Excerpt from "We're All Balloon Boys Now"


On Monday morning the cable news stations, wire services and Web sites reported that the U.S. Chamber of Commerce had recanted its opposition to climate-change legislation (AKA: Cape And Trade). It was a hoax. Incredibly (well maybe not so incredibly), the hoax was perpetrated by an activist group in a room at the National Press Club in Washington in front of reporters who've risen to the top of their industry. The hoaxers had created a fake Web site and faked a Chamber press release.

The made-up press conference ran about 20 minutes until someone from the real Chamber of Commerce showed up yelling, "This is a fraud!" Too late. Credulous TV and wire reporters had sent the Chamber's climate flip-flop into an already confused world.

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Activism at its finest, delving into identity fraud. In a sane world, these folks would be suiting up in bright orange onesies and shown how to make gravel roads using just boulders and sledgehammers.

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Thanks for posting this H/A. Ya isn't this a pip of a story?

Nutjob delusion x 1billion.

And here's the video.

http://www.youtube.com/watch?v=vYGcIhNGSIY

ive always said that probably cosmic laws grant human dignity

the news its bad tasete show