It’s embarrassing for a news channel to get tricked by pranksters. It’s really embarrassing when the pranksters run pretty much the exact same prank and the news channel falls for it all over again.
That’s exactly what happened to Newsmax, when they told their viewers they were interviewing Paul Wolfowitz, who served as Deputy Secretary of Defense for George W. Bush, being a part of the former president’s Cabinet on September 11, 2001.
America Right Now host Tom Basile was the first to fall for the ruse set up by a group of pranksters known as The Yes Men, who, according to their website, engage in “laughtivism” in order to “destroy brands, create public illusions, work with communities, disrupt events, and impersonate nefarious entities.”
