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The Yes Men Are Coming! The Yes Men Are Coming! posted by alex
on Sep 23, 2004 - 05:44 AM
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'Hot on the heels of their appearances at the Republican National Convention and an aborted stump tour of Midwestern swing states, the Yes Men are winding their way south from Seattle for the premiere of their documentary at the ArcLight September 23. The eponymous film covers a three-year period during which Bonanno and Bichlbaum successfully passed themselves off as representatives of the World Trade Organization, in spite of their best efforts at self-sabotage. Inspiring, outrageously funny, suspenseful and surprisingly hopeful, The Yes Men movie [and book] is the latest installment in what has emerged as America's newest version of the town meeting — theatrically released political documentaries. And while this West Coast jaunt is ostensibly a promotional tour for the film, the Yes Men, as usual, have another agenda hidden in plain view.
'Rather than embark on a traditional promo tour for the film, Bonanno and Bichlbaum decided to stage the "Yes, Bush Can!" campaign — a grassroots initiative to "explain Bush’s policies more clearly and honestly than the official campaign ever could." This is typical of the Yes Men's strategy of logical extremism, or, as they like to call it, identity correction, which, whereas identity theft hijacks citizens' personal data for criminal actions, instead involves assuming the identities of corporate and government criminals in order to accurately (and damningly) represent their actual intentions. The roots of the Yes Men are deeply intertwined with the Internet — particularly the anti-corporate prankster brokerage of ®™Ark, which sponsored the Yes Men's 1999 debut with the subversive decoy Web site GWBush.com, prompting the soon-to-be-wartime president to publicly opine, "There ought to be limits to, uh, to freedom." (LA Weekly article).
