The Yes Men did not invent lying! Read all about it.
Honest trickery is not disinformation. And we need it to fight against vastly wealthier forces.
Fake fakery fakes fakers into kicking out real fake!
GOAL: Expose "net zero" as hooey.
SUCCESS: 6/10. While some outlets got the point, others were too confused to cover it.
SUCCESS: 6/10. While some outlets got the point, others were too confused to cover it.
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Public pressure makes Obama a Sanders!
GOAL: Convey that people will need to pressure Obama
SUCCESS: 7/10. Some outlets got it, but for many it was just fun.
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Disgraced news outlet falls for same trick twice!
GOAL: Expose Newsmax as a bundle of bullshit.
SUCCESS: 7/10. Certainly exposed Newsmax, but other outlets weren't implicated enough.
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All you need to know about how to solve the California drought without eliminating beef
Bird-on-bird murder crisis ruins innocent oil conf!
GOAL: Expose the impossibility of "responsibly" building a pipeline in Africa.
SUCCESS: 8/10. The Fixers effectively demolished Total's CSR.
Newsmax told they're a bigger threat than the 9/11 hijackers
Three weeks after Newsmax's Tom Basile allowed a fake version of his "friend" Paul Wolfowitz to talk for 11 minutes, Newsmax invited "Wolfowitz" back. This time we were determined to stop them from calling again, so we told them Newsmax were worse terrorists than the hijackers.
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Three weeks ago on this program, Tom and i talked about the war in Afghanistan, and the time you and I were together in Iraq.
Well, those wars in Afghanistan and Iraq began on Sept. 11, really, when Saudi Arabians flew planes into the World Trade Center.