one of the worst countries... you may think your a patriot but your not.. open a history book sometime... but American has certainly been the BEST Colonial power since WWII so you got us beat there...

  • Well also remember that britain was the only thing stopping Germany from overrunning all of Europe, and provided launch site for D-Day. But that's hardly relevant, no liberal HATES america, they love the country that's why they live in it. However when we appear to be hating the country it's only that we don't agree with the way it going, the same way how you probably don't like the way its going now under Obama. Nobody fights for something they hate.

  • Amen!

    Well put!

  • United Kingdom?

  • Don't care, it's fraudulent and I would hope it's illegal. You don't pretend to be someone else, that's fraud.

    I don't blame the real guy for not giving an answer as it wasn't a real fucking press conference.

  • "I'm with the Chamber of Commerce and I don't recognize you."

    Wow, I thought the Chamber was huge, this guy would recognize everyone involved personally?

    I know it was a hoax but it's no wonder it took a while for this guy to convince everyone it was really a hoax.

  • the distorted facts come from the scientists that exxon mobil pays millions of dollars. the objective scientific community is unanimous on the fact that climate change exists. Don't be a fool.

  • Why is even a question? People really think the climate does not change at all? The question we should be asking is why is it a bad thing to do things that help sustain our environment and resources.

  • Those guys sure did make a point - The leader of the Chamber of Commerce has such stupid and selfish ideology that he doesn't dare admit to that ideology so he says "We had a press conference last week" to avoid any questions.

  • this video is very ironic but i'll let you all figure it out....

  • Don't leave me in the dark, man!

  • Climate change is fake, the Earth has been cooling since 1998 and we are the only country that hasn't yet realized what an environmentalist hoax the whole movement has become.

  • You just contradicted yourself.

  • lmao go back to the trailer! the artic is melting and your dumbass comes out here saying the earth is getting colder. Thats why the rest of the world is joining groups to slow carbon emissions moron.

  • the earth has gotten warmer

    about 1% in average

  • Climate change was discovered by NASA in the 60's and 70's. Science academies, institutions, and Universities all around the world accept Global Warming is happening and being accelerated by humans. You're fucking stupid.

  • Correction, in the 60's and 70's they thought the world was COOLING. That's why current environmentalist's have switched the current movement title from "Global Warming" to "Climate Change". They have no idea what's going on. It fits into their hoax, however, since they can blame any weather event on climate change. too hot? climate change. too cold? climate change? prolonged drought? climate change. too much rain? climate change.

  • No you got that wrong too. It is still considered global warming too, mainly because the temperature of the planet has gone up .8 degrees in the last decade. That's confirmed by NASA. Hot and cold days are unrelated to greenhouse effects. The fact that we have glaciers the size of New Jersey breaking off and melting is consequential of this change. It has nothing to do with Liberals or politics. There's overwhelming evidence supporting Global Warming. Once again, you're fucking stupid.

  • no your fucking stupid.... just kidding. The global warming is true, but we will always have A/C! Anywho nothing will come of it except its gonna get a few degrees hotter big whoop the sea level will not rise some 20 feet or whatever they said, IT WILL NOT RISE AT ALL! If you put an ice cub in a glass the water goes up right? Well if you let it melt it stays the same and all of the north pole is water based there is no ground beneath the ice ITS ALL WATER! Antarctica is partially ground based.

  • There are many, many more effects that will consequent from Global Warming. The sea level will indeed rise. Do you not notice that glaciers are partially above the water? When they melt the sea level will rise in accordance significantly. That's not even the big problem. The big problem is the 90% of Earth's freshwater which is contained in those glaciers will be diluted into saltwater. Then we're fucked. You think world hunger is bad now? Let the glaciers melt and see how it is.

  • omg will you not let this go? did you not even read what i said? I SAID Put an ice cube in a glass of waterthe level rises, correct, the ice cube melts, the water level rises,incorrect, try it dumbass

  • Huh? The polar icecaps are already there, we're not adding a separate element to the ocean, its a marge mass that is already there and frozen and when a large part of it breaks off and goes into the ocean it displaces water and causes water levels (the ocean) to rise a little. It isn't the melting of the ice that makes the ocean level rise, it is the trigger to it. If

  • You really don't get it.... Part of that icecube is above the water. Push the icecube completely under and the water will rise more than when it's just bouyant. It will have the same effect if it melts. That's just neanderthal common sense and you don't have it.... My god, what has our species come to!?

  • See people,?you question an environmentalist, they hurl slurs at you. To be fair, FloridaMotocrss does seem to be fairly informed, but the civility is lacking.

  • "Correction, in the 60's and 70's they thought the world was COOLING"

    WRONG, Between 1965 to 1979 there were 71 studies done, 7 predicted global cooling, 20 were neutral, 44 predicted global warming

    educate yourself son

  • "we are the only country". Not even close.

  • well, has stopped warming. To say cooling is inaccurate.

  • Balloon boy: What I saw was a confused six year old. Of course, I could be wrong. But I predict that crimiinal case will hit the ground as if it were a lead balloon. It's for the government to prove its case beyond reasonable doubt--not that there's grounds for some speculation. I'm looking forward to seeing what actual evidence there is. Don't mean to hijack the thread, but *TYT* brought up the balloon./ So, I guess we shouldn't believe everything we hear at a press conference. lol.

  • I think at least some of the press in the room were part of the hoax.

  • Reporter " We have questions for YOU."

    Douchebag "No. I'm with the US chamber of commerce"

  • I love when the guy says you can directed all your quetions to me and then when asked a quetion he dosent answer it.

    shows what kind of person he is a lier

  • The media covers up everything, except 9/11.

  • Press Conference FAIL!!!

  • lulz

  • lmaooooo

  • We are in the end of days...the media doesn't FACT CHECK if it's WHAT THEY WANT TO HEAR!

  • so funny.lol hoax .this is sooo fuckin awesome.

  • Very interesting.

  • Bold, bold and daring. 'I have all of your powers Chamber of Commerce.' -Fakor CoC.

  • Fox reported the breaking news live and then had to reverse what they were reporting in the span of about a minute. Watch it on Youtube, hilarious.

  • That fake dude seems like such a douche. Like, I'm surprised that guy didn't punch him!

  • The media aren't very bright are they? I loved their confusion! LOL.

  • that was FANTASTIC!!!! SO GOOD!!

  • what is yes men?

  • Story brought to you by The Onion.

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  • LOL this is EPIC

  • Cenk, you missed the best part of the story, CNBC & Reuters left the room before this exchange and ran the story as breaking news.

  • gotta love the yes men...

  • has anyone seen the documentary about these guys, "the yes men'? It's so funny! They literally pretend to be from the GATT and go around holding fake conferences and people never suspect anything. I don't know how they aren't more famous.

  • Pwn'd!!! What a great hoax! The real CoC guy was such a tool.

  • One of the the Yes Men got arrested a while back for pretending to be Haliburton. He gave a press conference introducing the Survivaball (a self contained survival suit for the corp types to save them from global warning)

  • The best part of the story is that CNBC and Reuters ran with the hoax (the press release and fake press conference) as "breaking news".

  • I for one would probably laugh. I wouldn't be able to take it cereal.

  • Now everyone is going to show up claiming to be a representative of the chamber of commerce:

    1 - Don't listen to this man, he's not the real spokesperson!

    2 - Don't listen to any of them, I'M the real spokesperson

    3 - Don't listen to any of them I'm Michael Moore, and capitalism is the real hoax!

    4 - I'm GAY!

    5 - SILENCE EVERYONE! I'm a Christian, and I say lets ask Jesus!

    6 - Hi, I'm Jesus. What up???

    LOL

  • I had fun watching this. The best part, for me, was when the journalist pointed out the bizarre views of the Chamber of Commerse. This is what we need. America, as big as you guys are, are holding the development back. You never agree to any of the proposals to better the climate problems.

    Great work, and amuzing situation:-)

  • Hey hey hey. Most people agree to the ideas. Our government doesn't. We could use some help pushing them though XD

  • Sorry. I was referring to what your country brings to the table when climate is being debated (nothing). Not the views of the average american, as i don't know what you guys think about this :-)

    Think the only help you rly need, is to shoot the lobbyist. If the politicians stopped making money saying the wrong things, you would probably be alright:)

  • LMAOOOOO

  • I love the reporter going " fuck man i need answers my boss is going to shit on my head if i dont come back with answers ! "

  • This is hilarious, but I would think doing something like this would be illegal?

  • This is funny.

  • Why can't the people with the money just shift it over to green energy market, I'll still pay for it I promise.

  • mostly because of invested capital in status quo technologies, then we have the bigger companies that are invested in those technologies that are lobbying :P

  • theyesmen dott org

  • Gimme your business card, bitch.

  • Biz

    Czar

  • This was...awesome. I think the press learned something.

  • THIS is a wonderful example of People Power. Who's legitimate now?

  • Chamber has been caught inflating their membership numbers.  They claimed to represent 3 million businesses -- avtual number: 300,000. Does the Chamber of Commerce have any credibility after that? Think not.

  • how do you figure?

    This is a room full of the Press, and the conference was about climate change and the chamber of commerce.

    The goal of this hoax was to get reporters to ask them this question.

  • i just think she is way too insistive to ask the REAL guy questions ... thats just what i think m8 ... might not be true .. dont get nerd rage yeh ?

  • The Yes Men are artists with a fantastic body of work they are my heroes!!!!

  • "If you have any questions you should ask them to me"

    *woman asks question*

    "Look, I'm just here to say these guys parent the real Chamber of Commerce"

    wat

  • It IS awesome.

    When the "inscrutable" face of the body politic is stripped away for a moment, and people see the "man behind the curtain", everyone benefits.

    We see the corruption at the core of our politics. We see them exposed to the light.

    We just have to possess the courage to follow through and make them pay politically at the voting booths.

  • No, its not a crime. Impersonation of a Government official is, and usually its if you use that impersonation to accomplish things you couldn't as a citizen. You don't see people getting arrested for wearing cop costumes on Halloween, or Tina Fey being arrested for dressing up like Sarah Palin. Its the press that is irresponsible for not checking up on the guy, which isn't illegal.

    Oh yeah, and the Chamber of Commerce isn't a government organization to my knowledge.

    It was awesome.

  • lol the Yes-men are awesome. If you can find any of their movies you should watch them!

  • i think the woman asking the question at the end was one of the people in on the hoax as well.

  • pedito chiquito

  • this is absolutely f***ing awesome

  • The hoax speaker makes more sense than the actual Chamber of Commerce Rep., lol, speaks volumes of that corporate shill.

  • cenk was absolutely right... this does look like some sort of comedy movie where 2 guys claim to be the same person

  • That's awesome.

  • hahaa that guys great

  • These guys are so cool

  • Glad to see some still have a sense of humor. Climate change is happening, its always happend for eon's its happend.. I laugh at people who say its not.. because even the scientists who say its not post graphs from 1 million years ago showing it does.. up and down, up and down.. Some periods have extreeme heat cycles.. others mini- iceages... Wish I could say "I told yah so" in 200 years when the swing starts down with great decent.. then what? bring SUV's back? lol unhuh.. /sigh

  • Absolutely epic.

    The yes men do perform stunts yes, but compare this to the town halls and all that.

    Compare an honest discussion about Climate Change to the yelling.

    So many of the town halls were stuffed with actors, yet this is a called a hoax. This was a brilliantly performed move, that puts the Chamber of Commerce on the defensive Everyone will see the video and see how bad they got OWNED by an actor who just made a simple press conference ;)

    What an amazingly powerful, non-violent act

  • "Yo Chamber of Commerce, I'm real happy for you and everything and Imma let you finish, but Balloon Boy had the best hoax of all time!" --Kanye West

  • A86 .- lmao rofl. thats gotta be the funnies comment i have ever read. congrats lol

  • I absolutely agree, this comment definitely ranks in my top 3. I couldn't stop laughing for a couple of minutes.

  • that was the best hoak ever this was deff 1 of the more ha bisky eps that reporter should have said well i dont care if they rnt from the camber of combers he makes some good good points if u wont answer r questions i bet that fake guy will

  • hehe, it's a hoax now. all your posts are made unintelligible! wait... so is this one...

  • Press is a joke. Good to see hardly any reporters attend. It must mean more and more newspapers have died.

  • This HOAK... was actually very brilliant. The Yes Men can fix/fox America!

  • I like how the reporter called the actual chamber of commerce guy out: "well you said we could direct questions to you..."

  • :D This hoax is so great, it needs a new term: a hoak.

  • Wait a minute what, who, where?

    I'm so confused, would the real Slim Shady please stand up, please stand up, I don't know who to listen too

  • That was hilarious.  It was such a Clone action movie moment, where the one guy has the gun and can't decide who is who.

  • brilliant hoax.

  • Yes Men FTW! I've been a fan for years now :-)

  • This press conference made me laugh so hard. I love when they're like "Show me YOUR business card!"

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