Anarchists raid the Heritage Foundation

No, seriously.

At the Heritage Foundation's annual Resource Bank meeting in Chicago last Friday, protesters [The Yes Men] masquerading as a right-wing think tank took the stage and announced that in light of Bush's shortcomings, they were nominating former Reagan Attorney-General Ed Meese for president.

The audience applauded for nearly ten seconds. Meese, eating at a table just feet away from the podium where Andy Bichlbaum of The Yes Men made the announcement, grimaced and shook his head in surprise...

The Yes Men registered for the Heritage event as "The Society for Socioeconomic Stability" and spent two days mingling among the 650 participants before approaching the microphone during a lull in the closing luncheon...

Echoing sentiments expressed by others throughout the event, Bichlbaum condemned Bush as an inadequate free-markets candidate. But while others had condemned Bush's "No Child Left Behind" program as "socialistic," Bichlbaum focussed on the administration's war in Iraq, calling it "crony corporate welfare" and "market distortion on a fairly gigantic scale."