Chamber Uses Yes Men 'Attack' to Fundraise

| Mon Oct. 26, 2009 3:54 PM PDT

The US Chamber of Commerce is turning their run-in with the Yes Men last week into a fundraising opportunity.

TPMMuckraker got a hold of a fundraising email sent to Chamber supporters late last week, calling on them to send money because the "U.S. Chamber is under attack."

Help us fight back!As you probably have seen in the news -- the U.S. Chamber is under attack.

MoveOn.org and other extremist groups are harassing our members...

A group of pranksters held a fake news conference falsely claiming to be the U.S. Chamber...

They're attacking us for having the audacity to oppose legislation that would be harmful to American employers and cost vital American jobs.

The letter is signed by the Chamber's senior vice president and national political director, Bill Miller. It takes supporters to a webpage where they can make a donation to the Chamber. "Don't let them muzzle us. Stand up for free speech by making a contribution below," it urges.

Meanwhile, the Chamber has unleashed their lawyers on the Yes Men in order to get their parody Chamber site yanked from the interwebs. Because they truly believe in free speech, of course.

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Comments

Chamber of attack.

Submitted by kimtaylor (not verified) on Tue Oct. 27, 2009 1:30 AM PDT.

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Well i think it's a serious cause of concern and the government should think about it and i hope it get resolved as soon as possible....

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Shysters & Bad Programmers

Submitted by latu on Tue Oct. 27, 2009 4:28 PM PDT.

Not only is the chamber a bunch of Shysters, they also employee bad programmers. A minor change to the donation web page causes there server to throw an error message with a lot of revealing data.

For instance, change the query string at the end of the URL from "?ID=517" to "?ID=516"

Try this.