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Wow. Watch the fireworks fly as a sleepy press conference on climate change — ostensibly held by a representative of the U.S. Chamber of Commerce — is revealed as something quite different.

This is the most unforgivable attempt at media manipulation I have seen this week! (Well, it’s going to be hard for anyone to ever top Balloon Boy’s dad.)

Turns out it was a hoax by a group that likes to play pranks on corporations, and few fell for it, but it makes you wonder if these  kinds of efforts to mislead the press are more easily pulled off today, when the gatekeepers’ ranks are so thin?