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On video: Real Chamber official disrupts fake news conference

YouTube video New details have emerged on Monday’s phony press conference held at the National Press Club in which activists, purporting to be employees of the U.S. Chamber of Commerce, announced a reversal in the Chamber’s stance on climate change legislation. According to media reports, The Yes Men, a group known for impersonating corporate leaders and for swindling reporters, staged the event, held in the Press Club’s Zenger Room. Posing as a fictitious Chamber spokesman, activist Andy Bichlbaum, using the name Hingo Sembra, said the Chamber would immediately cease lobbying against the Clean Energy Jobs and American Power Act, the bill sponsored by Sens. John Kerry… Read More