The Yes Men

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Jeez, this is terrible.

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It's the stupidest.
I can't...

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It's an hour's difference.
The time zone is different here.

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Fuck. It's unbelievable.
How the fuck can that happen?

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Okay. Here.

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Okay, there. That's done.
Now what?

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Okay. Got it. Okay.

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Pull it up.

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Okay, now let's get your...

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A few years ago, we wanted to...

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try to help out with some activist's
anti-corporate activities.

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And we heard about this website
called rtmark.com.

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And we went there, and they...

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they handed us a domain name-
gwbush.com...

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and asked us if we might like
to make a website

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that was critical of George Bush.

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Because George Bush's real
domain name was georgewbush.com.

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And this was 1999,
so it was just during the campaign

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when he was beginning
to run for president.

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And we didn't really know
quite what to do,

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so we went to Bush's website
and looked at it.

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And it turned out to be full
of strange hypocrisies, like,

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for example, he called himself
"The environmental governor of Texas,"

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but we looked a little closer
at his record and found out

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that he had actually created
the most polluted state in the country

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because he dismantled
the Clean Air Laws while he was there.

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And, actually, that's, I guess,
what he's doing now nationally.

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So we thought,
"Well, this kind of hypocrisy

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we can easily poke fun at
by making a satire website."

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And we made this satire website
that looked exactly like Bush's

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