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Today, CNN invited Alessio Rastani back into the studio, offering him the chance to explain himself more clearly. According to Jim Boulden, he was “very reluctant” this time around but also very honest. In a more measured and defensive tone, he explained that the BBC spot was not meant as a publicity stunt, and intriguingly, that he doesn’t care if people think he is a part of the Yes Men.

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The Yes Men‘s provocative anticonsumerist pranks tend to be hit-or-miss. But if fooling people is their measure of success, it looks like their latest hit the bullseye: Reuters, The New York Times, The Washington Post, and CNBC all took a Yes Men press release that claimed to come from the Chamber of Commerce at face value.

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Did your New York Post look stranger than usual this morning? Rumors have been swirling for a while now that the Yes Men, those fun folks who brought us last year’s fake New York Times, were cooking up something new. Turns out it was a fake New York Post, which was handed out this morning to commuters city-wide. We have a slide show of the contents.

Are the Yes Men losing their touch? The latest stunt from the leftie pranksters/activists is the “Survivaball, a monstrous “gated community for one™” that purports to help people cope with climate change by expensively blocking out the elements.
It’s a funny concept, but how does it stack up to Yes Men stunts of old? One key difference: Their old pranks always tried to be plausible.