George W. Bush's limits to freedom

George W. Bush's limits to freedom

Reveal date

In 1999, the two future Yes Men receive an email from a fellow who's had the foresight to register the domain GWBush.com and wants help making a spectacle of it. Rather than make a whole new website, Andy and Mike simply modify that one to explain George W. Bush in more honest terms. The masquerade so angers the Bush campaign that they send the website a cease-and-desist letter and complain to the Federal Elections Commission. Finally, when a reporter asks Bush about the website at a televised press conference, the future president declares: “There ought to be limits to freedom.” Whoops!