Yes Men member Andy Bichlbaum’s original plan was apparently to pretend to be a fake colleague of Wolfowitz’s from the American Enterprise Institute, a think tank where Wolfowitz is a senior fellow, for an interview scheduled on August 21.

When he logged on to chat with Basile’s producers, he offered his planned excuse that Wolfowitz was having “internet trouble” but he, as the made-up colleague, could do the interview. Instead, the producers rejected that idea “and suggested just patching Wolfowitz through on the phone.”

Bichlbaum just rolled with it, and Basile proceeded to interview him live on air for eleven minutes, even though his voice is very different from the real Wolfowitz’s…