First ACORN. Citibank, AIG, Goldman Sachs Next?

Congress Went After ACORN.
Big Business Must Be Next!

By Jacques Servin and Igor Vamos (WaPo)

We are the Yes Men, two guys who dress up as powerful businessmen, propose horrible things to audiences of actual powerful businesspeople and film them cheerfully applauding our most outrageous -- and often illegal -- ideas.

In our new film "The Yes Men Fix the World," we posed as Dow Chemical representatives at a big 2005 banking conference where we said that, clearly, any number of human deaths is acceptable as long as a project is extremely profitable. A life-size golden skeleton made sure the message hit home. Instead of recoiling in horror, most of the bankers simply applauded. One chief executive said he was interested in working with us, and a senior manager at a financial technology firm said he found the idea "refreshing."

In 2006, we posed as Halliburton reps at an insurance conference on Amelia Island, Fla. There we unveiled the "SurvivaBall," a grotesque suit six feet in diameter, made of nylon and inflated by two small computer fans, which we said would keep corporate managers safe from the climate calamities that they had helped cause. Lawyers at the conference, who represented some of the most powerful American companies, had a few questions: How much would it cost? Could it be made more comfortable? Might it work in a terrorist attack?

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Comments

[polwonk]

I'd like to know why there hasn't been more notice of this!!!!! I'm sure many people would be as shocked as I was to read this. Mainstream media is always so quick to show us Glenn Beck, Hannity, Limbaugh, ect. Better yet, let's take Congresss to the movie.

[Matt Osborne - Huffpost Blogger]

I've been a huge fan of The Yes Men since they first came to my notice about a decade ago. I'm going to have to drive about 200 miles to see this movie.

[DiogenesOfAlaska]

Yes.

But how can you be so cynical?

You must know something about the end of the world I haven't figured out yet. :-)

[Hopeington]

I haven't been to the movies since my daughter was in 2nd grade, she's 22 years old now. I know it will probably shock my family, but with this and the new Michael Moore movie, I guess I'm just going to have to change that......­..... I wonder if I can sneak in my own popcorn?
You go guys!!

[Marie Green]

Do wartime military contractors next... please Yes Men. KBR, Blackwater, Dyn-corp etc. Especially things like how they thought making their human trafficking enterprise was a profit center for them while on foreign soil. C'mon Yes Men just do it!

[billhodges]

It does look interesting doesn't it?

[tuckgraph]

Guys, I bought your first "documentary" as a gift for a friend, and found it funny, yet disturbing on many levels! Looking forward to this next installment.

[mbaty]

This looks great. I'm going to have to see this movie.