We at USDemocrazy love a good hoax, especially if it involves balloons.  This latest (balloon-free) hoax however takes the cake.

Yesterday the US Chamber of Commerce (who represents the interests business folk) announced that they were supporting the Kerry-Boxer bill, combating global warming (see above video).

This came as a shock to many. Why? Because the pro-business Chamber of Commerce thinks fighting Global warming will be bad for American businesses. In fact recently, they demanded that global warming be put on trial.

Why would the Chamber of Commerce make such a shocking turnaround?

Well because this wasn’t the real Chamber of Commerce.    Instead it was the Yes Men, a group of environmentally motivated pranksters.

The hoax was so well done that some news sources (not us, of course) ran the story as true.

So how did the Yes Men pull this off?  Well partially it was their excellently crafted email they sent out to news agencies.

The Chamber was not happy with this prank.  They fired back that

Public relations hoaxes undermine the genuine effort to find solutions on the challenge of climate change.

So what do you think?  Was this a harmless hoax or a pernicious prank?