Video: Real Chamber Spox Bursts Into Fake Chamber Presser

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Yesterday, pranksters and activists teamed up to pull a hoax on the U.S. Chamber of Commerce, holding a fake press conference claiming the Chamber had decided to do a 180 and support climate change legislation.

Real Chamber spokesman Eric Wohlschlegel burst in about 20 minutes into the event, yelling, “This is not an official event … This is a fraudulent press activity and a stunt.”

He also told reporters who were there, “If you have any questions, you are welcome to direct them at me, and the U.S. Chamber of Commerce.”

But when reporters — some of whom were fake — asked him if the Chamber would acknowledge that climate change is real, he brushed them off.

The Yes Men, which put on the stunt, released video of the presser through their publicist. Watch it after the jump:

Wohlschlegel also approached the “spokesman” heading the presser, the Yes Men’s Andy Bichlbaum, and demanded his business card.

The Chamber is fighting proposed cap-and-trade legislation aimed at stemming climate change.

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